Just in the first two months of 2019 alone, the night sky has been illuminated by a blood moon, a winter moon, and a super moon. Throughout time, celestial events such as these have — in equal parts — piqued curiosity and portended evil.
Ancient...
David Blight, the 1954 Professor of American History at Yale, was recently honored with the 2019 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize from Gettysburg College and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History for his book “Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom...
To address the need for interdisciplinary scholarship that can help illuminate the complex ways that nature and culture are intertwined, the Yale Environmental Humanities Initiative has developed a new graduate certificate program to strengthen student...
A collaborative project to investigate the connections between the study of race and racism and academic fields in the humanities has received funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Based at academic centers on four campuses — Brown University, the...
The National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders — known as the Kerner Commission after its chair, Governor Otto Kerner Jr. of Illinois — was an 11-member presidential commission established by President Lyndon B. Johnson to investigate the causes of...
The Yale School of Drama has partnered with the Ruderman Family Foundation — an internationally recognized organization that advocates for the full inclusion of people with disabilities in our society — to support training for actors with disabilities....
Yale Sterling Professor David Quint is, in his own words, a product of Yale’s Department of Comparative Literature.
Quint, who received his B.A. in English (1971) and his Ph.D. (1976) in Comparative Literature from Yale, is a specialist in the literature...
Appreciation of a beautifully written text is but one of the skills that students taking courses in English at Yale will learn. Among the others, says Yale English professor Stephanie Newell, is the skill of rhetoric.
Sometimes, when she sees students...