Early in 1842 , on the eve of his 30th birthday, Charles Dickens made his first trip to America. The author at that time of “Pickwick Papers,” “Oliver Twist,” “Nicholas Nickleby,” and “The Old Curiosity Shop, ” the young novelist was celebrated on both...
This term will see the first conference hosted by the recently established Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism (YPSA), an interdisciplinary enterprise that embraces the humanities and social sciences to understand the history and contributing...
Keith S. Thomson, former director of both Yale’s Peabody Museum and Graduate School and executive officer of the American Philosophical Society, will deliver the remaining two Dwight H. Terry lectures in the series “Jefferson and Darwin: Science and...
Columbia, Cornell, and Yale universities have joined forces on an innovative education initiative to increase access to less-commonly taught languages.(Illustration by Michael Helfenbein)What started as a pilot project has attracted a two-year $1.2...