Harold W. Scheffler, professor emeritus of anthropology 1963-2008, died peacefully at his home in New Haven on July 24. He was 83.Harold W. SchefflerScheffler was considered one of modern anthropology’s most important scholars of kinship, and his 45...
Davis Tutt shouldn’t have taken Wild Bill’s watch.Postcard of James Butler (Wild Bill) Hickok, by the Arthur Jaff Heliochrome Co. in New York; published by the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book...
Linda H. Peterson, the Niel Gray Jr. Professor of English, died on June 25, after a long battle with cancer. She was 66 years old.Linda H. PetersonA member of the Yale faculty for 38 years, Peterson was a scholar of Victorian prose and an authority on...