No one would argue that Yale hasn’t produced its fair share of leaders. Five U.S. presidents and three vice presidents attended Yale; 17 supreme court justices; more than 30 Nobel laureates either attended or taught at the university, as have an almost...
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...
As the nation celebrates Independence Day on July 4, it’s worth noting that not only has Yale been a university longer than the United States has been a country — by a full 75 years — but also that many of its alumni played an integral role in its...
“Zebra,” by George Stubbs — one of the most iconic works of art in the Yale Center for British Art’s collection — has crossed Chapel St. for the first time to hang in the Yale University Art Gallery, along with hundreds of other treasures of Romantic-era...