For 50 years, Yale’s Oral History of American Music (OHAM) archive has collected and preserved in-depth interviews with composers and musicians who have shaped America’s musical landscape.
The archive’s more than 3,000 audio and video recordings —...
As a speechwriter for President George W. Bush ’68 B.A. from 2006 to 2009, Jonathan Horn ’04 B.A. gained rare insight into the exercise of presidential power.
Horn’s White House experience yielded valuable perspective for his new book, “Washington’s End:...
As White House bureau chief for The Washington Post, journalist Philip Rucker ’06 B.A. helps write the first draft of history amid the chaos of the perpetual news cycle.
In a new book, “A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump’s Testing of America” (Penguin...
You could say Robert E. Steele ’71 M.P.H., ’74 M.S., ’75 Ph.D. has shared his 50-plus-year devotion to African-American art with Yale 100 times over.
Since 2004, Steele and his wife, Jean, have given the Yale University Art Gallery 100 works from their...
James Prosek ’97 B.A., an artist, writer, and naturalist, opens his new exhibition at the Yale University Art Gallery (YUAG) with a mural in the museum’s lobby depicting a flock of passenger pigeons in silhouette flying through a forest of American...
As the new chair of Yale’s Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage (IPCH), Paul Messier oversees research at the intersection of science and the humanities.
Established at Yale’s West Campus in 2013, the IPCH aims to preserve and interpret...
After serving in the U.S. Army during World War II, Jack Stewart ’51 B.F.A. attended Yale University on the G.I. Bill, which provided federal education benefits to millions of veterans.
Stewart studied at the Yale School of Art under Josef Albers and...
Yale University today announced a female-dominated slate of recipients for the 2020 Windham-Campbell Prizes. The eight writers, including seven women, were honored for their literary achievement or promise and will receive $165,000 each to support their...
Fifty years ago, Yale’s first Earth Day unfolded against a backdrop of unrest.
The previous evening, about 4,500 students and faculty had gathered at Ingalls Rink to discuss a proposed campus-wide strike in solidarity with members of the Black Panther...