The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, which was founded with the goal of publishing the definitive edition of Franklin’s writings, will celebrate the birthday of its namesake with an open house on Wednesday, Jan. 17 showcasing its work and the collection in...
Caroline Kitchener, associate editor at The Atlantic, will speak at Yale on Thursday, Feb. 1, as a Poynter Fellow in Journalism.
Kitchener will speak at a Branford College tea at 4 p.m. at the Branford House, 80 High St. It is free and open to the public.
When two men who were once among the four Ohio restaurant robbers who gained notoriety as “The Cooler Bandits” took the stage at Yale on Jan. 30, many in the audience felt they knew them personally.
Before Richard “Poochie” Roderick and Donovan Harris...
“I come from a people who have been institutionally, chronically, systemically, hated for 400 years, [and] taught the world so much about how to love,” said Cornel West to a packed house at Battell Chapel on Feb. 3. That theme — of grace, courage,...
Four Yale faculty members — Jason Crawford, Roderick McIntosh, Zhong Shao, and Elisabeth Wood — were appointed to endowed professorships.
Crawford, named as the Maxine F. Singer ’57 Ph.D. Associate Professor of Chemistry and Microbial Pathogenesis,...
“New Orleans in the American Imaginary” is the topic for the spring Franke Lectures in the Humanities sponsored by the Whitney Humanities Center.
This semester’s series has been organized in conjunction with the Yale College seminar taught by Joseph...
The black-and-white photograph shows four African American soldiers posed beside a solitary grave in the French countryside at the close of World War I.
An ornamental enclosure surrounds the grave, which is marked by a large decorative cross. It is the...