As an undergraduate at Harvard, Kaiama L. Glover studied French and African American cultures as two separate areas of focus. Her professor and mentor, Henry Louis Gates Jr. (a 1973 graduate of Yale), suggested she think about the two cultures together....
Yale political scientist Ian Shapiro admires Tom Paine, the English-born American revolutionary whose 1776 pamphlet “Common Sense” galvanized support for independence from Great Britain, whose “American Crisis” letters sustained the American forces...
