The 41st annual Yale Model United United Nations (YMUN XLI) — one of the world’s most prestigious academic simulations of the United Nations — will take place on Yale’s campus Jan. 22-25.“Learn Today, Lead Tomorrow” is the theme of this year’s conference...
Analyzing ancient texts on cuneiform, or clay tablets, may seem like an esoteric endeavor.Not so, say the scholars working on the Yale Cuneiform Commentaries Project (CCP). They argue that these are just some of the first traces of a tradition that is...
In commemoration of the death of President Abraham Lincoln on April 15, 1865, YaleNews spoke with Steven B. Smith, the Alfred Cowles Professor of Government and Philosophy and a scholar on the writings of Abraham Lincoln.Alexander Gardner, “Abraham...