Elizabeth Alexander knows better than most what it’s like to make art for an unusually public and historic event: The poet and Yale professor wrote the celebratory poem for President Obama’s first inauguration, delivering it before a vast audience at the...
Yale historian Beverly Gage will be an eyewitness to history when she provides live coverage of President Obama’s second inauguration for “PBS NewsHour” on Monday, Jan. 21.Beverly GageGage has often provided commentary on the evening program, and she is...
North Korea, which just conducted its third nuclear test, is using its weapons program to deter the United States by holding its allies “hostage,” according to Paul Bracken, who teaches management and political science at Yale.The spread of the atom bomb...
Donald Kagan, Sterling Professor of Classics and History and a member of the Yale faculty for over 40 years, gave a farewell lecture on the eve of his retirement. The April 26 talk, which focused on the merits of a liberal arts education, was sponsored by...
[video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlGAimEKBAI&feature=share&list=UU_66nY81j…Yale’s David Blight is among the historians who discuss the legacy of the March on Washington in a video that is part of an exhibit now on view at the Smithsonian...