Once a champion debater in high school, Yale senior Joshua Feinzig is well acquainted with the traditional rules and procedures in debate competitions.In a history seminar last year on “Politics and Culture of the U.S. Color Line,” however, Feinzig began...
David R. Mayhew, Sterling Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Yale University, who is widely considered one of the leading scholars on the American Congress, will give a series of three lectures in September on “The Imprint of Congress” for the...
Even as students took a break from academics, Yale remained as busy as ever this summer. From new faculty appointments to repurposing a miracle arthritis drug to Connecticut’s largest U.S. naturalization ceremony, there was plenty to talk about since...
Davis Tutt shouldn’t have taken Wild Bill’s watch.Postcard of James Butler (Wild Bill) Hickok, by the Arthur Jaff Heliochrome Co. in New York; published by the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book...
“For me, it’s exhilarating,” Margaret H. Marshall ’76 J.D. ’12 LL.D. (Hon.) told the Boston Globe on June 26, about the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark decision in the Obergefell v. Hodges case that the Constitution guarantees the right to marriage for...
There’s a new class of Truman and Udall Scholars for 2015, and three Yalies are among them.Truman Scholars Vivek Vishwanath ’16 and Ellie Dupler-McClintock ’16 are among 58 college students selected from 688 candidates to be 2015 Truman Scholars, one of...
“Sliver of a Full Moon,” a play that tells the story of the abuse and rape of Native women by non-Indians and the movement to bring them justice, will be staged on Tuesday, March 31 on campus, and will feature in its cast three of the Native women who...