Santiago Acosta left his native Venezuela in 2011 to continue his graduate studies in the United States. He started out at San Francisco State University, then headed to the opposite side of the country to do his Ph.D. at Columbia University, and then...
When the United States claimed sovereignty over a handful of overseas territories around the turn of the 20th century, object lessons in American patriotism followed straight away.
The American flag was immediately raised above schoolhouses and government...
Seven Yale faculty members are among the 188 artists, writers, scholars, and scientists awarded 2024 fellowships by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
Ned Blackhawk, Marta Figlerowicz, Ben Hagari, Elizabeth Hinton, Tavia Nyong’o, Douglas...
Yale University today announced the eight recipients of the 2024 Windham-Campbell Prizes, one of the world’s most significant international literary awards. The recipients, honored for their literary achievement or promise, will each receive $175,000 to...
It’s the final class of “American Opera Today: Explorations of a Burgeoning Industry.” A dozen students are munching on German Christmas cookies, courtesy of Professor Gundula Kreuzer, while taking turns presenting overviews of their final papers.
Their...
The inspiration for Carlos Eire’s latest book struck him while visiting a medieval convent in Spain 40 years ago. At one point during a tour, a guide informed Eire and the other visitors that the room where they were standing was the very place where...