In January, James O’Donnell, a renowned concert organist, choral conductor, and liturgical musician, will join the faculties of the Yale School of Music and the Institute of Sacred Music. In the meantime, O’Donnell has important work to do: On Monday, he...
The Windham-Campbell Prizes’ annual literary festival returns to campus Sept. 19 to Sept. 22 with a special lineup of events to mark its 10th anniversary, including a keynote address by former United States Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey.
The eight...
After mapmaker Judah Ben Zara was banished from Spain in 1492, when Ferdinand and Isabella expelled their kingdom’s Jewish population, the exiled cartographer continued plying his craft in the Middle East. His only surviving maps — two made in Egypt and...
Picture a spacesuit. It’s functional, and the mirrored visor is fun. But you can’t dance in it.
While the first astronaut to set foot on Mars probably won’t pirouette or perform a jazz split on the planet’s rust-colored soil, folks at Yale are nonetheless...
The Circus Maximus, the stadium where Romans gathered by the tens of thousands to watch chariot races and other spectacles, had lap counters shaped like dolphins. Those dolphins are visible on the sestertius of Trajan, an ancient coin celebrating the...
Alison Gilchrest, director of Yale’s Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage (IPCH), has been awarded the Forbes Medal by the American Institute for Conservation (AIC) in recognition of her distinguished contributions to the field of cultural...
A young woman stands defiantly as two police officers clad in body armor and riot helmets attempt to arrest her. They reach for her and yet seem to fall away, as though her poise repels them.
The woman, Ieshia Evans, was protesting the July 2016 killing...
On May 5, 1943, three wolf packs of German U-boats attacked ONS-5, an Allied merchant convoy sailing from British ports to New York City to retrieve stocks of oil, ores, sheet steel, and other vital war supplies.
Since the beginning of World War II, the...
As Laguna Pueblo writer Leslie Marmon Silko prepared her papers for transfer to Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, she wrote a brief narrative on a cardboard manuscript box that had contained an editor’s copy of “Ceremony,” her breakthrough...
Early in the pandemic, when much of Yale’s campus was shut down, Meredith Miller ’03 M.F.A. found inspiration in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library’s digital collections.
Miller, a senior photographer at the Beinecke, turned to her artistic...