A Yale team headed by Professor Laura Wexler has received a National Endowment for the Humanities grant to design an interactive website to display some 160,000 Depression-era images taken by U.S. government photographers.The grant is the first made to...
In the days after the 9/11 attacks, makeshift memorials began appearing around New York City, notes 2011 Divinity School graduate Judith Dupré in an essay in America.”Unlike permanent monuments that are built to outlast the people who built them,...
A Yale team headed by Professor Laura Wexler has received a National Endowment for the Humanities grant to design an interactive website to display some 160,000 Depression-era images taken by U.S. government photographers.The grant is the first made to...
The pioneering anthropologist Franz Boas (1858-1942), who refuted the basic principles of racist ideology in a book once described as the “Magna Carta of race equality,” will be the subject of a symposium at Yale, Sept. 15-17.“Indigenous Visions:...
Yale University’s East Asia and Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript libraries have undertaken a collaborative project with The National Library of Korea to digitize Yale’s holdings of rare Korean works, totaling 140 volumes. This unique group of books and...
Farmington, Conn. – The Lewis Walpole Library has announced that it will seek to record recollections by contemporaries of the Library’s founders, Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis (1895-1979) and Annie Burr Lewis (1902-1959), to round out the portrait of an...
Yale Law School’s Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic has released a report on the widespread use of short-term employment contracts in the Cambodian garment industry to deny workers statutory benefits and to restrict their exercise of...
The earliest known image of an Egyptian ruler wearing the “White Crown” associated with Egyptian dynastic power has been brought to light by an international team of archaeologists led by Egyptologists from Yale University.Carved around 3200 BCE, this...