The Latino and Iberian Film Festival at Yale (LIFFY) has announced its selection for winning films for 2016.LIFFY, sponsored by the Council for Latin American and Iberian Studies at the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies...
Jeff Forret, professor of history at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas, has been selected as the winner of the 2016 Frederick Douglass Book Prize for his book “Slave Against Slave: Plantation Violence in the Old South” (Louisiana State University Press...
Betsy Beinecke Shirley began collecting children’s books in order to share her childhood favorites with her grandchildren.“Story Time” was collected and edited by Beinecke curator Timothy Young.No casual collector, Shirley was the daughter of Walter...
“This sounds like the Rousseau we read earlier, right?” asked 16-year-old Nyla Harrison, a senior at Hill Regional Career High School (HRC) in New Haven, eyes flitting between her notebook and Yale professor Bryan Garsten.“Damn straight!” exclaimed...