Yale history professors Mary Lui and Joanne Freeman discussed the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 as part of “To Be a Citizen? The History of Becoming American,” the first episode of Classroom Connections, a new series produced by the weekly podcast...
“Every generation in American history has had its own set of moral dilemmas, controversies, and questions about the laws of war,” said John Fabian Witt, the Allen H. Duffy Class of 1960 Professor of Law, speaking on Nov. 15 at the Yale Law School....
Over the course of 2018, YaleNews published more than 1,200 stories — from news of awards and honors to groundbreaking discoveries, campus events, Q&As, student and faculty profiles, book publications, videos, and more. Many of these stories marked a...
Muneer Ahmad, James Forman Jr., and Samuel Moyn were appointed to endowed professorships.
Ahmad, named as the Sol Goldman Clinical Professor of Law, focuses his teaching, scholarship, and practice on the intersections of immigration, race, and citizenship...
Did you know that Marie Antoinette never said “Let them eat cake” and that “War is hell” did not originate with William Tecumseh Sherman?
These are some of the fun facts one discovers in “The New Yale Book of Quotations,” edited by Fred R. Shapiro,...
Yale historian David Blight visited Richmond, Virginia, often in the late 1990s while researching the Civil War’s effect on American memory. When not sifting through archives, he’d jog along the city’s famed Monument Avenue, named for the five grandiose...
Yale Law School faculty member Reginald Dwayne Betts ’16 J.D., a poet and lawyer whose own imprisonment as a teenager led him to become an advocate for incarcerated people, is one of three Yale affiliates to be awarded a 2021 MacArthur Fellowship,...