Sonia Fritz, the director of “America,” will speak on campus about the after-effects of Hurricane Maria on Puerto Rico. She will participate in a series of talks on Thursday, Nov. 8, as a Poynter Fellow. Her visit will include the screening and discussion...
Betsy West, a renowned video journalist and filmmaker, will talk about the making of her documentary “RBG,” a film about about Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader-Ginsburg, on Tuesday, Nov. 13 as a Poynter Fellow in Journalism.
David C. Engerman and Ebonya Washington were appointed to endowed professorships.
Engerman, named to the Leitner International Interdisciplinary Professorship, is a scholar of 20th-century international history. Read Engerman’s announcement.
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One hundred years ago, on November 11 — “the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month” — the Allies and Germany signed an armistice, ending their four-year war, a devastating conflict that had claimed 16 million lives and left more than 20...
When she was growing up in Baltimore, Maryland, journalist and author April Ryan often gathered with her family to hear popular CBS anchorman Walter Cronkite broadcast the news. When he did, he presented the facts — relaying the “five W’s” of who, what,...
In a brightly lit classroom on the lower level of Dow Hall, a lone undergraduate sits at a table —textbook spread open in front of him — and speaks in halting Ukrainian. His voice echoes slightly off the walls of the small space; save for the student and...
“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....