The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University has acquired Eugene O’Neill’s “lost” one-act play, “Exorcism” (1919). A studio portrait of Eugene O’Neill inscribed to his eldest son, Eugene, O’Neill, Jr., 1927The play, along with a...
Paula Hyman, a leading historian of modern French Jewry and an internationally recognized authority on the history of Jewish women, died on Dec. 15 after a long illness.Paula HymanA funeral will be held Dec. 16 at 11:30 a.m. at Congregation Beth El-Keser...
Five influential writers on the Civil War and Emancipation will convene at Yale March 29 to discuss the conflict’s legacy over the last 150 years.“Radical” members of the South Carolina Legislature during Reconstruction. (From the Randolph Linsly Simpson...
Lisa Jardine, the Centenary Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary, University of London, will deliver the 2012 Tanner Lectures on Human Values at the Whitney Humanities Center (WHC), 53 Wall St., April 11–12.Jointly titled “The Two Cultures:...
