The bells of Harkness Tower will ring out on Thursday, April 9 to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the end of the Civil War and continuing efforts for human rights today.Yale University and the City of New Haven are joining hundreds of communities...
As most 25-year-old men marched off to war in 1861, artist Winslow Homer took a different path to the front.
Armed with drawing utensils and paper, he was one of a select group of artist-reporters embedded with Union troops, documenting battles as well as...
In commemoration of the death of President Abraham Lincoln on April 15, 1865, YaleNews spoke with Steven B. Smith, the Alfred Cowles Professor of Government and Philosophy and a scholar on the writings of Abraham Lincoln.Alexander Gardner, “Abraham...