Yale

Howard Lamar, Historian of American West and Yale's President, Dies at 99

The historian was praised by colleagues and former students for his scholarship, mentorship and personal warmth. 

Grad Workers: Choose Solidarity with New Haven

by Adom Getachew and Sarah Haley

Two former Yale PhD students argue that the university's graduate student union offers not just benefits and protection to graduate student workers, but the chance for them to work in solidarity with other university and New Haven workers across the vast racial and socioeconomic divides separating city and campus. 

The Critique of "Grand Strategy" at Yale is Decades Overdue

by Jim Sleeper

In a changing world, Yale's decision to follow the lead of influential donors to steer its Grand Strategy program toward the established orthodoxy of the national security state doesn't just fail the principles of liberal education, it fails the long-term ability of the United States to steer a course in world affairs.

A Pyrrhic Victory for Plutocrats at Yale?

by Daniel Drezner

"Everyone in the academy is now fully aware of just how far Yale’s administration is willing to warp academic freedom in the pursuit of donor management. To say this is not a good look for an institution that relies on prestige and recognition would be an understatement."

Yale Affirms Celebrated "Vinland" Map is a Forgery

“The Vinland Map is a fake,” Raymond Clemens, the curator of early books and manuscripts at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale, said in a statement this month. “There is no reasonable doubt here."

Beverly Gage Resigns from Yale's Grand Strategy Program, Citing Political Pressure from Large Donors

After a colleague wrote an op ed critical of Donald Trump in 2020, two Republican donors insisted on appointing an advisory board to the Grand Strategy program which included, against Professor Gage's wishes, Henry Kissinger.

It isn't Just the Taliban that Ousted Americans from Asia: The End of Yale-NUS

by Jim Sleeper

"A deeper reason for Singapore’s expulsion of Yale is the same one that’s been given to justify America’s expulsion from Afghanistan: For all its glitter and wealth-generating capacity, American liberal capitalism has been undermining itself with manic speed, along with the civic-republican institutions, beliefs, and liberal education that have given the system its legitimacy."

To Nichole Nelson Ph.D. ’20, Policy is ‘History in Action’

The American Council of Learned Societies has named Nichole Nelson one of 22 new Mellon/ACLS Public Fellows for 2020.

Is Art History Becoming Too Woke?

by Bendor Grosvenor

After Yale made the decision to pull its course "Introduction to the History of Art: Renaissance to the Present," historian Bendor Grosvenor takes a look at the influence of political correctness on art history. 

Dogmatism and truth

by Jim Sleeper

Words from 1619 that still resonate today. 

The Tragedy of the Yale Commons

by Jim Sleeper

How private equity baron Stephen Schwarzman has steamrolled our civic culture.

Two re-namings, two defaults. How and how not to use history and public memory at Yale

by Jim Sleeper

“The real work for a place at Yale is not about the name on the building. It’s about a deep and substantive commitment to being honest about power, structural systems of privilege and their perpetuation.”

Labor Organizing in Higher Ed: Lessons from the 1984-85 Yale Strike

by Jacob Remes

What might the labor movement still learn from the successes of the 1984-85 Yale strike of mostly-women clerical and technical workers?

History is Often Closer Than We Think

by Wayne Willis

“Isn’t it interesting that you are talking to a man, who talked to a man who was exactly your age, only 110 years ago?"

Thirteen professors withdraw from Yale's Ethnicity, Race and Migration program in protest

Their move is casting doubt on a big faculty-diversity initiative.

Lamin Sanneh, pioneering historian who studied Christianity’s spread, dies at 76

The author or editor of 20 books and more than 200 scholarly articles, he focused primarily on Christian missions and missionaries, and on the church’s development into a diverse, international religion.

Yale’s classrooms were full of men. Then the first female undergrads enrolled.

Fifty years ago, on Nov. 14, 1968, then-Yale President Kingman Brewster announced female undergraduates would be admitted for the first time.

Kavanaugh's Yale classmate, historian Charles Ludington, says judge was a heavy drinker

Kavanaugh was “a frequent drinker, and a heavy drinker,” in college, says the North Carolina State University professor.

Yale Civil Rights history course is a "call to action" and a chance "to be woke”

Crystal Feimster says most students think of the civil rights movement as taking place mainly between 1954 and 1965. She debunks that myth and gives students tools to understand Ferguson and Charlottesville.

Yale history department now emphasizing global history in undergraduate courses

Department leaders say that the new undergraduate series is meant to reflect global history’s growing prominence.