On Feb. 16, Yale University marked a milestone in its comprehensive, long-term examination of the university’s historical role in and associations with slavery, publishing a related peer-reviewed book ...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) – Yale University issued an apology Friday for its involvement with chattel slavery in the United States. The statement came from Yale’s President, Peter Salovey, when findings ...

On display in the Yale Center for British Art is a painting of Elihu Yale — the namesake of Yale University — being served by an enslaved child, his neck ensnared by a padlocked collar. The ...

On Friday, University President Peter Salovey and Joshua Bekenstein ’80, senior trustee of the Yale Corporation, issued a formal apology and a set of actions in response to Yale’s ties to slavery. The ...

In a publicly accessible academic conference held Oct. 28 to Oct. 30, Yale researchers and other experts shared and grappled with initial discoveries about the university’s entanglements with slavery, ...

Indigenous perspectives have often been excluded from U.S. historical narratives. A Yale University professor hopes to spotlight the importance of those perspectives in a new book. Ned Blackhawk is a ...

The last remaining members of two Black Greek-letter organizations at Yale are working to preserve their fraternities’ histories on campus. Two Yale University students are working to preserve the ...

Double points alert! 🚨Have you ever felt like getting into a university must’ve been so much easier a hundred years back?

One of his students became a president, another an actress. He also helped the university modernize during the 1970s and ’80s. By Clay Risen Gaddis Smith, a Yale historian who taught generations of ...

We speak with Yale philosophy professor Jason Stanley, author of the new book Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future, which examines the global rise of authoritarianism ...

Yale University is getting in formation with a course dedicated to studying Beyoncé. Starting this upcoming spring semester, Yale will offer a class titled “Beyonce Makes History: Black Radical ...