David W. Blight, one of the country’s foremost authorities on slavery and the Civil War, will lead a course exploring the intertwined and lasting legacies of the two as part of an annual Yale lecture ...

In preparation for the country’s semiquincentennial, Yale history professors Beverly Gage, Joanne Freeman and David Blight will teach a one-time-only course called “America at 250: A History” this ...

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John M. Merriman, history professor and former head of Branford College, died earlier this year. He was 75. Merriman, beloved by his colleagues and the many students whom he taught and mentored during ...

Students at Yale University are enrolling by the hundreds to get into an introductory Art History course this semester, but that's not the big surprise. The real shocker is that professor Alexander ...

The university also issued a historical study and announced steps to address this legacy, including new support for public education in New Haven, Conn. By Jennifer Schuessler Yale University on ...