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Yale History

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    A reckoning with our past

    Yale examines its historical ties with slavery.

    Jan/Feb 2022

  • Old Yale

    A voice against slavery

    A Yale alum who helped lead the abolitionist movement and free the Amistad captives.

    Jan/Feb 2022

  • features

    The man who believed too much

    One hundred years ago, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle lectured at Yale—not about Sherlock Holmes, but about talking to the dead.

    Jan/Feb 2022 | Ico comments 4 comments
  • Photograph © Toad’s Place / Brian Phelps

    features

    The night the Stones played Toad's

    If you paid three bucks to hear a local band on August 12, 1989, you're among the lucky few who got a big surprise.

    Nov/Dec 2021

  • Old Yale

    Hero's welcome

    A hundred years ago, Yale honored World War I commander Ferdinand Foch.

    Nov/Dec 2021

  • Light & Verity

    Hometown hero

    A mural honors physicist Edward Bouchet.

    Nov/Dec 2021