Yale

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• SOURCE: Yale Daily News
  2/27/2023
  

  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. 

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• SOURCE: Yale Daily News
  11/27/2022
  

  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. 

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• SOURCE: Foreign Policy
  10/15/2021
  

  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.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/5/2021
  

  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."

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  10/1/2021
  

  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."

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/30/2021
  

  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.

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• SOURCE: Asia Sentinel
  9/7/2021
  

  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."

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• SOURCE: Yale News
  6/29/2020
  

  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.

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• SOURCE: The Art Newspaper
  3/6/2020
  

  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. 

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• SOURCE: Yale News
  1/27/20
  

  Dogmatism and truth

  by Jim Sleeper

  Words from 1619 that still resonate today. 

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  12/12/19
  

  The Tragedy of the Yale Commons

  by Jim Sleeper

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

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• SOURCE: The Politic
  9/18/19
  

  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.”

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• SOURCE: The Activist History Review
  9/4/19
  

  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?

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• SOURCE: Yale News
  5/25/19
  

  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?"

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  4/1/19
  

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

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

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1/13/19
  

  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.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  11-14-18
  

  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.

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• SOURCE: The News & Observer
  9-30-18
  

  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.

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• SOURCE: Yale News
  12-12-17
  

  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.

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• SOURCE: Yale News
  9-22-17
  

  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.