Yale

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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.

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• SOURCE: National Review
  8-11-17
  

  Conservatives are accusing Yale of whitewashing history

  The school recently decided to cover up a musket held by a Puritan that’s aimed at the head of an Indian.

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• SOURCE: Yale Daily News
  4-14-17
  

  Historian George Chauncey on his way out, says Yale doesn’t do enough to retain or recruit gay faculty

  Chauncey is leaving Yale for Columbia.

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• SOURCE: Yale News
  4-7-17
  

  Yale takes note of its special role in World War I

  At a ceremony historian Paul Kennedy noted that a grand total of roughly 9,500 Yale graduates and students served in the war, including in the Red Cross, YMCA, and other non-governmental bodies.

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• SOURCE: Yale Daily News
  4-6-17
  

  History is the most popular major among members of the class of 2019 at Yale!

  Until the early 2000s, the history major was the largest at Yale before its popularity began to wane, which History Director of Undergraduate Studies Alan Mikhail said was consistent with a national trend.

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• SOURCE: AAIHS
  3-31-17
  

  The Missing Link: Conservative Abolitionists, Slavery, and Yale

  by Eric Herschthal

  The fortunes of our nation’s universities depended not only on slaveholders, but on their strange and sometime allies, conservative abolitionists.

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• SOURCE: Minneapolis Star Tribune
  3-1-17
  

  Yale's split with Calhoun prompts more discussion of Minneapolis lake name

  Some Minneapolis Park Board members think it’s worth revisiting discussion of the name of Lake Calhoun, also known by the Dakota name Bde Maka Ska, in light of Yale University’s decision to remove John C. Calhoun’s name from a residential college.

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• SOURCE: Slate
  3-7-17
  

  Yale’s Timothy Snyder has a warning for us: Fascism can happen here, too

  by Isaac Chotiner

  It was his friends in Russia and other despotic countries who thought that Trump could win. To them he seemed like a familiar figure.