Menu
Excerpts
Exhibits
Collections
Originals
Categories
Map
Search
Idea
Yale University
Back out to
Ivy League
42
View on Map
Filter by:
Date Published
Filter by published date
Published On or After:
Published On or Before:
Filter
Cancel
A Yankee Apology for Reconstruction
The creators of Yale’s Civil War Memorial were more concerned with honoring “both sides” than with the true meaning of the war.
by
David W. Blight
via
The Atlantic
on
February 16, 2024
When to Rename a Building, and Why: Yale Adopts a New Approach
Yale adopts a new approach to deciding whether Calhoun College and other university properties need new names.
by
Rebecca Onion
via
Slate
on
December 2, 2016
In Babe Ruth’s Final Steps on Public Stage, Two Brushes With History
Babe Ruth's final days revealed his mortality, and made more history, when he encountered a future U.S. president.
by
Frederic J. Frommer
via
Washington Post
on
June 13, 2023
Did a Yale Secret Society Steal a Famous Apache Leader's Skull? New Documents Raise Questions.
The alleged thieves included one of Connecticut's most prominent sons — former Sen. Prescott Bush, whose son and grandson would both one day be president.
by
Joshua Eaton
via
CT Insider
on
May 24, 2023
It’s Time to Break Up the Ivy League Cartel
Democracy requires something more than a handful of super-rich universities.
by
Matt Stoller
,
Sam Haselby
via
The Chronicle of Higher Education
on
May 28, 2021
The Decline of Historical Thinking
For the past decade, history has been declining more rapidly than any other major, even as more and more students attend college.
by
Eric Alterman
via
The New Yorker
on
February 4, 2019
Colleges’ Reluctant Embrace of MLK Day
The push for a national Martin Luther King holiday prompted a fierce political tug-of-war, on campus and off.
by
Cynthia R. Greenlee
,
Francesca Polletta
,
Thomas J. Shields
via
JSTOR Daily
on
January 20, 2019
Names in the Ivy League
The argument over renaming Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School is neither trivial nor simple.
by
Joshua Rothman
via
The New Yorker
on
November 26, 2015
What Would the Father of American Football Make of the Modern Game?
Walter Camp praised the sport as a way to toughen up élite young white men. Despite changes to the game and society, his legacy remains.
by
Ian Crouch
via
The New Yorker
on
November 19, 2015
No, We’re Not in a New McCarthy Era
Defending academic freedom doesn’t mean exaggerating the threats to it.
by
John K. Wilson
via
The Chronicle of Higher Education
on
January 31, 2025
When America’s Top Spies Were Academics and Librarians
How scholars achieved some of the most consequential intelligence victories of the twentieth century.
by
Greg Barnhisel
via
The New Republic
on
January 16, 2025
Extremist Pop Culture and the American Evangelical Right
Jack Chick and the origins of the 1980s “Satanic Panic."
by
Sean Goodman
via
Journal of the History of Ideas Blog
on
December 16, 2024
How Cancel Culture Panics Ate the World
A set of peculiarly American anxieties has spread across continents.
by
Samuel P. Catlin
via
The New Republic
on
November 25, 2024
Love in the Time of Hillbilly Elegy: On JD Vance’s Appalachian Grift
Justin B. Wymer knows a snake when he sees one.
by
Justin B. Wymer
via
Literary Hub
on
August 27, 2024
partner
The Rise of the College Application Essay
The essay component of American college applications has a long history, but its purpose has changed over time.
by
Sarah Stoller
via
Made By History
on
July 11, 2024
Campus Police Are Among the Armed Heavies Cracking Down on Students
While some of the worst behavior has come from local and state police, university police have shown themselves to be just as capable of brutality.
by
Alex S. Vitale
via
The Nation
on
May 9, 2024
First They Came for Harvard
The right’s long and all-too-unanswered war on liberal institutions claims a big one.
by
Rick Perlstein
via
The American Prospect
on
January 10, 2024
Finding My Roots
The storytellers who taught me over the course of my career all knew how to bring Black history vividly to life.
by
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
via
New York Review of Books
on
September 29, 2023
The Spanish-Speaking William F. Buckley
Buckley’s seldom-acknowledged fluency in Spanish shaped his worldview—including his admiration for dictators from Spain to Chile and beyond.
by
Bécquer Seguín
via
Dissent
on
September 28, 2023
This Forgotten American Orwell Had a Lot to Tell Us
Malcolm Ross is unknown today. That’s too bad. This son of privilege has much to teach us about labor and civic leadership.
by
Jim Sleeper
via
The New Republic
on
September 4, 2023
'Hit the Line Hard'
During the cold war, football’s violence became precisely its point.
by
Jake Nevins
via
New York Review of Books
on
February 12, 2023
What Is There To Celebrate?
A review of "C. Vann Woodward: America’s Historian."
by
Eric Foner
via
London Review of Books
on
October 20, 2022
You’ll Miss Us When We’re Gone
The rise and fall of the WASP.
by
Lewis H. Lapham
,
Michael Knox Beran
via
Lapham’s Quarterly
on
May 3, 2022
How the NFL Popularized Thanksgiving Day Football
The NFL holiday tradition took off in 1934, when the Detroit Lions hosted the unbeaten Chicago Bears in a game broadcast nationally on radio.
by
Chris Mueller
via
HISTORY
on
November 10, 2021
An AIDS Activist's Archive
June Holmes was in her late twenties, working as a social worker on Long Island, when she first heard about “this thing called AIDS.”
by
Scott Wasserman Stern
via
New York Review of Books
on
October 29, 2021
Who Is the Enslaved Child in This Portrait of Yale University's Namesake?
Scholars have yet to identify the young boy, but new research offers insights on his age and likely background.
by
Nora McGreevy
via
Smithsonian
on
October 15, 2021
Viking Map of North America Identified as 20th-Century Forgery
New technical analysis dates Yale's Vinland Map to the 1920s or later, not the 1440s as previously suggested.
by
Matthew Gabriele
,
David M. Perry
via
Smithsonian
on
September 27, 2021
Oh, the Humanity
Yale's John Fabian Witt pens a review of Samuel Moyn's new book, Humane.
by
John Fabian Witt
via
Just Security
on
September 8, 2021
The Rise of the UniverCity
Historian Davarian Baldwin explains how universities have come to wield the kind of power that were once hallmarks of ruthless employers in company towns.
by
Davarian L. Baldwin
,
Meagan Day
via
Jacobin
on
September 2, 2021
Against the Consensus Approach to History
How not to learn about the American past.
by
William Hogeland
via
The New Republic
on
January 25, 2021
View More
30 of
42
Filters
Filter Results:
Search for a term by which to filter:
Suggested Filters:
Idea
higher education
renaming
place names
Princeton University
racism
legacy of slavery
private colleges/universities
memorialization
Civil War memory
public colleges/universities
