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  • Yale and the Revolution: the war comes to New Haven

    Two hundred and forty years ago today, British troops landed on both sides of New Haven Harbor. President Ezra Stiles, who had spotted the invading... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 5 2019 07:19am

  • Yale and the Revolution: group portrait

    Happy Independence Day! Besides educating four of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, Yale is the caretaker of the best known visual image... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 4 2019 07:40am

  • Yale and the Revolution: a poet with Washington on his side

    Perhaps the most consequential Yale alumnus in the Revolution was David Humphreys, Class of 1771, who joined the Continental Army in 1776. He took... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 3 2019 07:46am

  • Yale and the revolution: the Turtle

    David Bushnell, Class of 1792, made his mark in the Revolution not as a spy but as an engineer and inventor. He developed the world’s first... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 2 2019 07:21am

  • Yale and the Revolution: spymaster

    America’s Independence Day falls this week, so all week we’ll be talking about Yale people and places that were part of the American... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 1 2019 10:20am

  • Cat power

    This pair of lions—salvaged from Lampson Hall when it was demolished to make room for Berkeley College—has guarded the Central Power... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May 3 2019 08:12am

  • Shattered

    One item in the student-curated exhibition of Yale’s collection of American glass at the Art Gallery is not like the others: it’s in... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | April 11 2019 07:19am

  • Not forgotten

    Osborn Hall (1889–1926), a short-lived classroom building at College and Chapel Streets, was never much loved—in part because it... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 12 2019 10:14am

  • Pioneer women

    It’s International Women’s Day! This portrait by Brenda Zlamany of the first women to earn PhDs at Yale—they graduated together in... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 8 2019 10:42am

  • Early adopters

    On this date in 1878, less than a month after the first telephone exchange was launched in New Haven, the company produced the first phone... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 21 2019 10:58am

  • Time capsule

    Posted near the entrance to Yale Station (and apparently long forgotten), this map is a memento of fin-de-siècle shuttle service. Dated... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 11 2019 01:32pm

  • Oldest college daily is one year older

    Happy birthday to our colleagues at the Yale Daily News, which debuted on this day in 1878. (Thirteen years later, they had the good sense to launch... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 28 2019 10:05am

  • Strumming on the old banjo

    Is that a banjo on the Cross Campus façade of Berkeley College? Indeed it is. Berkeley’s ornament features many totems of student life... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 16 2019 10:20am

  • Salvaged

    Just inside the glass façade of New Haven’s new Canal Dock Boathouse is a piece of Yale history: the entrance to the Adee Memorial... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 15 2019 12:14pm

  • Happy Birthday to Yale

    Yesterday was the 317th anniversary of Yale's founding by Connecticut's General Assembly—and the fifth Founders Day celebration. The new... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 10 2018 08:32am

  • Berkeley’s back story

    A member of our staff recently toured Berkeley Castle in Gloucestershire, England. Alums of Yale’s Berkeley College would be pleased to see... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | August 3 2018 08:23am

  • Throwback Thursday: uniforms

    Seventy-five years ago, the campus and our pages were filled with men in uniform. On our August 1943 cover, a civilian freshman offers a light to an... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 19 2018 09:03am

  • Big move

    It was 300 years ago this fall that the Collegiate School (not yet known as Yale) brought its books from its old home in Saybrook to its new one in... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 15 2018 10:21am

  • Old Glory

    It’s Flag Day in the United States—a good time to take a look at this historic flag, which hung in Woolsey Hall during the Glenn Miller... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 14 2018 09:19am