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  • Throwback Thursday: The good ship Yale

    125 years ago this month, we reported on the military career of the USS Yale. The steamship, a passenger liner known before and after the... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 7 2023 04:00am

  • Throwback Thursday: far west campus

    Twenty years ago, in our September/October 2003 issue, we pulled back the curtain on the ersatz Yale built on a Burbank soundstage for the TV show... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | August 30 2023 12:50pm

  • Yale's oldest: Skull and Bones

    This week we're looking at the five oldest Yale buildings still in existence. The third oldest was not built by the university, but it's been part... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | August 23 2023 08:00am

  • Yale's oldest: Street Hall

    This week we're looking at the five oldest Yale buildings still in existence. The fourth oldest is Street Hall, built in 1866 as home to the School... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | August 23 2023 08:00am

  • Throwback Thursday: Trumbull in progress

    Our August 1932 issue offered a roundup of the remarkable spate of new construction on campus. Here's Trumbull College under way. The residential... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | August 17 2023 08:22am

  • Throwback Thursday: new arrivals

    With the Class of 2027 arriving soon, we looked back to our October 1973 issue and found this shot of members of the Class of 1977 enjoying their... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | August 10 2023 08:00am

  • Throwback Thursday: Meet the Giamattis

    Forty-five years ago this month, the new Yale president A. Bartlett Giamatti ’60, ’64PhD, and his family moved into 43 Hillhouse. We... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | August 3 2023 08:00am

  • Throwback Thursday: before Morse and Stiles

    65 years ago, in our July 1958 issue, we reported that, thanks to a $15 million gift from Paul Mellon ’29, Yale would build two new... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 27 2023 08:00am

  • Throwback Thursday: The Peabody that might have been

    125 years ago this month, we showed off the expansion plans for the Peabody Museum. The museum had completed the first stage of the building (at far... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 13 2023 08:00am

  • Throwback Thursday: summer of ’43

    Summer was anything but quiet at Yale in July 1943, when more than 7,000 students were on campus in both civilian and military programs. This photo... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 6 2023 08:00am

  • Throwback Thursday: accommodations

    Fifty years ago, after the city of New Haven blocked Yale from building two new residential colleges, the university scrambled to find other... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 29 2023 10:02am

  • Throwback Thursday: cover story

    In honor of Pride Month, a look back at our July/August 2009 cover. Inside was a set of reminiscences and articles about LGBTQ life at Yale. We got... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 22 2023 08:00am

  • A banner day

    “Resolved, that the Flag of the thirteen United States shall be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the Union be thirteen stars... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 14 2023 08:00am

  • Throwback Thursday: rain, remembered

    This photo from our Summer 2003 issue captured that year's rainy commencement. The Class of 2003 is back for its 20th reunion this weekend; it looks... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May 25 2023 03:51pm

  • Throwback Thursday: Doctor Wharton

    The list of this year's honorary degree recipients is a closely guarded secret until commencement on Monday. One hundred years ago, Yale awarded... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May 18 2023 08:00am

  • Whit remembered

    On our May 1963 cover, we paid tribute to Yale president A. Whitney Griswold ’29, ’33PhD, who died of cancer at age 56, sixty years ago yesterday.... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | April 20 2023 08:00am | Ico comments 1 comment

  • Throwback Thursday: what, me worry?

    When we think of Yale's Poynter Fellowship, we think of White House correspondents and managing editors. But 50 years ago, Poynter invited the staff of... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | April 6 2023 08:00am

  • Throwback Thursday: what goes around

    In 1957, Yale tore down the 125-year-old Sheffield House, a historically important Italianate building on lower Hillhouse Avenue, to make room for a... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 23 2023 08:00am

  • Throwback Thursday: acceleration credits

    It looks like a still from Dr. Strangelove, but this photo from our February 1963 issue shows physics professor D. Allan Bromley with a model... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 16 2023 12:12pm