Yale History

Eight words on the side of a building, tied to abolition, secession, and “Jingle Bells.”

Delia Bacon was a pioneering Shakespeare skeptic—and an inspired interpreter of his plays.

Yale and Wesleyan celebrate their first baseball game, 150 years ago.

Dean Jonathan Holloway’s address to the Class of 2019

Before he had even graduated from Yale, Walter Camp took the lead in transforming a chaotic variant of English rugby into football as we know it.

Arthur Bertram Randolph ’06 died before America entered the war.