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Yale History

  • features

    "Wreak yourself upon the world"

    As a Yale law professor, Robert Bork sowed the seeds for a conservative revolution.

    Jan/Feb 2024

  • Old Yale

    A civil rights champion

    Yale Law grad Warner T. McGuinn 1887LLB was the one degree of separation between Mark Twain and Thurgood Marshall.

    Jan/Feb 2024

  • Last Look

    When the Yale set sail

    125 years ago, a ship bearing the university's name went to war.

    Nov/Dec 2023

  • Old Yale

    The stories behind the names

    Fifty years after the Vietnam War, we remember some of the Yale men who died there.

    Nov/Dec 2023

  • Light & Verity

    A graduation, long postponed

    Two early Black students receive honorary degrees.

    Nov/Dec 2023

  • Old Yale

    Coach Alice

    Mrs. Walter Camp helped coach three national championship teams at Yale.

    Sep/Oct 2023