Yale History

On the college system's 75th anniversary, a look at its difficult birth.

A new interpretation of Buckley’s legacy—one that would have surprised the man himself.

At Buckley’s Yale, Skull and Bones was still the apex of campus life, the Yale Daily News board chugged martinis at Mory’s, and, as a new-moneyed Catholic, Buckley fit in and yet didn’t fit in. But he made the place his own, and there he found his voice as a conservative.

After publication of God and Man at Yale, Buckley's broadside against his alma mater, Yale struggled to contain the fallout.

The Blizzard of 1888.