News

July 11, 2020
A National Endowment for the Humanities grant will fund a collaborative effort to digitize historical records of Pequot life in the first half of the 19th century, a trove of...
July 3, 2020
The New York Times reports on the newly acquired Frederick Douglass collection in a discussion with Beinecke curator Melissa Barton and Professor David Blight.
June 2, 2020
Viet Trinh (PhD program in History) just placed this piece on police violence in the Washington Post
June 1, 2020
Richard Deming, Director of Creative Writing at Yale, publishes a new book on Orson Welles’s Touch of Evil for the BFI Classics series.
May 6, 2020
An article on Tracey Meares’s excellent talk at the NHFPL on March 3, 2020.
January 26, 2020
Alum Emily Bernard recently gave a reading and talk from her acclaimed book of essays, Black is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother’s time, My Mother’s Time,...
December 11, 2019
Melting the ICE / Derritiendo el Hielo is a bilingual podcast and radio show dedicated to sharing testimonio from people directly impacted by ICE detention, unpacking how...