On display in the Yale Center for British Art is a painting of Elihu Yale — the namesake of Yale University — being served by an enslaved child, his neck ensnared by a padlocked collar. The ...

Enrollment has swelled for Yale University's introductory art history course, which covers "the Renaissance to the present." That's because the school plans to eliminate the popular class after the ...

Yale University is paving the way for New Haven students to attend a historically Black college or university (HBCU) by offering $20,000 per student in the newly founded Pennington Fellowship. “Yale ...

In a publicly accessible academic conference held Oct. 28 to Oct. 30, Yale researchers and other experts shared and grappled with initial discoveries about the university’s entanglements with slavery, ...

Yale's curriculum change to its undergraduate Art History programs has been seen by some as dismissive of the value of American and European art. Yale University Library, New Haven, Connecticut. Getty ...

The university also issued a historical study and announced steps to address this legacy, including new support for public education in New Haven, Conn. By Jennifer Schuessler Yale University on ...

One of his students became a president, another an actress. He also helped the university modernize during the 1970s and ’80s. By Clay Risen Gaddis Smith, a Yale historian who taught generations of ...

The last remaining members of two Black Greek-letter organizations at Yale are working to preserve their fraternities’ histories on campus. Two Yale University students are working to preserve the ...