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  • Artful anniversary

    Yale has more than one big milestone to celebrate over the next year: besides the 50th anniversary of coeducation in the college, it's also the... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 1 2019 09:12am

  • Written in stone

    On Saturday, the university dedicated a commemorative stone on the Old Campus, just inside Phelps Gate, recognizing Yale's first women... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 23 2019 07:54am

  • Bygone buildings

    Above one of the portals of Pauli Murray College is a tribute to two Yale buildings that were demolished to build the new colleges. Alums, tell us... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 4 2019 10:00am

  • Half a century of coeducation

    Now on view in the memorabilia room at Sterling Memorial Library: “When the Walls Came Tumbling Down,” an exhibition marking the 50th... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 24 2019 08:06am

  • Souvenirs from the moon

    Fifty years ago tomorrow, the Apollo 11 astronauts landed on the moon. Two months later, Yale got a shipment of lunar rocks and dust collected on... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 19 2019 08:17am

  • Accommodating history

    Downtown New Haven’s newest hotel is named for a Yale pioneer. The Blake Hotel, near the campus at High and George Streets, honors Law School... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 10 2019 11:53am

  • Yale and the Revolution: the war comes to New Haven

    Two hundred and forty years ago today, British troops landed on both sides of New Haven Harbor. President Ezra Stiles, who had spotted the invading... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 5 2019 07:19am

  • Yale and the Revolution: group portrait

    Happy Independence Day! Besides educating four of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, Yale is the caretaker of the best known visual image... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 4 2019 07:40am

  • Yale and the Revolution: a poet with Washington on his side

    Perhaps the most consequential Yale alumnus in the Revolution was David Humphreys, Class of 1771, who joined the Continental Army in 1776. He took... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 3 2019 07:46am

  • Yale and the revolution: the Turtle

    David Bushnell, Class of 1792, made his mark in the Revolution not as a spy but as an engineer and inventor. He developed the world’s first... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 2 2019 07:21am

  • Yale and the Revolution: spymaster

    America’s Independence Day falls this week, so all week we’ll be talking about Yale people and places that were part of the American... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 1 2019 10:20am

  • Cat power

    This pair of lions—salvaged from Lampson Hall when it was demolished to make room for Berkeley College—has guarded the Central Power... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May 3 2019 08:12am

  • Shattered

    One item in the student-curated exhibition of Yale’s collection of American glass at the Art Gallery is not like the others: it’s in... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | April 11 2019 07:19am

  • Not forgotten

    Osborn Hall (1889–1926), a short-lived classroom building at College and Chapel Streets, was never much loved—in part because it... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 12 2019 10:14am

  • Pioneer women

    It’s International Women’s Day! This portrait by Brenda Zlamany of the first women to earn PhDs at Yale—they graduated together in... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 8 2019 10:42am

  • Early adopters

    On this date in 1878, less than a month after the first telephone exchange was launched in New Haven, the company produced the first phone... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 21 2019 10:58am

  • Time capsule

    Posted near the entrance to Yale Station (and apparently long forgotten), this map is a memento of fin-de-siècle shuttle service. Dated... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 11 2019 01:32pm

  • Oldest college daily is one year older

    Happy birthday to our colleagues at the Yale Daily News, which debuted on this day in 1878. (Thirteen years later, they had the good sense to launch... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 28 2019 10:05am

  • Strumming on the old banjo

    Is that a banjo on the Cross Campus façade of Berkeley College? Indeed it is. Berkeley’s ornament features many totems of student life... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 16 2019 10:20am