Yale History

Rare photos of the interior of Yale’s most storied “tomb.”

The Yale College term bill will top $60,000 next year. Here are the figures for the last 75 years—in actual dollars and adjusted for inflation.

How Skull and Bones found a home.

Benjamin Silliman, a young lawyer, traveled to Philadelphia in 1802 with a few mineral specimens in a candle box. It was Yale’s first step on the path to becoming a university.

The oldest annual giving program in America was launched in 1890.

Yale’s newest residential colleges will be modeled on their forebears.