Yale History

Yale examines its historical ties with slavery.

A Yale alum who helped lead the abolitionist movement and free the Amistad captives.

One hundred years ago, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle lectured at Yale—not about Sherlock Holmes, but about talking to the dead.

If you paid three bucks to hear a local band on August 12, 1989, you're among the lucky few who got a big surprise.

A hundred years ago, Yale honored World War I commander Ferdinand Foch.

A mural honors physicist Edward Bouchet.