Yale History

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.

Remembering Elga Wasserman ’76JD, who led coeducation in the college.