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Yale History

  • features

    What can we say?

    The fraternity chants that helped launch a federal investigation raise an old question: is it ever right for Yale to suppress or punish speech?

    Jul/Aug 2011

  • Old Yale

    Two months in the Civil War

    A writer who longed to "perish gloriously" got his wish too soon.

    Jul/Aug 2011
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    Letters to the Editor

    Our readers respond

    Jul/Aug 2011
  • Courtesy Monica Murphy

    features

    Before their time

    The 1960s saw the first significant presence of black men in Yale College. Forty years later, a disproportionate number have died. Did the racial barriers they faced all their lives play a part?

    May/Jun 2011
  • Illustration by Alan Male

    Last Look

    Boola Boola?

    May/Jun 2011

  • Old Yale

    Pioneers in chemotherapy

    May/Jun 2011