Yale History

Yale Law grad Warner T. McGuinn 1887LLB was the one degree of separation between Mark Twain and Thurgood Marshall.

125 years ago, a ship bearing the university's name went to war.

Fifty years after the Vietnam War, we remember some of the Yale men who died there.

Two early Black students receive honorary degrees.

Mrs. Walter Camp helped coach three national championship teams at Yale.

Benno Schmidt Jr. '63, '66LLB, who died in July, faced some difficult decisions as president of Yale.