On Jan. 27, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscripts Library unveiled its spring exhibit “Revisiting the Past — Imagining the Future.” Featuring artifacts spanning centuries and cultures, the exhibit is ...

At 6 p.m. last Thursday, a glowing image of an eye with a pill for an iris illuminated Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. The projection, organized by Yale’s chapter of Universities ...

In late 2008, author Cynthia Ozick received a letter from author John Updike, who reported having pneumonia. “I returned from Russia with sniffles that wouldn’t go away and now we have unleashed all ...

NEW HAVEN >> Sixteen months after it closed for renovations, Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library will reopen on Sept. 6. The work included upgrading the library’s climate-control ...

NEW HAVEN — Things were tough when the Dixwell Avenue Congregational United Church of Christ's actual 200th Anniversary rolled around in 2020 —right in the midst of the first wave of COVID-19 — but ...

James Weldon Johnson, The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man, jacket illustration by Aaron Douglas (New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1927) (courtesy James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection, Beinecke Rare ...

NEW HAVEN — If there's one thing New Haven has plenty of, it's history — and for as long as there have been African Americans in New Haven, that history has been recorded along with the stories of all ...

Collection of reproduced documentary materials of the Women in Photography International Archive, issued after the transfer of its original archival materials to the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript ...

In 1979, a New Haven-based television producer named Laurel Vlock and psychiatrist Dori Laub began filming the testimonials of Holocaust survivors and survivors of antisemitic violence. Over many ...