February 2017

YDN: Talk addresses slavery, race and Yale

BRITTON O’DALY FEB 27, 2017: At the Whitney Humanities Center on Thursday afternoon, Massachusetts Institute of Technology history professor Craig Steven Wilder discussed the bearing of his 2013 book “Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America’s Universities” on Yale’s own controversial relationship with slavery.

Roughly 180 undergraduates, graduate students, faculty and New Haven residents gathered to hear the talk, which was organized by the History Department.

Historian Beverly Gage to head Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy

History professor Beverly Gage has been appointed the next director of Yale’s Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy (GS), announced President Peter Salovey on Feb. 22. Gage will assume her new post on July 1.

The president noted that he also will recommend Gage’s appointment as the Brady-Johnson Professor of Grand Strategy when the Yale Corporation meets later this spring. The chair was established in 2016 through the generosity of Nicholas F. Brady ’52 and Charles B. Johnson ’54, whose gift also helped expand the program in 2006.