As a prelude to the release of the book based on the work of the Yale and Slavery Research Project, this panel discussion focuses on how elite universities, their founders, and faculty over time, have used, benefitted from, and understood the story of enslavement in North America. It also examines how successive generations of historians have written and re-written the story
Oh Se-hoon, the mayor of the Republic of Korea’s capital city of Seoul, visited Yale on Thursday. He met with Yale President Peter Salovey, toured the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, and delivered a lecture on Seoul’s approach to inclusive growth at the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies. While the visit was Oh’s first as mayor, he attended Yale Law