Curated category
Yale University alumni
- Richard PoirierRichard Poirier entered the world on Gloucester, Massachusetts, the 9th of September 1925. His academic journey began at Amherst College before he moved to…
- Jon ParelesJon Pareles was born in 1953 within the quiet borders of Connecticut. His early life unfolded through the keys of a piano and the mouthpiece of a jazz flute.
- Raymond L. GarthoffRaymond Leonard Garthoff spent nearly eight decades inside the machinery of American foreign policy, trying to understand what the Soviet Union actually…
- Kenneth PomeranzKenneth Pomeranz asked a question that historians had been avoiding for centuries: why did industrialization happen in Europe, and not in China?
- Stephen Holmes (political scientist)Stephen Holmes, born on the 21st of February 1948, has spent decades examining why liberal democracy is harder to build than it looks, and why its enemies…
- Lewis GordonLewis Ricardo Gordon was born on the 12th of May 1962, and he has spent his career asking a question that most philosophical traditions have avoided: what…
- Paul KrugmanPaul Krugman grew up in Merrick, a hamlet on Long Island, and traces his interest in economics not to a professor or a recession, but to science fiction.
- Warren Sturgis McCullochWarren Sturgis McCulloch spent the spring of 1947 building a machine meant to help blind people read. It converted printed letters into tones, designed so…
- Shawn LevyShawn Levy was born on the 23rd of July 1968. By the time his directing career reached its current scale, his films had grossed a collective $3.5 billion…
- Daniel YerginDaniel Howard Yergin was born on the 6th of February 1947 in Los Angeles, California, and by the time he finished his fourth book, he had written what would…
- Eli WhitneyEli Whitney Jr. died on the 8th of January 1825, in New Haven, Connecticut, just one month after his fifty-ninth birthday.
- Maurice PodoloffMaurice Podoloff was born to a Russian Jewish family in the Russian Empire on or about the 18th of August 1890. Doubt remains about his exact birthplace and…
- Richard Taylor (Confederate general)Richard Taylor died on the 12th of April, 1879, exactly eighteen years to the day after the Battle of Fort Sumter opened the Civil War he had fought so…
- Stephen GreenblattStephen Greenblatt once recalled the moment he realized the term "New Historicism" had taken on a life of its own. When he heard that American universities…
- Joel MokyrJoel Mokyr was born on the 26th of July 1946 in Leiden, Netherlands, into a family of Dutch Jews who had survived the Holocaust.