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Yale has grown and evolved for 300-plus years, passing many milestones and forging traditions along the way. The university traces its roots to the 1640s, when colonial clergymen led an effort to establish a local college in the tradition of European liberal education.
- Commencement
In addition to the university ceremony, Yale College, the...
- Empires and Colonialism
How have ordinary people sought to combat imperial rule?...
- History
In a new book, Yale historian Lauren Benton explores the...
- Commencement
Yale University had its beginnings with the founding of the New Haven Colony in 1638 by a band of 500 Puritans who fled from persecution in Anglican England. It was the dream of the Reverend John Davenport, the religious leader of the colony, to establish a theocracy and a college to educate its leaders.
19 janv. 2018 · Following Harvard University (founded in 1636) and the College of William and Mary (founded in 1693), Yale University is the third-oldest higher-education institution in the United States, and one of only nine “colonial colleges” chartered before the American Revolution.
Yale traces its beginnings to "An Act for Liberty to Erect a Collegiate School", a would-be charter passed in New Haven by the General Court of the Colony of Connecticut on October 9, 1701. The Act was an effort to create an institution to train ministers and lay leadership.
HIST 116: The American Revolution. Lecture 7. - Being a Revolutionary. Overview. Professor Freeman continues her discussion of the Boston Massacre and how it represented a growing sense of alienation between the American colonists and the British authorities.
How have ordinary people sought to combat imperial rule? What have been the social, cultural and economic results of empire? Do imperial states inevitably spawn terrorist responses from below? This pathway draws on the rich global coverage in Yale’s history department to explore the origins of the largely post-imperial world we now inhabit.
In a new book, Yale historian Lauren Benton explores the rampant — and seemingly incessant — small wars that shaped imperial power between 1400 and 1900.
