Written by Nadean Alnajjar, JE 22' Edited by Alexandra Halberstam, TD 22' The Black Panther Party (BPP) only exists in our recollection today either as an evocation of the Marvel Universe’s Wakanda, or a radically militant Black organization from the 1960s. Representations of the BPP falsely characterize...
Volume 12: December 14, 2020 Ophelia's Distraction By London Johns In Act IV, Scene 5 of Hamlet, Ophelia enters distracted. She sings suggestive folk songs and speaks in riddles. Two scenes later she has died, quietly and offstage. Ophelia’s madness, as brief as it is in the...
By Heidi Katter, Yale University '20 Edited by Oona Holahan and Louie Lu Introduction In July 1889, the United States government sent a commission to northwestern Minnesota to counsel with the Ojibwe of the White Earth and Red Lake Reservations. The object of these visits was straightforward: to negotiate...
Written by Polly Moser, Stanford 22' Edited by Fiona Benson, Yale 22', Meghan Gupta, Yale 21', and Mary Tate, Yale 21' For many, an image of the archetypal eating disorder patient is easy to bring to mind; she is female, White, young, and painfully thin. This...
Volume 11: December 7, 2020 John Shakespeare the Wool Dealer By London Johns What is known about William Shakespeare’s childhood has been pieced together from scraps of information and much guesswork. Significantly more can be discovered about his parents during the years in which William Shakespeare was a child,...
Daevan Mangalmurti sits down with Rick Chavolla for The Cultural Histories Project. This venture explores the university's changing cultural landscape over the last century, from the diversification of admissions and the tumult of the 1950s and '60s to ongoing efforts to expand perceptions of who Yalies are...
