Donatich to retire as director of Yale University Press
John Donatich, the longtime director of Yale University Press, has announced that he will retire on June 30, 2025.
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John Donatich, the longtime director of Yale University Press, has announced that he will retire on June 30, 2025.
Published on Friday, Feb. 16, with the Yale and Slavery Research Project, Blight’s narrative history sheds light on Yale’s historical entanglement with the practice of racial slavery.
“You need a language with which to express things, which at a certain age you felt you could do yourself, and gradually, somehow, it’s like switching from The task of the historian is how to choose facts from the past which create a faithful and just narrative of events
Alongside the release of history professor David Blight’s book on “Yale and Slavery: A History” on Friday, the University formally apologized for the role slavery played in the institution and its early leaders’ lives. In response, Yale has announced a set of actions, some of which were first announced in the previous two years, to acknowledge the school’s ties to the institution of slavery.
Until recent years, not many people knew of Frederick Douglass’ many visits to Terre Haute and his role in desegregating a downtown hotel.