By Roberta Buckingham Mouheb
This booklet is an try to restoration the Christian historical past of Yale and its city, New Haven. starting with the Puritans in 1638 to the current day, it additionally unearths a gloomy facet of Yale, besides issues of “Lux et Veritas” (light and truth). many years in the past Yale celebrated a number of occasions that introduced out features of its heritage – the three hundredth birthdays of either the collage and Jonathan Edwards, one in every of its first scholars (1701 and 1703); the 350th birthday of Elihu Yale; and the Amistad Affair, which was once made right into a motion picture via Stephen Spielberg. a number of humans preferred those occasions for a second, yet what long-lasting influence did they've got?
From the writer, who labored at Yale for 2 many years and has lived in New Haven for even longer, comes the desire that this ebook will shed a few gentle on our prior, be a device within the reader’s fingers, and finally be a advisor to destiny generations.
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