The Yale Daily News Historical Archive

Giving Opportunities

The University Library is seeking support to continue digitizing all issues of the paper before 2001. Digitization of the YDN costs between $6,000 and $8,000 per year of publication, depending on the number of pages. Donors can choose to fund years that have special personal significance to them or that they feel are especially historic (sample topics of interest are listed below). These gifts will be recognized on the archive web site.

• 1879-1900 – The Gilded Age/Age of Enterprise; the Age of the Robber Barons; William Graham Sumner's America (Sumner was a famous social Darwinist Yale professor)
• 1900-1913 – Progressivism/Age of Reform
• 1920-1930 – The Roaring Twenties
• 1930-1940 – The Great Depression, Legal Realism movement in law - Yale law school plays a major role
• 1948-1963 – America and the Cold War, Yale and the CIA
• 1963-1977 – Kingman Brewster's tenure as president, Yale reforms, Vietnam and Student Protests, Yale becomes co-ed (some years already done)
• 1977-1990 – Age of Reagan (some years already done)
• 1990-2000 – Yale and the World, the Global University

The Library is also seeking an endowment to fund the ongoing expenses of long-term stewardship including operational staff, equipment replacement, and digital preservation services. For more details on these opportunities, contact the Library’s Development Office at
(203) 432-4484 or email: amanda.patrick@yale.edu.

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