The DeVane Lecture series was established in 1969 to honor William Clyde DeVane, dean of Yale College from 1939 to 1963.
2025
Taught by Joanne Freeman, Class of 1954 Professor of American History and of American Studies; David Blight, Sterling Professor of History and African American Studies; and Beverly Gage, John Lewis Gaddis Professor of History
2024
Can It Happen Here Again? Yale, Slavery, the Civil War and Their Legacies
Taught by David Blight, Sterling Professor of History and director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale
2023
Taught by Professor Jing Tsu, a cultural historian and literary scholar at Yale