Yale University’s new volume, authored by Pulitzer-winning historian David Blight and tied to the Yale and Slavery research project, documents the university’s deep historical entanglements with slavery and the economic benefits derived from enslaved labor and trade. The book synthesizes decades of archival work and marks a major institutional effort to confront historical harms. The publication arrives amid a fraught political climate on campuses, where legal and political pressure around race-related programs has intensified. Administrators and faculty say the project’s findings will inform curriculum, memorialization and reparative efforts, even as opponents decry such initiatives as divisive.