Research in the 20th century focused on tracking Yale's relationship to the legacies and aftermath of slavery — at Yale and beyond — through memorialization, campus politics, university celebrations and events, art and architecture, and curricular and extracurricular activities connected to race and white supremacy. At the heart of the research is an attempt to understand how the university told and presented its own narrative of its history in relation to these topics. The team has devoted significant time to excavating the history of Yale's Civil War Memorial and its connection to national trends of Civil War and racial memory. The digitized archives of the Yale Daily News, first published in 1882, provide context for the culture of the student body at any given time.