Tag: Houghton Library
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Rich history of DIY publishing
Creative people have bypassed gatekeepers for centuries to distribute “what they wanted to share so badly.”
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Power of photography
Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist gave the Houghton Library’s Philip and Frances Hofer Lecture on the Art of the Book.
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Belle of Amherst 2.0 (feat. Emily D)
Production archive materials donated by the Apple+ TV series “Dickinson” arrived at Harvard’s Houghton Library.
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Prized manuscript — and valuable lesson — unearthed in Soviet archive
Irina Klyagin discovers the value of historical documents along with an émigré ballerina’s memoir hidden by repressive regime.
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Users give Houghton renovation a thumbs-up
Changes to Harvard’s Houghton Library include better accessibility, expanded exhibition spaces, and updated classrooms.
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With digital archive, a time and a new way to understand colonial history
Harvard Library’s completed digitization project offers opportunities to broaden the scholarly view of colonial era.
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New, improved, and almost open
With renovations complete, accessibility enhanced, and new collections to show off, staff at the Houghton Library look forward to welcoming visitors again.
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Houghton acquires 1st edition of 1st African American novel
Through the efforts of Harvard’s Henry Louis Gates Jr., the Houghton Library has acquired a first edition of the first novel published by an African American in the U.S.
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A divine cosmos
Madeleine Klebanoff-O’Brien ’22 used her fellowship at Houghton Library to focus on Dante Alighieri’s “Divine Comedy,” creating a fully image-based research product.
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This year, a single digitization focus at Houghton
For the 2020‒21 academic year, Houghton will pause all digital projects to focus solely on building a digital collection related to Black American history, building a collection called “Slavery, Abolition, Emancipation, and Freedom.”
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Danger in creating an English-language library in Gaza
Harvard Scholar at Risk and poet Abu Toha created the first English-language library in Gaza.
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Drag history comes to Harvard
Drag performer Joey Arias’ archive arrives at Harvard’s Houghton Library.
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Exhibit charts history of Apollo 11 moon mission
A new Houghton Library exhibit connects early celestial calculations to the Apollo 11 mission that put two American astronauts on the lunar surface 50 years ago. “Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Apollo 11 at Fifty” offers gems from Harvard’s collection of rare books and manuscripts as well as NASA items that were aboard the spaceship in…
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The beauty of the book in all its forms
For last semester’s seminar “Harvard’s Greatest Hits,” David Stern got about a dozen first-year students in a room and had them examine some of the rarest and oldest volumes at Houghton Library, Harvard’s rich and vast repository of art, culture, history and much, much more.
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A new vision for Houghton Library
Renovation of Harvard’s rare books library will improve research and teaching facilities, expand exhibition spaces, and improve accessibility.
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Journalist, novelist, witness
Geraldine Brooks discussed her work as a war correspondent and her Pulitzer Prize-winning fiction during a visit to Houghton Library sponsored by the Harvard Review.
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The life and legacy of Gore Vidal
Author Gore Vidal left his papers and library to the University. The fruits of that gift, combined with an earlier gift of a portion of his papers in 2001, have been meticulously cataloged and archived at Houghton Library.
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Immigration, under the stage lights
At Harvard, a Houghton Library exhibit showcases the influence of immigration on American theater.
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‘Frankenweek’ will take the measure of the monster
“Frankenweek at Harvard” marks the bicentennial of novelist Mary Shelley’s classic invention.
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A ‘Passport’ to other lives, places, times
“Passports: Lives in Transition” uses expired passports, visas, and photographs to tell personal stories of global events.
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A detailed narrative of Rome
Harvard’s Joseph Connors took listeners on a virtual tour of two of Rome’s most iconic spaces, the Piazza Navona and the Piazza San Pietro, also known as St. Peter’s Square.
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The objects of their reflection
Whether it’s an Indonesian spell book or a light bulb from the 1880s, the Harvard library’s holdings have charmed students and illuminated their research.
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Turn on, tune in, geek out
Houghton Library displays highlights from the 50,000 pieces inherited from a billionaire collector who was obsessed with the search for transcendence through sex, drugs, and rock ’n ’roll.
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Plenty to see here
Whether you’re interested in science, history, politics, art, technology, comedy, cooking, or sports, there’s something happening at Harvard this fall for you.
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Thoreau at Walden, and at Houghton
Harvard Professor Emeritus Lawrence Buell reflects on the lasting importance of Henry David Thoreau’s “Walden” on the 200th anniversary of the author’s birth.
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Emily Dickinson, on the screen
Terence Davies, director of the new Emily Dickinson biopic “A Quiet Passion” talks with The Gazette about his challenges in making movies, his artistic kinship with Dickinson, and what drew him to her deeply internal, isolated life.
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The sweep of jazz history
Pianist and composer Randy Weston visits campus on the eve of Harvard acquiring his personal archive.