Featured series 
Tag: Houghton Library
-
Nation & World
Guarding the dazzle of the past
The Gazette visited the Weissman Preservation Center to see how conservators preserve Harvard’s rare and unique collections.
-
Nation & World
Comic genius
Cartoonist and visiting lecturer Peter Kuper spoke to the Gazette about comics as an art form, and some of the comic materials in Harvard’s collections.
-
Nation & World
Speaking up through Shakespeare
An exhibit at Houghton Library marking the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death includes artifacts that recognize the acting and activism of black Shakespearean actors.
-
Nation & World
Books that pop
The possibilities of pop-ups far exceed peekaboo with paper. Take a look through the gallery to see where examples pop up across Harvard’s libraries.
-
Nation & World
In his own works
A new exhibit at Houghton Library marks the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death.
-
Nation & World
Unraveling Mexican secrets
Mexican journalist Jacinto Rodriguez spent more than a decade examining documents at the National Archive of Mexico. Now he’s reviewing documents at the Houghton Library, looking for clues to the relationship between intellectuals and power in Mexico in the 1960s and ’70s.
-
Nation & World
Taking the stairs
Stairways inhabit the spaces where we live and work. Whether they’re tucked into cavities in the wall or suspended in grand ceremonial style for all to see, we travel along their treads.
-
Nation & World
A childlike vision artfully refined
A new exhibit at Houghton Library spans the many pursuits of the British artist Walter Crane.
-
Nation & World
Uncovering what Thoreau uncovered
Harvard’s Houghton Library has acquired Henry David Thoreau’s notes from the scene of the shipwreck that killed social reformer and writer Margaret Fuller.
-
Nation & World
Down the rabbit hole at Houghton
“Such A Curious Dream! Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” is on view from May 20 through Sept. 5 at Houghton Library.
-
Nation & World
Celebrating Widener
Two lectures launched a yearlong celebration of Widener Library, which turns 100 this June.
-
Nation & World
A close glimpse of James Baldwin
Houghton Library recently acquired its 3,000th American item, the typescript of an unproduced James Baldwin play — a rich tangle of the author’s obsessions in need of a scholar’s clarifying touch.
-
Nation & World
Unmasking minstrelsy
A new exhibition at Harvard’s Loeb Music Library, containing items from the Harvard Theatre Collection in Houghton Library, offers visitors a disturbing look at the racist history and enduring legacy of blackface minstrelsy.
-
Nation & World
Encounters with Tennessee Williams
A comprehensive collection of material at Houghton Library shines a light on the life and work of Tennessee Williams.
-
Nation & World
A bookbinding bonanza
A new exhibit at the Houghton Library, “InsideOUT: Contemporary Bindings of Private Press Books,” showcases artistic and innovative approaches to the traditional craft of bookbinding, reminding viewers that books are not just text.
-
Nation & World
The early Audubon
A collection of the early drawings of the naturalist John James Audubon show his growth into an expert ornithologist and artist. The 114 drawings, created between 1805 and 1821, constitute one of only two such extensive collections of his early work.
-
Nation & World
Constructive summer
Harvard’s Summer School offers students young and old access to the University’s archives, museums, and libraries, as well as more than 300 courses.
-
Nation & World
The Peter Pan portfolio
Harvard’s Houghton Library contains a lush Peter Pan portfolio, a collection of vivid drawings by noted illustrator Arthur Rackham. The images are from the children’s book “Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens,” published by J.M. Barrie in 1906.
-
Nation & World
Scrolls and scrolling
Students in two spring courses combined library and museum visits with digital tools to produce exhibits about the Middle Ages — one in Houghton Library and the other online.
-
Nation & World
Bach to Bach
Joint exhibitions at Houghton Library and Loeb Music Library mark the 300th anniversary of composer C.P.E. Bach’s birth and the first publication of his complete works, as well as discoveries and acquisitions that were made along the way.
-
Nation & World
The digital Dickinson
Houghton Library and Harvard University Press are two of the leading partners in the new Emily Dickinson Archive, a joint venture with other institutions that brings together most of her poem manuscripts.
-
Nation & World
The things they carried
We get close to long-dead great writers by reading the works they left behind. But there is another way, which can be just as electric and emotional: to see or touch or just be near artifacts from their writing lives.
-
Nation & World
Boston, hotbed of anti-slavery
A Houghton Library exhibit, the work of students, takes in Boston’s sweeping role in ending slavery in America.
-
Nation & World
Revolutionary discovery
Harvard’s Houghton Library recently uncovered documents from 1767 that foreshadow the American Revolution: eight sheets of signatures — more than 650 in all — protesting Colonial taxation.
-
Nation & World
Boldly going to Houghton
A newly acquired writer’s guide for the science fiction fantasy TV show “Star Trek” at Harvard’s Houghton Library offers aspiring scriptwriters everything they would need to know before crafting a script for the ’60s cult classic.
-
Nation & World
‘Forever free,’ with caveats
Scholars gathered at Harvard to discuss the Emancipation Proclamation and African-American service during the Civil War.
-
Nation & World
Confronting evil, embracing life
Two Harvard conferences, each trimmed from two days to one by the Boston Marathon bombing and resulting manhunt, provided surprisingly appropriate lessons of comfort and perspective.
-
Nation & World
100 years of Harvard University Press
This year marks the 100th anniversary of Harvard University Press (HUP), and as part of a yearlong celebration Houghton Library is hosting an exhibition of HUP publications, correspondence, and other materials.
-
Nation & World
A remembrance of things Proust
Ahead at Harvard is a semester of celebrating Marcel Proust, whose landmark “Swann’s Way” was published in 1913.
-
Nation & World
A collection unlike others
Harvard’s newly acquired Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection is the largest of its kind in the world, centuries of art, literature, and popular culture artifacts related to the chief avenues to altered states of mind: sex and drugs.
