Tag: Benjamin Franklin

  • Nation

    Donald Trump, meme leader in chief

    New book traces insurgent use of text, photos, media on internet to take down crucial U.S. establishments, institutions.

    Rioters wave flags on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021.
  • Arts & Culture

    Reviving the Philosophy Chamber

    A new exhibit at Harvard Art Museums re-creates the Philosophy Chamber, located in Harvard Hall in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

  • Science & Tech

    Ghosts in the machines

    Best-selling author Walter Isaacson ’74 talks about the history of the computer and the Internet.

  • Arts & Culture

    Harvard’s Indian College poet

    With the discovery of a poem missing for 300 years, two Harvard graduate students have filled in some missing blanks on Benjamin Larnell, the last student of the colonial era associated with Harvard’s Indian College.

  • Arts & Culture

    On closer inspection, not such a plain Jane

    In her latest work, “Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin,” Jill Lepore, a professor of U.S. history at Harvard and a staff writer for The New Yorker, brings Benjamin Franklin’s sister out of history’s fog and into the open.

  • Campus & Community

    Lepore to deliver Radcliffe lecture Sept. 10

    Award-winning author and Harvard Professor Jill Lepore will talk about her latest title, “Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin,” on Sept. 10 at the Radcliffe Institute.

  • Arts & Culture

    Jobs, Einstein, and Franklin

    Biographer Walter Isaacson shared his insights into the minds and makeup of three of America’s greatest thinkers, who helped to change the world.

  • Arts & Culture

    Objects of instruction

    Harvard College Dean Evelynn M. Hammonds and some of Harvard’s leading faculty convened at Harvard Hall on Friday (April 1) to participate in “Teaching with Collections,” a discussion of the University’s treasures and their use in the classroom.