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The Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Collection resides inside Widener Library at Harvard University. A photograph of Harry Elkins Widener is on display in the room. Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Staff Photographer

Harry’s books

At the center of Widener Library, a miniature museum

Campus|

DateApril 15, 2014March 15, 2019

The first installation of Curio features famous writers' implements found in the collections of Harvard University. Graphite pencil owned by American poet e.e. cummings is pictured at Houghton Library. Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Staff Photographer

The things they carried

At Houghton, artifacts from the writing life

Arts|

DateOctober 9, 2013May 2, 2019

“They certainly pull you in,” said Mary Person, the archivist who catalogued most of the broadsides collection at the Harvard Law School Library. Person has looked at hundreds of broadsides and their dramatic stories of crime and punishment. “Human nature doesn’t change,” said Person of the broadsides’ popularity. “There is morbid fascination.”

Guides to the gallows

Collection shows printed broadsides that accompanied executions

World|

DateAugust 29, 2012July 25, 2019

The late Professor David Owen's “In Defense of Scrooge," a humorous and historic ode to the iconic novella, was a Winthrop House annual tradition for many years.

The defense of Ebenezer

WHRB will rebroadcast professor’s witty rebuttal to Scrooge’s critics

Campus|

DateDecember 22, 2011March 15, 2019

Carlton Cuse '81: “Storytelling, in whatever artistic form, is really the most powerful way we have of communicating our experiences with each other.”

‘Lost’ with Carlton Cuse

Surviving on the island, and life lessons from Hunter S. Thompson

Arts|

DateApril 18, 2011July 24, 2019