Tag: Charles Sumner
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Nation & World
Revealing webs of inequities rooted in slavery, woven over centuries
Harvard vows long-term commitment to improve lives, futures of descendant communities through research, education, service.
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Nation & World
Celebrating Widener
Two lectures launched a yearlong celebration of Widener Library, which turns 100 this June.
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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.
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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.