Tag: Civil War
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How white supremacy became part of nation’s fabric
Historian Donald Yacovone chronicles racist values, historical falsehoods woven through textbooks in his new book.
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Dark lessons of Jan. 6 Capitol assault
One year later, Harvard Kennedy School historian Alexander Keyssar reflects on the January 6 insurrection.
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Exploring the North’s long history of slavery, scientific racism
“The Enduring Legacy of Slavery and Racism in the North” examined the role of slavery in the North through the 19th century and the influence of Agassiz and scientific racism.
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Marking the passing of a grim pandemic milestone for the nation
Harvard scholars reflect on the death toll from the novel coronavirus.
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Gateway City: Viewed as an intersection of slavery, capitalism, imperialism
A new book by historian Walter Johnson sees the history of St. Louis as emblematic of the racial, economic, and legal schisms in America.
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The artist as witness
“Winslow Homer: Eyewitness,” currently on view at the Harvard Art Museums, traces how the artist’s experience as an observer tasked with accurately documenting the conflict helped shape his career and informed much of his later output.
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‘What the hell — why don’t I just go to Harvard and turn my life upside down?’
Family, history, and the 1960s all helped to shape the higher ed leader, but it was illness that urged her forward.
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Santos receives 2017 Great Negotiator Award
Colombian President and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Juan Manuel Santos was honored with Harvard Law School’s 2017 Great Negotiator Award for his work to end his country’s 52-year civil war.
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Case for reparation gains international force
Distinguished scholar and activist Sir Hilary Beckles, who is leading the international effort to seek restitution from European nations that engaged in the slave trade in the Caribbean, made the case for reparations during a talk at Harvard Law School this week.
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Europe’s crisis of conscience
Panelists discuss the ongoing humanitarian crisis as millions of Syrian refugees fleeing civil war find disparate receptions in European nations.
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A hard look at war’s reparations
A Harvard study of Colombia’s civil war reparations program says it is the largest of its kind and well-received by the population, but may be too big for its own good.
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In the Civil War, roots of carnage
It is often said that the modern era began in the death and devastation of World War I, but Harvard President Drew Faust said during a speech at the University of Cambridge that such destruction started in the American Civil War.
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The personal Civil War
Drawn from a series of family correspondence, letters, diaries, and journals, a new exhibit at the Schlesinger Library offers firsthand accounts of men, women, soldiers, and slaves caught up in the Civil War.
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Words to remember
With the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address near, five Harvard scholars offered their views on the history, language, and legacy of Abraham Lincoln’s short but searing speech.
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War-weary spirits
An exhibit at Harvard Divinity School’s Andover-Harvard Theological Library and accompanying digital archive offer an intimate look at religious dimensions to the Civil War.
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Studying the Civil War, finding shared values
High school students grapple with national issues by collaborating about Civil War themes to develop a new type of theater experience.
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The ‘mirror with a memory’
“Mirror With a Memory” is a new Pusey Library exhibit of photographs and other artifacts from the years when Harvard and the nation were anticipating the Civil War, then fighting it, and, finally, remembering it.
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Of art and the Civil War
Harvard joins with three other universities and five theaters in the National Civil War Project, a multiyear collaboration that will use the arts to re-imagine America’s transformative conflict of 150 years ago.
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Battle cries of freedom
A Countway Library exhibit at Harvard Medical School brings the suffering of the Civil War to light.
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Lincoln’s dimensions
Screenwriter and playwright Tony Kushner sat down with President Drew Faust to dissect Abraham Lincoln’s legacy and talk history, politics, and writing after a Harvard-sponsored screening of his new biopic, “Lincoln.”
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Death and the Civil War
Filmmaker Ric Burns, Harvard President Drew Faust, and scholars screened and discussed “Death and the Civil War,” a PBS documentary based on Faust’s book “This Republic of Suffering.”
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Hidden Spaces: Tower classrooms
Hidden Spaces is part of a series about lesser-known spaces at Harvard. The classrooms in Memorial Hall are a beautiful example.
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Scholar publishes book on Civil War
“Ruin Nation: Destruction and the American Civil War,” a book by Megan Kate Nelson, has recently been published by the University of Georgia Press.
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The Civil War’s allures, and horrors
People are “powerfully attracted to war,” Harvard President Drew Faust told a crowd at the Cambridge Public Library on Jan. 10, and no conflict draws as much continuing interest and controversy in America as its own Civil War. The historian’s job is to balance that allure with a search for the truth, Faust said.
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Black Confederates
A Harvard historian weighs in on a controversy about “black Confederates,” describing how many there were and what meaning they have in an ongoing debate over the causes of the Civil War.
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The humanities and war
Harvard President Drew Faust delivered the 2011 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities, citing similarities between the Civil War and current conflicts.