Tag: Detroit
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Nation & World
Cease-fire terms during Pontiac’s War: British retreat and one Black boy
In an excerpt from “400 Souls,” Harvard’s Tiya Miles discusses Chief Pontiac seeking a visible status symbol in a boy enslaved by an officer.
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Nation & World
Bacow returns to Michigan roots
During a visit to his home city, Detroit, Harvard President Larry Bacow made the case for college to high school students, and lauded the city’s recovery efforts.
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Nation & World
Harvard, U. of Michigan to tackle social ills
Harvard and the University of Michigan have formed two partnerships designed to encourage economic opportunity in struggling Detroit and to fight the national scourge of opioid addiction.
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Nation & World
The price is right
Urban demographic patterns in the United States often defy logic, but a new research paper co-authored by Harvard Kennedy School Professor Edward Glaeser is shedding light on why many Americans continue to move to cities that are on the downturn.