Featured series 
Tag: Harvard History
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Nation & World
A century of the SAT
How test of college readiness has changed with trends in education policy
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Campus & Community
Celebrating a Harvard Alumni Day milestone
An event steeped in 150-plus years of tradition reaches a five-year anniversary
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Campus & Community
‘A sea of happy faces’
For students and their families, a day filled with joy, pride, appreciation
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Campus & Community
Alumni elect new Overseers and HAA directors
13 alumni elected to leadership boards
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Campus & Community
‘He took that explosion himself to save his men’
Alum who made ultimate sacrifice held up as model of 3 key leadership values — ‘integrity, humility, excellence’ — during ROTC swearing-in ceremony
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Campus & Community
This time, the bells toll for her
After four decades, the writer behind the Commencement Day tradition won’t hear them
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Campus & Community
Lessons from ancient, modern, quantum worlds
Student speakers focus on celebrating difference while embracing ties that bind
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Nation & World
One of first to receive University honorary degree? George Washington.
Archivist says it’s an early example of ‘long tradition of honoring national leaders’
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Nation & World
Confronting campus antisemitism
Schools have made progress in calling it out but need to develop a more forceful response, scholars say
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Campus & Community
How much do you know about Harvard?
Sure, you might have earned a diploma, but can you earn an A on this quiz?
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Campus & Community
Overseers name new senior officers
Raymond J. Lohier Jr. to serve as president, Sheryl WuDunn as vice chair
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Campus & Community
Lampoon looks back at 150 years of laughs
Alumni of humor magazine reunite for pop-up exhibit celebrating sesquicentennial
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Campus & Community
Harvard releases information on 1,613 enslaved individuals
Public database advances research on University’s ties to slavery, bolsters effort to help descendants recover family histories
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Campus & Community
Helping to give birth to nation — and Harvard Med
School founder John Warren numbered among alumni who were part of revolutionary generation
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Arts & Culture
Uncovering histories of us
Schlesinger Library’s scrapbook collection offers scholars insights into hidden stories, texture of everyday life in bygone eras
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Nation & World
Walking in Harvard’s ‘Revolutionary footsteps’
Exhibit traces University’s role in America’s birth — from campus barracks to Founding Father alumni
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Arts & Culture
Time has not been kind to VHS
As tech turns 50, preservationists race to save material stored on vanishing format. Methods include … baking?
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Campus & Community
Two new Corporation members
Sylvia Mathews Burwell and Michael S. Chae to join governing board
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Campus & Community
‘Best college tradition anywhere’
Smurf-blue hair, chain-mail suits, vuvuzelas, and bagpipes abound as students flood Yard for annual raucous rite of Housing Day
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Campus & Community
Tracing Harvard’s ties to slavery: Recovering names and histories
Researchers delve into probate records, tax lists, and estate inventories to identify enslaved people
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Campus & Community
Ballot order set for Overseer and HAA director elections
Candidates finalized ahead of spring voting period
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Campus & Community
Batman returns — to accept his Pudding Pot
Michael Keaton feted as Hasty Pudding’s Man of the Year, 30 years after first invite
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Campus & Community
Class of 2001 elects Alejandra Casillas as chief marshal of alumni
Physician and health equity leader to serve in time-honored role
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Arts & Culture
The stories behind the books
Harvard’s libraries hold volumes whose worth goes beyond their words
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Arts & Culture
What do Whoopi Goldberg, Tony Kushner, and Yo-Yo Ma have in common?
They all visited Harvard as part of arts program kicking off 50th year with talk by Robert Carlock, Tina Fey
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Arts & Culture
Updike’s life in letters
From teen penning fan mail on family farm to Pulitzer Prize-winning author: ‘He needed to write the way most of us need to breathe or eat’
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Arts & Culture
When Cambridge was a ‘tiny Cuba’
125 years ago, a Harvard expedition drew 1,200 Cuban educators to class
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Campus & Community
Digging for old Harvard
Archaeology Project members get their hands dirty exploring lives of earlier students
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Arts & Culture
Educating the eye
Harvard celebrates 150th anniversary of art history department, the nation’s first
