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Tag: Harvard University Archives
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‘A moment of possibility’
University Archives marks inauguration of Claudine Gay with two special displays.
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‘These are all just young people like us, figuring themselves out’
High-schoolers get taste of everyday campus life through archival materials, some featuring Harvard’s most famous alumni.
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In new collecting model, former Liberian president Sirleaf’s papers come to Harvard Library
Under an innovative agreement, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf will place her personal archives with Harvard Library for at least 25 years, where they will be processed to be publicly discoverable and accessible.
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An archivist with an eye for neglected history
In her new role as Harvard Archivist, Virginia “Ginny” Hunt will take a deeper dive into “invisible” achievements, student engagement, and the Legacy of Slavery.
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And how about the time Churchill snuck into Commencement — in September
University archivist Megan Sniffin-Marinoff, who is retiring after almost 20 years at Harvard, shares notable Commencements and Harvard University Archives’ role in preserving each year’s ceremony.
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History in a snap … or two
When William Rittase photographed Harvard in 1932, many of its iconic buildings were new. We recreated some of those images this fall to see what’s changed.
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History at your fingertips
The first Harvard Library-wide crowdsourcing transcription project is seeking volunteers to help transcribe the handwritten materials from the University’s 18th-century North America Collection.
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Melting pot of American cuisine
A new exhibit at the Peabody Museum examines the various cultural origins of American cuisine.
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A year that changed students, and students changed the world
“Harvard, 1968,” a new exhibition at Pusey Library, explores student and faculty experiences from a time of turbulence.
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Connecting Harvard history to its surroundings
In class, Harvard freshmen dive into archives to learn from the University’s past about its ties to communities and the wider world.
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Scroll through Colonial life
After two years and 450,000 documents, the digitized Colonial North American Project will be available online to the public in late October.
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JFK speaks from his Harvard past
A new exhibit marking JFK’s centennial includes an audio file believed to be the earliest voice recording of the future president.
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The focus is Harvard and slavery
A new exhibit at Harvard’s Pusey Library, “Bound by History: Harvard, Slavery, and Archives,” contains much of what researchers have uncovered so far related to Harvard’s ties to slavery. But experts say there is much more to be found.
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Understanding Harvard’s ties to slavery
During a Q&A in advance of a conference on slavery at American universities, Harvard President Drew Faust explains the expanding effort in Cambridge to document the painful realities of the past.
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The long Crimson line
For almost 250 years, the U.S. military and Harvard have shared a deeply interwoven history. A Harvard University Archives exhibition at Pusey Library demonstrates the scope of this relationship.
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Smirk central
The Harvard Lampoon’s creative irreverence on full display in exhibit marking its 140th anniversary
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Picturing Harvard’s past
An exhibit at Pusey Library demonstrates how the first Harvard class photograph albums evolved. In the antebellum 19th century, photography was young, image technologies were changing fast (often with Boston practitioners in the lead), and Harvard students began adding the visual to the repositories of memory that for centuries had been dominated by text.
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Collectively peculiar
In an inaugural exhibition from the Harvard University Archives, staffers bring a few dozen awesome oddities into the light of day.
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Signature signatures
Long, tall, short, and small, the signatures of the famous are housed in many Harvard albums and archives.
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Our signature 1776 revolutionary
Founding Father and patriot John Hancock, he of the famous signature, was also famed in his day as the Harvard treasurer who left town while managing the College funds — and returned them two years later.
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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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A tuned-in savior
Harvard music professor Anne Shreffler and a trio of graduate students have developed an exhibit based on the extensive material related to contemporary music patron Paul Fromm. “Composing the Future: The Fromm Foundation and the Music of Our Time” is on view at the Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library through May 2.
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26 immortal portals
A January Arts Intensive in journalism explored the facts, fun, and stories behind Harvard Yard’s 26 gates, including architectural features that are little noticed by those who pass through them.
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When King came to Harvard
Martin Luther King Jr., the civil rights icon whose national day of commemoration is Monday, was no stranger to Harvard University.
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Note taking in a clickable age
A recent Radcliffe symposium explored the history and future of note taking.
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Harvard in the War of 1812
The War of 1812 touched Harvard only lightly, a new exhibit shows, but the end of the conflict was much welcomed in Anglophile New England.
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Treasure island
Houghton Library illustrates how the stuff of great literature is conserved, from the first jumbled box to the final neat archive.
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How Harvard celebrated
A look at how Harvard has celebrated some previous anniversaries.
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T.S. Eliot, warts and all
An intimate exhibition at Houghton Library offers a revealing look at the early life of poet T.S. Eliot, who had his troubles as a Harvard student.
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Digitizing Dunster
To celebrate Dunster’s 400th year, the Harvard University Archives, with generous support from the Sidney Verba Fund, has digitized the Dunster family papers and made them available on the Internet.
