Featured series 
Tag: History
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Campus & Community
You know the author. Meet the typist.
Exhibit celebrates women who labored behind the scenes of masterworks
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Health
Why we need Black bioethics
Panel points to historical examples, including Tuskegee experiment, pandemic, and life expectancy inequities
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Arts & Culture
How Ben Franklin put a charge into American independence
Reputation in science was key to his political power, historian says. On the other hand, ‘Frankenstein.’
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Campus & Community
Like seeing art of Roman chapels in technicolor for first time
Students create relief sculptures in stucco using centuries-old methods to gain deeper insight into how, why artists made choices
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Arts & Culture
Retelling Frederick Douglass’ story, with a soundtrack
Senior composes musical about abolitionist’s early life
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Work & Economy
Muriel Siebert kicked down the door so others could follow
Baker Library exhibit showcases life of analyst who opened doors for women on Wall Street
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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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Nation & World
Can Russia be denied?
Ex-POW joins discussion of four-year conflict ahead of another round of negotiations
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Arts & Culture
Moved by what’s missing in Homer’s ‘Harrow’
Curator launches series steeped in U.S. history
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Campus & Community
Gathering medieval French prayerbook, Kabuki in America, Sylvia Plath’s thoughts
New Houghton exhibits highlights breadth of new acquisitions — and of library’s collection
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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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Work & Economy
How capitalism came to rule modern life
Sven Beckert’s new history traces complex global evolution of system that continues to shift, disrupt even now
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Arts & Culture
From the kitchen to the stage
A.R.T. plans ‘immersive’ adaptation of bestseller about African American cuisine
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Science & Tech
Mapping our deep-rooted relationship with medicinal plants
Regions with longer histories of human settlement tend to have greater variety, study finds
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Nation & World
Our self-evident truths
New book takes as focus ‘greatest sentence ever written,’ how it may help a riven nation recall common values
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Campus & Community
Life and times of ‘the birth certificate of the U.S.’
First-years spend semester delving into 1770s texts, influences that shaped nation, its founding document
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Nation & World
What unites Americans?
Civil Discourse panelists debate how to strengthen national ties
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Science & Tech
Solving mystery at tip of South America
Study finds previously unknown ancient lineage of indigenous people, which gave rise to surprisingly diverse mix of cultures
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Arts & Culture
‘A love letter to drawing’
Exhibit peels back layers to reveal raw expression in monochrome
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Nation & World
Cold War arms-control pioneers perhaps weren’t peacemakers we thought they were
Nuclear-age historian argues scientists who backed arsenals as deterrent aided military-industrial complex, hampered disarmament
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Arts & Culture
Horrific massacre that fueled drive to end slave trade
New history traces nightmare voyage, high-profile British trial over insurance claim to collect for jettisoned ‘cargo’
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Nation & World
‘Our American compass is still true’
MLK Lecture honoree Darren Walker urges hope, courage in fight against inequality, polarization
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Nation & World
Rising birth rates no longer tied to economic prosperity
New research by Claudia Goldin extends her work on how, why cultural changes around gender are driving down fertility in U.S., elsewhere
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Arts & Culture
How her life shaped mine
Gish Jen’s ties with her mother were important, difficult. She examines why in new novel, ‘Bad Bad Girl.’
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Arts & Culture
Was ‘Aeneid’ critiquing or glorifying empire?
Authors of new translation dig into lasting impact of epic that Virgil wanted burned
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Campus & Community
She pioneered study of hip-hop as high art
Harvard renames first-of-its-kind archive after founder Marcyliena Morgan, who died recently at age 75
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Nation & World
U.S. needs to keep its friends closer, Pence says
First-term Trump VP: ‘If America isn’t leading the free world, the free world is not being led.’
