Featured series 
Tag: History
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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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Campus & Community
How immigrant doctors propped up U.S. healthcare, the tale of America’s last prison ship, and other stories
Faculty authors discuss books at Weatherhead Center’s annual International Book Blitz
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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
Call for ‘historical truth’ in our narrative of Nazi defeat
Jochen Hellbeck wants the West to acknowledge the Soviet role in stopping Hitler
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Health
Call it his personal Everest
A new study shows that climbing Mount Everest has gotten safer, but still claims climbers’ lives regularly.
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Arts & Culture
Historic collab: Harvard’s Glee Club, Fisk’s Jubilee Singers
Two of nation’s most storied collegiate choirs join to share, perform in Nashville
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Arts & Culture
A lost archive of Black history
25 years after landmark photography book, Deborah Willis is still scouring albums, attics, cabinets, cards to fill in the record
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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
Not your father’s Wild, Wild West
Megan Kate Nelson’s new book challenges myths of American frontier, finds more diverse, complex saga
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Nation & World
Deterring the next nuclear arms race
Experts assess threat landscape amid war, lapsing treaties, declining faith in U.S. security guarantee
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Arts & Culture
When Egyptians made blue
Art Museums workshop explores 1st synthesized pigment, examines its legacy
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Campus & Community
Harvard leaders salute National Security Fellows
Garber, Allison, O’Sullivan speak to strong ties between University and military, thank cohort for impact on campus life, students
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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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Nation & World
Is a more perfect union still possible?
Faust, Buttigieg, and Glaude look at past, present of nation’s divides
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Science & Tech
The ascent of us
Anthropologist traces split between Homo sapiens and Neanderthals, other human forms
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Science & Tech
A world-shifting moment (literally)
Geoscientists track when Earth went from ‘just another planet’ to ‘something very special’
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Nation & World
Writing us back from the brink
Researcher shares insights on letters exchanged by Kennedy and Khrushchev during Cuban Missile Crisis.
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Nation & World
Two Americas, then and now
Panel featuring filmmaker Ken Burns probes ‘disjunction’ between Declaration of Independence and the Constitution
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Science & Tech
Think different — for 50 years
Management, branding, marketing, history scholars trace all ways Apple changed industries, our relationship to tech — and to each other
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Arts & Culture
An exhibit marked with food stains and handwritten notes
Radcliffe explores social histories of recipes through its vast collection of community cookbooks
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Arts & Culture
Is this art Celtic? It’s complicated.
New Harvard Art Museums exhibition aims to upend expectations as it explores history, complexity of group of diverse peoples
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Nation & World
Did the British unleash biological warfare against Washington’s troops?
Historians trace role of physicians, medicine, disease during war in articles marking 250th anniversary of Declaration of Independence
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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
