Featured series 
Tag: History
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Arts & Culture
Holiday treats from the kitchen of Julia Child
Recipes from celebrity chef’s archive at Radcliffe
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Nation & World
Exact cause of Notre-Dame fire still unclear. But disaster perhaps could’ve been avoided.
Leadership expert says foreseeable factors all contributed to complex failure. Consistent focus needed on best practices, rules, procedures.
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Campus & Community
Reckoning with past, striving for better future
Street at Arnold Arboretum renamed Flora Way to honor enslaved woman
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Arts & Culture
‘Art and Identity’ in a changing Germany
Filmmaker’s documentaries bring complex history to Busch-Reisinger
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Arts & Culture
Making art as process of reclamation
Singer Davóne Tines ’09 and violinist Jennifer Koh discuss ‘Everything Rises,’ their work about race, complex ties to white world of classical music
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Arts & Culture
Preserving Indigenous languages is personal
Ava Silva ’27 working with WOLF Lab to document, study, and preserve the Alabama language of the Alabama-Coushatta Tribe
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Campus & Community
Ukraine’s first lady shares history with Harvard
Olena Zelenska presents Harvard Library with books, shows appreciation for its contribution to Ukrainian studies
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Science & Tech
Big discovery about microscopic ‘water bears’
Bit of happenstance, second look at ancient fossils leads to new insights into evolution of tardigrade, one of most indestructible life forms on planet
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Arts & Culture
Manifesting Black history in 3D
From Frederick Douglass’ hair to Malcolm X’s tape recorder, Wendel White’s new book puts an abundance of artifacts on display
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Nation & World
Your kid can’t name three branches of government? He’s not alone.
Efforts launched to turn around plummeting student scores in U.S. history, civics, amid declining citizen engagement across nation
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Arts & Culture
Where sights and sounds of modern poetry are
Woodberry Poetry Room embarks on online preservation project
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Nation & World
Harvard Library acquires copy of ‘Green Book’
Rare original copy of Jim Crow-era travel guide ‘key document in Black history’
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Arts & Culture
We know about the wars. What about the flowers?
Exhibit tracing multicultural exchanges over three centuries finds common threads and plenty of drama, from crown envy to tulip mania
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Arts & Culture
Consider the ancient history and glory of Olympics (and the modern sneaker deal)
In Greece, students find intersection of academics and athletics
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Arts & Culture
Tracing roots of hidden language of an outsider minority
Graduate student aims to update large gaps in research on argot of Irish Travelers
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Campus & Community
Nikole Hannah-Jones on history, rage — and hope
Pulitzer Prize winner delivers keynote at Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery Initiative’s 2024 Symposium
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Arts & Culture
DuVernay on exploring racism, antisemitism, caste in ‘Origin’
Despite horrors, film ‘a collection of love stories’
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Arts & Culture
Is Beyoncé’s new album country?
Release ignites hot talk about genre’s less-discussed Black roots, what constitutes authenticity
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Nation & World
Decline of golden age for American Jews
Franklin Foer recounts receding antisemitism of past 100 years, recent signs of resurgence of hate, historical pattern of scapegoating
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Work & Economy
Where money isn’t cheap, misery follows
Student’s analysis of global attitudes called key contribution to research linking higher cost of borrowing to persistent consumer gloom
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Work & Economy
Larger lesson about tariffs in a move that helped Trump but not the country
Researcher details findings on policy that failed to boost U.S. employment even as it scored political points
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Campus & Community
Need for moral revolution
Social scientist, former Biden official Alondra Nelson says work of new Center for Race, Inequality and Social Equity can help shape policy, progress
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Arts & Culture
‘Still caught in a system that makes us smaller than we could be’
Tracy K. Smith explores America’s past, present challenges, hopes in new book
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Campus & Community
Hearth and home — in Stone Age
Motivating Professor Amy Elizabeth Clark’s interest is what she calls a “feminist approach” to studying human history.
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Nation
‘Living witness’ to a country’s turbulent progress
Memoir details Drew Gilpin Faust’s coming-of-age amid the transformations of mid-century America.
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Arts & Culture
A people’s history of Cambridge
In “The Streets of Newtowne: A Story of Cambridge, MA.” professor tells the story of city from Indigenous origins to present in children’s book illustrated by alum.
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Arts & Culture
Susan Suleiman reflects on resilience, girlhood, and identity in memoir
Emerita professor recalls childhood as Holocaust refugee in memoir “Daughter of History.”
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Campus & Community
5 faculty members named Harvard College Professors
They are recognized for excellence in teaching in fields ranging from biophysics to cultural studies.
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Campus & Community
‘Brotherly-sisterly’ bond keeps Parkland survivors in fight
Jaclyn Corin and David Hogg were exhausted, still somewhat traumatized as first-years, but eventually found their way by different paths.
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Work & Economy
Can tech save us from worst of climate change effects? Doesn’t look good
Study by two Prize Fellows focuses on economic impact on agriculture.
