Featured series 
Tag: History
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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
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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
