Featured series 
Tag: History
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Campus & Community
Come fall, a new humanities program
Starting in fall, Harvard sophomores can join I-HUM and USI for intense focus on humanities.
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Arts & Culture
Agassiz’s other photographs tell a global tale of scientific racism
In 1865, Harvard Professor Louis Agassiz traveled to Brazil to create a photographic catalog of people of different races as anatomic evidence in support of his beliefs. Scholars, artists, and curators from Brazil and the U.S. will reflect on these lesser-known images during a panel discussion called “Race, Representation, and Agassiz’s Brazilian Fantasy” hosted by…
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Nation & World
Cease-fire terms during Pontiac’s War: British retreat and one Black boy
In an excerpt from “400 Souls,” Harvard’s Tiya Miles discusses Chief Pontiac seeking a visible status symbol in a boy enslaved by an officer.
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Campus & Community
The value of the written word
Peer Advising Fellow pen pals help Harvard first-years fit in — even from afar.
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Nation & World
On the road to JFK
Fredrik Logevall, whose recent book, “JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917‒1956,” covers the president’s early years. In conversation Monday with fellow historian Jon Meacham, Logevall discussed his findings and offered some hints as to what is to come in the second volume.
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Nation & World
An unflinching look at racism as America’s caste system
Kicking off a monthly series designed to harness “the power of storytelling,” was Pulitzer Prize-winner Isabel Wilkerson, author of “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents.”
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Health
Only eat organic? You’re paying too much, and it’s not worth it, author says
An excerpt from “Resetting the Table: Straight Talk about the Food We Grow and Eat” by Robert Paarlberg, associate in the Sustainability Science Program at the Harvard Kennedy School and at Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.
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Nation & World
Reaffirming inauguration rituals after Capitol assault
How the symbolic aspects of a cornerstone of American democracy evolved.
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Campus & Community
How they leveled the playing field
Zachary Nowak’s fall course, HIST 1852: “The Game: College Sports as History,” had current students interview 99 former Harvard athletes, 96 of whom were women, and used the resulting transcripts as the foundations for their final papers.
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Science & Tech
Six-year deluge linked to Spanish flu, World War I deaths
A new study of ice-core data shows that an unusual, six-year period of cold temperatures and heavy rainfall coincided with European deaths during the 1918 Spanish flu.
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Nation & World
A portrait of JFK, in full
Fredrik Logevall’s biography on John F. Kennedy aims to chronicle a complex life amid a pivotal time for a nation.
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Nation & World
Crowd-sourcing the story of a people
Tiya Miles, a professor of history and Radcliffe Alumnae Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, spoke to the Gazette about the vital role of public history in shaping American cultural understanding.
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Campus & Community
Eminent historian Bernard Bailyn dies at 97
Professor Bernard Bailyn, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian who reframed our understanding of colonial America, dies at 97.
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Nation & World
Lessons from James Baldwin on betrayal and hope
Princeton’s Eddie Glaude and Harvard Professor Cornel West discuss Glaude’s “Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own,” and the hope Baldwin saw for change.
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Nation & World
Gateway City: Viewed as an intersection of slavery, capitalism, imperialism
A new book by historian Walter Johnson sees the history of St. Louis as emblematic of the racial, economic, and legal schisms in America.
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Campus & Community
Dispatches from socially distancing students and faculty
Harvard students and faculty offer glimpses into their lives during social distancing.
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Science & Tech
A great civilization brought low by climate change (and, no, it’s not us)
Human-environmental scientist says there are new clues about how and why the Maya culture collapsed.
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Campus & Community
African and African American Studies at 50
Influential, groundbreaking African and African American Studies Department at Harvard turns 50.
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Nation & World
The war against colonial slavery
As part of the 1776 Salon series at the American Repertory Theater, Harvard Professor Vincent Brown will discuss his book, “Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War.”
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Nation & World
Flight from reason
In his new book, “How America Lost Its Mind: The Assault on Reason That’s Crippling Our Democracy,” Thomas Patterson looks at the rejection of logic and reason in American political life and how it threatens Democracy.
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Nation & World
Twitter and the birth of the 1619 Project
Nikole Hannah-Jones of The New York Times and Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. discuss the newspaper’s landmark 1619 Project, which commemorates the 400th anniversary of slavery and reconsiders the historical record.
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Nation & World
How slavery still shadows health care
“400 Years of Inequality” focused on how the effects of slavery have persisted, maintaining a basic disparity in health care.
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Arts & Culture
The story of a museum and of America
Lonnie G. Bunch III, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, recalls his challenges in founding the National Museum of African American History and Culture
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Nation & World
Portrait of the revolutionary as a young man
Jonathan M. Hansen’s biography of Fidel Castro’s early years aims to “get past the demonization and celebration and recover the complex person in the middle.”
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Work & Economy
How African American culture bred business success
A new book by Georgia professor and new Extension School grad student looks at how African American culture bred business success, and the lessons that this offers today.
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Campus & Community
Picturing history through a personal lens
Wonik Son has examined post-World War II humanitarian images for what they say about injury and disability and where they fit into history, including his own.
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Campus & Community
Currier photo exhibit celebrates women
A new photo exhibit is on display at Currier House to highlight its namesake, Audrey Bruce Currier ‘56, other Radcliffe alumnae, and the House’s unique history.
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Campus & Community
‘What the hell — why don’t I just go to Harvard and turn my life upside down?’
Family, history, and the 1960s all helped to shape the higher ed leader, but it was illness that urged her forward.
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Nation & World
Musician to filmmaker to Native American historian
Philip Deloria has joined Harvard’s history department as the School’s first tenured Native American professor.
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Arts & Culture
The world according to Conrad
Professor Maya Jasanoff talks about her new book, “The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World.”
