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Tag: History
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Campus & Community
Oscar Handlin, historian, 95
Oscar Handlin, Carl M. Loeb University Professor Emeritus, died from a heart attack on Sept. 20 at his Cambridge home. He was 95.
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Nation & World
Harvard Remembers 9/11
The Harvard community remembers where they were on September 11th and reflects on how it has changed their lives and the world around them.
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Campus & Community
How doctors think, past and present
Physician and historian David Jones works to bridge the gap between medical science and the social forces that shape it, as Harvard’s first A. Bernard Ackerman Professor of the Culture of Medicine.
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Campus & Community
How Harvard celebrated
A look at how Harvard has celebrated some previous anniversaries.
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Arts & Culture
Around the world in many ways
Historian Joyce Chaplin is completing her latest book, on the history and influence of circumnavigation. For her, globalization is an old story.
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Arts & Culture
Tocqueville’s Discovery of America
Ernest Bernbaum Research Professor on Literature Leo Damrosch retraces the nine-month journey through America by historian Alexis de Tocqueville, author of “Democracy in America,” who cannily predicted the growing social unrest toward slavery in America.
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Arts & Culture
Andrew Johnson
Professor of Law Annette Gordon-Reed tackles one of the worst presidents in American history, claiming that his own racism was to blame for his shoddy performance during the Reconstruction era.
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Arts & Culture
High Financier: The Lives and Time of Siegmund Warburg
This biography by Niall Ferguson, Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History and Professor of Business Administration, chronicles the life of Siegmund Warburg, a financial wiz, prophet of globalization, and strategic businessman.
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Arts & Culture
His Majesty’s Opponent: Subhas Chandra and India’s Struggle Against Empire
Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs Sugata Bose parses the life of Indian revolutionary Subhas Chandra Bose, who struggled to liberate his people from British rule and led the Indian National Army against Allied Forces during World War II.
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Arts & Culture
Fleeing America
In “Liberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World,” historian Maya Jasanoff reveals the lesser-known history of loyalists after the Revolution.
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Health
Debunking a myth
Studying dead women’s cut-up bodies was not what Katharine Park originally set out to do. But a trip to Florence opened a new chapter in the scholar’s life.
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Arts & Culture
The Moche of Ancient Peru: Media and Messages
Jeffrey Quilter, a senior lecturer on anthropology and deputy director for curatorial affairs and curator at Harvard’s Peabody Museum, introduces the Moche civilization and explores current thinking about Moche politics, history, society, and religion.
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Campus & Community
Touring the Yard with John Stilgoe
Harvard professor John Stilgoe takes viewers on a tour of historic Harvard Yard and explores its many unique and exciting features.
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Campus & Community
Harvard Thinks Big 2: “Escaping the Ivory Tower” – Caroline Elkins
Caroline Elkins, Professor of History; Chair of the Standing Committee on African Studies; Chair of the Standing Committee on Ethnic Studies
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Arts & Culture
Notes from underground
Historian and former Quincy House tutor John McMillian’s new book chronicles the massive ’60s “youthquake” and the rise of radical underground publications.
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Campus & Community
Claudio Guillén
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on February 1, 2011, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Claudio Guillén, Harry Levin Professor of Literature, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Professor Guillén was a tireless promoter of comparative literature.
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Campus & Community
Ernest R. May
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on February 1, 2011, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Ernest R. May, Charles Warren Professor of American History, was placed upon the records. An expert in the field of U.S. foreign relations, Professor May held many leadership roles within the…
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Campus & Community
Ernst Badian, professor of history emeritus, 85
Professor Ernst Badian, John Moors Cabot Professor of History Emeritus, died on Feb. 1.
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Campus & Community
History in the making
When the Berlin Wall fell, student Mary Lewis knew she should study the past. Now a professor, she is an authority on how France evolved.
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Arts & Culture
An Errant Eye: Poetry and Topography in Early Modern France
Tom Conley, Abbott Lawrence Lowell Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of Visual and Environmental Studies, studies how topography, the art of describing local space and place, developed literary and visual form in early modern France.
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Nation & World
Let the Word Go Forth
“Let the Word Go Forth” is a film of many faces and voices recreating President John F. Kennedy’s inaugural address.
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Campus & Community
Kafadar nabs Turkish honors
Turkish President Abdullah Gül presented in December the 2010 Presidential Grand Awards in Culture and Arts to Harvard Professor Cemal Kafadar for history.
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Arts & Culture
The landscape of slavery
Harvard historian and Radcliffe fellow Walter Johnson explored the intersecting landscapes of slavery in a talk at the Radcliffe Gymnasium.
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Arts & Culture
Ye olde information overload
Before digital technology existed, scholars centuries ago beat their desks in frustration over being inundated with data too, according to Ann Blair, author of “Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information Before the Modern Age.”
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Campus & Community
HIO seeks international art
The Harvard International Office is seeking submissions of international art for an exhibit. The deadline is Jan. 9.
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Nation & World
Echoes of Tiananmen Square
In her freshman seminar, lecturer Rowena He sheds light on the Chinese government’s 1989 crackdown on dissent by melding the personal with the academic.
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Arts & Culture
Feeling the pinch
Harvard Law School’s Noah Feldman’s gripping history of FDR’s most prominent — and turbulent — Supreme Court justices plays out in his book, “Scorpions: The Battles and Triumphs of FDR’s Great Supreme Court Justices.”
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Arts & Culture
Yalta: The Price of Peace
Mykhailo S. Hrushevs’kyi Professor of Ukrainian History S.M. Plokhy uncovers the daily dynamics of the 1945 Yalta Conference and embroiders them with items behind subsequent recrimination about the conference results, such as FDR’s ill health and the presence of probable Soviet spy Alger Hiss.
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Campus & Community
Scholars venerable
Retired Harvard faculty, some with astonishing personal stories, are windows onto a vanishing past, even as many continue to work in their fields.
