Featured series 
Tag: History
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A complicated Lincoln
A collection of scholars painted a complex, complicated, and rich picture of the nation’s 16th president during a two-day symposium at Harvard April 24-25.
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Triple appointment for historian
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed will return to Harvard in July as a professor at the Law School and of history in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. She also will be the Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.
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Living the lessons we have learned
A graduating Harvard Kennedy School student, herself Native American, ponders the experiences of her predecessors, students at the Indian College in the 1660s.
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Rebels to some, achievers to others
For two lecturers, the achievements of American radicals have been too long ignored. They argue that a reappraisal is due.
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What makes a life significant?
A diverse Harvard panel marks the 1910 death of William James, celebrates his life, and revisits his famous question.
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Peering into gearworks of FDA
Daniel Carpenter’s new book, “Reputation and Power: Organizational Image and Pharmaceutical Regulation at the FDA,” probes the workings of a crucial federal safety agency that often is either lionized or demonized.
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The invention of childhood innocence
In a new book, Harvard professor Robin Bernstein says that the concept of childhood innocence only dates to the 19th century, and was only applied to whites.
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Beauty Imagined: A History of the Global Beauty Industry
From the emergence of the beauty industry in the 19th century, Geoffrey Jones, the Isidor Straus Professor of Business History, traces such beauty bastions as Coty, Estée Lauder, and Avon, and how they made beauty a full-time fascination and business.
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Battling climate change on all fronts
Harvard’s research spans the gamut from the sciences to the humanities, examining key questions about this critical challenge facing humanity.
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Out of Africa
Harvard Africa Focus opens series of panels, lectures, and performances highlighting the continent’s life and culture.
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Medieval recycling
Radcliffe Fellow Robin Fleming peers into the history of early medieval Britain through the lens of material culture.
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A Tenth of a Second: A History
When clocks recognized a tenth of a second, the world would never be the same, says Jimena Canales, an associate professor in the history of science who melds technology, philosophy, and science in this heady history.
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Hard look at harsh times
History professor Caroline Elkins, who won a Pulitzer Prize for her book outlining British colonial abuses during Kenya’s Mau Mau uprising, is working to build ties with Kenyan institutions.
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Beyond boundaries
As a global university, Harvard not only attracts students and faculty from around the world, it sends them out, to teach and work, extending Harvard’s influence far beyond its local boundaries.
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David Armitage named Royal Society of Edinburgh corresponding fellow
David Armitage, the Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History at Harvard, has been elected a corresponding fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland’s national academy of science and letters.
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From bodysuits to bikinis
Library cataloger Marilyn Morgan is writing a book about American women and their bathing suits, and what that says about early 20th century cultural norms.
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Archives and electrons
In a discussion titled “Writing History Now,” sponsored by the Harvard University Extension School, a panel of historians examines the shifting landscape of recording history, as the Internet changes the ways that data is saved and valued.
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Over there, over here
On the Harvard campus, as many as 150 students have an untraditional academic past, as present or former members of the U.S. military, many of whom have had multiple combat tours.
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Harvard Stadium
A history of Harvard Stadium and how it changed the face of American football.
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Ihor Ševčenko
Ihor Ševčenko, prominent Byzantinist and Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Byzantine History and Literature, Emeritus, at Harvard, died Dec. 26 at age 87.
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A tale of two continents
English professor Elisa New found her great-grandfather’s cane, and that spawned a twisting journey to find her family history, now relayed in a book.
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Entrance, stage left
Julie Peters, the inaugural Byron and Anita Wien Professor, focuses on artistic cultural history, as well as the literary works themselves.
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In the footsteps of Du Bois
Eight receive W.E.B. Du Bois Medals for aiding African-American culture, including Charlayne Hunter-Gault, Hugh M. “Brother Blue” Hill, Vernon Jordan, Daniel and Joanna S. Rose, Shirley M. Tilghman, Bob Herbert, and Frank H. Pearl.
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Revelations on Revelation
Biblical scholar Elaine Pagels visits Radcliffe, presenting a “mad dash” of fresh thinking on the New Testament’s Book of Revelation.
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In defense of books
Harvard Library director pens book that in itself is an ode to books.
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Harvard, University of Johannesburg join forces
Education is a force for liberation, President Drew Faust told an audience Thursday (Nov. 26) at the University of Johannesburg at Soweto, where she announced that Harvard and the host university were developing an initiative to train school principals in some of South Africa’s most desperate regions.
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Purgatory
This is Zurita’s harrowing chronicle of General Augusto Pinochet’s military dictatorship in Chile, along with the writer’s subsequent arrest and torture. It’s a visually stunning book of unforgettable poems.
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Digitizing Dunster
To celebrate Dunster’s 400th year, the Harvard University Archives, with generous support from the Sidney Verba Fund, has digitized the Dunster family papers and made them available on the Internet.
