Tag: History

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard professor INET grant recipient

    The Institute for New Economic Thinking has selected James Robinson, David Florence Professor of Government at Harvard, and his research partner Steven Pincus of Yale University, to be awarded a project grant through the institute’s Inaugural Grant Program to research the events leading to the British Industrial Revolution.

  • Arts & Culture

    The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party’s Revolution and the Battle over American History

    Jill Lepore, David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History, tells the story of the centuries-long struggle over the meaning of the nation’s founding, including the battle waged by the tea party, Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, and evangelical Christians to “take back America.”

  • Campus & Community

    Professor Harold Bolitho dies

    Harold Bolitho, professor of Japanese history emeritus in Harvard’s Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, died on Oct. 23 after a long illness.

  • Arts & Culture

    Continental Divide: Heidegger, Cassirer, Davos

    Professor of History Peter E. Gordon recreates the Davos, Switzerland, meeting between philosophers Martin Heidegger and Ernst Cassirer, and their divided opinions on those heady questions of what is truth and what it means to be human.

  • Campus & Community

    David Herbert Donald

    At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on October 5, 2010, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late David Herbert Donald, Charles Warren Professor of American History and Professor of American Civilization Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Donald was an influential scholar of American history and noted biographer…

  • Nation & World

    Peering into the crystal ball

    Students at Harvard Kennedy School try their hands at political forecasting for the upcoming midterm elections.

  • Campus & Community

    A river runs through it

    Harvard has developed a simmering romance with the Charles River and has a growing interest in it as a living laboratory, after centuries of the waterway serving as the University’s humble back door.

  • Arts & Culture

    Harvard Humanities 2.0

    A $10 million gift to the Humanities Center at Harvard will help bring the traditional arts of interpretation to more students.

  • Nation & World

    The way forward

    Ahmet Davutoglu, Turkey’s minister of foreign affairs, delivered messages of cooperation and inclusiveness while elaborating on his six principles for Turkey’s future at a Harvard Kennedy School forum.

  • Arts & Culture

    Looking past the plantation

    Archaeologists examining the African-American past are broadening their focus to include a greater understanding of Africa, according to Christopher Fennell, who spoke at the Harvard African Seminar.

  • Arts & Culture

    The golden ruling

    “In Brown’s Wake,” the new book by Harvard Law School Dean Martha Minow, tackles the legacy of the landmark Supreme Court ruling Brown v. Board of Education.

  • Nation & World

    Documenting a colonial past

    A Harvard doctoral student and two recent graduates worked in Kenya this summer with Harvard history professor Caroline Elkins to lay the foundation for a collaboration with Kenyan scholars to record the African nation’s experience gaining independence from Britain.

  • Campus & Community

    Angeliki E. Laiou

    At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on May 11, 2010, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Angeliki E. Laiou, Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Byzantine History, was placed upon the records. Laiou was known for her path-breaking research in Mediterranean economic and women’s history.

  • Arts & Culture

    A Short History of Cape Cod

    Historian Robert Allison colors in Cape Cod’s record with photographs, historical figures, and far-from-dry tales in “A Short History.”

  • Nation & World

    Tracing the roots of political thought

    Going back millennia, Harvard’s Eric Nelson studies the emerging republican ideals that defined liberty and eventually displaced monarchy.

  • Nation & World

    Harvard’s historic mark

    As Elena Kagan becomes the 112th Supreme Court justice, she adds to an impressive list of now 23 justices who have one thing in common: Not only have they shaped the law in influential and historical ways — they all hail from Harvard.

  • Arts & Culture

    Where art and advertising collide

    A new exhibition at Harvard Business School explores the intersection of fine photography with product marketing in the 1930s.

  • Arts & Culture

    Food for thought

    A weeklong seminar at the Radcliffe Institute examines cookbooks through the centuries, and what they say about the practices, resources, and cultures of their times.

  • Arts & Culture

    Innovations from southern Europe

    Gabriel Paquette, author and research associate at Harvard’s DRCLAS, says southern Europe and its Atlantic colonies in the 18th century were hardly the backward regions that people believe they were.

  • Campus & Community

    When the past is present

    Marcus Briggs-Cloud believes native language is what connects communities. His time at the Divinity School has helped him strengthen that bridge.

  • Campus & Community

    ‘Remarkable teachers’

    Historian Maya Jasanoff and chemist Tobias Ritter are this year’s winners of the Roslyn Abramson Award, given annually to assistant or associate professors for excellence in undergraduate teaching.

  • Campus & Community

    Sparking a passion

    Four years ago, Melissa Tran ’10 didn’t want to leave California. Then she came to Harvard and found out what the world has to offer … and what she has to offer the world.

  • Arts & Culture

    Slavery in the North, and more

    Du Bois Institute hosts a book party celebrating former and current fellows’ recent publications, including a title that examines little-known slavery in the North.

  • Arts & Culture

    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.

  • Campus & Community

    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.

  • Arts & Culture

    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.

  • Arts & Culture

    What makes a life significant?

    A diverse Harvard panel marks the 1910 death of William James, celebrates his life, and revisits his famous question.

  • Arts & Culture

    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.

  • Arts & Culture

    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.