Tag: Jane Kamensky
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Hot season for travel, rejuvenation, transformation — even if you don’t go anywhere
Fourteen suggestions for books to take you places you’ve never been, full of new people, unaccustomed sights, smells, tastes.
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Striving for impassioned, but reasoned, post-Roe conversation on abortion
Participants representing complex set of views engage at Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics discussion.
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Schlesinger adjusts plans for Roe v. Wade commemoration to new reality
Schlesinger exhibit, conference to examine history, future now that Supreme Court has overturned landmark ruling.
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Mira Nair comes full circle with donation of archive
The acquisition represents a key step in Schlesinger Library’s efforts to capture a broad range of women’s voices and perspectives.
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Redrawing the civics education roadmap
In a report released March 1, “A Roadmap to Educating for American Democracy,” researchers at Harvard, Tufts, and other institutions laid out a strategy and other recommendations for a large-scale recommitment to the field of civics, which has seen investment decline during the last 50 years.
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The long march for suffrage
Radcliffe dean and library director shed light on some of the historical issues framing the “Long 19th Amendment Project.”
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Challenge of archiving the #MeToo movement
The Schlesinger Library’s #MeToo archive, which opened to researchers on July 1, captures the tweets, websites, and online articles that powered the movement.
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Angela Davis in black and white and gray
A new exhibit at Radcliffe, curated from Angela Davis’ personal archive, chronicles the life of a complicated activist and scholar
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Military, veterans study at Harvard
The Warrior-Scholar Project at Harvard aims to ease military veterans’ transition to college life.
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Probing the past and future of #MeToo
The long history behind the #MeToo movement and its future impact were the focus of a discussion with Harvard scholars at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.
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A radical archive arrives at Harvard
Radcliffe’s Schlesinger Library has acquired the papers of famed activist Angela Davis.
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A study in contrast: Copley’s America, America’s Copley
Historian Jane Kamensky’s new book explores the life and times of painter John Singleton Copley.