Tag: John Langdon Sibley

  • Nation & World

    The ‘mirror with a memory’

    “Mirror With a Memory” is a new Pusey Library exhibit of photographs and other artifacts from the years when Harvard and the nation were anticipating the Civil War, then fighting it, and, finally, remembering it.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Library in transition

    A new Harvard Library portal opens the window on a library reorganization that preserves the print past and embraces the digital future.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Treasures hiding in plain sight

    A program at Widener Library rescues vulnerable holdings from its 65 miles of shelves by linking alert students with Harvard authorities on conservation and digitization.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Blue, gray, and Crimson

    Before the Civil War, Harvard was a microcosm of the complex loyalties and opinions that marked the United States. During the war, it lost more than 200 of its sons.

    16 minutes