Tag: John R. Stilgoe

  • Nation & World

    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.

    1 minute
  • Nation & World

    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.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Roughing it on Great Brewster

    On the hot day of July 15, 1891, four women set off for the adventure of a lifetime in Boston Harbor. For nearly two weeks the quartet — well-educated, upper-class women from the Lowell area — “roughed it” in a quaint yet ramshackle cottage on remote Great Brewster Island, a place they considered “an enchanted…

    7 minutes