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Bernard Bailyn.

Eminent historian Bernard Bailyn dies at 97

His books won two Pulitzers, reframing our understanding of colonial America, and his teaching launched generations of inquisitive scholars

Campus|

DateAugust 11, 2020

The “Tangible Things” undergraduate and HarvardX course is the brainchild of Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, the 300th Anniversary University Professor and a Pulitzer Prize winner for history, who said the main idea behind the course is that “any object can become an entry point into historical investigation. The shoes on your feet, the chair you’re sitting on, light fixtures in the room — common things have stories."

Scholarship of things

Ulrich makes case for the narrative of objects

Campus|

DateMay 8, 2015June 5, 2018

Laurel Ulrich is the 300th Anniversary University Professor at Harvard University. She is pictured in her home in Cambridge. Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Staff Photographer

‘I had the advantage of disadvantage’

How Laurel Thatcher Ulrich caught up with the past

Campus|

DateOctober 22, 2014February 28, 2019

“What else do you do when you come to Harvard Yard? Everybody you know has a picture in front of the statue,” said 300th Anniversary University Professor Laurel Ulrich, who is looking closely at the John Harvard Statue in her class “Tangible Things: Harvard Collections in World History.”

Biography of a bronze

John Harvard in detail, 375 years after his death

Campus|

DateOctober 2, 2013March 13, 2019

Harvard College Dean Evelynn Hammonds (from left) opened the discussion "Teaching with Collections" by reporting that more than 100 members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences make Harvard’s collections a centerpiece of courses in areas as disparate as visual and environmental studies, expository writing, the history of science, and stem cell research. Other speakers included Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Peter Galison, Jeffrey Hamburger, and Farish Jenkins (not pictured).

Objects of instruction

Faculty members discuss use of Harvard’s collections in teaching and learning

Arts|

DateApril 6, 2011July 25, 2019

An offbeat new exhibit, drawing on material collected at Harvard over the centuries, aims to answer those questions, challenging viewers to explore the notion of how Western thought categorizes a wide array of objects, and what can be gleaned from those classifications. This postcard, designed by Samantha van Gerbig at the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, reflects the variety of items on exhibit.

Hide and seek

New exhibit puts things in their places, and also outside them

Arts|

DateJanuary 27, 2011March 5, 2019

Harvard Professor Laurel Thatcher Ulrich was honored as the 10th recipient of the John F. Kennedy Medal of the Massachusetts Historical Society. She is the first woman given the award.

Ulrich receives Kennedy Medal

First woman to receive John F. Kennedy Medal of the Massachusetts Historical Society

News|

DateOctober 15, 2009

Two University Professors appointed

Laurel Ulrich and Peter Galison recognized as 'individuals of distinction'

News|

DateFebruary 2, 2006January 8, 2018