Tag: Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

  • Campus & Community

    Eminent historian Bernard Bailyn dies at 97

    Professor Bernard Bailyn, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian who reframed our understanding of colonial America, dies at 97.

    Bernard Bailyn.
  • Campus & Community

    Scholarship of things

    Addressing an audience at the Harvard Ed Portal, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, the 300th Anniversary University Professor and a Pulitzer Prize winner for history, said that many objects in Harvard’s collections defy easy categorization. Consider, she said, the tortilla.

  • Campus & Community

    ‘I had the advantage of disadvantage’

    Interview with Professor Laurel Thatcher Ulrich as part of the Experience series.

  • Campus & Community

    Biography of a bronze

    September marked the 375th anniversary of benefactor John Harvard’s death, and the beginning of a course that uses his statue in Harvard Yard to instruct students about the realities of two vanished eras.

  • Arts & Culture

    Objects of instruction

    Harvard College Dean Evelynn M. Hammonds and some of Harvard’s leading faculty convened at Harvard Hall on Friday (April 1) to participate in “Teaching with Collections,” a discussion of the University’s treasures and their use in the classroom.

  • Arts & Culture

    Hide and seek

    A new Harvard exhibit aims to challenge how things are categorized by delving into the University’s vast museum and archival collections.

  • Campus & Community

    Ulrich receives Kennedy Medal

    Harvard Professor Laurel Thatcher Ulrich was honored Wednesday evening (Oct. 14) as the 10th recipient of the John F. Kennedy Medal of the Massachusetts Historical Society. She is the first woman given the award.

  • Campus & Community

    Two University Professors appointed

    Two members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) have been appointed to University Professorships. Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, currently the James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History, known for her work on daily life in late 18th and early 19th century America, has been appointed the 300th Anniversary University Professor. Peter Galison, the…