Tag: Oliver Wendell Holmes

  • Nation & World

    Microbes by the mile

    Exhibit at the Harvard Museum of Natural History shows the beauty and utility of microbes.

    7 minutes
    Tardigrade.
  • Nation & World

    Picturing Harvard’s past

    An exhibit at Pusey Library demonstrates how the first Harvard class photograph albums evolved. In the antebellum 19th century, photography was young, image technologies were changing fast (often with Boston practitioners in the lead), and Harvard students began adding the visual to the repositories of memory that for centuries had been dominated by text.

    8 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Triumphs against smallpox, polio, AIDS

    Harvard researchers have been at the forefront of many battles against devastating diseases, leading pivotal breakthroughs against scourges from 1800 to the present.

    6 minutes