Tag: Paul Joseph Revere

  • 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

    Harvard in blue and gray

    At the Battle of Gettysburg, Harvard men faced Harvard men, as 11 Union soldiers and three Confederates were killed.

    11 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