Tag: Pusey Library

  • Nation & World

    Lost in fictional maps

    Fantasy worlds from Middle Earth to Westeros come to life in Harvard Library exhibit.

    4 minutes
    A Map of Narnia and the Surrounding Countries.
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    A year that changed students, and students changed the world

    “Harvard, 1968,” a new exhibition at Pusey Library, explores student and faculty experiences from a time of turbulence.

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    Juliana Kuipers, on right and Emily Atkins are the curators of a new
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    The focus is Harvard and slavery

    A new exhibit at Harvard’s Pusey Library, “Bound by History: Harvard, Slavery, and Archives,” contains much of what researchers have uncovered so far related to Harvard’s ties to slavery. But experts say there is much more to be found.

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    On display as part of an upcoming exhibit on slavery, this Allan Rohan Crite watercolor depicts the Dana-Palmer House, home of Harvard College and Law School graduate Richard Henry Dana Jr.. who helped found the anti-slavery Free Soil Party and later defended fugitive slaves in court.
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    The long Crimson line

    For almost 250 years, the U.S. military and Harvard have shared a deeply interwoven history. A Harvard University Archives exhibition at Pusey Library demonstrates the scope of this relationship.

    3 minutes
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    Stages of conflict

    “From the Alps to the Ocean: Maps of the Western Front,” at Pusey Library through Nov. 11, captures the magnitude and destructive momentum of World War I.

    4 minutes
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    Reality, fiction in Italy’s empire

    GSAS doctoral students create an exhibit to feature personal albums, photographs, postcards, and maps from Harvard’s rich trove of 20th-century propaganda related to Italy’s late participation in the colonial “scramble for Africa.”

    5 minutes
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    Gripes between bites

    A Pusey Library exhibit, “Dining and Discontentment,” is just one of many at Harvard that illustrate the power of investigating material artifacts in order to understand the past.

    6 minutes
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    Harvard in the War of 1812

    The War of 1812 touched Harvard only lightly, a new exhibit shows, but the end of the conflict was much welcomed in Anglophile New England.

    7 minutes
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    Zuckerberg ‘friends’ Harvard during visit

    Mark Zuckerberg returned to campus Nov. 7 to recruit computer science students for jobs and internships at Facebook, the popular social networking site that he created when he was a Harvard undergraduate.

    4 minutes
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    Off the beaten path

    A new exhibition, “Rev. Badger’s Misfits: Deviations and Diversions,” at the Harvard Map Collection, asks viewers to consider some of these “cartographic curiosities.”

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    And quiet flows the Don at Pusey

    The Harvard Map Collection presents its fall exhibition, “From the Amazon to the Volga: The Cartographic Representation of Rivers,” which opened Wednesday (Sept. 24). For centuries, cartographers have wrestled with the difficulties of depicting rivers, and in the process they have devised many ingenious ways of answering the challenge — from streambed profiles to bird’s-eye…

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    Synchronized effort rescues collection

    Heavy rain Saturday night (March 8) caused a large drainpipe to rupture in Pusey Library. More than 500 gallons of water poured into the Harvard Theatre Collection stacks and seeped through the floor, flooding the three levels beneath it. At risk were hundreds of original drawings of costume and set designs, hand-painted theatrical backdrops, and…

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    Tale of John Harvard’s surviving book

    This November, Harvard University will mark the 400th anniversary of the birth of John Harvard, not the institution’s founder as he is sometimes credited, but rather its first major benefactor. Such a noteworthy anniversary warrants reflection, although, unfortunately, a great many details about both the history of John Harvard and the legacy of his library…

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    Exhibitions from Harvard Archives to mark presidential inauguration

    In conjunction with the Oct. 12 inauguration of Drew Faust as president of Harvard, the Harvard University Archives has developed two special exhibitions that highlight the history of Harvard, its governance, and its presidency.

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