Tag: Robert Todd Lincoln

  • Nation & World

    In 1914, poised for war

    The Harvard and Radcliffe Classes of 1914 were the University’s final ones before world war. Their brilliant students became players on a stage of vanishing national innocence.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    The ‘mirror with a memory’

    “Mirror With a Memory” is a new Pusey Library exhibit of photographs and other artifacts from the years when Harvard and the nation were anticipating the Civil War, then fighting it, and, finally, remembering it.

    6 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