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Tag: Samuel Eliot Morison
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Nation & World
Sacvan Bercovitch, 1933-2014
Harvard’s Sacvan Bercovitch, an influential scholar of Puritan America, dies at 81.
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Nation & World
Daniel Aaron’s century
A Harvard professor emeritus, who still goes to the office every day, turns 100 years old.
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Nation & World
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.
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Nation & World
Harvard’s long-ago student risings
A century of occasional unrest at American colleges reflected a time of unbridled liberty and questionable self-discipline.
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Nation & World
Widener Library rises from Titanic tragedy
The ship disaster a century ago led to the drowning of three men affiliated with Harvard. It also prompted a memorial gift that quickly led to construction of the University’s flagship book repository.
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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.
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Nation & World
Harvard’s first impressions
The Colonies’ first printing press, in operation by 1638, was the instrument behind New England’s first literary flowering.
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Nation & World
375th party under the umbrellas
Harvard writers and photographers ventured to all corners of the campus and captured the University’s 375th anniversary celebration.
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Nation & World
Harvard’s year of exile
It’s little known, but Harvard wasn’t always in Cambridge. During the American Revolution, the College temporarily turned its campus over to the new colonial army, and moved inland to Concord.
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Nation & World
Voices from the trees
To celebrate the University’s 375th anniversary, excerpts of famous speeches will play on loop from trees in Harvard Yard.
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Nation & World
Scholars venerable
Retired Harvard faculty, some with astonishing personal stories, are windows onto a vanishing past, even as many continue to work in their fields.
