Tag: Samuel Langdon

  • Arts & Culture

    Our signature 1776 revolutionary

    Founding Father and patriot John Hancock, he of the famous signature, was also famed in his day as the Harvard treasurer who left town while managing the College funds — and returned them two years later.

  • Arts & Culture

    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.