Featured series 
Tag: World War II
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Arts & Culture
Susan Suleiman reflects on resilience, girlhood, and identity in memoir
Emerita professor recalls childhood as Holocaust refugee in memoir “Daughter of History.”
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Nation & World
Not-so-innocent bystanders
Géraldine Schwarz discusses her memoir, “Those Who Forget: My Family’s Story in Nazi Europe,” with Abadir Ibrahim and Cass Sunstein at Harvard Law School event.
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Nation & World
Bacow discusses role of higher education institutions in 21st century
Harvard President Larry Bacow spoke at Imperial College London about the future of universities, the war in Ukraine, world crises, free speech.
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Nation & World
How ‘Good War’ wasn’t all that good
An interview with professor at the United States Military Academy, about her new book, “Looking for the Good War: American Amnesia and the Violent Pursuit of Happiness.”
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Nation & World
‘I lost good friends’
Leon Starr, Class of 1940, was living in Boston when the Japanese attacked the United States. He signed up for the Navy the next day.
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Science & Tech
Mark I, rebooted
After a yearlong delay, the landmark Harvard IBM Mark I Automatic Calculator shifts residences to its new Science and Engineering Complex in Allston.
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Campus & Community
Serving up a new social order
The curator of “Resetting the Table” at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography walks us through the exhibit, providing a narration that begins with “Once upon a time, Harvard students and faculty ate together, like a family.”
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Campus & Community
‘I developed a sense of the enormous, great luck in managing to survive, giving me a strong feeling that I had an obligation to pay it forward’
As he prepares to retire after 52 years, Harvard Law School’s Laurence H. Tribe retraces his journey from awkward immigrant math whiz to leading constitutional law scholar and admired professor.
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Nation & World
The aftermath of wars
The battlefronts of World War II and COVID-19 may look very different, but long term consequences remain the constant
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Nation & World
Reporting on the world between the wars
Harvard historian Nancy F. Cott looks at the international journalists who brought the world home between wars.
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Nation & World
Reflections of an envoy
During a Harvard visit, Caroline Kennedy recalls her years as ambassador to Japan, including President Obama’s trip to Hiroshima.
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Campus & Community
Harvard affirms, deepens commitment to veterans
A Veterans Day ceremony at the Memorial Church included the announcement of Harvard’s partnership with Service to School’s VetLink.
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Nation & World
First interned, then left behind
A paper co-authored by Harvard economist Daniel Shoag found that Japanese-Americans who were sent to internment camps in poorer regions fared worse than those who were sent to richer areas, and the economic disadvantage persisted for generations.
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Health
Digitization uncovers pre-WWII fossil loan
Digitization of Harvard’s fossil insect collection produced a surprising twist: The return to Germany of hundreds of Eocene insects frozen in amber.
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Campus & Community
Birth of a peaceful Europe
On June 5, 1947, Secretary of State George C. Marshall stood on the steps of Memorial Church and delivered an address that changed the world. The retired five-star general, credited during World War II with organizing the fastest and biggest military buildup in U.S. history, took just under 11 minutes to announce the creation of…
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Arts & Culture
A family history of wartime heroism
Artemis Joukowsky worked with Ken Burns on a documentary about his grandparents, Waitstill and Martha Sharp, who helped hundreds escape Nazi death squads in from 1939 to 1940.
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Campus & Community
Stanley Hoffmann, 86
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on April 5, 2016, the Memorial Minute honoring the life and service of the late Stanley Hoffmann, Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University, was placed upon the records.
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Science & Tech
Cruft Laboratory goes to war
Harvard’s Cruft High Tension Laboratory was used in World War I as the Navy School for Radio Electricians. By World War II it was again called into service, this time assisting in the development of a torpedo that used acoustic technology to navigate toward an underwater submarine.
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Arts & Culture
History in the making
A new collection of materials donated to Harvard Library from the José María Castañé Foundation is keenly focused on major conflicts and transformative events of the 20th century, including the Russian Revolution, the two World Wars, the Spanish Civil War, and the Cold War.
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Nation & World
Not backing down
Speaking at the Harvard Kennedy School, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe talked about his country’s economic and political difficulties, during the first stop of his state visit to the United States.
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Arts & Culture
‘The Choice’ premiere
Written approximately 20 years after Elie Wiesel was freed from imprisonment in the Auschwitz, Buna, and Buchenwald concentration camps, “The Choice” is having a staged reading at Sanders Theatre on Sunday. It marks a premiere for the recently rediscovered work.
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Arts & Culture
In 1944, Broadway subversion
In 1944, the young and gifted creators of ‘On the Town’ quietly stirred diversity into their groundbreaking musical, Professor Carol Oja recounts in her new book.
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Science & Tech
Down to the details, a giant in computing history
University leaders gathered at the Science Center to celebrate an update of the Harvard Mark I exhibit.
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Health
Dream saga of WWII
As part of a project by Professor Deirdre Barrett to resurrect a study started in 1940, a group of Harvard undergraduates probed the dreams of British officers captured early in World War II and held in a German prison camp.
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Nation & World
Reflections on a nuclear mission
Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics and Nobel laureate Roy Glauber reflected on his two years in Los Alamos, N.M., during World War II as part of the Manhattan Project, which developed the world’s first atomic bomb.
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Campus & Community
Pinker explains ‘The Long Peace’
As part of the John Harvard Book Celebration, Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker brought the findings from his latest book, “The Better Angels of Our Nature,” to the Allston community, presenting his findings on how the world is growing less violent.
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Arts & Culture
From V-2 rocket to moon landing
A new book explores the connections among World War II scientists, the V-2 missile, and the U.S. race to the moon, led by German émigré Wernher von Braun.
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Nation & World
Harvard goes to war
Harvard University’s expansive role in World War II, from research to recruits, helped the Allies to triumph.
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Science & Tech
Evolution of ‘final solution’
Child victim of Nazi medical experiments recounts the horrors, in opening an exhibit that explores how physicians embraced the thinking and practices that became the Holocaust.
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Arts & Culture
His Majesty’s Opponent: Subhas Chandra and India’s Struggle Against Empire
Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs Sugata Bose parses the life of Indian revolutionary Subhas Chandra Bose, who struggled to liberate his people from British rule and led the Indian National Army against Allied Forces during World War II.