Retrospection
SJP Sanders Theatre
A chorus pounded the walls of Sanders Theatre: “U.S. out of Southeast Asia; butchers out of Harvard!”
The 1976 Harvard Murder That None of Us Remember
Puopolo’s stabbing reverberated both at the University level and nationwide — yet eventually, his story stopped being told. Most current undergraduates would not know the Combat Zone existed, let alone that a Harvard student met his tragic end there.
Harold Humes
From 1973 to 1990, Humes lived out his final years as a magnetic fixture of Cambridge.
'Puts a Frame Around the Wreckage'
From 1973 to 1990, Harold L. Humes lived out his final years as a magnetic fixture of Cambridge. Wherever Doc went, people followed. Whenever Doc talked, people listened. He was full of charm and new ideas, with every cop and every student drawn to keep an eye on what he did next.
Behind the Bust of W.E.B. Du Bois
The painful contradictions of American history seem to be contained within this bust. What Hancock’s motivations or personal convictions were cannot be known, and perhaps remain the greatest mystery of this story. But it is clear that his role in sculpting both the bust and the monument at Stone Mountain raise a host of vital questions about what it means to commemorate, and how the ways in which we memorialize reflect the values of our society.
The Old Mole, Harvard's "Radical Bi-Weekly"
The history of the Old Mole, the leftist magazine run by Harvard students from 1968 to 1970, is largely composed of hearsay and conflicting stories. Created as a means to criticize the government and social establishments in the unrest of the Vietnam War era, the Old Mole gave Harvard students an outlet with minimal censorship.
The Proud Portrait of Richard T. Greener
Greener’s rosy recollection of Harvard reflects a series of contradictions that characterized his life, both during and after college. Greener was a light-skinned Black man straddling racial divides in a segregated world. He received life-changing opportunities at a university where he struggled with loneliness and lacked faculty support. And despite his tremendous contributions in activism and public service, he remains relatively unknown to historians today.
Monks, Merchants, Samaritans, Spies: A Story About The Harvard Crimson, a Cambodian Temple, a Trappist Monastery, and a New Delhi Satellite City
Every article that has ever appeared in The Crimson’s pages, going back to the paper’s founding in 1873, is online — not scanned, but fully typed. Anyone who cares to look can find the results of the Harvard-Yale game of 1887, for example, simply by searching for it on The Crimson’s website. It took a concerted effort for those past editions to be put online. But nobody seemed to remember anymore exactly how or when that effort had taken place. Had it really been monks? No one could tell me.
A Springtime Storm
Until this year, the spring of 1970 appears to be the only semester in Harvard’s history during which the College offered a schoolwide pass-fail option. Now, the spring 2020 semester has become the second. The circumstances surrounding each decision, however, are more different than they are similar.
When Harvard Students Were Strikebreakers
While Boston police officers struck for fair wages, decreased working hours, and habitable station houses in 1919, over 150 Harvard undergraduates enrolled as replacement police officers.
Power Outage, Five Years Later
“In summary, we totally f*#ked up this Kickstarter campaign,” admits Uncharted Play.
Getting a Good Marxist Education, According to Harvard Students
The Harvard Communist was published by Harvard’s Youth Communist League in the 1930s and 40s. While the publication initially served as a platform for communist ideologies, it later transitioned into a collection of succinct news items, informed by communist analysis.
But for the Grace of Henry Dunster
In 1639, only twelve months after offering its first classes and three years after its creation, Harvard closed its doors to students for a year.
The Kronostory of the Kronosaurus
Almost 30 years after discovering a fossil in Australia, the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology displayed the largest Kronosaurus skeleton ever to be mounted.
The Suffragists, the Anti-Suffragists, the Socialists, and an Unlikely Debate Club
In the early 20th century, an unlikely set of clubs coalesced into a vibrant outlet for debate on Radcliffe's campus.
A Radical Weapon
As the heat swells, an orange haze consumes bras — and the curling pages of Playboy magazine — in a plume of rising smoke and a purge of female frustration.
Civics Club Retro
The Radcliffe Civics Club united students of drastically differing political backgrounds under one umbrella during its brief tenure in the early twentieth century.
Female Activists Eat and Meet including Kathie Sarachild
Activists Louise Thompson, Corrine Coleman, Colette Price, and Kathie Sarachild dining in October 1987 at the Park Ave. Christian Church in New York City.
Kathie Sarachild in Florida
While working in Florida, Kathie Sarachild enjoys a weekend getaway in early March 1994.
Kathie and Dan Signed and Sealed
"Red couples agreement, signed and sealed!' reads the note accompanying this photograph of Dan Harmeling and Kathie Amathiek on January 17, 1995 in Gainsville, Florida.
The Harvard-Hancock Feud
But once his patriotic duties came calling, barely a year after his appointment, Hancock abandoned the post without officially resigning.
John Hancock accepts Treasurer position
John Hancock wrote a letter in 1773 accepting appointment as Harvard University's treasurer, serving from 1773 to 1777 — concurrent with the American Revolutionary War.
Receipt signed by John Hancock
A receipt from October 19, 1773 signed by John Hancock for a gift from John Bannister to the Dummer Writing School.