Harvard Law School Library Releases Digitized Evidence From Nuremberg Trials

Researchers at the Library’s Nuremberg Trials Project digitized more than 750,000 pages of archival materials, including evidence and transcripts, previously only accessible in physical form in HLS’ library system.

Undergraduates Begin Tenth Harvard Yard Excavation

Undergraduates in a Harvard anthropology course have begun excavating Harvard Yard, the area between Harvard Hall and Holden Chapel, for the twentieth year of the Harvard Yard Archaeology Project.

How a Harvard Initiative is Translating Archives for AI Models

Since Harvard’s Institutional Data Initiative launched last December, the team has formed partnerships with open-source artificial intelligence developers like OpenAI and Microsoft to train large language models on archival documents in institutional collections.

Schlesinger Library Launches Project to Process Radcliffe College Archives

The Schlesinger Library is launching a four-year project to process a portion of the Radcliffe College archives in July, opening the door for researchers to learn more about the history of women’s higher education.

It Could Take Lifetimes To Catalog the Harvard Zoology Museum’s Collections Online. AI Tools Might Help.

The Museum of Comparative Zoology holds over 21 million specimens from its more than 150 year history, which could take lifetimes to catalogue manually, but researchers are considering the applications of artificial intelligence.

Filmmaker Mira Nair Donates Archive Collection to Harvard's Schlesinger Library

Filmmaker and director Mira Nair ’79 donated her professional archive — including photographs, film scripts, and journals —  to the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study’s Schlesinger Library.

Harvard Library Reopens Physical Spaces to Non-University Affiliates

The Harvard Library reopened its physical spaces to visiting researchers and special borrowers last week for the second time since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Appleton Chapel, ca. 1879

Appleton Chapel circa 1879. The Chapel was built in 1858, and stood for 73 years until its razing in 1931 to make space for today's Memorial Church.

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SJP Sanders Theatre

A chorus pounded the walls of Sanders Theatre: “U.S. out of Southeast Asia; butchers out of Harvard!”

SJP Headband

A headband worn by SDS members at the Counter Teach-In

SJP Counter Teach-In Advertisement

Laszlo Pasztor Jr. ’73, another SJP member, advertised the event in The Crimson as “an attempt to combat the overwhelming prevalence of ‘force-fed’ antiwar feeling at Harvard.”

SJP Cartoon

A political cartoon published a couple days after the Counter Teach-In in the Boston Herald Traveler.

Grandson of Famous Korean Activist Withdraws Archival Donation Plans in Protest of Professor’s ‘Comfort Women’ Paper

The grandson of a Korean independence activist withdrew his offer to donate family historical archives to Harvard’s Schlesinger Library in anger over the University’s failure to respond to a professor’s controversial paper on the issue of “comfort women.”

Pusey Library

The Harvard University Archives, located in Pusey Library, aims to preserve and provide access to Harvard’s historical records by gathering an accurate, authentic, and complete record of the life of the University.

JFK Visits Proposed Site for Library

President John F. Kennedy ‘40 motions with his arm towards the proposed site of his future Presidential Library, along the banks of the Charles River in Boston, with Eliot House and Dunster House visible in the horizon.

Old Image of Harvard Yard

In an old photograph of Harvard Yard, University Hall and various First-year Dorms can be observed.

Prototype of Patient Isolation Hood

Doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital tested a prototype of a Patient Isolation Hood designed and constructed by Graduate School of Design faculty and staff, in coordination with the MGB Center for COVID Innovation.

UC Headspace Partnership

The Undergraduate Council voted to fund a partnership with the meditation and mindfulness app Headspace. The body will be providing free 1-year subscriptions to 1,030 students to help the student body cope with the difficult circumstances created by COVID-19.

Harvard Yard in 1900s

During the Spanish Influenza of 1918, University President Abbott Lawrence Lowell made the controversial decision to keep classes in session.

Painting of Masked People

Cambridge resident Emily Ottinger submitted several paintings to the collection, including this one, she created based on photos of masked people around Cambridge and Boston.

The History of Harvard's Commencement, Explained

2020 isn’t the first year Harvard’s traditional Commencement Exercises were cancelled or postponed.

Harvard Archivists Scramble to Document Daily Life Amid Pandemic

Staff at the Harvard University Archives are soliciting reflections from Harvard affiliates to document how College traditions, academic coursework, and daily life have changed amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

A.D. Club Facade

The 1 Plympton Street property owned by the A.D. club ,pictured in 1968, features music store Briggs & Briggs operating out of the 1260 Mass Ave storefront.