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The Harvard in Thoreau
Harvard Gazette
Harvard influenced Thoreau more than he’d have admitted.
Poetry, Voiced
Harvard Magazine
Harvard's "vocarium" was responsible for some of the earliest recordings of American modernist poets.
A Record of Ruins, Before the War
Harvard Gazette
Photographer’s gift shows Syria as it was.
JFK's Voice At Age 20
NPR's Morning Edition
Archivists from Harvard University have released what they say is the earliest known voice recording of President John F. Kennedy
Decades After His Graduation, John F. Kennedy Is Being Rediscovered At Harvard
WBUR
A century after his birth, discoveries about John F. Kennedy are still being made — and they're being made at Harvard.
Hear a 20-Year-Old John F. Kennedy Speak
Smithsonian Magazine
Archivists have recently digitized a clip from a 1937 public speaking course.
Harvard Released Earliest Known Audio of JFK
CBS News This Morning
A young JFK can be heard on what Harvard University believes is the earliest known recording of the late president.
1937 Recording of John F. Kennedy at Harvard Captures a Politician in the Making
New York Times
The forceful voice of the 20-year-old Harvard student punches through the crackling audio.
Harvard releases earliest known voice recording of JFK
Boston Globe
Even as a 20-year-old student, he had the “uhs” and “erms” he was known for uttering during his time in office.
Earliest Recording of JFK Uncovered
Newsweek
In the clip, which is one minute and 28 seconds, you can hear Kennedy speaking about Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black.
Harvard Releases 1937 Recording of Young John F. Kennedy
New York Times
A young JFK can be heard on what Harvard University believes is the earliest known recording of the late president.
Harvard Releases 1937 Recording of Young John F. Kennedy
ABC News
A young JFK can be heard on what Harvard University believes is the earliest known recording of the late president.
JFK Speaks from His Harvard Past
Harvard Gazette
A new Archives exhibition includes the earliest known recording of the future president’s voice.
Rare Artifacts from the Harvard Theatre Collection
Harvard Gazette
Three centuries of the arts and humanities are reflected in curios and props at Houghton Library.
Harvard Puts Its Ties to Slavery on Display
WBUR
An exhibition at Harvard features documents that offer records of the enslaved people who lived and worked at the school.
Examining the Past to Welcome the Future
Harvard Magazine
Houghton Library celebrates its 75th anniversary.
Classical Space, Modern Dance
Harvard Gazette
A new William Forsythe dance piece complements the quiet settings of Widener Library and the Harvard Art Museums.
A Certain Slant of Light
Harvard Gazette
A new film tells the story of Emily Dickinson; Harvard's Houghton Library stewards the largest collection of the poet's work and belongings anywhere in the world.
A "Catalogue" of Dance
Harvard Gazette
William Forsythe work will be first live performance at Widener Library.
Nothing Common About It
Harvard Gazette
Cabot Science Library reopens as dynamic student commons and high-tech space for study and research.
Nuremberg Trials Project Recipient of NEH Award
Et Seq., The Harvard Law School Library Blog
The Harvard Law School Library’s Nuremberg Trials Project selected as a recipient a grant from the NEH National to continue its work of making Web-accessible its archive of all thirteen Nuremberg Trials.
Amazement at the Physicality of Things
Harvard Magazine
Arthur Schott Lopes ’19, a classics concentrator, shares his experiences as a student delving into the library’s collections.
Emily Dickinson, On the Screen
Harvard Gazette
Director Terence Davies visits to show his new film and explain his affinity with the famed poet.
Rare 'Wanted' Poster Printed After Lincoln Assassination On View at Harvard
Boston Globe
The poster is on display as part of Houghton Library's 75th-anniversary exhibition.
Jane Kamensky Wins Historical Society Book Prize
The New York Times
The Harvard professor and academic director of Schlesinger Library will be presented in April with the prize for A Revolution in Color: The World of John Singleton Copley.
Scalia Family Donates Late Justice’s Papers to Harvard Law School Library
Harvard Law Today
The family of the late Antonin Scalia ’60, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, has announced that it will donate his papers to the Harvard Law School Library.
The Focus is Harvard and Slavery
Harvard Gazette
An Archives exhibition in Pusey Library details the University’s connections to a deep past still being uncovered.
Understanding Harvard’s Ties to Slavery
Harvard Gazette
In a discussion prior to a major conference, Faust amplifies the expanding effort to document a painful part of the University’s past.
Harvard's Unlikely Love Affair with Hip-Hop Kicks Off with Kendrick and Old-School Greats
WBUR
Honoring the Crimson Line
Harvard Gazette
Reception at ongoing exhibit salutes Harvard’s military past, present.
Inaugural DataFest Reflects a Growing Interest
Harvard Gazette
Conference builds awareness of data science resources at Harvard.
An 'Enchanted Palace'
Harvard Magazine
A humanistic "masterclass" for Houghton Library's 75th anniversary.
'To Pimp A Butterfly' Joins Harvard Library’s Archives Along With Three Other Classics
AV Club
9th Wonder chooses four albums to immortalize in Harvard Library's new Hip Hop archive.
Setting the Standards for Saving Email
Library Journal
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the UK-based Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) announced the formation of a Task Force on Technical Approaches for Email Archives.
Kendrick Lamar's 'To Pimp a Butterfly' Will Be Archived at Harvard Library
XXL
9th Wonder, who is curating Harvard’s These Are the Breaks project, chose Kendrick’s 2015 LP as one of the first four hip-hop albums to be archived in the University’s library.
WhiteHouse.gov: The Case of the Broken Links
GCN
Adam Ziegler of HLS's Library Innovation Lab is quoted in this piece on the National Archives' archiving of the Obama Administration's website.
First Albums Entered into Hiphop Archive
HipHopDX
The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill, Nas’ Illmatic, A Tribe Called Quest’s The Low End Theory and Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp A Butterfly were selected by hip-hop producer 9th Wonder.
The Long Crimson Line
Harvard Gazette
An exhibition from the University Archives depicts Harvard's military history.
Poet Emily Dickinson Was A Much Loved Baker
NPR Morning Edition
Librarians from Houghton discuss Emily Dickinson's black cake and her history with cooking on NPR's Morning Edition.
Looking at the Stars
The Economist
The work of the ladies team of the Harvard Observatory.
The Glass Universe
Smithsonian
In a new book, Dava Sobel brings the women "computers" of the Harvard Observatory to light.
Turning the Page
The Harvard Crimson
Harvard's library digitization efforts present new opportunities as well as challenges.
Four Centuries of Honor and Prestige
Harvard Gazette
“To Serve Better Thy Country” assembles letters, photographs, and objects that show Harvard affiliates’ tradition of military service from the earliest years of our country to today.
The Sweep of Jazz History
Harvard Gazette
Pianist and composer Randy Weston visited campus on the eve of Harvard acquiring his personal archive.
E-Mail Gets Archivist Attention
Campus Technology
Harvard is participating in a new "Task Force on Technical Approaches for Email Archives" that will develop methodology for preserving personal digital correspondence.
1916 Trolley Disaster: The Accident and the Era
Boston Globe
A Boston Globe story on the century-old tragedy features images drawn from the Countway Library of Medicine.
Harvard Portrait: Matthew Wittmann
Harvard Magazine
A Harvard Magazine profile on Matthew Wittmann, curator of the Harvard Theatre Collection.
Devils in the Details
Harvard Gazette
For the Harvard Law School Library team digitizing the Nuremberg documents, some have had "a haunting effect."
"Presenting Jane" at Harvard
Harvard Magazine
On October 17, author Karin Roffman and the Woodberry Poetry Room held a screening of the short film by poets John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, James Schuyler and Kenneth Koch.
An Artist in the Lightbox
Index Magazine
A reading by poet William Bronk, recorded in 1956 at the Woodberry Poetry Room, accompanies "The Shape of Things," an installation by artist Ben Rivers in the Harvard Art Museums' Lightbox Gallery space.
Houghton Expands Offerings With Spanish Collection
Harvard Crimson
Houghton Library has expanded its historical documents collection with the donation of the José Maria Castañé collection, which features artifacts from the 20th century.
Libraries Look to Collaboration in Digital Era
Yale Daily News
Yale’s library system has begun to deepen partnerships with peer institutions, including Harvard, to address upcoming challenges.
Illuminating Illuminating Manuscripts
Boston Globe
The Boston Globe states that Beyond Words "will leave you astonished."
You Could Get Lost in the History
Cambridge.com
A write-up of Houghton Library's Beyond Words exhibition emphasizes the awe-inspiring nature of the manuscripts.
A Trove of Beautiful Books
The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal reviews the "extraordinary new exhibition" Beyond Words: Illuminated Manuscripts in Boston Collections, now on view at Houghton Library.
Preserving Harvard's Intellectual History
Office of the Executive Vice President
A profile of Megan Sniffin-Marinoff, Sarah Demb and Virginia Hunt of Harvard's University Archives.
To Image or Not?
Harvard Medical School
To help clinicians choose the most appropriate imaging test for each patient, HMS is launching a publicly accessible digital repository of medical evidence.
Bringing Life to Characters in Tennessee Williams' Plays
Harvard Extension School
Michelle Mount’s research led her to Houghton Library's collection of original Tennessee Williams manuscripts—and to a new approach to incorporating autobiography into performance.
Unbinding the Law
WBUR
A WBUR story examines the Harvard Law School Library's digitization of nearly 40 million pages of case law.
'Beyond Words' Showcases Greater Boston Illuminated Manuscripts
Harvard Magazine
A Harvard Magazine write-up on the soon-to-open Beyond Words exhibition.
Beauty Inside and Out
Harvard Gazette
At Dumbarton Oaks, a new book spotlights "The Botany of Empire."
Pentecostal Collection Offers Up ‘Gold Mine’
Boston Globe
The Boston Globe covers Andover-Harvard Theological Library's acquisition of Bishop Carlton Pearson's archive, which will offer scholars a glimpse inside the world of evangelical religious broadcasting.
Pranks in Pusey Library
Harvard Magazine
Memorabilia, magazine covers, and a cow? A Harvard Magazine story looks at the Lampoon exhibition.
Museums Team Up to Display Rare Medieval Manuscripts
Boston Globe
The Boston Globe covers the collaborative exhibition Beyond Words, a section of which will be on display at Houghton Library.
A Family of Common Zeal
Harvard Gazette
A new Schlesinger Library exhibition shines light on the reform-minded Blackwells.
Creative Irreverence
Harvard Gazette
Memorabilia featured in the Harvard Lampoon exhibition tells the story of the publication throughout its 140 years.
Snake-Hatted Woman and Elastic Skin Man
Atlas Obscura
Atlas Obscura takes a look at some of the more unusual items in the Harvard Theatre Collection.
Gorgeous Maps Reveal the History of America's National Parks
National Geographic
A National Geographic story on the Harvard Map Collection's latest exhibition.
Widener's Growing South Asia Collection
South Asian Institute
"The sky is the limit" for the team of librarians working to make the collection accessible to scholars all over the world and usher in a new era of South Asian studies at Harvard.
Babar, Back at Harvard
Boston Globe
The Boston Globe covers Houghton Library's new exhibition Babar Comes to Harvard.
Babar Comes to Harvard
Harvard Gazette
A new exhibition at Houghton celebrates the beloved elephant of children’s literature.
Guarding the Dazzle of the Past
Harvard Gazette
Protecting Harvard’s collections of books, manuscripts, prints, drawings, maps, photographs, and other treasures is the mission of Harvard Library Preservation Services.
Comic Genius
Harvard Gazette
Talk focuses on art form and its place in academic collections.
Speaking Up Through Shakespeare
Harvard Gazette
African-American voices give a Houghton exhibit an extra layer of complexity.
Pinning Their Hopes on Buttons
Harvard Gazette
Radcliffe Institute’s collection of nearly 1,000 political buttons tell stories of social change.
Bard in the Yard
Harvard Magazine
Harvard Magazine reports on "Shakespeare: His Collected Works," a quartercentenary celebration at Houghton Library.
Guardians of the Sky
Harvard Gazette
When flooding threatened 100-plus years of astronomical data, fast action was the only option.
A Look Inside: Undergraduate House Libraries
Harvard Gazette
Each of Harvard’s 12 undergraduate residential Houses has a library, and despite their rich histories and outward grandeur, these are intimate spaces.
Colonial North American Project on PBS NewsHour
Public Broadcasting Service
University Archivist Megan Sniffin-Marinoff is featured in a NewsHour segment covering Harvard's digitization of its colonial materials.
A Playful Turn for Libraries
Harvard Gazette
A new initiative is underway to use gaming and crowdsourcing to speed the massive task of transcribing handwritten documents, at Harvard and around the world.
Colonial Map of New Jersey a Reminder of Border Wars
New York Times
The New York Times reports on John Overholt's discovery of a historically important map among Houghton Library's holdings.
Internet-Era Students, Meet Rare Books
Harvard Magazine
Harvard Magazine on Houghton's undergraduate fellowship program, which enables students to work on a self-designed project.
Harvard Digitizes Colonial-Era Documents, Letters
Boston Globe
The Boston Globe takes a look at Harvard's Colonial North American Project.
A Revitalized Science Center
Harvard Gazette
The main floor of the Science Center will be transformed to create a dynamic, 24-hour student commons and a technology-integrated Cabot Library.
A Digital Portrait of Colonial Life
Harvard Gazette
A wealth of detail is found in the wide-ranging Colonial North American Project and the accompanying exhibition Opening New Worlds.
Cuban Connections
Harvard Magazine
Occupied Cuba, drawn from the holdings of the Theodore Roosevelt Collection, holds up a pertinent and disorienting mirror to history, reports Harvard Magazine.
Lessons of the Brain: Phineas Gage
Harvard Gazette
In 1848, an iron bar pierced Gage's brain. His case continues to provide new insights on trauma and recovery.
HLSL Readies Trove of Decisions for Digital Age
The New York Times
"An obligation and an opportunity": The New York Times reports on the Harvard Law School Library's digitization initiative.
Into the Archives
Harvard Crimson
The Crimson takes a close look at Harvard's archival collections.
Tozzer Receives LEED Gold Certification
Harvard Gazette
The recent renovation of the home to the one of the largest and most comprehensive anthropology collections in the world has achieved LEED Gold certification from the US Green Building Council.
Harvard Launches User Research Center
Library Journal
Library Journal covers the opening of the new User Research Center, where library staff can discuss, design, and implement in-person and device-based user experience research.
The Book: Histories Across Time and Space
Harvard Gazette
HarvardX’s free online course "The Book" bridges the modern and the medieval, and highlights some of the extraordinary works inside Harvard's libraries.
A Childlike Vision, Artfully Refined
Harvard Gazette
A Houghton Library exhibition spans the many pursuits of illustrator, painter, writer, poet, and designer Walter Crane.
Testament to Manchukuo
Harvard Gazette
A growing collection at Harvard-Yenching Library details life and propaganda alike in a controversial, short-lived Asian state.
History in the Making
Harvard Gazette
Donated to Houghton Library last year, the José María Castañé Collection is focused on major conflicts and transformative events of the 20th century.
Strokes of Brilliance
Harvard Gazette
An out-of-the-blue phone call led Schlesinger Library to the acquisition of six Corita Kent prints.
100 Years of Widener
Harvard Gazette
The Harvard Gazette examines the history and the present of Widener Library’s first 100 years as the largest university repository of books and manuscripts in the world.
