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Confronting Racism

A new Harvard Library project coming Winter 2021 will highlight content in our collections and scholarship across Harvard on topics relating to anti-Black racism and activities in each of our libraries.

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Black Empowerment and Unitarian Universalism

Explore digitized material related to the Empowerment Controversy in the Unitarian Universalist Association during the 1960s and 1970s.
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The Leo Fuchs Yiddish Theater Archive

Documents the life and career of famed Yiddish comic, musician, dancer, and producer Leo Fuchs.
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Harvard Faculty Personal and Professional Archives

Personal and scholarly archives of Harvard faculty and senior administrators active in the Harvard community from the 17th century to the present.
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City Maps and Urban Environments

Cities and city maps have changed dramatically over the last 500 years. Explore maps of urban design and urban planning for cities around the world from the 16th century to the present.
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Ansel Adams and Polaroid, 1949-1984

Explore the test photographs and memos made by the famed photographer as part of his consultancy with the Polaroid Corporation.
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Harvard Student Life Collections: Arts, Sports, Politics and Social Life

Archives of Harvard students, alumni/ae, and organizations provide a detailed look at student scholastic and extracurricular interests, as well as their family and social lives.
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Virtual: Inside Widener Library

Explore the architecture and history of Harvard's famous Widener Library
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Virtual: Decades of Resistance—Political Movements and Protest Pins since 1960

Explore the HKS Political Buttons Collection
Thursday, Oct 1, 2020

Virtual: How Mapmakers Used Animals to Document the World

Explore how animals helped early European mapmakers understand the expanding world
Through Saturday, Jun 25, 2022

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Preservation in a Pandemic – and Beyond

Preservation Services Director Brenda Bernier discusses her staff's work since much of Harvard went remote, and plans for the future of preservation.

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History, Crowdsourced

This spring, the University Archives recruited volunteers to transcribe some 20,000 handwritten pages from the 17th and 18th centuries.

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