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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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The South Sea Bubble, 1720

Explore materials related to the South Sea Bubble of 1720, considered to be the first international stock market crash.
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Paul Robeson's Othello

Records from the first major US production with a multi-racial cast.
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Pictorial Maps

Get lost in the fanciful delights of 20th-century pictorial cartography at the Harvard Map Collection.
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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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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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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

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Discover how Europeans made sense of the diverse world around them in the age of European expansion just prior to the colonial era
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New Gate Outside Houghton Library Adds Another Story to Storied Harvard Yard

The Peter J. Solomon Gate, unveiled this month as part of Houghton’s renovation, takes inspiration from beloved works of children’s literature.

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