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Confronting Racism

A new Harvard Library project coming soon 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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Tennessee Williams Collection

Drafts of plays, journals, correspondence, and photographs from one of America’s pioneering dramatists
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Ming-Qing Women's Writings

A valuable resource for scholars studying women's roles in China from the 14th through the 20th centuries.
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Harvard Yiddish Theater Collections

Explore scripts, programs, posters, music, papers, photographs, recordings and memorabilia from some of the most renowned practitioners of Yiddish Theater.
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COVID-19 Harvard Dataverse Collection

COVID-19 data deposited in Harvard Dataverse, maintained by the Harvard Dataverse data curation team (IQSS and Harvard Library). Researchers who deposit related data into Harvard Dataverse will have their data linked to this collection to increase discoverability.
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Contagion: Historical Views of Diseases and Epidemics

This online collection offers important historical perspectives on the science and public policy of epidemiology today and contributes to the understanding of the global, social–history, and public–policy implications of diseases.
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United Fruit Company Photographs

Explore photograph albums from the company known for making bananas a widely available product.
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Undergrad Illustrates a New Way to Look at Dante's Cosmos

Her SHARP fellowship at Houghton Library helped Madeleine Klebanoff-O'Brien '22 develop a new visual methodology for research.

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New Positions Created for Library Anti-Racism Team

Jehan Sinclair has been named Anti-Black Racism Librarian/Archivist, and Lori Cawthorne has been named Senior Human Resources Diversity Consultant.

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