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International Women's Day rally, 1977 Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America

Tuesday, Mar 19th, 2019

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Women's Worlds in Qajar Iran

A unique online resource for social and cultural histories of the Qajar world.

Studies in Scarlet: Marriage and Sexuality in the U.S. & U.K., 1815-1914

Drawn from the Harvard Law School Library’s extensive trial collections, Studies in Scarlet features over 420 trial narratives involving the crimes and passions of both renowned and ordinary people.

Hedda Morrison Photographs of China

Photos taken by Hedda Morrison in China, 1933–1946.

Writing Books

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Antiquarian Maps

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Mozart at Harvard

Harvard Library holds a rich collection of first and early editions and manuscript copies of the musical works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
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Schlesinger Library's Black Women Oral History Project includes recordings with African American women who made significant contributions to American society during the first half of the 20th century.
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Creating Community: Harvard Law School and the Bauhaus

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Evidence of the #MeToo movement should be preserved, both because it matters and because it could disappear. But archivists face a battery of technical and ethical questions with few precedents.
March 12, 2019

The Challenge of Preserving the Historical Record of #MeToo

Evidence of the #MeToo movement should be preserved, both because it matters and because it could disappear.

Martha Whitehead
February 12, 2019

New Leader for Harvard Library

Martha Whitehead, who has led the library at Queen’s University in Ontario, has been named to lead Harvard Library. She will assume her post in June.

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