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

As we approach the darkest day of the year, some of Harvard Library’s bright spots from collections and social media.

Snapshots of everyday moments in Jewish communities in the U.S. and around the world.

The Harvard Law School Library’s Nuremberg Trials Project inspires creative works and supports research.

Examine the past, understand the present, and create a better future.

Black Americans today suffer from high rates of cancer mortality and cardiovascular disease, and lower overall life expectancy, compared to other races in the United States. These poor health outcomes are the results of structural anti-Black racism across our society, including housing discrimination, limited opportunities to acquire wealth, and biases in medicine.

Primary-source materials documenting women’s activism and daily life.

Cartoons commissioned by the Soviet state to fight corruption and inefficiency

From a “War on Drugs” that disproportionately targeted Black people, to mass incarceration and over-policing in majority Black neighborhoods — the American criminal justice system’s violence and inequality toward Black Americans is fueled by a long history of racism.

Since enslaved people were first brought to this country, promoters of anti-Black racism and white supremacy have co-opted the authority of science to justify racial inequality. A history of pseudoscientific methods “proving” white biological superiority and flawed social studies used to show “inherent” racial characteristics still influence society today.