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Researching Dr. Eva Beatrice Dykes, the first Black woman to complete the requirements for a PhD in the US, at Schlesinger Library.

A columnist makes use of digitized resources from Harvard Library to bring historical context to the issue of COVID vaccination in the Philippines.

A German American who researched his family’s history at Widener sees much of the Trump era as embodying the worst of 20th-century Germany.

A 1936 exhibit — consisting mostly of publication reprints, now archived at Schlesinger — was an unassuming part of Harvard’s Tercentenary.

Murray’s extensive archive at Schlesinger Library aided the filmmakers in telling the story of the social justice trailblazer.

Industrial films collected and produced by HBS provide a unique view of business processes and problems during the mid-twentieth century.

Harvard’s “Yellow” status includes a pilot program for in-residence students to reserve study space at Cabot Library.

With support from the Schlesinger Library, the project recorded a cross section of women who had made significant contributions to American society during the first half of the 20th century.

A suffragist, a women’s rights activist, and the author of the original Equal Rights Amendment, Alice Paul (1885–1977) devoted her entire life advocating for women’s suffrage and equal rights for women. She was the main architect of the campaign in the 1910s to pass the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution, which gave women the right to vote.

American racial inequality is rooted in policies of displacement, exclusion, and discrimination in urban and residential spaces.