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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.

The Library Futures Institute, chaired by Harvard Library’s Kyle Courtney, fights for a “technology-positive future” for libraries.

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.