Highlights of the Schlesinger Library Collection

Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

Nancy F. Cott, director of the library and Trumbull Professor of American History

On May 15, 2007, Harvard Magazine hosted a group of loyal and generous magazine donors at The Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Nancy F. Cott, director of the library and Trumbull Professor of American History, presented a brief history of the library's collections, followed by a reception and private tours of the library vaults.

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