Harvard History
Stories that explore the institution’s rich history, from archival moments to evolving traditions.
One of Harvard’s Oldest Structures Is Hiding Behind a Beer Garden
A crumbling wall in Harvard Square holds centuries of the city’s story, if you know how to read it.
Headlines from Harvard's history
Headlines from Harvard’s history
Alain Locke as activist aesthete
Rediscovering Alain Locke and the project of black self-realization
by Adam Kirsch
Big names on campus, how to install a president, football at Fenway
Big names on campus, how to install a president, football at Fenway
by Primus VI
Harvard archivist Megan Sniffin-Marinoff
The University archivist on what it means to “document Harvard”
Samuel Huntington remembered
A memorial minute on the eminent political scientist
Headlines from Harvard’s history
“Reading period” debuts, the Maharishi visits, a blizzard shuts down the University, and more from the Harvard Alumni Bulletin and Harvard Magazine
Ship of state, margin call, dioramas, and Dan Aaron
Ship of state, margin call, dioramas, and Dan Aaron
by Primus VI
The Four Chaplains are honored at Harvard
A Veterans Day commemoration recalls service and sacrifice.
by Jean Martin
Harvard Law 200th in divisive era
The spirit of Harvard Law School, at 200, in a divisive era
E.E. Cummings and Samuel Beck—a Harvard undergraduate recollection
What one undergraduate learned