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.
Harvard Magazine puzzle master retires
A longtime contributor hangs up his pencil.
Headlines from Harvard history
A morgue for movies, and more from the Harvard Alumni Bulletin and Harvard Magazine
Coeducating a Harvard Club and more
Coeducating the Harvard Club of New York, Robert McNamara redux, and a professor at home on the range
by Primus VI
When entrepreneurship lifted off in Cambridge
Edwin H. Land and the shaping of entrepreneurship in Greater Boston
Headlines from Harvard history
From the pages of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin and Harvard Magazine
Harvard campus signage and greenery
Amusing campus signage, vanished greenery, and gunplay of yore
by Primus VI
Headlines from Harvard history
From the pages of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin and Harvard Magazine
John Adams as a Harvard student, by Richard Alan Ryerson
What he learned and what he made of it
Harvard Magazine mourns Laura Levis
The untimely death of a former colleague
John Singleton Copley and Harvard, by Jane Kamensky
When the College commissioned Copley