Christopher Reed

Child in her postwar Paris kitchen

Food |

A Schlesinger Library exhibit celebrates Julia Child’s centennial

Julia is feted in her centenary year.

The Paul S. Russell, MD Museum of Medical History and Innovation at Massachusetts General Hospital

Arts & Culture |

The Paul S. Russell, MD Museum of Medical History and Innovation at MGH

Putting a warm face on an intimidating proposition

<i>Industrial Problems, Welfare Work: United States. Pennsylvania. Pittsburgh.H.J. Heinz Company: Bottling Department, </i> c. 1903. Gelatin silver print.

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Harvard’s long-closed Social Museum promoted progressive values

Harvard’s long-closed Social Museum promoted progressive values.

A view of <i>Mollusks: Shelled Masters of the Marine Realm,</i> a new exhibition at the Harvard Museum of Natural History

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Mollusks exhibition at Harvard Museum of Natural History is multifaceted

Mollusks of amazing diversity—some deadly—are on display at the Harvard Museum of Natural History.

Study of a Red and Yellow Macaw <i>(Macrocercus aracanga),</i> now known as Scarlet Macaw <i>(Ara macao).</i> Watercolor over graphite on paper.

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Harvard exhibits bicentennial Edward Lear animal art

A bicentennial exhibition features the little-known, masterful animal artistry of Edward Lear.

Lilac Sunday at the Arnold Arboretum in 1926

Arts & Culture |

‘Lilac Sunday’—a history of the Arnold Arboretum cultivar

The Arnold Arboretum's "Lilac Sunday" tradition

Salubrious advice for January (Aquarius) and February (Pisces)…

Arts & Culture |

Medieval manuscript illuminates monthly guidance on living well

A medieval manuscript illuminates monthly guides to diet and health.

A page from a miniature novel written by teenager Charlotte Brontë

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Brontë juvenilia in Houghton Library at Harvard

Miniature manuscript books by Charlotte Brontë

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Troubadour style dagger from France in Harvard Art Museums described

Is this a dagger which I see before me…? Not primarily.

Harvard History & Traditions |

Harvard Archives launches website on Harvard in the 17th and 18th centuries

A new Archives website offers today's undergraduates a useful perspective on Harvard homework, and life, in the old days.

Arts & Culture |

Closeup of a work by sculptor Robert Gober at the Harvard Art Museums

Dysfunctional sink with body parts

Arts & Culture |

A silver-gilt-sheathed coconut goblet links the Age of Discovery with the Bible

A coconut with Bible stories