Diane E. Booton

Detail of a handwritten page from suffragist Susan B. Anthony’s journal, used as an example of the kinds of manuscripts volunteers are transcribing for Harvard libraries and archives.

Faculty & Community |

Harvard libraries welcome volunteers’ help with historical manuscripts

Volunteer transcribers help make Harvard library documents accessible.

Illuminated manuscript page

Arts & Culture |

Rare books at risk

Consequences of book-breaking

Museums & Collections |

Joanna Southcott and “The Songs of Argus Zion”

…and a possible clue in the stacks

Museums & Collections |

Games of old from Houghton Library

Amusements to dispel the winter blues  

Mary and Bernard Berenson in the garden of her mother’s country house near Fernhurst, England, 1898

Arts & Culture |

Brief life of Renaissance scholar Mary Costelloe Berenson

Brief life of a Renaissance scholar: 1864-1945