History, Language & Culture
Challenging ‘eureka’ with rigor
Renowned British biographer Richard Holmes, speaking at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, reflected on what biography can tell us about science.
Tags: Albert Einstein, Arts & Culture, Caroline Herschel, Chuck Leddy, Dava Sobel, History, Language & Culture, Isaac Newton, John Keats, Joseph Haydn, Newton’s Apple, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Richard Holmes, Rosalind Franklin, Samuel Johnson, Scientific Biography, Sir John Herschel, Walter Isaacson, “The Age of Wonder
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Pages out of time
Time & Time Again, a new exhibit centered on Harvard’s Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, uses artifacts to illustrate shifting conceptions of making and marking time, from the cyclic sun and stars to linear springs and gears.
Tags: Arts & Culture, Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, Corydon Ireland, Harvard Museums of Science and Culture, History, Language & Culture, Jean-Francois Gauvin, Juan Andres Leon, Sara J. Schechner, Time & Time Again, Yao Li
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‘Forever free,’ with caveats
Scholars gathered at Harvard to discuss the Emancipation Proclamation and African-American service during the Civil War.
Tags: African Meeting House, Arts & Culture, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Boston African American National Historic Site, Corydon Ireland, Danny Glover, David Blight, Deborah Willis, Eric Foner, History, Language & Culture, Houghton Library, John Stauffer, Museum of African American History, Peter H. Wood, Radcliffe, Richard J. Powell, Toussaint Louverture
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Citizens United and beyond
In this year’s Tanner Lectures, Yale Law School Dean Robert C. Post suggested common constitutional ground in the campaign finance reform debate.
Tags: Arts & Culture, Campaign Finance, Citizens United, Corydon Ireland, History, Language & Culture, Obert Tanner, Robert C. Post, Tanner Lecture
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Oh, the humanities!
Humanities programs are in trouble in universities across the world — but hope prevails.
Tags: Arts & Culture, Corydon Ireland, Diana Sorensen, Drew Faust, History, Language & Culture, Homi K. Bhabha, Howard Gardner, Lawrence S. Bacow, Lynn A. Hunt, Mahindra Humanities Center, Office of the President, Sheldon I. Pollock, Stefan Collini
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Digitizing a movement
A team of Harvard scholars is cataloging, and transcribing, and digitizing thousands of 18th- and 19th-century anti-slavery petitions held in the Massachusetts State Archives.
Tags: Arts & Culture, Center for American Political Studies, Colin Manning, Daniel Carpenter, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, FAS, Harvard College, Harvard University, Henry Louis Gates Jr., History, Language & Culture, Manning, W.E.B. Du Bois
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The ‘mirror with a memory’
“Mirror With a Memory” is a new Pusey Library exhibit of photographs and other artifacts from the years when Harvard and the nation were anticipating the Civil War, then fighting it, and, finally, remembering it.
Tags: albumen print, ambrotype, Arts & Culture, Civil War, Corydon Ireland, crystalotype, daguerreotype, Emily Tordo, Harvard Magazine, Harvard University Archives, History, Language & Culture, John Adams Whipple, John Langdon Sibley, Juliana Kuipers, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Robert Gould Shaw, Robert Todd Lincoln, tintype, William Henry Fitzhugh Lee
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The power of dreams
Professor Kimberley C. Patton suggests dreams are “a language of enigmatic parable” that Western culture generally prefers to dismiss. “There’s a devaluation of dreams in the West,” said Patton, something the ancients would have found incomprehensible.
Tags: Arts & Culture, Asklepios, Chuck Leddy, dreams, Harvard Divinity School, History, Language & Culture, Judeo-Christianity, Kimberley C. Patton, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography, Sleep, Trisha Coburn
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Jobs, Einstein, and Franklin
Biographer Walter Isaacson shared his insights into the minds and makeup of three of America’s greatest thinkers, who helped to change the world.
Tags: Albert Einstein, Arts & Culture, Benjamin Franklin, Colleen Walsh, History, Language & Culture, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson
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Jobs, Einstein, and Franklin
Biographer Walter Isaacson shared his insights into the minds and makeup of three of America’s greatest thinkers, who helped to change the world.
Tags: Albert Einstein, Arts & Culture, Aspen Institute, Benjamin Franklin, Colleen Walsh, History, Language & Culture, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson
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