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When Harvard prohibited chalking on sidewalks, I couldn’t imagine a speech policy more absurd. Last week, the University managed to surprise me. Earlier this month, a group of Harvard faculty ...

Martha Whitehead, vice president of the Harvard Library, announced plans to renovate the four major libraries in Harvard Yard — Widener, Lamont, Pusey, and Houghton — during a faculty meeting last ...

When Olha Aleksic came to Harvard as a graduate student from Ukraine, it was to study the history of Christianity at the Divinity School. During an internship in Widener Library’s Slavic division, she ...

Martha Whitehead, who has led the library at Queen’s University in Ontario, has been named to lead Harvard Library, the largest academic library in the world and the nation’s oldest. Whitehead had ...

In September, just as the Langdell Hall Reading Room re-opened, Harvard Law School Library Historical & Special Collections staff unveiled a new exhibit, From the Ephemeral to the Extraordinary: ...

When two British researchers recently decided to take a closer look at a Magna Carta in the Harvard Law School Library archives, they didn’t hop the next flight to United States. Instead, they fired ...

Harvard Library says it has removed a book that's been in its collection for nearly a century that is partially made with human skin that was taken from a deceased hospital patient without consent.

This is the first complete set of digitized Nazi war documents. It contains transcripts in English from all 13 Nuremberg trials. Before today, only 20% of the Nuremberg materials were available.

After decades of controversy, the Harvard Library has removed the human skin binding one of the most notorious books in its collection, “Des destinées de l’âme.” “Harvard Library acknowledges past ...