Investigators construct a virtual Italian Renaissance altarpiece.
Seaweed and seaside scenes of Martha’s Vineyard
The most romantic tent in town
Lakota drawings inspire a dramatic exhibition.
On Tetrapanax papyriferum and Chinese art
The late Stuart Cary Welch was a connoisseur of lovers’ picnics and the world of Persian and Indian art.
A map showing “The Dispersal of the Children of Noah,” in an exhibit at the Andover-Harvard Theological Library, reflects dispute by Puritan theologian Hugh Broughton about biblical chronology, touched off by the publication of his book A Concent of Scripture.
Broadsides and hangings in old England…
The Harvard Map Collection in Pusey Library has recently become home to more than 10,000 map postcards…
The blue beauty at left is Porpita mediterranea rendered in glass, reproduced here at about twice life size. These jellies, moved by wind and…
Harvard people with medals they aren’t sure what to do with have often given them to the University. Many of these impressions of history…
The stock market plummets. Credit is tight. Bankers quake. Then J.P. Morgan organizes a consortium of financial saviors to provide cash to banks…
When Harvard curator of fossil insects Frank M. Carpenter dug up this wing in an Oklahoma prairie in 1940, he held a piece of the first evidence…
The world’s first magazine devoted to science fiction, Amazing Stories, was born in 1926, a year before Frederick I. Ordway III…
One could call these ceremonial spoons the “family silver of Northwest Coast nobility,” says Bill Holm, curator emeritus at the…
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