Harvard History & Traditions


Historic Humor

University Archives to preserve Harvard Lampoon materials

Excavating 1968

The premiere of an alumnus’s film about a seminal year at Harvard and beyond 

by Lydialyle Gibson

Yesterday’s News

Cooking for the culinarily challenged…and other headlines from Harvard’s history

Echoes of 1969

Recalling a time of trial, and its continuing resonances

Princeton Preps

Harvard’s Tiger deans, the prophetic Richard Pipes, and a high-tech egg

by Primus VI

Jewel Box and Jewels

A tribute to the art museums’ Calderwood Courtyard

by John S. Rosenberg

From the Archives: Harvard’s Womanless History

Completing the University’s self-portrait 

Yesterday’s News

When the Law School made thin ice…and other headlines from Harvard’s history

Sculpting Hallowed Ground

Re-landscaping Massachusetts Hall, making the entrance to Harvard Yard more welcoming

by Primus VI

From the Archives: 1968, When “Harvard Beats Yale”

The immediate post-Game coverage, and an update on that famous headline

The Devil and Philip Johnson

A “star-chitect” as P.T. Barnum

by Spencer Lee Lenfield