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Historic Humor

University Archives to preserve Harvard Lampoon materials

A grinning woman in traditional Nigerian dress sits cross-legged on the floor surrounded by modern devices, including a power strip, a land-line telephone, and a desktop computer displaying on its screen a duplicate image of the entire montage.

Harvard Squared | November-December 2019

Reflections of Fatimah Tuggar

Fatimah Tuggar explores artisanship and technology, at the Davis Museum

by Nell Porter Brown

A photograph of an eighteenth-century, three-inch pocket globe in its open case

Treasure | September-October 2019

It’s a Small World

Ebenezer Storer’s pocket globe

by Jacob Sweet

The “Rocking Horse Graveyard,” in Lincoln, Massachusetts

Harvard Squared | September-October 2019

Funny, Weird, Macabre

Exploring New England’s more unusual sites with J.W. Ocker

by Nell Porter Brown

Hikers stand in Purgatory Chasm, near Worcester, Massachusetts

Harvard Squared | September-October 2019

Purgatory—and Beyond

Pleasures to explore in and around Worcester

by Nell Porter Brown

A color-paper collage used by Edwin Land to develop an influential theory of color vision

Harvard Squared | September-October 2019

Seeing Science

New Harvard exhibit explores “Visual Science: The Art of Research”

by Nell Porter Brown

Photo of the colonial-era Fairbanks House in Dedham, Massachusetts

Harvard Squared | September-October 2019

The Air of Contentment

Dedham’s Fairbanks House: “the oldest wood-frame structure still standing in North America”

by Nell Porter Brown

A child’s horse-drawn carriage from 1907

Harvard Squared | September-October 2019

For the Love of Horses

Equestrian life and sports on the North Shore

by Nell Porter Brown

Museums & Collections |

Over the Moon

A lunar rock and a moon landing’s fiftieth anniversary prompt a party at the Harvard Museum of Natural History.

by Nina Pasquini

Treasure | July-August 2019

Jades, Reread

A fresh, up-close look at the Winthrop collection

by John S. Rosenberg

Harvard Squared | July-August 2019

A Bridge to the Past

Historic New England’s Eustis Estate

by Nell Porter Brown