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Native Americans cultivating a field

Written accounts of Native Americans cultivating the land in New England overstate the importance of agriculture in the pre-contact period, according to a new study. Here, an engraving by Theodor De Bry, after a drawing by Jacques Le Moyne, depicts Timucua Indians at Fort Caroline, a French settlement established in what is now Florida, hoeing and sowing seeds, including beans and maize. 

Courtesy of the Lewis Ansbacher Map Collection, permanently housed in the Morris Ansbacher Map Room, Jacksonville (Florida) Public Library.

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Before Europeans arrived in New England, local ecology was driven by climate shifts, not by human interventions.

1.20.20

Then-Harvard president Drew Faust and Harvard Law School professor Annette Gordon-Reed unveiled a monument dedicated in 2017 to people enslaved by law school benefactor Isaac Royall Jr.

In 2017, then-Harvard president Drew Faust and Harvard Law School professor Annette Gordon-Reed unveiled a monument dedicated to people enslaved by law school benefactor Isaac Royall Jr.

Photograph by Jon Chase/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications

The president announces a $5-million initiative.

11.22.19

Cover of Harvard University 2019 annual financial report

The University discloses a sixth consecutive budget surplus—and details enormous changes in the endowment.

10.24.19

Portrait of Faculty of Arts and Sciences dean Claudine Gay

Faculty of Arts and Sciences dean Claudine Gay

Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell/HPAC

Claudine Gay’s annual report to the faculty outlines broad goals—and challenging circumstances.

10.1.19

Courtesy of Harvard University Financial Administration

The annual financial report also documents endowment changes.

10.25.18

Harvard’s $9.62-billion fund drive

November-December 2018

New convening spaces now beckon on both sides of the Charles. Smith Campus Center, shown here, opens the former Holyoke Center to the street, and invites casual dining, study, hanging out, and performances.

Photograph by Jim Harrison

Smith Campus Center, Klarman Hall debut.

November-December 2018

In a stronger year for universities’ investment returns, Harvard Management Company continues its overhaul.

9.28.18

Brian K. Lee

Photograph by Rob Greer

President Lawrence Bacow fills out his new Harvard team.

9.24.18