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 ...

In 2018, Vanessa Braganza was holding the ladder for a librarian in Harvard University’s Widener Library when her eye caught a flash of scarlet. There, among the towering shelves of rare books and ...

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.

Patrons looking to enter the Harvard Law School library Wednesday afternoon had to navigate around a dozen librarians and staff members, who crowded the front steps as they took turns reading aloud ...

CAMBRIDGE — Exhibition titles don’t come more alliteratively straightforward than “Big Books, Tiny Tomes,” which runs at Harvard’s Houghton Library through Aug. 9. Houghton is the university’s ...

After having deadly disappointment earlier this year when it was revealed two of the three books at Harvard University believed to be bound in human skin were both sheepskin, the third has been ...

Everything ever said on the internet was just the start of teaching artificial intelligence about humanity. Tech companies are now tapping into an older repository of knowledge: the library stacks.

When Harvard’s Fine Arts Library was phasing out its antiquated card catalog, long since supplanted by online listings, the staff gave some of the wooden racks to Kyle Courtney in recognition of his ...

Do we think Harvard is the right place for it? The Houghton Library at Harvard University is now the owner of the rare copy of the original Green Book, the Jim Crow era travel guide that listed safe ...

Harvard University removed human skin from the binding of "Des Destinées de L'âme" in Houghton Library on Wednesday after a review found ethical concerns with the book's origin and history. French ...

The decision to find a “respectful final disposition” for human remains used for a 19th-century book comes amid growing scrutiny of their presence in museum collections. By Jennifer Schuessler and ...