Harvard pledged $6 million to finance a project between Harvard Library and the HBCU Library Alliance that will digitize and preserve African American history collections held at historically Black ...

For more than three quarters of a century, Harvard undergraduates have hit the books in the armchairs and study carrels of Lamont Library. Situated in the southeast corner of Harvard Yard, Lamont — ...

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 ...

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 ...

Harvard’s recent decision to remove the binding of a notorious volume in its library has thrown fresh light on a shadowy corner of the rare book world. By Jennifer Schuessler and Julia Jacobs The New ...

CAMBRIDGE — Three very different shows at Harvard have something in common: Harvard. They look at aspects of the university’s collections and those holdings’ relation to art or architectural history.

This is the first complete set of digitized Nazi war documents. It contains transcripts in English from all 13 Nuremberg trials. Before today, only 20% of the Nuremberg materials were available.

The school says the text was given to a physician who, without consent, bound it with the skin of a deceased female patient in a hospital where he worked. FILE - In this Dec. 13, 2018 file photo, ...

Research libraries in Cambridge and across the country are hurrying to collect sexual ephemera from Americans’ pasts, before it’s too late. HARVARD’S SCHLESINGER LIBRARY didn’t set out to be a ...

Harvard University administrators temporarily barred multiple faculty members from the university’s main library after more than two dozen held a silent “study-in” to protest treatment of student ...

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 ...

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 ...