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New Research on Europe Seminar Speaker Antoine Boucher Postdoctoral Researcher, Aix-Marseille School of Economics; Visiting Scholar 2026-2027, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University Chair Nathan Perl-Rosenthal Senior Research...

Presented by the Warren Center’s Workshop on “Commemorative Acts” Title: " Fashionable Rebellion: The Confederate Flag 'Fad' and Youth Culture at Midcentury." Karen L. Cox Visiting Scholar in the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History...

Free Hybrid Panel Discussion Location: Zimmer Hall (formerly Science Center), Lecture Hall A, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA 02138 Speakers: Evelynn Hammonds, Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of the History of Science; Professor of African and African...

The Marc Bloch Seminars in Comparative History Speakers Isabel Frey Ribeiro Ph.D. Student in History, Harvard University Peter E. Gordon Amabel B. James Professor of History, Harvard University; Resident Faculty & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center...

History of Science Colloquium Series Department of the History of Science, Harvard University We are excited to be hosting History of Science Professors Peter Galison , Naomi Oreskes , Gabriela Soto Laveaga. They will deliver individual flash talks on...

Canada Seminar Sugar Farmers of Manitoba “Sugar Farmers of Manitoba” is the title of a book published by the Manitoba Beet Growers Association in 1968. This detailed institutional history also provides inadvertent and disturbing insight into the history...

Philosophers are often caricatured as having their heads in the clouds, their mind’s eye focused inwardly on far-off visions of “the good,” “the beautiful,” and “the true.” But Friedrich Nietzsche and Henry David Thoreau, the two greatest philosophical...

Shortly after moving to the Transcendentalist utopian community of Brook Farm in April 1844, Marianne Dwight Orvis joined the “Fancy Group,” a collective of women who hand-painted goods for sale in Boston. She described the project as seeking the...

Please join us for the opening reception of Christopher Volpe's exhibition, In this Twilight: Tar Paintings in Conversation with American Transcendentalism. Titled with a line from Whitman's Leaves of Grass, In this Twilight opens a space between longing...

Abolitionists described themselves as followers of Jesus, but they disagreed about what kind of person he was. Douglass’s ideas about Jesus took shape in dialogue with the Transcendentalists: his Jesus was fully human, but he spoke to his contemporaries...