# Harvard University | History Department # Harvard in 1776! The Harvard in 1776 public history project commemorates America’s 250th anniversary by exploring and sharing the local history of the Revolutionary War. Please visit our website to explore research highlights and stay updated on upcoming campus and community events. [ Learn more! arrow\_circle\_right ](https://1776.history.fas.harvard.edu/) ![Harvard in 1776 logo with an 18th-century sketch of Harvard's campus featuring colonial buildings, a horse-drawn carriage, and riders.](/sites/g/files/omnuum4421/files/styles/hwp_1_1__960x960/public/2026-02/harvard%20in%201776%20Vertical%20v2.jpg?itok=Qm3bsakL) [### Faculty Directory ](/faculty) [### Graduate Program ](/graduate-programs) [### Undergraduate Program ](/undergraduate-programs) ## News [### Excerpt: Jill Lepore's Pulitzer Prize-Winning “We The People” ](https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2026/06/constitution-was-made-to-be-amended-so-whats-stopping-us/?utm_source=FAS+Reporter+2025-2026&utm_campaign=36889b5948-FASREPORTER_06_25_2026&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f4ed756ab6-36889b5948-443488757) June 29, 2026 ![Black-and-white portrait of an author with dog beside the cover of Jill Lepore’s We the People, about the Constitution. Photo by Richard Renaldi ](/sites/g/files/omnuum4421/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-06/Picture%20of%20Jill%20Lepore%20by%20Richard%20Renaldi.jpeg?itok=TXwW4IeP) [### Life on Bussey Hill: the Giles-Bancroft Family ](https://arboretum.harvard.edu/arnoldia-stories/life-on-bussey-hill-the-giles-bancroft-family/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=aa_mid_june_2026_newsletter&utm_term=giles_bancroft) June 26, 2026 ![Students laugh together in a damp wooded area, wearing winter coats, with a bright red umbrella on the leaf-covered ground.](/sites/g/files/omnuum4421/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-06/Tiya%20Mile%27s%20Class.jpg?itok=H8SsjvTk) [### Claire Adams Among 15 FAS Staff Honored at Harvard Heroes Celebration ](https://current.fas.harvard.edu/stories/15-fas-hailed-harvard-heroes?utm_source=FAS+Reporter+2025-2026&utm_campaign=d0706062c7-FASREPORTER_06_18_2026&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f4ed756ab6-d0706062c7-443491630) June 26, 2026 ![Harvard Heroes from the FAS, presented as a group. Photo by Veasey Conway, Harvard Staff Photographer.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum4421/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-06/Harvard%20Heroes%20from%20the%20FAS%20-%20Photo%20by%20Veasey%20Conway.jpg?h=ebb5856c&itok=gs8Wp0WG) [### Andrew Gordon Awarded Everett Mendelsohn Excellence in Mentoring Award ](https://www.harvardmagazine.com/university-news/2026-fas-teaching-and-mentoring-awards) June 05, 2026 ![test](/sites/g/files/omnuum4421/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-06/Gordon_Andrew027%20copy.jpg?h=11e5d356&itok=7RWO8dwh) [### Erika Lee Named 2026 - 2027 Radcliffe Institute Fellow ](https://www.harvardmagazine.com/radcliffe-institute/harvard-radcliffe-institute-2026-2027-fellows) June 05, 2026 ![test](/sites/g/files/omnuum4421/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-06/Erika%20Lee.jpg?itok=0MFyB5tU) [### Ann Blair Awarded History Department Excellence in Graduate Mentoring Award ](/news/2026/06/ann-blair-awarded-history-department-excellence-graduate-mentoring-award) June 05, 2026 ![test](/sites/g/files/omnuum4421/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-06/blair_ann%20copy.jpg?itok=C6luh9rX) [### Sven Beckert, Joyce Chaplin, and Dan Smail honored as Walter Channing Cabot Fellows ](https://www.harvardmagazine.com/university-news/2026-fas-teaching-and-mentoring-awards) June 05, 2026 ![test](/sites/g/files/omnuum4421/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-06/Sven%20Beckert%2C%20Joyce%20Chaplin%2C%20and%20Dan%20Smail_1.jpg?itok=D2WyjMPZ) [### Camden Elliott Awarded 2026 Gross Prize ](/news/2026/06/camden-elliott-awarded-2026-gross-prize) June 04, 2026 ![test](/sites/g/files/omnuum4421/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-06/camden-elliott%20copy.jpg?itok=74nCHkXs) [### Ann Blair and Erez Manela Selected as FAS Sabbatical Recognition Program Honorees ](https://www.harvardmagazine.com/university-news/2026-fas-teaching-and-mentoring-awards) June 03, 2026 ![test](/sites/g/files/omnuum4421/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-06/Ann%20Blair%20and%20Erez%20Manela.jpg?itok=VfH9pNfv) [ View All News arrow\_circle\_right ](/news) [ View All Events arrow\_circle\_right ](/events) ## Faculty Book Shelf **The newest books from our faculty members!** [### Walter Benjamin: The Pearl Diver ](https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300216868/walter-benjamin/)Peter E. Gordon ![Walter Benjamin: The Pearl Diver](/sites/g/files/omnuum4421/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/2026-04/9780300216868.jpg?itok=6WZ9XHjt) [### South Asia’s Freedom in Global Perspective: Nation, Partition, Federation ](https://www.routledge.com/South-Asias-Freedom-in-Global-Perspective-Nation-Partition-Federation/Bose-Jalal/p/book/9781041047278?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=23345041667&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIy5asy4uYkwMVuDQIBR1PswswEAAYASAAEgKXp_D_BwE)Sugata Bose, et al. ![South Asia’s Freedom in Global Perspective: Nation, Partition, Federation](/sites/g/files/omnuum4421/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/2026-04/9781041047278.jpg?itok=hxzMT93W) [### We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution ](https://wwnorton.com/books/9781631496080)Jill Lepore ![We the People](/sites/g/files/omnuum4421/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/2026-04/9781631496080_300.jpg?itok=yupbbvmk) [### Magdalena Coline: A Life Beyond Slavery in Mediterranean Europe ](https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691253800/magdalena-coline?srsltid=AfmBOorvF3Djv4A6qOMxaUuIcHNkNoqumnUSgcTrH20WRywMsuaE1uVZ)Daniel Lord Smail ![Magdalena Coline](/sites/g/files/omnuum4421/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/2025-12/9780691253800.jpg?itok=LHMeg3I2) [### Capitalism: A Global History ](https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/541160/capitalism-by-sven-beckert/)Sven Beckert ![Capitalism: A Global History](/sites/g/files/omnuum4421/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/2025-12/9780735220836.jpeg?itok=3IU-6aYV) [### The Nuclear Age: An Epic Race for Arms, Power, and Survival ](https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324051176)Serhii Plokhy ![The Nuclear Age](/sites/g/files/omnuum4421/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/2025-12/81wMcU%2BjAEL._SL1500_.jpg?itok=VCdnkMKp) [### The Golden Thread: A History of the Western Tradition ](https://www.encounterbooks.com/books/golden-thread-history-western-tradition/?srsltid=AfmBOoo7szRC7Cbo8yCX3UltVUDhTbun2N3C35i4e-FPgGO1ogSnzoBM)James Hankins, et al. ![The Golden Thread](/sites/g/files/omnuum4421/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/2025-12/image-310x394.jpg?itok=3PKCq0e2) [### The Franklin Stove: An Unintended American Revolution ](https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374613808/thefranklinstove/)Joyce E. Chaplin ![The Franklin Stove](/sites/g/files/omnuum4421/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/2025-12/9780374613808.jpg?itok=IsmjzY-J) [### Made in Asian America: A History for Young People ](https://www.harpercollins.com/products/made-in-asian-america-a-history-for-young-people-erika-leechristina-soontornvat?variant=41089666744354)Erika Lee, et al. ![Made in Asian America](/sites/g/files/omnuum4421/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/2025-12/9780063242937.jpg?itok=K8NXlFzn) [### Oceanic Japan: The Archipelago in Pacific and Global History ](https://uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/oceanic-japan-the-archipelago-in-pacific-and-global-history/)Ian J. Miller, et al. ![Oceanic Japan](/sites/g/files/omnuum4421/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/2025-12/9780824897680-600x906.jpg?itok=KB65VG76) [### Politics, Philosophy, and Humor at the Byzantine Court ](https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780884025245)Dimiter Angelov ![Politics, Philosophy, and Humor at the Byzantine Court](/sites/g/files/omnuum4421/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/2025-12/9780884025245.png.jpeg?itok=XJiIo_xC) [### The Image of the Black in Latin American and Caribbean Art, Book 1: From Colony to Nation ](https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674248861)Alejandro de la Fuente, et al. ![From Colony to Nation](/sites/g/files/omnuum4421/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/2025-12/9780674248861.png.jpeg?itok=QmPAxpGt) [### The Image of the Black in Latin American and Caribbean Art, Book 2: The Modern World ](https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674248878)Alejandro de la Fuente, et al. ![The Modern World](/sites/g/files/omnuum4421/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/2025-12/9780674248878.png.jpeg?itok=d9Sk_8-9) [### Asia After Europe: Imagining a Continent in the Long Twentieth Century ](https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674423497)Sugata Bose ![Sugata Bose, Asia after Europe Book Cover](/sites/g/files/omnuum4421/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/2025-01/Sugata%20Bose%2C%20Asia%20after%20Europe%20Book%20Cover_0.png?itok=8JRhij_7) [### Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People ](https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/705956/night-flyer-by-tiya-miles-curated-by-henry-louis-gates-jr/)Tiya Miles ![Tiya Miles, Night Flyer Book Cover](/sites/g/files/omnuum4421/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/2025-01/Tiya%20Miles%2C%20Night%20Flyer%20Book%20Cover.png?itok=z52CcGOK) [### Information: A Short History ](https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691261553/information?srsltid=AfmBOoo0m9eq7SYS6INGXCLwE8bKODN-fy6OtvrKZ9BBNJRXKXzB7tpy)Ann Blair, et al. ![Ann Blair, Information A Short Story Book Cover](/sites/g/files/omnuum4421/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/2025-01/Ann%20Blair%2C%20Information%20A%20Short%20Story%20Book%20Cover.png?itok=GFhOy02w) [### Chernobyl Roulette: War in the Nuclear Disaster Zone ](https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324079415)Serhii Plokhy ![Serhii Plokhy, Chernobyl Roulette Book Cover](/sites/g/files/omnuum4421/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/2025-01/Serhii%20Plokhy%2C%20Chernobyl%20Roulette%20Book%20Cover.png?itok=8-uZeakz) arrow\_back arrow\_forward --- ## Resources [### Dean of Students Office - Getting Support ](/dean-students-office-support-resources-website) [### Guide for Protecting Against Online Abuse and Harassment ](/guide-protecting-against-online-abuse-and-harassment) [### Library Research Guide for History ](/library-research-guide-history)