Assisting scholars from outside the Boston area in their use of Harvard-Yenching Library collections in their research.

BHL is beginning a major modernization of its platform. We’d like users to help shape what comes next. This 3–5 minute survey asks about how you use BHL and the improvements you’d like to see. Your ...

US science funder once again restricts awards to Harvard University and other research institutions.

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“For too long, the university has ignored the wisdom of the donor class and hired based on academic excellence. Regrettably, this has led to the underreprese...

While it’s been used as a rallying cry for women’s political rights, the famous phrase may have had more to do with tyranny at home.

In an era of rapid change, we are dedicated to advancing scholarship on the Early Atlantic world through a diverse range of media platforms. Our work fosters...

Founded in 1926 in Claremont, California, Scripps College offers a rigorous interdisciplinary curriculum, a robust intellectual community, a commitment to diversity and inclusion, and a rich residenti...

Joining the wave of union organizing among cultural workers, employees of the primarily Chicago-based American Library Association (ALA) announced they are forming their union with AFSCME Council 31.T...

A history of the technology of supply-chain management from punch cards to neural nets, and how the ambiguity built into that technology helps companies and ...

For lovers of the English language and American history alike, this deluxe boxed collection of fifty postcards features art and ephemera from the storied arc...

Museums construct knowledge by constructing objects—literally.

A strikingly handsome emerald-green moth, lost to science for nearly one-and-a-half centuries, has been rediscovered in South Africa by citizen scientists who posted photographs of it online. The…

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences seek a detail-oriented undergraduate history student to support award-winning historian Jacqueline Jones with research for a 250th anniversary history of the ...

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This month, members of the biodiversity community from across the globe gathered in Bogotá, Colombia, for two major meetings: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) Governing Board Mee…

The American Historical Association is pleased to announce the winners of its 2025 prizes.