Harvard

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• SOURCE: Public Seminar
  9/10/2020
  

  Who Owns the Evidence of Slavery’s Violence?

  by Thomas A. Foster

  A lawsuit demands that Harvard University give custody of famous images of enslaved men and women--taken without consent by a biologist seeking to demonstrate white supremacy-- to the subjects' descendents. A Howard University historian agrees, putting the images in context of other intimate violations endured by enslaved persons. 

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• SOURCE: NPR
  2/14/20
  

  Who Owns History? Connecticut Woman Sues Harvard for Family Photos

  Featuring historian and professor from Georgetown University, Marcia Chatelain, about how American universities are confronting their legacies of slavery. 

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  12/12/19
  

  Black Scholars Respond to Dr. Lorgia García Peña Tenure Denial at Harvard

  The African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) stood in solidarity with Dr. Lorgia García Peña, a Black Studies scholar who was recently denied tenure at Harvard University. 

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• SOURCE: Boston Globe
  12/9/19
  

  Hundreds of scholars protest Harvard's decision to deny tenure to Latinx studies professor

  García Peña's case has become a rallying cry for Harvard students and alumni who have been pushing the university to establish an ethnic studies department for nearly 50 years.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  11/6/19
  

  Antigua Demands Harvard Pay Reparations for Benefiting From Slavery

  The labor of enslaved people paid for the founding of Harvard Law School, Antigua’s prime minister reminded the college’s president.

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• SOURCE: The Crimson
  9/19/19
  

  Responding to a ‘Crisis in the Humanities,’ Harvard History Dept. Rebrands

  Harvard's history department is rebranding to respond to national changes.  

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/3/19
  

  Sarah Lewis' grandfather was expelled from school for asking why his textbooks had no black people. Today she teaches at Harvard.

  Lewis teaches art history and African American studies at Harvard.

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• SOURCE: Middle East Forum
  4/9/19
  

  Harvard's Communist Uprising, 50 Years Later

  by Daniel Pipes

  That takeover and bust culminated my political education.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/20/19
  

  Who Should Own Photos of Slaves? The Descendants, not Harvard, a Lawsuit Says

  Tamara Lanier is suing Harvard University for ownership of daguerreotypes of slaves who she says are her ancestors.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/12/19
  

  Will Harvard continue to fail Asian Americans — or will it learn from the past?

  by Renee Tajima-Peña

  Harvard does not have an Asian American studies program. 

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• SOURCE: Boston Globe
  9-1-18
  

  What Harvard professors who were part of Elizabeth Warren’s hiring say about it

  More than 60 Harvard professors were eligible to vote on whether to offer Elizabeth Warren a tenured position at the law school in 1993. The Globe reached out to all of the living professors who could have been in that room to ask whether her claims to Native American heritage were a factor in their votes.

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• SOURCE: Harvard Crimson
  5/4/18
  

  Family, history, and the 1960s all helped to shape Drew Faust, but it was illness that urged her forward

  by Colleen Walsh

  She got cancer twice and decided that if she was going to face risks she might as well take one herself. That led her to take a position as an administrator at Harvard. 

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• SOURCE: The Harvard Crimson
  2-9-18
  

  Harvard Hires First Professor of Native American History

  History professor Philip J. Deloria, began teaching last month, after years of activists calling for Native American studies offerings.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  9-21-17
  

  We don’t think Michelle Jones could change because we see black moms as monsters

  by Manisha Sinha

  Part of the controversy at the heart of Jones’s case is about our culture’s differing notions of crime and punishment: While progressives in the United States have tended to prefer reformative justice, conservatives have tended to resort to retributive justice.

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• SOURCE: The Harvard Crimson
  9-19-17
  

  159 scholars at Harvard sign petition reprimanding the school for rejections of Chelsea Manning and Michelle Jones

  by Joyce E. Chaplin, Jason Beckfield and Khalil Gibran Muhammad

  "We Are Educators, Not Prosecutors"

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• SOURCE: NYT
  8-18-17
  

  Harvard’s Maya Jasanoff vists the Congo and discovers people there probably live harder lives than they did 100 years ago when Joseph Conrad was there

  by Maya Jasanoff

  The trip was for a book she’s written, “The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World.”

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• SOURCE: NYT
  6-14-17
  

  Harvard's Drew Gilpin Faust to step down as president next year

  The first woman to serve as Harvard’s president, she announced Wednesday that she would step down next year after 11 years of service.

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• SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education
  6-13-17
  

  Free Speech Loses Ground as Harvard Retracts Offers to Admitted Students

  by Jonathan Zimmerman

  By rejecting the offending students, the university reinforced the idea that students shouldn’t offend one another.

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• SOURCE: The Harvard Gazette
  6-1-17
  

  Harvard’s Graham Allison says the US-China relationship will define the 21st century

  In a new book, “Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’ Trap?,” Allison examines the looming complications.

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• SOURCE: Time Magazine
  5-31-17
  

  Harvard’s newest class uses the “Game of Thrones” to teach medieval history

  "Game of Thrones does dramatize nicely some fundamental things going on in medieval courts.”