Archive – FDR’s Harvard

• The World Turned Upside Down

  Tradition holds that as the defeated British soldiers retired off the field at Yorktown, their regimental band struck up an ancient march, The World Turned Upside Down: If buttercups buzz’d…

• Shopping for Gems and Snaps

  In years past, the course, Introduction to Congress, had a reputation as one of the easiest at Harvard College. Some of the 279 students who took it in the spring…

• Sifting Freshmen

  As we again welcome freshmen this week for the 376th time, I thought you might enjoy two views of the process from a 1900 Harvard Lampoon in our collections. The…

• Six Buildings

  Ladies and Gentlemen: As you know, we have been working madly away on a joint project with the HAA, Six Buildings That Shaped Harvard History. Well, our work is finally…

• Harvard at 375… Make That 300

  Not to rain on anyone’s parade, but those of you not at Harvard this past Friday for the opening ceremonies of the 375th may have been in a happy majority.…

• The Harvard TR Knew

  As part of my  Six Buildings That Shaped Harvard History tour for the HAA coming up on the 15th and again on the 26th, I’ve been doing quite a bit…