Tag: Franklin D. Roosevelt Life & History

  • New Views of the Suite, November 2012

    New Views of the Suite, November 2012

    I was at the Suite yesterday, the day after Thanksgiving, beginning what’s going to be a three-month intensive effort to catalog the objects in the collection for inclusion in our…

  • Shopping for Gems and Snaps

    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

    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…

  • Recent Acquisitions and News - July 2012

    Recent Acquisitions and News – July 2012

    Hello Everyone! Well I don’t need to tell you how warm it’s been in Cambridge, because chances are you’ve been as warm or warmer. Still, despite the heat and the…

  • Six Buildings

    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…

  • Recent Acquisitions & News

    Recent Acquisitions & News

    Hello everyone! Well spring has certainly sprung in Cambridge, and while our weather wildly swings between days in the 80’s and nights in the teens, I thought I would take…