Tag: Harvard History

• Lathrop Brown and FDR: The Harvard Years

  (This is the second installment in a continuing series taken from the unpublished notes of filmmaker Pare Lorentz. For the introduction to these articles, click HERE.) The Lathrop Brown Interviews:…

• Lathrop Brown and FDR: The Groton Years

  Sometimes, in the glow of presidential personality, it’s easy to forget the fact that there were two residents of the FDR suite: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and his Groton chum, Lathrop…

• 110 Years Later: Harvard Changed? Yes, and No…

  This week, one of our student researchers, Nina Ranalli of Eliot House, has the guest columnist slot. Having myself spent a large part of the last two years sifting through…

• Additional Views of the Union

  Many of you asked to see a bit more of the Union as FDR knew it, so here are some additional shots I was able to dig up in the…

• The Chest of 1900

  February 22, 1900 At the last meeting of the University Council it was suggested that an attempt be made to bring together for the benefit of our successors at the…

• A Tale of Two Morris Chairs

  Editor’s Note: This week’s post is by our guest contributor, Lary Shaffer. I discovered Lary via the Internet earlier this year, and immediately came to respect his almost encyclopedic knowledge…