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Around the World in Eighty Days with the Real Phileas Fogg
May 8, 2018
In 1870, the eccentric American transportation entrepreneur George Francis Train took a trip around the world in eighty travel days (with a two-month stopover in Paris), so when Jules Verne publish
Exhibition at Harvard's Houghton Library Explores the History of the Human Search for Something More
July 19, 2017
Harvard's Special Collections Library Marks its 75th Anniversary with the Question: "Who Cares?"
July 19, 2017
Holiday Time at the Houghton
December 30, 2016
Harvard University's Houghton Library usually buzzes with scholars engaged in research, but on the day before Christmas Eve the space exuded
Babar Comes to Houghton Library
June 9, 2016
Harvard's Houghton Library recently acquired the complete archive of Jean de Brunhoff's preparatory materials for his 1934 alphabet b
Emily Dickinson's 185th Birthday Celebration Includes Coconut Cake and Crowd-Sourced Poetry
December 11, 2015
Emily Dickinson would have been 185 on December 10, and institutions across America have been marking the occasion with various public programs and, of course, poetry readings.
Will Harvard Bid for its First African-American Student's Diploma?
August 4, 2014
Tests Prove Harvard's Book Bound in Human Skin
June 6, 2014
Sarah Thomas of the University of Oxford Appointed Vice President of the Harvard Library
May 20, 2013
May 20, 2013—Harvard University Provost Alan M. Garber announced today that Sarah Thomas of the University of Oxford has been named vice president for the Harvard Library.
When in Boston...
November 16, 2012
There are at least two exhibits on view in Boston that bibliophiles should not miss if they have the opportunity to poke around town before, after, and between