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The Road Not Taken: Paul Sachs, Philip Hofer, and Museum Lives

Marjorie Benedict Cohn

2023-12-31 2025

Bringing Melville’s Print Collection into the Digital Age

Robert K. Wallace

2023-12-01 2025

No Restrictions: David C. K. McClelland’s Calligraphies

Melissa Renn

2024-05-20 2025

Quentin Roosevelt (1897–1918): A Life and Death in Objects

Vincent Harmsen

2022-12-23 2025

Photographic Memory: Revising the History of Women Physicians at Massachusetts Eye and Ear

Vanessa Formato

2022-06-28 2025

“Treat Them Like Your Own Daughters”: Sexual Assault Prevention Training in an Eighteenth-Century Chinese Conduct-of-Life Manual

Benjamin Porteous

2022-05-23 2025

Harold Brodkey's Paper Attachments

Jeff Noh

2021-12-14 2025

Dumbarton Oaks Garden as Archives

Thaïsa Way

2021-06-22 2025

Washington Writing in the Archival Space of Catharine Maria Sedgwick’s The Linwoods (1835)

Derek Kane O'Leary

2020-12-17 2025

Why George Washington's Library is Not at Harvard

Kenneth E. Carpenter

2020-11-24 2025

Essay


The Coolest Guy

Ian Frazier

2024-05-19 2025

My Brother David

William McClelland

2024-05-19 2025

Illuminated and Unsettled: Literary Forms and Cultural Power, Medieval to Early Modern': A Pop-Up Exhibition for the 2022 Harvard English Department Bloomfield Conference

Bailey Sincox

2022-09-21 2025

Introducing the Plant Humanities Lab

Yota Batsaki

2021-03-24 2025

Contagion Project


Abdel Rahman Ismail’s Tibb al-Rukka and the Nubian Medicine Bundle: Toward Material Histories of Contagion

Taylor M. Moore

2022-02-18 2025

Microscopic Musings: Athanasius Kircher and the Roman Plague of 1656–57

Paula Findlen

2022-02-17 2025

The Lamashtu Amulet: A Portrait of the Caregiver as a Demoness

John Z. Wee

2021-07-28 2025

Concepts of Contagion in Gideon Harvey’s Great Venus Unmasked

Olivia Weisser

2021-07-27 2025

The Health of Enslaved Workers in Dazille’s Observations

Meghan K. Roberts

2021-07-27 2025

Masks and Geopolitics in Richard Pearson Strong’s Photos of the Manchurian Plague Epidemic, 1910–1911

Sarah Xia Yu

2021-07-27 2025

Girolamo Manfredi’s Plague Treatise: Individualized Cures and Prevention for the Masses and Elites

Craig Martin

2021-07-27 2025

A Return to our Roots: Countering Epidemic Disease with Plant-Derived Medicine

Laura Elizabeth Clerx

2021-07-27 2025

John Winthrop’s Lecture on Earthquakes (1755) and “Pestilential Distempers” Caused by Environmental Disruption

Conevery Bolton Valencius

2021-07-27 2025

Quarantine on the Line

Edna Bonhomme

2021-07-27 2025

Death, Data, and Denial in Antebellum New Orleans

Kathryn Olivarius

2021-07-27 2025

Memories of Plague in Early Modern Italy

Hannah Marcus

2021-07-27 2025

Tufuling / China Root: A Novel Cure for Syphilis and Mercurial Poisoning as Presented in Li Shizhen’s Compendium of Materia Medica

He Bian

2021-07-27 2025

The Minutes of the Indian Plague Commission

Kiran Kumbhar

2021-07-27 2025

Plague, Poison, and Print: An Artisan’s Viewpoint

Alisha Rankin

2021-07-27 2025

Geographies of Plague: Public Health Relations and Epidemiological Divides in the Mediterranean

Ori Ben-Shalom

2021-07-27 2025

Networks of Information and Infection: Documenting the Plague in 18th-Century Aleppo

Nathaniel Moses

2021-07-27 2025

John Howard's Contagious Institutions

Spencer J. Weinreich

2021-07-27 2025

Tuberculosis and the Problem of Race in American Anthropology

David S. Jones

2021-07-27 2025

"Justice to Our Colour Demands It”: Absalom Jones and Richard Allen’s Narrative of African Americans in Philadelphia’s 1793 Yellow Fever Epidemic

Vanessa Northington Gamble

2021-07-27 2025

The Usefulness of Saving Babies: A Reflection on Materials From a 1916 Campaign to Prevent Indigenous Infant Death

Emily A. Harrison

2021-07-27 2025

Beating the Dead Horse of Contagionism: Enlightened Democracy vs. Medical “Superstition” in the Early American Republic

David Barnes

2021-07-27 2025

Health and Hygiene in Post- Revolutionary Mexico

Gabriela Soto Laveaga

2021-07-27 2025

Public Health, Authority, and the Colonial State: Cholera in India

J'Nese Williams

2021-07-27 2025

Sickroom Cookery and Disease

Lisa Haushofer

2021-07-27 2025

Introduction to the Project

Hannah Marcus and Allan M. Brandt

2021-07-27 2025

The Syphilitic Image: On “The Metamorphosis of Syphilis” in Marco Aurelio Severino’s De recondita abscessuum natura

Alejandro Octavio Nodarse

2021-07-27 2025

Ruminant Vaccines: A Guide to Surviving Smallpox During a National Emergency

Paul Ramírez

2021-07-27 2025

Spiritual Solutions For Plague in a Late Medieval German Broadside

Erik A. Heinrichs

2021-07-27 2025

Editorial


The Best-Laid Plans: A Letter from the Editors

Mitch Nakaue and Anne-Marie Eze

2020-11-24 2025

Publisher's Note

Thomas Hyry

2020-11-24 2025

The “voice of a distinct community”: Foreword to Harvard Library Bulletin

Martha Whitehead

2020-11-24 2025