Sumner Redstone donates $1 million to Harvard University
Boston, MA (April 23, 2010) — Harvard University today announced that Sumner M. Redstone has contributed $1 million to be used by Harvard College and Harvard Law School. This contribution by Mr....
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JFK’s legacy at 50
At a mere 1,355 words, John F. Kennedy’s first speech as president took just 14 minutes to read. Delivered the morning of Jan. 20, 1960 (“cold but brilliant,” according to one news report), his...
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Let the Word Go Forth
“Let the Word Go Forth” is a film of many faces and voices recreating President John F. Kennedy’s inaugural address.
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Opening day
A small ceremony on Tuesday marked a big moment in Harvard history: the official opening of the first Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) office on the Harvard campus in 40 years. Harvard had...
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Voices from the trees
“I’m a bad influence,” Microsoft CEO and philanthropist Bill Gates told a crowd of graduating Harvard students in 2007. The speech, delivered before a boisterous Commencement crowd, and recorded for...
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A room fit for a president
Visitors to Harvard could find worse places to shack up than Winthrop House Suite F-14. The two modest rooms, on the first floor of Gore Hall overlooking a courtyard and the Charles River, can be a...
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Daniel Aaron’s century
There are about 500,000 centenarians worldwide, but only one is a Harvard professor who first arrived on campus in 1933, who used to correct undergraduate John F. Kennedy’s English papers, and who...
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When Armageddon loomed
The black-and-white image is as familiar as it is iconic. The Oval Office photograph captures the solitude and solemnity of the U.S. presidency and the overwhelming sense that the young John F....
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Religion and politics, now
More than half a century after John F. Kennedy dismissed the role that his Catholic faith would play when he was elected president, today’s candidates for the nation’s highest executive office still...
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Social justice at the A.R.T.
Once described by an affectionate collaborator as “the laser,” the American Repertory Theater’s (A.R.T.) hard-driving artistic director always has been about maximum focus with her choices and maximum...
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When things changed for women
After Gail Collins, now a New York Times columnist, was named the paper’s first female editorial page editor in 2001, she had a little ritual while heading into editorial board meetings. As she walked...
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The measure of a woman
Wage equity. Affordable child care. Paid sick leave. Although these are contemporary problems, they are also issues that political leaders have been struggling to resolve for half a century, ever...
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The day the president died
They are the touchstone moments, the rare flashpoints in American life where all who experienced them remember exactly where they were, how they felt, how their lives changed. The 9/11 attacks provide...
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New Frontier Awards honor two
Jack Schlossberg, grandson of President John F. Kennedy, honored the founder of an online charity that supports public schools and a combat veteran who is now a congresswoman during the 2013 John F....
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That first draft of history
In the half-century spanning the shift from reporters in snap-brimmed hats typing stories on Remingtons to filing on their cellphones with Snapchat, journalist Bob Schieffer has had a front-row seat...
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Institute of Politics, 50 years in
At a time when the noble aim of politics feels like it has been consumed by negativity, the Institute of Politics (IOP) at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) has stayed true to the notion that politics and...
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The Harvard that was
If you asked the religious scholar and former University of Bridgeport President Richard Rubenstein, Th.M. ’55, Ph.D. ’60, one of the things he remembered most about his years at Harvard, he would...
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100 years later, the enduring legacy of JFK’s American ideals
Though it’s been a century since the birth of President John F. Kennedy ’40, and more than half a century since he articulated his inspirational and optimistic vision of the United States as a force...
View ArticleEarliest recording of JFK found in Harvard Archives
What did John F. Kennedy sound like as a vivacious 20-year-old, a young man who liked to balance his Harvard studies with ample amounts of sports and socializing, and whose first run for office was...
View ArticleSeminal speeches through the years
While it’s common for a modern-day speech to become instantly familiar to millions of viewers through television or the internet, few people experienced the direct impact of British Prime Minister...
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In Harvard visit, Caroline Kennedy recalls her years as ambassador to Japan
Five years ago, Caroline Kennedy met with President Barack Obama, offering her services to his administration. Expecting to receive a legal or educational post, instead she was offered the...
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In new book, Nye rates presidents on foreign policy ethics
As his trial begins in the U.S. Senate, the impeachment of President Trump is, at its heart, a question about ethics. Was it proper for the president to withhold U.S. military aid to a strategic...
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‘Last Negroes at Harvard’ traces lives Class of 1963
Kent Garrett ’63 and Jeanne Ellsworth are authors of the new book “The Last Negroes at Harvard: The Class of 1963 and the 18 Young Men Who Changed Harvard Forever,” which is equal parts memoir, group...
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New JFK biography aims to chronicle a complex life
One of the revelations about John F. Kennedy in Fredrik Logevall’s new biography, “JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917‒1956,” is that the man was an excellent letter-writer and diarist....
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Harvard analysts react to the 2020 election
President Trump has made no secret of his intention to file legal challenges in key states where election results were close, citing the possibility of voting fraud. For months, he has criticized the...
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The rituals of a presidential inauguration
The inauguration today — our nation’s 59th — is about more than the peaceful transfer of power from one administration to the next. While it certainly achieves that, the ceremony at noon, which will be...
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Bio author shares a different view of John F. Kennedy
In his youth, John F. Kennedy took a more global — and, in some ways, a more progressive — approach than would be apparent until much later. That was only one of the revelations uncovered by historian...
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80 years after Pearl Harbor, alum recalls WWII service
Leon Starr ’40 remembers Dec. 7, 1941. It was a Sunday. “The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and tried to wipe out the American fleet. It was an unexpected blow and a very strong air-strike, and they...
View ArticlePreserving voice of president — and thousands of others
Five years ago, Harvard Library staff brought the voice of a 20-year-old John F. Kennedy to life for the world to hear. Audio experts at the library’s Media Preservation Services were given an aluminum...
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