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100 years of Harvard University Press

100 years of Harvard University Press

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  • Observing this Memorial Day

    Regular readers of this blog shouldn’t be surprised to learn that we’ve chosen David Blight’s Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory as one of the 100 significant books we’re highlighting during this year of our centennial. In... Read More…

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  • Curating Cases

    Friday, May 24, 2013 - 12:02 While floor plans, miniature models, and computer renderings are helpful visualization tools for planning a space that is still under construction, there’s nothing better than working with the objects themselves. Read More…

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  • A basement of sound at Pfoho

    Gotta song to record? Pfoho's basement studios may soon be open to all student musicians. Read More…

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  • Challenging ‘eureka’ with rigor

    Renowned British biographer Richard Holmes, speaking at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, reflected on what biography can tell us about science. Read More…

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  • Classroom Connection: Trees, Science, and Art

    Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 09:17 On a recent spring day at the Arthur M. Read More…

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  • Building the Harvard Art Museums: The Tradesmen’s Perspective

    Wednesday, May 22, 2013 - 12:19 “The saying used to be: take it easy, you’re not building a museum. But this time we are.” That was the way Pete Caratelli put it when I asked him what was different about the Harvard Art Museums building project. Read More…

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  • Reimagining Collections Data

    Wednesday, May 22, 2013 - 11:51 Not too long ago, Jeff Steward set out to answer a question: How can data be visually rendered to reveal different types of collections activity over time? Solving complexities like this one—or, as Jeff describes it, “doing good things with interesting data”—is all in a day’s work when Read More…

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  • The DSM and the Mind

    This week marks the publication of the much anticipated—and much maligned—DSM-5, the latest full revision to psychiatry’s diagnostic handbook. Each new iteration of the DSM alters the official stance on so many conditions that discussion often centers on the introduction... Read More…

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  • Connecting with Classrooms

    Wednesday, May 22, 2013 - 08:48 Most people who come to the Harvard Art Museums to view a Rembrandt painting are hoping to look at the front of the work, to admire the artist’s composition. Full story Read More…

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