We are more than 700 staff across 28 libraries. Our collections number over six million digitized items, 20 million volumes, 400 million manuscripts, one million maps, and tens of millions of digital images, and our rare and special collections are amongst the most remarkable in the world. We collect collaboratively with peer institutions and facilitate international open access, multiplying our users’ access to materials. Established in 1638, we are the oldest library system in the United States and the world’s largest academic library. Find out more: https://library.harvard.edu/about/about-harvard-library
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L’Affaire Dreyfus: son influence dans la création de la France moderne (The Dreyfus Affair in the Making of Modern France)
Shakespeare: Plays, Prompt Books
Making of the Modern World
Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood
Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Photography
Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Women and Transnational Networks
The Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926
Andover-Harvard Theological Library
Andover-Harvard Theological Library is the primary portal to the vast resources for the study of religion available to researchers at Harvard. These resources are spread across multiple libraries and discovered through a variety of databases, and our librarians are uniquely prepared to help scholars identify, access, and use effectively all of the tools and resources needed to advance their projects. Find out more: https://library.hds.harvard.edu/about
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Arnold Arboretum Library
In 1863 James Arnold of New Bedford, Massachusetts left over $100,000 to Harvard for "...the promotion of Agricultural, or Horticultural improvements...". This gift was combined with a parcel of land in Jamaica Plain given to the university in 1842 by Benjamin Bussey. Today, the Arnold Arboretum Library in Cambridge specializes in the identification and classification of "old world" plants, with special emphasis on Southeast Asia. The subjects include systematic botany, floras of the old world, literature on woody plants, and books on poisonous plants. Find out more: https://huh.harvard.edu/library-arnold-arboretum
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Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Women and Transnational Networks
Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America
Radcliffe is a cross-disciplinary laboratory of ideas. The Institute brings together scholars, students, and practitioners to engage with issues that can only be fully understood by drawing on research from across the humanities, sciences, social sciences, arts, and professions. It is a unique school within Harvard—one that is interdisciplinary by design and animated by an institutional legacy of promoting inclusion and opportunity. By fostering inquiry across disciplinary boundaries, we ignite creativity and innovation. Crucial to this effort is the inclusion of those who have historically been underrepresented in academia. A diversity of voices is critical to full and rich discourse. Indeed, it strengthens Harvard and fosters excellence. Find out more: https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/about-us
Making of the Modern World
Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Women and Transnational Networks
Women's Studies Archive: Issues and Identities
The Ernst Mayr Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology
In 1859, Louis Agassiz, a Swiss-American naturalist, founded the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Two years later, In 1861 he established the Library, later to be named in honor of Ernst Mayr, Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology, Emeritus, and Director of the Museum of Comparative Zoology from 1961 until 1970. In the past, the Library was supported by private subscriptions and the help of Agassiz’s friends. Now, the Library is an integral part of the Harvard University Library system and one of the science libraries in the Science and Engineering Division. Find out more: https://library.mcz.harvard.edu/history
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Fine Arts Library
Harvard’s primary collection and resource of global materials for the study of the history of art and architecture and related disciplines. Find out more: https://library.harvard.edu/libraries/fine-arts
Making of the Modern World
Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Women and Transnational Networks
Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
The mission of the Countway Library is to cultivate and advance education, research, scholarship and professional growth in the health and biomedical sciences by facilitating access to scholarly information and knowledge, preserving a historical record, and creating a stimulating and synergistic setting for intellectual growth. Find out more: https://countway.harvard.edu/about
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Frances Loeb Design Library
Find out more: https://www.gsd.harvard.edu/frances-loeb-library/
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Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Women and Transnational Networks
Gutman Library, Graduate School of Education
We aspire to be the first destination for leaders and scholars seeking and advancing knowledge to foster educational innovation and promote educational equity. Find out more: https://www.gse.harvard.edu/library/about
Making of the Modern World
Harvard Law School Library
HLS combines genuine excellence and wonderful diversity on a scale that is unmatched anywhere. No law school has done more to shape law or legal education. The unique strength of our community is that it brings together, from around the world, so many exceptionally talented people of different backgrounds, lived experiences, interests, ambitions, approaches, methodologies, and perspectives. Find out more: https://hls.harvard.edu/about/deans-welcome/
Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture, 1790-1920
Wood Detective Agency Records, 1865-1945
Introduction to U.S. History Online
Colección de documentos inéditos relativos al descubrimiento, conquista y organización de las antiguas posesiones españolas de ultramar
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The Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises
The Making of Modern Law: Trials, 1600-1926
The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources II, 1763-1970
The Making of Modern Law: Foreign Primary Sources
Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Women and Transnational Networks
Sabin Americana: History of the Americas, 1500-1926
The Houghton Library
Houghton Library opened in 1942 to provide a dedicated home for Harvard Library’s rapidly growing collections of rare books and manuscripts. Since then, it has become known as a research center and a setting for hands-on learning, exhibitions, and lectures and other public programs. Find out more: https://library.harvard.edu/libraries/houghton#about
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Kress Collection, Baker Library
The Kress Collection includes rare books, pamphlets, broadsides, manuscripts, and prints, with the earliest imprint in 1474 and a close date of 1850 (there are some materials post-1850). Strengths within the collection include the history of political economy, economic philosophy, finance, agriculture, and trades and manufactures. In addition, new directions in research continue to bring to light valuable resources that concern an expanding range of disciplines, including the history of technology, African-American and gender studies, and social and cultural history. Find out more: https://www.library.hbs.edu/Find/Collections-Archives/Special-Collections/Collecting-Areas/European-Economic-History-Philosophy-Kress-Collection
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Peabody Museum Library
Founded in 1866 by philanthropist George Peabody, the Peabody Museum is among the oldest anthropology museums in the world, and still occupies its original nineteenth-century building. The museum’s mission and operations, however, have changed considerably over the past one hundred and fifty years. Find out more: https://www.peabody.harvard.edu/about
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Widener Library
The Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library is Harvard University's flagship library. Built with a gift from Eleanor Elkins Widener, the library is a memorial to her son, Harry, Class of 1907. Harry was an enthusiastic young bibliophile who perished aboard the Titanic. It had been Harry's plan to donate his personal collection to the University once it provided a suitable alternative to the outdated and inadequate library then located in Gore Hall. Mrs. Widener fulfilled her son's dream by building a facility of monumental proportions, with over 50 miles of shelves and the capacity to hold over three million volumes. Find out more: https://library.harvard.edu/libraries/widener#history
Making of the Modern World
Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Photography
Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Women and Transnational Networks