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Publisher: The President and Fellows of Harvard College Women Working, 1870-1930 
 "Provides access to digitized historical, manuscript, and image resources selected from Harvard's library and museum collections. This collection explores women's roles in the US economy between the Civil War and the Great Depression. Working conditions, conditions in the home, costs of living, recreation, health and hygiene, conduct of life, policies and regulations governing the workplace, and social issues are all well documented." Thousands of items are searchable, or browsable by topic, individual, dates and events, or organization. http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/ww/ Topics: History, Jobs & Work, Libraries & Archives by Type, Notable People: Women, U.S. History By Place, United States History, Women Last updated Jan 2, 2009 The Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development
This research project at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, "aims to understand and foster the conditions under which sustained, self-determined social and economic development is achieved among American Indian nations." The project's website features papers and reports on Indian gaming, tribal sovereignty, and other economic development topics. Also includes links to related news stories. Searchable. http://www.hks.harvard.edu/hpaied/ Topics: Native Americans Last updated Aug 28, 2008 Nuremberg Trials Project: A Digital Document Collection
The Nuremberg Trials "were a series of 13 trials of accused World War II German war criminals held from 1945 to 1949 in Nuremberg, Germany." This site presents a searchable collection of documents from the Nuremberg Trials collection of Harvard Law School Library. Most Web site material relates "to the Medical Case, which was Case 1 of the NMT [Nuremberg Military Tribunals] trials." Also includes "Who Was Who in Nazi Germany" and related resources. http://nuremberg.law.harvard.edu/ Topics: Crime, Judicial Process, Military, World War II Last updated Aug 23, 2004 Women Working, 1800-1930: National Child Labor Committee (NCLC)
This article provides history of the National Child Labor Committee (NCLC), which grew out of the Child Labor Committee in New York (formed in 1902) to the NCLC in 1904 and which "continues to ... uphold the general practice that underage children should not be full-time workers." Includes highlights from digital collections related to the NCLC and to other child labor topics, and links to relevant websites. From the Open Collections Program, Harvard University Library. http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/ww/organizations-nclc.html Topics: Labor Last updated Jan 16, 2007 Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930
This is "a web-based collection of selected historical materials from Harvard's libraries, archives, and museums that documents voluntary immigration to the US from the signing of the Constitution to the onset of the Great Depression." Searchable, or browse by genre (such as photographs or manuscripts), topics, themes (such as the Statue of Liberty and immigrant press), people, and organizations. Also includes a timeline. From the Open Collections Program of the Harvard University Library. http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/immigration/ Topics: Emigration & Immigration Last updated Jun 6, 2007 New England Female Medical College
Historical material about the New England Female Medical College, "established in Boston, Massachusetts, by Dr. Samuel Gregory [in 1848] with the purpose of offering modern medical training in female-related fields, ... [this school] was the first in the world to provide medical training for women." Features a scanned scrapbook with newspaper articles (1847-1865), reports, and a catalog. Part of the "Women Working, 1800-1930" website from Harvard University. http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/ww/organizations-femalemedcollege.html Topics: Health, Women Last updated Oct 23, 2007 Dying Speeches & Bloody Murder: Crime Broadsides Collected by the Harvard Law School Library
"Just as programs are sold at sporting events today, broadsides -- styled at the time as 'Last Dying Speeches' or 'Bloody Murders' -- were sold to the audiences that gathered to witness public executions in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain. ... The examples digitized here span the years 1707 to 1891 and include accounts of executions for such crimes as arson, assault, counterfeiting, horse stealing, murder, rape, robbery, and treason." From the Harvard Law School Library. http://broadsides.law.harvard.edu/ Topics: Crime Last updated Jan 4, 2008 Studies in Scarlet: Marriage & Sexuality in the U.S. & U.K., 1815-1914
Images of hundreds of documents involving legal proceedings about divorce, domestic violence, homosexuality, abortion, adultery, and related topics in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Subjects include Oscar Wilde and Henry Ward Beecher. Search, or browse by subject, name, or genre. From the Harvard Law School Library. http://vc.lib.harvard.edu/vc/deliver/home?_collection=scarlet Topics: Families, Society & Social Science Last updated Jan 30, 2008 Harvard University Library: A Selection of Web-Accessible Collections
This digital archive gathers thousands of images from the Harvard University libraries. Includes links to online collections such as "Botanical and Cultural Images of Eastern Asia, 1907-1927," photos of Muslims in China in the 1920s and 1930s, Latin American pamphlets from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and "thousands of pages of scanned images of rare and unique musical scores." From Harvard University. http://digitalcollections.harvard.edu/ Topics: Libraries & Archives by Type Last updated May 21, 2008 Absentee Voter Guide
"This guide contains all the information college students need to vote by absentee ballot from school." Click on the interactive U.S. map to view absentee voting details for each state, including deadlines, dates, and contacts. Also available as a downloadable document. From the Harvard University Institute of Politics. http://www.iop.harvard.edu/Voter-Information-Center/Absentee-Voter-Guide Topics: Politics Last updated Sep 29, 2008 A Treatise on Courtly Love (Excerpts)
Excerpts of a translation of Andreas Capellanus' 12th century work "De Amore." "The work is divided into three books; the first begins in the manner of an academic lecture, with attention to definitions and etymology," covering "What is Love?" and persons suited for love. Part two includes "The Rules of Love," and part three concludes with "an extended misogynistic tirade" (which is not provided). Part of the Geoffrey Chaucer page from Harvard University. http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/special/authors/andreas/de_amore.html Topics: Literary Movements and Periods Last updated Feb 11, 2009 Contagion: Historical Views of Diseases and Epidemics
This online collection "provides general background information on diseases and epidemics worldwide, and is organized around significant 'episodes' of contagious disease. These materials include digitized copies of books, serials, pamphlets, incunabula, and manuscripts -- a total of more than 500,000 pages." Topics covered include the yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia in 1793 and Spanish influenza in North America in 1918-1919. From the Harvard University Library Open Collections Program. http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/contagion/index.html Topics: Infectious Diseases Last updated Jan 14, 2009 |
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