Harvard University removed human skin from the binding of "Des Destinées de L'âme" in Houghton Library on Wednesday after a review found ethical concerns with the book's origin and history. French ...

FILE - Graduating students hold Palestinian flags and chant as they walk out in protest over the 13 students who have been barred from graduating due to protest activities, during commencement in ...

At 12:30 p.m. on Tuesday, more than 70 Harvard students huddled together at the bottom of the Widener Library steps. Kojo Acheampong ’26, addressing the others, condemned Israel’s ongoing military ...

Harvard Library announced that it has removed human skin that was used to bind a book from the 1880s. The copy of Arsène Houssaye’s "Des destinées de l’âme" was found in the Houghton Library and has ...

Harvard University administrators temporarily barred multiple faculty members from the university’s main library after more than two dozen held a silent “study-in” to protest treatment of student ...

Harvard pledged $6 million to finance a project between Harvard Library and the HBCU Library Alliance that will digitize and preserve African American history collections held at historically Black ...

Two dozen Harvard faculty members have been suspended from the main library on campus, a week after they staged a demonstration criticizing the college’s decision to ban over 12 pro-Palestinian ...

Harvard Library says it has removed a book that's been in its collection for nearly a century that is partially made with human skin that was taken from a deceased hospital patient without consent.

A central component of the project is Collections Explorer, a developing system that uses semantic search to allow users to locate materials across Harvard’s special collections. Unlike traditional ...