At Harvard, an art collective documents the strange beauty of “castaway” garbage and its place in the landscape.

Can you recommend any services that offer gravesite cleaning and care? I recently visited my parent’s cemetery gravesite over Memorial Day weekend and found that their headstones were overtaken by ...

Clements R. Markham. A Selection of Papers on Arctic Geography and Ethnology, reprinted and presented to the Arctic Expedition of 1875, by the President, Council, and Fellows of the Royal ...

The Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology is open daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., except for major holidays. Admission costs $15 for adults and $10 for youths ages 3 to 18; kids 3 and younger ...

By turning to legal intervention, universities treat artifacts as intellectual property and miss important opportunities to ...

The 19th-century daguerreotypes, long held by Harvard’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, were commissioned by Swiss-born biologist Louis Agassiz, a Harvard professor who used the images in ...

It’s finally here. Summer solstice is this Friday, June 20. So cram in activities and events while Boston’s weather is at its ...

The settlement comes after a 15 year legal battle between the university and a Connecticut woman who claims she is a ...

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Harvard University will relinquish 175-year-old photographs believed to be the earliest taken of enslaved people. A lawyer says the images will be transferred to a South Carolina museum devoted ...

Harvard University has agreed to give up ownership of photos of an enslaved father and his daughter who were forced to be photographed in 1850 for a racist study by a professor trying to prove the ...