Abbott Lawrence Lowell

When academics embraced scientific racism, immigration restrictions, and the suppression of “the unfit”.

Theodore Roosevelt and the historical discipline.

When it came to antisemitism, women’s colleges were no better than the Ivy League.

The university’s last “finest hour” was more than 200 years ago.

Faculty and staff once owned slaves, and professors taught racial eugenics.

Two centuries of New England intellectual history through the lives and ideas of people who are memorialized there.

The KKK was clearly present at Harvard. But the university rarely mentions the 20th century in its attempts to reckon with its past.

Rather than censuring the legacies of our ancestors, we should work to make our descendants proud.