I'm taking a shift as the lobby greeter this morning and my most important role so far has been chasing down people who tentatively peer in the door but are afraid to come in. By god you're going to experience the joy of special collections if I have anything to say about it!

The 1884 case that established the precedent that even if you’re shipwrecked and starving, it is not OK to just decide you’re going to eat the cabin boy.

Harvard Magazine

The 1884 Cannibalism-at-Sea Case That Still Has Harvard Talking | Harvard Magazine

The Queen v. Dudley and Stephens changed the course of legal history. Here’s why it’s been fodder for countless classroom debates.

Fediverse Gone Wild

I’m sure it’s nothing.

We paid $70,000 in current dollars for the Declaration of Independence in 1947, approximately a 99% discount on what it would cost you today.

Did I buy this to complement the American cookbook collection at the Schlesinger Library and because it has a contemporary female ownership inscription? Yes. Did I buy it because it calls people who work in food preparation the "Officers of the Mouth"? Also yes. #NewAcquisition

At the rate I go through letterhead and business cards I’ll have to restock if I stay in this job another century or two.

This is a sheet of unused turnpike tickets from an 18th century English toll road. Something like this is so completely unremarkable in its time that it almost never survives, but in this case it was used as wastepaper to fill out a binding, and then recently discovered inside. #NewAcquisition

I'm learning a lot about my distinguished colleague President Summers.

As Summers Sought Clandestine Relationship With Woman He Called a Mentee, Epstein Was His ‘Wing Man’ | News | The Harvard Crimson

When former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers was pursuing a romantic relationship with a woman he described as a mentee, he turned to a longti...

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