Selected Bibliography on Harvard History

Bail, Hamilton Vaughan.

Views of Harvard: A Pictorial Record to 1860.

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1949.

Bailyn, Bernard and others. Glimpses of the Harvard Past. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1986.

Beecher, Henry K. and Mark D. Altschule. Medicine at Harvard: The First Three Hundred Years. Hanover, N.H.: The University Press of New England, 1977.

Bentinck-Smith, William. Building a Great Library: The Coolidge Years at Harvard. Cambridge: Harvard University Library, 1976.

Bentinck-Smith, William, ed. The Harvard Book: Selections from Three Centuries. Revised edition. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1982.

Bentinck-Smith, William and Elizabeth Stouffer. Harvard University: History of Named Chairs: Sketches of Donors and Donations. 3 vols. Cambridge, Mass.: Secretary to the University, 1991-1995.

Bentinck-Smith, William and Elizabeth Stouffer. More Lives of Harvard Scholars: A Selection of Biographies Written by Their Colleagues. Cambridge: 1986. (A continuation of Lives of Harvard Scholars, below.)

Bergin, Thomas. The Game: The Harvard-Yale Football Rivalry, 1875-1983. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984.

Bertagna, Joseph. Crimson in Triumph: A Pictorial History of Harvard Athletics, 1852-1985. Lexington, Mass.: The Stephen Green Press, 1986.

Bethell, John T., Richard M. Hunt, and Robert Shenton. Harvard A to Z. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, c2004.

Bethell, John T. Harvard Observed: An Illustrated History of the University in the Twentieth Century . Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1998.

Blanchard, John A., ed. The H Book of Harvard Athletics, 1852-1922. Cambridge: Harvard Varsity Club, 1923. (See also: Movius, Geoffrey H., ed. The Second H Book...., below)

Buck, Paul H., ed. Social Sciences at Harvard, 1860-1920: From Inculcation to the Open Mind. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1965.

Bunting, Bainbridge. Harvard: An Architectural History. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1985.

Burton, John D. Puritan Town and Gown: Harvard College and Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1636-1800. A dissertation presented at the College of William and Mary, 1996, c1997.

Cambridge Historical Commission. Survey of Architectural History in Cambridge. Report 2, Mid Cambridge. Report 4, Old Cambridge. Cambridge: Distributed by M.I.T. Pess, 1967, 1973.

Carpenter, Kenneth. The First 350 Years of the Harvard University Library: Description of an Exhibition. Cambridge: Harvard University, 1986.

Cohen, I. Bernard. Some Early Tools of American Science: An Account of the Early Scientific Instruments and Mineralogical and Biological Collections in Harvard University. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1950. Reprint. New York: Russell and Russell, 1967.

Conant, James B. My Several Lives: Memoirs of a Social Inventor. New York: Harper and Row, 1970.

Copeland, Melvin T. And Mark an Era: The Story of the Harvard Business School. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1958.

Cruikshank, Jeff. A Delicate Experiment: The Harvard Business School, 1908-1945. Cambridge: Harvard Business School Press, 1987.

Curran, Jean Alonzo. Founders of the Harvard School of Public Health, with Biographical Notes, 1909-1946. New York: Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation, 1970.

Education, Bricks and Mortar: Harvard Buildings and Their Contribution to the Advancement of Learning. Cambridge: The University, 1949.

Elliott, Clark A. and Margaret W. Rossiter, eds. Science at Harvard University: Historical Perspectives. Bethlehem: Lehigh University Press; London and Cranbury, N.J.: Associated University Presses, 1992.

Endowment Funds of Harvard University.... Cambridge: Harvard University, 1948.

Fiering, Norman. Moral Philosophy at Seventeenth-Century Harvard: A Discipline in Transition. Chapel Hill : Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Va., by the University of North Carolina Press, 1981.

Forbes, Elliot. A History of Music at Harvard to 1972. Cambridge: Department of Music, Harvard University, 1988.

Foster, Margery Somers. "Out of Smalle Beginnings...": An Economic History of Harvard College in the Puritan Period (1636-1712). Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1962.

Gardiner, John Hays. Harvard. New York: Oxford University Press, 1914.

Goldman, Guido. A History of the Germanic Museum at Harvard University. Cambridge: Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University, 1989.

Hall, Max. Harvard University Press: A History. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1986.

Hall, Max. Three Fifty: The Harvard Celebration of 1986 in Words and Pictures. [Cambridge, Mass.] : Harvard University, 1987.

Harris, Seymour E. Economics of Harvard. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1970.

Harvard College Records [1636-1750]. Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, vols. 15, 16, 31, 49, 50. Boston: The Colonial Society, 1925-1975.

Harvard Memorial Biographies. 2 vols. Cambridge: Sever and Francis, 1866.

Harvard University Quinquennial Catalogue of the Officers and Graduates, 1636-1930. Cambridge: The University, 1930.

Harvard University Handbook: An Official Guide.... Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1936.

Hawkins, Hugh. Between Harvard and America: The Educational Leadership of Charles W. Eliot. New York: Oxford University Press, 1972.

Hershberg, James. James B. Conant: Harvard to Hiroshima and the Making of the Nuclear Age. New York : Knopf, 1993.

Historical Register of Harvard University, 1636-1936.

Cambridge: Harvard University, 1937.

Howe, Daniel Walker. The Unitarian Conscience: Harvard Moral Philosophy, 1805-1861. Revised edition, 1st Wesleyan edition. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press ; Scranton, Pa.: Distributed by Harper & Row, 1988.

Howells, Dorothy Ella.

A Century to Celebrate: Radcliffe College, 1879-1979.

Cambridge: Radcliffe College, 1978.

James, Henry. Charles W. Eliot, President of Harvard University, 1869-1909. 2 vols. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1930. Reprint. New York: AMS Press, [1973].

The John F. Kennedy School of Government: The First Fifty Years. Cambridge: Ballinger Publishing Company, 1986.

Jones, Bessie Zaban and Lyle Gifford Boyd. The Harvard College Observatory: The First Four Directorships, 1839-1919. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1971.

Keller, Morton and Phyllis Keller. Making Harvard Modern: The Rise of America’s University . Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Kuklik, Bruce. The Rise of American Philosophy, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1860-1930. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977.

Lipset, Seymour Martin and David Riesman. Education and Politics at Harvard: Two Essays Prepared for the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1975.

Lives of Harvard Scholars: A Selection, 1957-1967. Cambridge: Harvard University, University Information Center, [1968].

Mead, Frederick S., ed. Harvard's Military Record in the World War. Boston: Harvard Alumni Association, 1921.

Morison, Samuel Eliot, ed. The Development of Harvard University Since the Inauguration of President Eliot, 1869-1929. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1930.

Morison, Samuel Eliot. The Founding of Harvard College. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1935. Reprint (paper, with a new foreword by Hugh Hawkins). Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995.

Morison, Samuel Eliot. Harvard College in the Seventeenth Century. 2 vols. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1936.

Morison, Samuel Eliot. Three Centuries of Harvard, 1636-1936. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1936.

Movius, Geoffrey H., ed. The Second H Book of Harvard Athletics, 1923-1963. Cambridge: Harvard Varsity Club, 1964.

O'Connor, John T., ed. Ornament at Harvard. Cambridge: Next Publications, ca.1986.

Powell, Arthur G. The Uncertain Profession: Harvard and the Search for Educational Authority. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1981.

Quincy, Josiah. The History of Harvard University. 2 vols. Cambridge: Published by John Owen, 1840.

Sibley, John Langdon. Biographical Sketches of Graduates of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Cambridge: Charles William Sever, University Bookstore, 1873-. Vols. IV and following as: Sibley's Harvard Graduates ... Biographical Sketches of Those Who Attended Harvard College..., by Clifford K. Shipton.

Smith, Richard N. The Harvard Century: The Making of a University to a Nation. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1986.

Sollors, Werner, Caldwell Titcomb, and Thomas A. Underwood, eds. Blacks at Harvard: A Documentary History of African-American Experience at Harvard and Radcliffe. New York : New York University Press, 1993.

Spaulding, Walter Raymond. Music at Harvard: A Historical Review of Men and Events. New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1935. Reprint. New York: DaCapo Press, Inc., 1977.

Story, Ronald. The Forging of an Aristocracy: Harvard and the Boston Upper Class, 1800-1870. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1980.

Sutherland, Arthur E. The Law at Harvard: A History of Ideas and Men, 1817-1967. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1967.

Synnott, Marcia Graham. The Half-Opened Door: Discrimination and Admissions at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, 1900-1970. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1979.

The Tercentennary of Harvard College: A Chronicle of the Tercentenary Year, 1935-1936. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1937.

Two Astronomical Anniversaries: The Harvard College Observatory Sesquicentennial [and] The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Centennial. In, Journal for the History of Astronomy 21, pt. 1 (1990).

Vaille, F.O. and H.A. Clark.

The Harvard Book: A Series of Historical, Biographical, and Descriptive Sketches...

2 vols. Cambridge; Welch, Bigelow and Company, 1875.

Williams, George Huntston, ed. The Harvard Divinity School: Its Place in Harvard University and in American Culture. Boston: The Beacon Press, 1954.

Winsor, Mary P. Reading the Shape of Nature: Comparative Zoology at the Agassiz Museum. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1991.

Yeomans, Henry Aaron. Abbott Lawrence Lowell, 1856-1943. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1948. Reprint. New York: Arno, 1977.



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