Glimpses of the Harvard Past

Bernard Bailyn

Donald Fleming

Oscar Handlin

Stephan Thernstrom

    Delightful to read and richly detailed...The best introduction to Harvard's history and useful for understanding the history of higher education in general.
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Bernard Bailyn is Adams University Professor, Emeritus, and Director of the International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World Harvard University. He is the author of numerous books, including The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (Pulitzer and Bancroft Prizes) and The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson (National Book Award), both published by Harvard.

Donald Fleming was Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History at Harvard University.

Oscar Handlin, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, is Carl M. Loeb University Professor, Emeritus, Harvard University. He is the editor of This Was America.

Stephan Thernstrom is Professor of History, Harvard University, and Director of the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History.