Harvard University Extension School

Cover: The Gates Unbarred: A History of University Extension at Harvard, 1910 - 2009

The Gates Unbarred: A History of University Extension at Harvard, 1910 - 2009

Shinagel, Michael

The Gates Unbarred traces the evolution of University Extension at Harvard from the Lyceum movement in Boston to its creation by the newly appointed president A. Lawrence Lowell in 1910. For a century University Extension has provided community access to Harvard, including the opportunity for women and men to earn a degree.

The Falling Sky: Words of a Yanomami Shaman, Tenth Anniversary Edition, by Davi Kopenawa and Bruce Albert, translated by Nicholas Elliott and Alison Dundy, with a New Foreword by Bill McKibben, from Harvard University Press

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