A recent lawsuit accusing former zoology professor Louis Agassiz of using photos of slaves to promote racist ideologies has reignited conversations about his name and legacy, but, according to Harvard ...
FARGO — The racial views of a 19th century scientist have sunk a proposed name for a greenway planned in association with the Fargo-Moorhead flood diversion. The Fargo-Moorhead Metropolitan Council of ...
The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts (the state’s highest court) recently issued a surprising decision that permits claims against Harvard arising out of a series of daguerreotypes taken of the ...
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In Chapter 4, “Darwin’s Barnacles, Agassiz’s Jellyfish,” author Christoph Irmscher describes his subject’s obsession with marine organisms. A series of rodent experiments showed that even with ...
IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Benjamin Peirce, Harvard professor of ...