Harvard University Department of History Harvard University Department of History The Department of History at Harvard University (also known as the Harvard History Department) is a department of history located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. The school offers bachelor's degrees in history, master's degrees in history, doctorate degrees in history, and a certificate in digital history. The Harvard University Department of History is home to some of the world's leading and most renowned scholars in history. The department focuses on multiple areas within history "including social life, the economy, culture, thought, and politics. Students of history study individuals, groups, communities, and nations from every imaginable
The Harvard Advocate and artists beyond the Harvard community. When the "Advocate" was founded, it adopted the motto "Dulce est Periculum" (Danger is Sweet) which had been used by an earlier Harvard newspaper, the "Collegian". The magazine originally avoided controversial topics, lest it be shut down by university authorities; by the time the editors were making the then-radical demand for coeducation at Harvard, the magazine had attracted the support of James Russell Lowell and Oliver Wendell Holmes, and its life was less precarious. The founding in 1873 of "The Harvard Crimson" newspaper (originally the "Magenta"), and in 1876, of the "Harvard Lampoon" humor