The Edison and Newman Room, Houghton Library’s main exhibition space, usually resembles a 17th-century sitting room — the walls are robin-egg blue, gold chandeliers hang from the high ceilings, and a ...

Julio Mario Santo Domingo, Jr. amassed the largest collection in the world on mind-altering drugs and their societal impact. After acquiring the Fitz Hugh Ludlow Library of San Francisco in 2001, his ...

Upon entering Houghton Library, students are greeted by the vast archival resources that the library has to offer. The lobby features books in glass cases that several hundred years old, and the ...

CAMBRIDGE — Exhibition titles don’t come more alliteratively straightforward than “Big Books, Tiny Tomes,” which runs at Harvard’s Houghton Library through Aug. 9. Houghton is the university’s ...

Houghton Library is where Harvard keeps its literary treasures: rare books and manuscripts and correspondence of the great and famous. “New Acquisitions,” a small exhibition devoted to recent ...

I read a lot of fantasy novels as a child, and I always enjoyed studying the maps in the front and back pages of those books to see what the characters' worlds looked like. I even tried my hand at ...

Christ washing the feet of the apostles, from a prayer book illuminated by Master of Claude de France, circa 1518–20. (Harvard University, Houghton Library) The McMullen Museum of Art at Boston ...