Book TV: Stephen Kinzer, The Brothers
Former New York Times foreign correspondent Stephen Kinzer presents a dual-biography of brothers John Foster Dulles, former secretary of state, and Allen Dulles, former director of the CIA. The author examines the brothers' backgrounds and political ideologies, which shaped American foreign policy initiatives during the Cold War. Stephen Kizner speaks at Harvard Book Store in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Gail Mazur Reading - GrolierBookshop
The Grolier Poetry Book Shop (the Grolier) is an independent bookstore on Plympton Street near Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Although founded as a first edition bookstore, its focus today is solely poetry. A small (404 sq ft (37.5 m2)), one-room store with towering bookcases, it lays claim to being the oldest continuous bookshop devoted solely to the sale of poetry and poetry criticism.
Over the years, the Grolier became a focus of poetic activity in the Cambridge area, which itself had, because of the influence of Harvard University, become a magnet for American poets. It became a point of call for visiting poets as well as a nexus of gossip, rumor andnetworking in the poetry community. Poets such as John Ashbery, Robert Bly, Robert Creeley, Donald Hall, and Frank O'Hara were regulars at the store during their time as undergraduates at Harvard; the poet Conrad Aiken lived upstairs from the store in its early days. Numerous other poets and writers, including Russell Banks, Frank Bidart, William Corbett, E. E. Cummings, T. S. Eliot, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, David Ferry, Allen Ginsberg, Denise Levertov, Marianne Moore, Charles Olson, Robert Pinsky, Adrienne Rich, Ruth Stone,James Tate and Franz Wright, have been noted as friends of the Grolier.
Gail Mazur’s 7th collection, Forbidden City, was recently published by University of Chicago press in March,2016. In 2011, University of Chicago Press Chicago published Gail Mazur’s 6th collection of poetry, Figures in a Landscape.
Her book, Zeppo’s First Wife: New & Selected Poems, (Chicago, 2005) was winner of the 2006 Massachusetts Book Award, a finalist for the 2005 Los Angeles Times Book Prize and for the 2006 Paterson Poetry Prize. She is author of 4 earlier books of poetry, Nightfire, The Pose of Happiness, The Common, and They Can’t Take That Away from Me (University of Chicago Press, 2001), which was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2001.
View of Grolier Poetry Book shop Havard Sq
The Grolier Poetry Book Shop is an independent bookstore on Plympton Street near Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Although founded as a first edition bookstore, its focus today is solely poetry
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As hip as it is historic, Boston is one of the world’s great student cities and home to top schools including MIT and Harvard. From the vintage shops and bookstores of Harvard Square to the trendy boutiques and café culture of Newbury Street, Boston has a friendly small town feel and the flair of a European capital. The revitalized Seaport District of Boston waterfront is the city’s newest nightlife destination.
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Schindler hydraulic elevator - Harvard Coop Bookstore
Nice big elevator at the Harvard Coop bookstore in Cambridge, Mass. Probably installed in the late 90s. There's an old Westinghouse here too, but when I tried the ride it, the doors got stuck halfway.
Harvard: I want t-shirt!
Harvard University is a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, established 1636, whose history, influence and wealth have made it one of the world's most prestigious universities.
Established originally by the Massachusetts legislature and soon thereafter named for John Harvard (its first benefactor), Harvard is the United States' oldest institution of higher learning, and the Harvard Corporation (formally, the President and Fellows of Harvard College) is its first chartered corporation. Although never formally affiliated with any denomination, the early College primarily trained Congregationalist and Unitarian clergy. Its curriculum and student body were gradually secularized during the 18th century, and by the 19th century Harvard had emerged as the central cultural establishment among Boston elites. Following the American Civil War, President Charles W. Eliot's long tenure (1869–1909) transformed the college and affiliated professional schools into a modern research university; Harvard was a founding member of the Association of American Universities in 1900. James Bryant Conant led the university through the Great Depression and World War II and began to reform the curriculum and liberalize admissions after the war. The undergraduate college became coeducational after its 1977 merger with Radcliffe College.
The University is organized into eleven separate academic units—ten faculties and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study—with campuses throughout the Boston metropolitan area: its 209-acre (85 ha) main campus is centered on Harvard Yard in Cambridge, approximately 3 miles (5 km) northwest of Boston; the business school and athletics facilities, including Harvard Stadium, are located across the Charles River in the Allston neighborhood of Boston and the medical, dental, and public health schools are in the Longwood Medical Area. Harvard's $37.6 billion financial endowment is the largest of any academic institution.
Grolier Poetry Bookshop 90th Anniversary
The Grolier Poetry Book Shop (the Grolier) is an independent bookstore on Plympton Street near Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Although founded as a first edition bookstore, its focus today is solely poetry. A small (404 sq ft (37.5 m2)), one-room store with towering bookcases, it lays claim to being the oldest continuous bookshop devoted solely to the sale of poetry and poetry criticism.
Launch for spoKe Magazine- Grolier Poetry Bookshop
Launch for spoKe Magazine Hosted by Kevin Gallagher
Readers
Ruth Lepson
Sue Standing
Alison Vanose
Marc Vincenz
The Grolier Poetry Book Shop (the Grolier) is an independent bookstore on Plympton Street near Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Although founded as a first edition bookstore, its focus today is solely poetry. A small (404 sq ft (37.5 m2)), one-room store with towering bookcases, it lays claim to being the oldest continuous bookshop devoted solely to the sale of poetry and poetry criticism.
Over the years, the Grolier became a focus of poetic activity in the Cambridge area, which itself had, because of the influence of Harvard University, become a magnet for American poets. It became a point of call for visiting poets as well as a nexus of gossip, rumor and networking in the poetry community.
Ken Gloss of Brattle Book Shop
Kevin Gallagher & Gloria Mindock Reading - Grolier Poetry bookshop
Published on Sep 22, 2016
Grolier Poetry bookshop / The Grolier Fall Series 2016
The Grolier Poetry Book Shop (the Grolier) is an independent bookstore on Plympton Street near Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Although founded as a first edition bookstore, its focus today is solely poetry. A small (404 sq ft (37.5 m2)), one-room store with towering bookcases, it lays claim to being the oldest continuous bookshop devoted solely to the sale of poetry and poetry criticism.
Over the years, the Grolier became a focus of poetic activity in the Cambridge area, which itself had, because of the influence of Harvard University, become a magnet for American poets. It became a point of call for visiting poets as well as a nexus of gossip, rumor andnetworking in the poetry community. Poets such as John Ashbery, Robert Bly, Robert Creeley, Donald Hall, and Frank O'Hara were regulars at the store during their time as undergraduates at Harvard; the poet Conrad Aiken lived upstairs from the store in its early days. Numerous other poets and writers, including Russell Banks, Frank Bidart, William Corbett, E. E. Cummings, T. S. Eliot, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, David Ferry, Allen Ginsberg, Denise Levertov, Marianne Moore, Charles Olson, Robert Pinsky, Adrienne Rich, Ruth Stone,James Tate and Franz Wright, have been noted as friends of the Grolier.
Kevin Gallagher & Gloria Mindock Poetry Reading
Kevin Gallagher is a political economist, poet and publisher living in Greater Boston
Gallagher edits spoKe, a Bostonbased annual of poetry and poetics, and
works as a Professor of Global Development Policy at Boston University’s Pardee School
for Global Studies.
LOOM tells the epic story in verse, of how at one time the centers
of wealth and power acted against their own material interest and
championed racial justice to change the course of this country’s history.
The men who built the backbone of American capitalism—the power
loom that enabled cotton manufacturing—fueled slavery and the
removal of Native Americans from the eastern United States. After
decades of defending their “unholy alliance” against abolitionists, the
Boston elite saw the Fugitive Slave Act as a step too far and became “starkmad
abolitionists.” LOOM is inspired, derived, and adapted from the
memoirs, diaries, and correspondences of antebellum Boston notables
and abolitionists, as well as southern plantation owners, governors, and
the slaves themselves. The book also includes illuminating etchings and
engravings of these acts during the same era.
Gloria Mindock is the founding editor of Cervena Barva Press and one of the USA editors for Levure Litteraire (France). She is the author of Whiteness of Bone (Glass Lyre Press, 2016), La Portile Raiului (Ars Longa Press, 2010, Romania) translated into the Romanian by Flavia Cosma, Nothing Divine Here (U Soku Stampa, 2010, Montenegro), Blood Soaked Dresses (Ibbetson, 2007), and four chapbooks. Widely published in the USA and abroad, her poetry has been translated and published into the Romanian, Serbian, Spanish, Estonian, and French. In 2014, Gloria was awarded the Ibbetson Street Press Lifetime Achievement Award and in May, 2016, Gloria was the recipient of the Allen Ginsberg Award for community service by the Newton Writing and Publishing Center. Gloria recently was published in Akadeemia (Estonia), ;Poetry.com, Gargoyle ;and in the We are You Project Anthology.
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As hip as it is historic, Boston is one of the world’s great student cities and home to top schools including MIT and Harvard. From the vintage shops and bookstores of Harvard Square to the trendy boutiques and café culture of Newbury Street, Boston has a friendly small town feel and the flair of a European capital. The revitalized Seaport District of Boston waterfront is the city’s newest nightlife destination.
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From the Vault • Barack Obama • SEP 1995
22-CityView presents Barack Obama speaking at the Cambridge Public Library. Recorded on September 20,1995, this originally aired on Channel 37 Cambridge Municipal Television as an episode of the show The Author Series. In this episode Obama discusses his book Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance, which at the time had just been released a few months previously.
215 Harvard Ave Allston
By Jessica Barsom
Harvard University
Harvard University
Introduction
Tour guides leading visitors around the Harvard campus are quick to mention that the school, founded in 1636, is the oldest college in the United States. In historic Harvard Yard, tour guides explain that Hollis Hall, a red brick structure built in 1763, housed Washington’s troops during the Revolutionary War. In front of Widener Library, tourists learn that the library system is the largest university system in the world, containing more than ninety libraries, more than fifteen million volumes, and some 100,000 periodicals.
The university’s age and outstanding physical resources are among the college’s most distinctive features. Yet, few alumni will say that the best part of their experience was the fact that the college is the oldest in the country. It is more likely that they will mention the environment of daily life as the distinguishing aspect of their experience, an environment characterized by the cities of Cambridge and Boston, a unique residential life system, and the people who make the school tick.
Cambridge, Massachusetts, has been home for all of its 360-plus years. Cambridge, located along the Charles River a few miles from downtown Boston, boasts beautiful tree-lined streets as well as numerous shops, cinemas, restaurants, music stores, coffeehouses, bars, theaters, and bookstores.
Read more: Harvard University (HU) Introduction and Academics - Cambridge, MA
Harvard University Is A Private Ivy League Research University In Cambridge Massachusetts With About
Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with about 6,700 undergraduate students and about 15,250 postgraduate students. Established in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, clergyman John Harvard, Harvard is the United States' oldest institution of higher learning. Its history, influence, and wealth have made it one of the most prestigious universities in the world. The Harvard Corporation, chartered in 1650, is the governing body of Harvard. The early College primarily trained Congregational and Unitarian clergy, although it has never been formally affiliated with any denomination. Its curriculum and student body were gradually secularized during the 18th century, and by the 19th century, Harvard had emerged as the central cultural establishment among Boston elites. Following the American Civil War, President Charles W. Eliot's long tenure (1869–1909) transformed the college and affiliated professional schools into a modern research university; Harvard was a founding member of the Association of American Universities in 1900. A. Lawrence Lowell, who followed Eliot, further reformed the undergraduate curriculum and undertook aggressive expansion of Harvard's land holdings and physical plant. James Bryant Conant led the university through the Great Depression and World War II and began to reform the curriculum and liberalize admissions after the war. The undergraduate college became coeducational after its 1977 merger with Radcliffe College.
Source: Wikipedia
Foster Palmer's Boston Trolleys: Harvard to Watertown Trolley
Trolleys in Cambridge and Watertown. This clip focuses on the 71 trolley line from Harvard to Watertown via Mount Auburn Street.
From Foster Palmer's Boston Trolleys DVD.
THIS CLIP FEATURES:
North Cambridge Carhouse
Massachusetts Avenue
Harvard Square
Mount Auburn Street
Brattle Street
Sir Richards' Landing (Gerrys Landing)
Fresh Pond Parkway
Star Market
Belmont Street
Mount Auburn Junction
Watertown Square
Watertown Carhouse
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All credit for this video goes to Foster Palmer, who filmed trolleys around Boston in the 1940s and 1950s.
If you enjoy this video and would like to purchase the DVD, please visit
For books, visit the Boston Street Railway Association, MBTAgifts or a bookstore
MBTA, Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority
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Lynn Emanuel Reading - Grolier Poetry bookshop
Grolier Poetry bookshop / The Grolier Winter Series 2017
The Grolier Poetry Book Shop (the Grolier) is an independent bookstore on Plympton Street near Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Although founded as a first edition bookstore, its focus today is solely poetry. A small (404 sq ft (37.5 m2)), one-room store with towering bookcases, it lays claim to being the oldest continuous bookshop devoted solely to the sale of poetry and poetry criticism.
Over the years, the Grolier became a focus of poetic activity in the Cambridge area, which itself had, because of the influence of Harvard University, become a magnet for American poets. It became a point of call for visiting poets as well as a nexus of gossip, rumor andnetworking in the poetry community. Poets such as John Ashbery, Robert Bly, Robert Creeley, Donald Hall, and Frank O'Hara were regulars at the store during their time as undergraduates at Harvard; the poet Conrad Aiken lived upstairs from the store in its early days. Numerous other poets and writers, including Russell Banks, Frank Bidart, William Corbett, E. E. Cummings, T. S. Eliot, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, David Ferry, Allen Ginsberg, Denise Levertov, Marianne Moore, Charles Olson, Robert Pinsky, Adrienne Rich, Ruth Stone,James Tate and Franz Wright, have been noted as friends of the Grolier.
Lynn Emanuel
is the author of five books of poetry, Hotel Fiesta, The Dig, Then, Suddenly--, Noose and Hook, and, most recently, The Nerve Of It : Poems New and Selected. Her work has been featured in the Pushcart Prize Anthology and Best American Poetry numerous times and is included in The Oxford Book of American Poetry and the Norton anthology of American hybrid poetry. Her work has been published most recently in The NYT and is forthcoming in Best American Poetry 2016. She has been a judge for the National Book Awards and has taught at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, The Warren Wilson Program in Creative Writing, and the Bennington College Low Residency MFA program. Among the awards she has received are two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, The National Poetry Series Award, the Lenore Marshall and Eric Matthieu King Awards from The Academy of American Poets and, most recently, a fellowship from the Civitella Ranieri Foundation.
The Value of Local Independent Bookstores
Professor Ryan Raffaelli teams up with Porter Square Books in Cambridge, MA – one of the hundreds of bookstores he’s studied – to explore industries facing shifts in their business models and how they adapt. Independent bookstores provide a story of hope by focusing on core values that include community, curation, and convening. For more on Raffaelli's research, see:
HLS Library Book Talk | Law, Religion, and Health in the United States
Law, Religion, and Health in the United States, (I. Glenn Cohen, Holly Fernandez Lynch & Elizabeth Sepper eds., Cambridge Univ. Press, June 30, 2017). The panel discussion included I. Glenn Cohen, JD, Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the Petrie-Flom Center, Harvard Law School (co-editor) with panelists Diane L. Moore, MDiv, DMin, PhD, Director of the Religious Literacy Project, Senior Lecturer on Religious Studies and Education, and Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard Divinity School; and Elizabeth Sepper, JD, LLM, Associate Professor of Law, Washington University School of Law (co-editor). The panel was moderated by Intisar A. Rabb, JD, PhD, Professor of Law and Director of the Islamic Legal Studies Program, Harvard Law School; Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor, Harvard University Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study; Professor of History, Harvard University Faculty of Arts and Sciences. This talk was co-sponsored with The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School.