Welcome to the Charles Warren Center on-line. As Harvard's research center for North American history, our mission is to advance research and teaching in the broad range of American historical inquiry, and to serve as a nexus for the community of Americanists at Harvard and in the Boston area. The Warren Center has, over the forty-plus years of its existence, brought hundreds of postdoctoral fellows to Harvard, and awarded significant funds to generations of Harvard students, both undergraduate and graduate. The Center also hosts public lectures, organizes conferences and symposia, and sponsors the occasional publishing project.

The theme of our 2011-12 postdoctoral and faculty fellowship is "The Politics of Knowledge in Universities and the State."  Convened by Andrew Jewett (History Department) and Julie Reuben (School of Education), the program includes a graduate course, History 2466hf.  Faculty, fellows, graduate students and invited guests will together explore the intersection of knowledge production with political thought and practice, focusing on key institutional sites in higher education and government. How has the authority, and possibly the content, of knowledge been shaped by these political contexts? How have intellectuals engaged with the state and what have been the consequences for public policy and the production of knowledge? How have the institutional politics of universities intersected with the politics of the state? The workshop will also offer participants an opportunity to think systematically about the historically and socially situated nature of their own scholarly endeavors.  The Harvard and Boston-area scholarly community is warmly invited.

Oscar Handlin,
1915-2011

Oscar Handlin and the Warren Center: Recollections by Bernard Bailyn...

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