
Director's Welcome
Welcome to the Warren Center. We are a gathering place for the exploration of American history and for the application of historical knowledge to real world challenges. We see critical engagement with key issues of American history as an inspiration for civic and community commitment, as a constructive source of regional and national identity, and as a reservoir of personal and political meaning making. The Warren Center’s activities are therefore centered around the nurturance of innovative historical thinking, research, and writing by visiting fellows, Harvard faculty, graduate students, undergraduate students, and their multiple reading and listening audiences. As the core component of the Center’s mission dating back to the vision of the Warren family’s original gift, our fellowship programs bring together scholars working on US history projects in a spirit of creativity and collaboration... Read More
Current News
Bench Ansfield - Society of American Historians - Book Prize Winner
Tiya Miles - All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake - Winner, National Book Awards 2021 for Nonfiction
Latinx Agencies: Emerging Histories of Politicians, Religious Leaders, and Undocumented Migrants
Latinx Im/mobilities Mexican and Mexican American Navigation in El Paso, Texas, and Waukegan, Illinois
Harvard Gazette Article- LaTosha Brown, Organizing, but not compartmentalizing