Hours
The Root Room, Historical & Special Collections’ reading room, is open by appointment only, Tuesday-Friday, 10-5.
To schedule an appointment or get in touch with a member of the Historical & Special Collections staff, please email specialc@law.harvard.edu.
UPCOMING CLOSURES:
Friday, April 30, 11:30am-2:30pm
Tuesday, May 26, all day
Wednesday, May 27, 11am-3pm
Thursday, May 28, all day
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Revisiting “Harvard, Al Brown, and the Wickersham Commission”
This 2014 post was written by Edwin Moloy, Curator of Modern Manuscripts, Historical & Special Collections. This “revisited” version includes some additional information and new images. View the archived web page of the original post, which is part of the Harvard University Archive’s A-Sites: Archived Harvard Websites collection, or read below… May 14, 2014 By
April 24, 2026
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Revisiting “Learned Hand’s Tailor”
This 2017 post was written by KB Beck, former manager of Historical & Special Collections, about a fashionable discovery in the Learned Hand papers. View the archived web page of the original post, which is part of the Harvard University Archive’s A-Sites: Archived Harvard Websites collection, or read below… April 17, 2017 By KB Beck
April 20, 2026
Image Credits
Top of page, clockwise:
- Registrum brevium, ca. 1476, HLS MS 25, HOLLIS 990037584890203941, fol. 1r, seq. 13, detail, Harvard Law School Library.
- View of incunabula (books printed before 1500) spines, Brooks Kraft, 2014.
- Detail of Harvard Black Law Students Association, 1976-1977, HOLLIS 24085091, Harvard Law School Library.
Left to right:
- Historical & Special Collections reading room, Brooks Kraft, 2014.
- Harvard Law School Library pass, 1868, HOLLIS 990020808460203941, Harvard Law School Library.
- De legibus Angliae, ca. 1300. HLS MS 1, HOLLIS 990028855300203941, seq. 29, detail, Harvard Law School Library.
- Caspersen Room, Harvard Law School Library, Tony Rinaldo, September 2023.
- Historical & Special Collections stacks, Brooks Kraft, 2014.
- Treasure Room, Langdell Hall by Fay Foto Service, 1952? HOLLIS 8001070613, Harvard Law School Library.