Exhibits

Current live exhibits are described on this page. Images found on the library's website and other selected images are found in "Featured Images." Online exhibits are listed on the left.

Current Exhibits

Harvard Divinity School Students and Alumni in the American Antislavery Period

Selected antislavery publications from the library's collection are on display on the first floor near the circulation desk. Items include gifts from the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society to HDS in 1838, and some antislavery sermons and discourses delivered by HDS alumni from 1832 to 1856.

Sacred Texts

The centennial exhibit features sacred texts of many traditions and types. In addition to historic Bibles and Qur'āns, Chinese and South Asian religious texts are also displayed in the Stendahl Lobby, second floor.