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Tindal named director of Harvard Museums of Science & Culture, Harvard Gazette
Online Exhibit At Harvard’s Peabody Museum Elevates Wampanoag, WBUR
Plenty to Digest at 'Resetting the Table', Boston Globe
Listen To A 'Native American Poets Playlist' For Indigenous People's Day, At Harvard's Peabody Museum, WBUR
How the camera confronted slavery — and still does, Boston Globe
‘All the World Is Here: Harvard’s Peabody Museum and the Invention of American Anthropology’ Review, Wall Street Journal
Harvard museum marking 150 years with new exhibit, Associated Press

2021

4/27/21 Virtually Digging up Archaeology, Phys. Org
4/14/21 Tindal Named New Director of Harvard Museums of Science and Culture, The Crimson
4/13/21 Tindal named director of Harvard Museums of Science & Culture, Harvard Gazette
4/12/21 Recovering the life stories of the Zealy daguerreotype subjects, Harvard Gazette
3/30/21 Agassiz’s other photographs tell a global tale of scientific racism, Harvard Gazette
3/30/21 A reckoning on Native American remains and cultural objects, Harvard Gazette
3/25/21 Who is this museum for?, Harvard Gazette
1/28/21 "To Make Their Own Way in the World: The Enduring Legacy of the Zealy Daguerreotypes" review, The Od Review (Book review)

2020

12/30/20 "How the camera confronted slavery—and still does" review, The Boston Globe (Book review)
December 2020 "Favorite Photobooks of 2020" review, LensCulture
9/29/20 "The First Photos of Enslaved People Raise Many Questions About the Ethics of Viewing" review , The New York Times
11/19/20 Museums of Native culture wrestle with decolonizing, Harvard Gazette
11/17/20 Does food have a gender?, Harvard Gazette
10/22/20 See Their Faces, Harvard Magazine
10/22/20 "See Their Faces" review The Harvard Magazine (Book review)
10/12/20 Online Exhibit At Harvard’s Peabody Museum Elevates Wampanoag, WBUR
10/12/20 Online exhibit gives glimpse into Wampanoag life, Cape Cod Times
10/9/20 "Exploring the North’s long history of slavery, scientific racism" review, The Harvard Gazette (Book event coverage)
10/8/20 "11 New Books We Recommended This Week" review The New York Times
10/8/20 Peabody Museum Exhibit Pairs Tribal Members With Wampanoag Artifacts, Martha's Vineyard Gazette
10/7/20 'We are the original people of this land,' Martha's Vineyard Times
3/2/20 A great civilization brought low by climate change (and, no, it’s not us), Harvard Gazette
2/27/20 This giant lake, this gentle sea: Images of the Caspian, Mizan Project
1/22/20 Plenty to Digest at 'Resetting the Table', Boston Globe

2019

11/20/19 Why We Eat What We Do, Harvard Magazine
11/19/19 Peabody Museum examines the origins of our favorite foods, how we make them, and who serves them, Harvard Gazette
5/21/19 Pickering Named Director of Peabody Museum, Harvard Gazette
5/21/19 Peabody's new director shares strategies for a new era in museum work, Harvard Gazette
5/2/19 Shaped by Oil, Artscope
4/26/19 Framing the Caspian Sea, Harvard Gazette
2/7/19 Harvard Yard Archaeology Project, NewTV
1/23/19 Clues of heart disease found in 16th-century mummies, Harvard Gazette
1/23/19 Reading Between the Lines, Harvard SEAS Communications

2018

11/2/18 Harvard University honors Native Americans with poetry-rich exhibit, Cambridge Chronicle
10/31/18 Marigolds to decorate altar for Boston’s first official Day of the Dead observance, Boston Globe
10/29/18 Archeology dig in Harvard Yard offers glimpse into student life over the centuries, Boston Globe
10/8/18 Listen To A 'Native American Poets Playlist' For Indigenous People's Day, At Harvard's Peabody Museum, WBUR-FM
10/7/18 In photos, a recollection of life among the Bushmen, Patriot Ledger
10/1/18 Anthropology with a family touch, Harvard Gazette
8/28/18 Putting a new face, and new faces, on the 1893 World’s Fair, Harvard Gazette
1/15/18 How a fake monster creeped into our museums, Hyperallergic

2017

11/6/17 Student Groups, Peabody Museum Celebrate Día de los Muertos, Harvard Crimson
10/15/17 Museums where music is part of the experience, Boston Globe
5/18/17 Fascinating Harvard exhibit explores the rise of anthropology, Boston Globe
5/15/17 'Where the Roads All End' is where story begins, Harvard Gazette
5/6/17 ‘All the World Is Here: Harvard’s Peabody Museum and the Invention of American Anthropology’ Review, Wall Street Journal
5/5/17 The World in an Exhibit, Harvard Gazette
May-June 2017 Anthropolology Anew: The Peabody's Prized Collections, Harvard Magazine (Preview of All the World Is Here exhibition)
4/22/17 Harvard museum marking 150 years with new exhibit, Associated Press
4/13/17 Boston's Best Brainy Attractions, WhereTraveler.com
3/31/17 Free things to do in Boston April 2017, Boston Magazine

2016

12/12/16 Digging Archaeology at Harvard Yard, Stuff You Missed in History Class
11/4/16 Archaeologists: Even in Puritan times, Harvard students liked to get drunk, Cambridge Chronicle
10/17/16 Harvard museum to dust off curiosities long kept in storage, Associated Press
10/16/16 Harvard museum dusts off curiosities long kept in storage, Associated Press and Daily Mail
10/14/16 If Indiana Jones had a favorite museum . . ., Boston Globe
10/10/16 Visitors Flock to Peabody Museum’s 150th Anniversary Party, Harvard Crimson
10/1/16 ART PREVIEW: Peabody Museum in Cambridge celebrates 150th anniversary, wickedlocal.com, Quincy Patriot Ledger
9/23/16 10 Best Things to Do in Boston in October 2016, Mommy Nearest
9/15/16 Mermaid Goes on Display at Harvard Museum, Mysterious Universe
9/14/16 Mermaid on Display at Harvard, New England Cable News
9/12/16 This mermaid will make your skin crawl, Boston Globe
8/25/16 Blood & beauty: Weapons exhibit informs and unsettles, Bay State Banner
8/10/16 Weapons as Objets d'Art, MHQ (Military History Quarterly Autumn 2016)
5/4/16 Cambridge: Five Fascinating Harvard Museums to Discover, Travelmag.com
4/21/16 Running With the Wings of America, HEPSTRACK.com
4/18/16 Woman's Boston run a tribute to Tarzan Brown, The Westerly Sun
4/17/16 ‘Born to Run’ Book Hero Arnulfo Quimare Making Boston Debut, Competitor.com
4/17/16 Wampanoag students celebrate Native American running tradition, Cape Cod Times
4/14/16 Running as tradition, Harvard Gazette
4/14/16 A Preserved Kayak Floats an Exhibition in Alaska, New York Times

2015

11/1/15 Day of the Dead a Big Draw for the Peabody, Metro Boston
11/1/15 Celebrating Day of the Dead, Boston Herald
11/1/15 Peabody Museum Celebrates the Day of the Dead, Harvard Crimson
8/25/15 Birchbark Canoes Making a Comeback: Native Peoples Relearning Craft, with Help from Museums, The Working Waterfront
5/22/15 My Lasting Harvard Memory: Samantha Noh ’15 connected to a distant student past during her archaeology digs in the Yard, Harvard Gazette
4/29/15 Nepal, Before The Earthquake Struck: A Photographer's Portfolio
2/26/15 Two shows look at art and war, Boston Globe
2/4/15 Museums of Science and Culture To Create Student Board, Harvard Crimson
2/4/15 Hip Fossil Challenges Ape Family Tree, Archaeology
2/3/15 Walk like a man, Harvard Gazette
1/21/15 Cambridge students visit prehistoric times through Foragers to Farmers program, Cambridge Chronicle

2014

11/7/14 More Remnants of Indian College in Yard Emerge, Harvard Crimson
11/2/14 'Arts of War' at Harvard's Peabody Museum asks intriguing questions, MetroWest Daily News
10/6/14 Archaeology Fair Sheds Light on Harvard of Yore, Harvard Crimson
9/26/14 More Art Sees the Light, Harvard Gazette
9/23/14 Earth Movers, Harvard Crimson
9/16/14 Undergraduates Begin Excavations in Yard, Harvard Crimson
6/13/14 In 'Shadows of Shangri La,' medieval and modern in Nepal, Boston Globe
2/28/14 Technology helps MAU students tour Harvard museum, from classroom, Bennington Banner
2/24/14 Boston’s Best Museum Exhibits This Spring, CBS Boston

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