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03.02.23: The Counter Culture Issue

Pushing the Buttons Through Time

Harvard Kennedy School button exhibition highlights social movements throughout history.

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“ERA YES.”  “Stop the Pipeline.”  “Dissent is Patriotic.” Throughout history, political and social movements have utilized buttons as a way to voice their agendas. Easily worn and displayed, buttons effectively distribute a variety of messages to a mass audience. A current exhibition at Harvard Kennedy School called “Political Buttons” features buttons collected from the 1960s, […]

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A History of Wholesome Degeneracy

A tobacco shop full of character, deviance, and balls of fire.

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“Essentially, it was a social club,” said Sean McGann, decade-long employee and current manager of Leavitt & Peirce. For much of its history, the tobacco shop was not just integrated, but a central part of Harvard campus; students living in the Hilton Block passed through the shop—occupying the dorm’s first floor—each day. Billiards tables lined […]