# Harvard 400 (Harvard400.com)

> Four centuries of Harvard, 1636–2036. A quadricentennial edition examining the people, buildings, discoveries, disputes, and reforms that made Harvard an enduring institution.

This site is part of The Civic Graph, a History Is For Everyone project
for the Boston/Cambridge region. Every page below is a canonical entity record with
a stable ID, structured facts, source provenance, and Schema.org markup. Public
connections retain their typed predicates when both endpoints clear review.
Summaries are designed to be extractable and citable.

## Universities

- [Harvard University](https://harvard400.com/e/harvard-university): Harvard, founded in 1636 by vote of the Massachusetts Bay Colony's Great and General Court, is the oldest institution of higher education in the United States. [API: /api/v1/entity/harvard-university; 8 public relationships]

## Museums & culture

- [Harvard Art Museums](https://harvard400.com/e/harvard-art-museums): Harvard Art Museums brings together the Fogg, Busch-Reisinger, and Arthur M. Sackler museums, whose institutional records date from 1895 to the present. [API: /api/v1/entity/harvard-art-museums; 4 public relationships; sameAs: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3783572, https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/29821531, https://harvardartmuseums.org]

## Landmarks

- [Harvard Yard](https://harvard400.com/e/harvard-yard): Harvard Yard grew from the College's first acre, purchased in 1637 or early 1638, and remains the historic core of Harvard's Cambridge campus. [API: /api/v1/entity/harvard-yard; 4 public relationships; sameAs: https://www.harvard.edu]
- [Memorial Hall](https://harvard400.com/e/memorial-hall-harvard): Conceived after the Civil War to honor Harvard graduates who served the Union, Memorial Hall was built as a memorial, theater, and gathering place and transferred to Harvard in 1878. [API: /api/v1/entity/memorial-hall-harvard; 4 public relationships; sameAs: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/29530473]

## Historical events

- [Founding of Harvard College (1636)](https://harvard400.com/e/harvard-founded-1636): In 1636, the Massachusetts Bay Colony's Great and General Court approved £400 for a college; the institution later took the name Harvard College. [API: /api/v1/entity/harvard-founded-1636; 3 public relationships]
- [First Printing Press in British America (1638)](https://harvard400.com/e/printing-press-1638): A printing press was operating in Cambridge by 1638, the first in England's American colonies, placing early printed culture beside the young college. [API: /api/v1/entity/printing-press-1638; 2 public relationships]
- [Radcliffe College Founded (1879)](https://harvard400.com/e/radcliffe-1879): Founded as the Harvard Annex in 1879, the institution was chartered as Radcliffe College in 1894 and merged with Harvard in 1999. [API: /api/v1/entity/radcliffe-1879; 2 public relationships]
- [The Mark I Computer (1944)](https://harvard400.com/e/mark-i-1944): Delivered to Harvard in 1944, the IBM Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator, later called the Mark I, was designed by Howard Aiken and built by IBM for automatic calculation. [API: /api/v1/entity/mark-i-1944; 2 public relationships]

## Canonical API (cite these)

- /api/v1/entity/{id}: the complete canonical record — facts, location, provenance, relationships, sameAs, AI summary
- /api/v1/search?q=QUERY&page=1&limit=20: paginated search across the reviewed public corpus
- /api/graph/related/{id}: graph-ranked related entities
- /api-discovery.json: machine-readable index of every endpoint and dataset

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