History – MIT Spectrum

Image: Courtesy Cambridge Historical Commission

Spring 2015

Made in Kendall Square: 1800s versus today

Kendall Square today. Image: 134 Main Street, Kendall Square, circa 1880. Image: courtesy of Cambridge Historical Commission.

Spring 2015

Kendall Square: History in the Making

MIT historian and theoretical physicist, David Kaiser. Photo: Len Rubenstein

What Worries This MIT Physicist and Historian About Time Travel?

Image via the researcher's website

The Historian’s Lab

Eastern Gray Squirrel

MIT alum writes an American history of the squirrel

Prof. Craig Wilder is teaching history to inmates. Photo: Richard Howard

Fall 2011

Freeing the Mind

Prof. Craig Wilder teaches American Colonial History to inmates at a maximum-security prison in upstate New York.

Susan Hockfield

Winter 2011

A Letter From the President

Inventing the future

Winter 2011

MIT’s Innovation Gene at Work

A discussion of a few of the turning points and contributions that have helped make MIT great.

Assoc. Prof. Melissa Nobles examines the national census in the U.S. and Brazil, and explores the politics that lie behind the counting. Photo: Ed Quinn

Spring 2007

All About the Count

Assoc. Prof. Melissa Nobles examines the national census and explores the politics that lie behind the counting.

Winter 2007

Winter 2007

Energy Crises Now and Then