5.1.2001

Updated 8.29.2023

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Hold the Fries

Baked, boiled, and mashed potatoes are better.

Harvard University entrance with inscription reading "Depart to Serve Better Thy Country and Thy Kind"

What’s At Stake—Your Letters

Harvard Magazine readers respond to Harvard’s standoff with the Trump administration.

Photograph of the cover of To Make Their Own Way in the World: The Enduring Legacy of the Zealy Daguerreotypes

See Their Faces

Confronting “some of the most challenging images in the history of photography”

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Illustration of a math students gathering, 1936, in Annanberg Hall, Memorial Hall

Harvard History & Traditions

Including profundity and pretzels

A six-foot-tall, five-panel folded screen stands in a field of grass next to the woods. It's painted different shades of green, with some squares cut out that represent digital pixels.

Julia Rooney’s paintings cross the analog-digital divide.

A crowd of people shout and march during a nighttime demonstration, while a man and woman in the foreground hold two silver-colored pans above their heads and bang on them with sticks

Faculty & Community

Erica Chenoweth’s data shows how—and when—authoritarians fall.