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A Radcliffe Institute panel examines the protest movement against police violence and structural racism.
Facing legal challenges, the University does away with its controversial regulations on final clubs, fraternities, and sororities.
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Photograph by Lydia Carmichael/Harvard MagazineSome students have deferred their enrollment to next year.
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Winnie, Texas is not considered to be in a floodplain. But coastal hurricanes have flooded the town repeatedly since 2008.
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To protect against rising seas, local lenders are selling off risky mortgages.
A selection of Harvard Magazine's writing on immigration, displacement, and the global refugee crisis
A statue of John C. Calhoun is removed on June 24 in Charleston, South Carolina.
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The rise and fall of Charleston’s John C. Calhoun statue, a monument to white supremacy
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Facing legal challenges, the University does away with its controversial regulations on final clubs, fraternities, and sororities.
Beds were set up for Spanish flu patients outside the Harvard-affiliated Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in 1918.
Photograph courtesy of the Brigham and Women's Hospital ArchivesFall semester interrupted, a century ago
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A selection of Harvard Magazine's writing on immigration, displacement, and the global refugee crisis
A statue of John C. Calhoun is removed on June 24 in Charleston, South Carolina.
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The rise and fall of Charleston’s John C. Calhoun statue, a monument to white supremacy
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(1 of 4) Crabapple specimens, with views of Boston, on Peters HillPhotograph by Jon Hetman/Courtesy of the Arnold Arboretum
Summertime at the Arnold Arboretum
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A statue of John C. Calhoun is removed on June 24 in Charleston, South Carolina.
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The rise and fall of Charleston’s John C. Calhoun statue, a monument to white supremacy
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Beds were set up for Spanish flu patients outside the Harvard-affiliated Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in 1918.
Photograph courtesy of the Brigham and Women's Hospital ArchivesFall semester interrupted, a century ago
This 1895 map of New York City was created by socialist activist Walter Vrooman, who hoped that by showing the "concrete socialism" of every street, park, school, public building, and public dock in red (and allowing private enterprises to recede into the white background), he might persuade readers that the rest of the map should be socialist as well.
From the Norman B. Leventhal Map Center/Boston Public Library
Curator Garrett Dash Nelson ’09 on the Boston Public Library’s exhibition of “persuasive cartography”
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Beds were set up for Spanish flu patients outside the Harvard-affiliated Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in 1918.
Photograph courtesy of the Brigham and Women's Hospital ArchivesFall semester interrupted, a century ago
Georgina Milne tucks and flips, helping Harvard defeat Brown.
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Diver Georgina Milne pictures a post-pandemic return.
Salisbury Beach State Reservation
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Strict lines in the sand
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July-August 2012
Letters
Letters on E.O. Wilson, Senator Franken, dating data, Overseers, lecture lessons, softball, basketball, taxes, lilacs, and primate research
The College Pump
Treasure
Mollusks of amazing diversity—some deadly—are on display at the Harvard Museum of Natural History.
In this Issue
Lawrence Lessig thinks American democracy requires a constitutional overhaul to counter the “economy of influence.”
A bicentennial exhibition features the little-known, masterful animal artistry of Edward Lear.
Letters
Letters on E.O. Wilson, Senator Franken, dating data, Overseers, lecture lessons, softball, basketball, taxes, lilacs, and primate research
Right Now
James Robinson says that in the modern period, greedy leaders and institutional corruption, rather than geography, explain why some nations fail.
An innovative course yields new products, services, and experiences that model the possible future of libraries.
Kathryn Edin of Harvard Kennedy School explains why more and more American children are born out of wedlock.
New England Regional
John Harvard's Journal
Moments for reflection and projection during the 361st Commencement, in Harvard's 375th anniversary year
An oratorical omnium gatherum, from Donald Berwick and Derek Bok to Margaret Marshall and Fareed Zakaria
Meet the director of Harvard Medical School's new Center for Primary Care.
In a fiscally constrained era, faculty-administration tensions arise.
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences deploys new rules and procedures surrounding financial conflicts of interest.
Memorial Church's new minister, Pulitzer Prize winners, and other Harvardians in the news
Headlines from Harvard history
Spring sports wrap-up
Montage
<i>Rocksteady</i>, a film directed by Mustapha Khan '84, explores the culture of stock car races.
Robert Proctor’s <i>Golden Holocaust</i> urges abolition of cigarettes, the leading preventable cause of death.
A correspondence corner for not-so-famous lost words
Alumni
Four women and eight men were chosen.
Four seniors are bound for Britain.
New records are announced on Commencement afternoon.
A literary scholar, an East Asia expert, a trailblazing biologist, and a specialist on international relations are honored.
Shared Interest Group happenings in July and August
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The College Pump
Treasure
Mollusks of amazing diversity—some deadly—are on display at the Harvard Museum of Natural History.