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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.
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(Click on arrow at right to view full image) No true likeness of Callimachus is known to exist, but the Libyan-born poet probably resembled the men whose faces appear on the Hellenistic coffins unearthed in Fayum, Egypt, including this one.
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Brief life (via Platonic dialogue) of a multifaceted poet: c. 310 B.C.E. - c. 240 B.C.E.
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July-August 2020
Letters
Health care, St. Louis, pioneering astronomer
President Bacow on Harvard’s history of confronting—and helping conquer—pandemics
What Harvard has already learned from the pandemic—and strategic challenges to come
The College Pump
Nelson Mandela, holding his honorary degree, and University Marshal Rick Hunt
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Campus and Commencement without people, social distance, Dr. Fauci, and a meaningful password
Treasure
Permission to reproduce image from the Earhart Papers granted by the Earhart family. Image courtesy of Schlesinger Library
A wartime life together—cut short
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Ethnographer Roberto Gonzales spent 12 years following the lives of undocumented young people.
Photograph by Adam Glanzman
Sociologist Roberto Gonzales on the predicament of undocumented young people
(Click on arrow at right to view full image) No true likeness of Callimachus is known to exist, but the Libyan-born poet probably resembled the men whose faces appear on the Hellenistic coffins unearthed in Fayum, Egypt, including this one.
Photograph by Agis/Alamy Stock Photo
Brief life of a multifaceted poet: c. 310 B.C.E. - c. 240 B.C.E.
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(1 of 4) Bill Clinton with Yasser Arafat, King Hussein, and Benjamin Netanyahu, October 1, 1996, at the White HousePhotograph by Ron Sachs/CNP/Getty Images
On restoring American leadership through diplomacy
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Illustration by Wesley Merritt
A professor’s interstellar reach
Letters
Health care, St. Louis, pioneering astronomer
President Bacow on Harvard’s history of confronting—and helping conquer—pandemics
What Harvard has already learned from the pandemic—and strategic challenges to come
Right Now
Illustration by Paul Boston
Researchers hope to tease out the effects of breeding and training on dog brain structure.
Illustration by Gary Neill
If the press is essential to democracy, what can be done to save news organizations?
Illustration by John Holcroft
A serological test may reveal the COVID-19 virus’s weaknesses—and expose its strategic decoys.
Harvard Squared
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(1 of 4) Ipswich River Sanctuary (Mass Audubon)Photograph courtesy of Mass Audubon/Kelly Moffett
Getting away and outside safely this summer
Salisbury Beach State Reservation
Photograph by Georgia P. Zumwalt/Alamy Stock Photo
Strict lines in the sand
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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
Sofra's fresh-baked raspberry-rose jam turnovers
Photograph courtesy of Sofra
Cambridge’s Sofra Bakery & Café feeds sheltering crowds.
Photograph courtesy of Ben Barkan @homeharvest.grow.food
How to plan your staycation summer
John Harvard's Journal
Martin Baron
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Details of the virtual degree-conferral ceremonies
Dan Barouch
Photograph courtesy of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
The when and how of vaccines
Melissa Dell
Photograph by Wess Gray/Courtesy of Melissa Dell
“In the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, people in academic institutions like Harvard predominantly studied the U.S. and Europe,” says the development economist.
The factors influencing the fall semester—and beyond
The University adopts a new goal for managing the endowment.
The general counsel’s report recommended—and prompted—action.
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Illustration by Nicolas Ogonosky
The Undergraduate faces up to a postgraduate life without handrails.
Georgina Milne tucks and flips, helping Harvard defeat Brown.
Photograph courtesy of Harvard Athletic Communications
Diver Georgina Milne pictures a post-pandemic return.
Montage
The cast of The Hot Wing King
Photograph by Monique Carboni
Playwright Katori Hall on the joy—and trauma—of black life
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Marjorie Garber explores the word’s complexity and history.
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Problematic features of the Electoral College
Paul Moravec
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Paul Moravec’s soulful music
Landscape from a villa at Boscotrecase—an inventive illustration in Mosaics of Knowledge
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Recent books with Harvard connections
Alumni
A spontaneous photo of Zevin and her late dog Nico taken on a sofa trashed in Los Angeles. “As soon as we were done, a random guy loaded it into his truck.”
Photograph by Hans Canosa
A prescient novelist is hopeful that “after great change, amazing things can happen.”
Headed to the other Cambridge
David L. Evans, Leila T. Fawaz, and Joseph J. O’Donnell
Photographs from left: HPAC, George Ellmore, and HPAC
For extraordinary service to the University
Clockwise from top left: Stephen Cook, Albert Fishlow, Helen Vendler, and Margaret Kivelson.
Photographs courtesy of Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences’ honorands
The official 2020 slates
The College Pump
Nelson Mandela, holding his honorary degree, and University Marshal Rick Hunt
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Campus and Commencement without people, social distance, Dr. Fauci, and a meaningful password
Treasure
Permission to reproduce image from the Earhart Papers granted by the Earhart family. Image courtesy of Schlesinger Library
A wartime life together—cut short