Latest News
Profile of Harvard quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick '05
Though the Harvard football team runs one of the most sophisticated offensive sets in the country, the team also likes to play what they call...
A Gift for Openness
When Sidney Verba, Pforzheimer University Professor and director of the University Library, described the library's fledgling Open Collections...
Emmanuel Akyeampong
Emmanuel Akyeampong Photograph by Jim Harrison When professor of history and of African-American studies Emmanuel Akyeampong...
Wrong
In June of 1955, Agnes Mongan, then assistant director and curator of drawings at Harvard's Fogg Art Museum, bought a drawing by Henri Matisse, A Lady with Flowers and Pomegranates, for $325...
Doing His Work
Philippe E. Wamba '93 was killed in a car crash in Kenya in September 2002 while he was conducting research for a book on African youth. He was...
Controversial Reunioner
The urbane Ernst "Putzi" Hanfstaengl '09 was Hitler's crony and foreign press chief during the Führer's ascendancy, and played...
Harvard@Home: Commencement and Cloning
If you missed Harvard's 353rd Commencement in June—or if you were there and want to relive the experience—be sure to visit...
Wintergreen for President
Images courtesy of the Harvard Theatre Collection When the Harvard Band trots onto the football field at halftime this fall, it will...
Harvard news and notes
Gender Milestone For the first time, slightly more women than men will enroll in the cohort of students entering Harvard College, making the...
"Roots" and Race
In June, a New York Times article raised a long-simmering issue: the origins and ancestry of Harvard's black students. The piece described the...
Harvard's Marjorie Garber on Shakespeare
A Harvard class on Shakespeare so popular, it had to be repeated
Self-Binding
At the end of World War II, the United States found itself in a situation of unprecedented power. The economy of the former hegemonic state...