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Installation photos of Harvard presidents Lawrence Summers, Drew Gilpin Faust, and Lawrence Bacow

Reading the Tea Leaves

The messages and meanings of Harvard’s presidential installations

Scroll depicting Commodore Perry’s 1853 invasion of Japan

Speaking Volumes

Glimpsing Harvard’s East Asian language materials collection

by Nell Porter-Brown

The New Crew

The 2023-24 Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows. 

Ben Purkert headshot

The Men Who Can’t Be Saved

Novelist Ben Purkert’s playfully serious look at masculinity

by Stuart Miller

Honoring Alumni Interviewers

Miller-Hunn Award recipients

Harvard President Claudine Gay in her new office July 5, 2023

New Digs

Claudine Gay’s first day in her presidential office

A 2017 edition of “Spirit Island” game

Everyday Indigeneity

Championing Native voices

by Ryan Doan-Nguyen

Stock photo, caring for patient in hospital bed

“Shotgun” Diagnosis

The virtues of inaction in delivering medical care

Team photo, Boston Tigers in 1940, Arthur Augustus “Fats” Johnson at far right

Arthur Augustus Johnson

Brief life of a Black baseball impresario: 1890-1951

by Kasey Uhlenhuth , Harry R. Lewis

Illustration of a football coin toss with coin landing on edge

Yesterday’s News

A coin toss forecasts a surprising football score.

Illustration that blends iconic images of knowledge and civilization

What Makes Humans Smart?

The critical role of cultural intelligence

by Jonathan Shaw

A white haired professor emeritus standing by a stone wall in the woods explaining its origins

Curiosities: Stone Walls, a Closer Look

Learning from the past through relics in Concord, Massachusetts

by Nell Porter-Brown