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The Poet of Old Age

Donald Hall, chronicler of life

by Adam Kirsch

Headlines from Harvard’s history

Headlines from Harvard’s history

The Saving Glut of the Rich

High savings rates among the wealthiest U.S. earners may represent a macroeconomic risk

by Jonathan Shaw

True Crime

Helen Jewett and the origin of American murder media

by Nancy Walecki

War, Misremembered

Elizabeth Samet, of West Point, reinterprets the American understanding of World War II.

Both Sides Now

Tomiko Brown-Nagin’s bifocal view of the civil-rights movement

by Lincoln Caplan

Math Professor Lauren Williams Explores New Ground

Williams feels at home researching underexplored subjects.

by Jacob Sweet

The View from Mass Hall

President Bacow on Harvard Divinity School

by Lawrence S. Bacow

Notes on Doctoring

Michael Stanley and the covenant of medicine

by Lydialyle Gibson

Damage and Repair

Textile artist Celia Pym knits meaning into mended clothes.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Brevia

No more Harvard Teacher Fellows, universities and slavery, and more

Will Cities Survive Another Pandemic?

Inequities threaten the long-term health of cities

by Daniel Oberhaus