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Reasons to Rejoice

This holiday, discover safely spectacular ways to celebrate the season.

by Kara Baskin

2021 HAA Award Winners

For outstanding service 

Elisabeth Sharp McKetta

How Myth and Memoir Intertwine

Elisabeth Sharp McKetta ’01 finds truth in the border between fact and fiction.

by Juliet Isselbacher

Jon Sot punts a football.

Harvard Football’s Star Punter Makes History

Jon Sot “flips the field” and the Crimson excel early.

by Dick Friedman

Photograph of Houghton Library’s renovated reading room

Reopening. . .Carefully

Resuming Harvard in residence, with continuing coronavirus cautions

by John S. Rosenberg

The red brick former arsenal built in 1850 that now houses the Springfield armory museum

American Ingenuity

Springfield Armory National Historic Site

by Nell Porter-Brown

Amy Goodman featured in her broadcast studio giving the peace sign

People-Powered Journalism

At Democracy Now! Amy Goodman goes “where the silence is.”

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Photograph of E.O. Wilson observing ants

Speaking Pheromone

How science is done, in the lab of E.O. Wilson

by Richard Rhodes

A humorous illustration of women trying to buy football tickets in 1921

Yesterday’s News

Headlines from Harvard’s history

A sample of slime mold grows clockwise in a petri dish

Can Slime Molds Think?

A seemingly primitive creature’s complex ability to detect mass from a distance.

by Nancy Walecki

Borders from family Christmas letters, in Christmas seasonal motifs and colors

Family Newsletters of Holidays Past

Origins of a beloved, bemoaned Yuletide tradition

by Nancy Walecki

Specimen cicadas, a photograph of Harvard museum collections

Off the Shelf

Recent books with Harvard connections