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"Shoddy," maskupmanship, American exceptionalism

Johnson plays his harmonica with the Boston Pops orchestra behind him.

Singer, songwriter, harmonica player Scott Albert Johnson

Scott Albert Johnson finds his path.

by Jacob Sweet

Aerial view of Adams House, now being renovated

Less construction ahead, quantum science and engineering, and more

Less construction in prospect, quantum science and engineering, and more

Interior photograph of Harvard COOP main floor renovation

Renovation and consolidation at Harvard COOP

Renovation and consolidation at a Harvard Square institution

a hat made of jaguar pelt

Dr. Jeffries balloons across the Channel

Two explorers strip to stay aloft.

by Jacob Sweet

Photograph of a carved relief showing orator dictating to a scribe, from the fourth-century Roman Temple of Hercules at Ostia Antica

Secretaries’ role in history of information

From a huge new book on the history of information, an excerpt on the role of secretaries

An illuminated manuscript page from thirteenth-century Iraq showing two men on a camel arriving in a village, depicted as two-story white buildings with people looking out the windows

al-Hariri, a master storyteller

Brief life of a master storyteller

by Michael Cooperson

Harvard and sexual harassment: an apology for the past; new steps to end it now

A withering investigation of sexual harassment

by Lydialyle Gibson

Illustration of a man looking through a pair of binoculars with three, not two, objective lenses

The Third Way

Ellen Langer rejects binary thinking, embracing instead a “third way.”

by Erin O’Donnell

Pediatrician Eileen Costello stands next to the Boston Medical Center’s mobile pediatric clinic.

Pediatrician Eileen Costello, profiled by Nell Porter Brown

A pediatrician cares for a city’s children.

by Nell Porter-Brown

Photograph of someone wearing a Juneteenth T-shirt

The Racial Tensions That Roiled Texas

Annette Gordon-Reed on the real history of Texas, and Juneteenth

A group photo of the four Harvard undergraduates, including the author, with their project adviser and two local, older mentors

Community-engaged research lessons for students via Harvard’s Mindich Program

The Undergraduate learns about making knowledge mutual.

by Che Applewhaite