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Tennessee Williams meets Mother Teresa, and Gore Vidal on Harvard

Tennessee Williams, Mother Teresa…and Gore Vidal

Michael McElroy and Xi Lu on Natural Gas and Fracking

Natural gas, the economy, and America’s energy prospects

by Xi Lu

Artist Samantha Holmes makes contemporary mosaics.

A contemporary take on an ancient medium

by Craig Lambert

Social justice activists and entrepreneurs follow their own paths

Young activists live their beliefs—"every day"

by Nell Porter-Brown

Recognizing three outstanding "Harvard Magazine" contributors

Recognizing three outstanding Harvard Magazine contributors

A Harvard i-Lab class aims to solve urban and civic challenges in Upham's Corner

I-Lab students work in interdisciplinary teams to address urban and civic challenges in the Dudley and Upham’s Corner neighborhoods.

Irna Phillips, soap opera’s single mother, by Lynn Liccardo

Brief life of soap opera’s single mother: 1901-1973

by Lynn Liccardo

Bernard Bailyn's "The Barbarous Years" reviewed by Daniel K. Richter

The “mixed multitudes” of early Colonial America—and the Native Americans

by Daniel K. Richter

Profile of Little Rock Central High School teacher George West

George West ’72 and his students foster oral history at Little Rock Central High.

by Isabel Ruane

Wildlife photographer Tim Laman documents 39 species of the Birds-of-Paradise

The dazzling beauty and strangely human behavior of one of the world’s most diverse bird families.

by Nell Porter-Brown

Headlines from Harvard history, January-February 1918-1973

From the pages of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin and Harvard Magazine