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Amos Doolittle cheekily depicted the passions over ratification in this 1787 engraving with watercolor, with “Federals” (business interests), left, and agrarian “Antifederals,” right, differing over currency and Connecticut’s debts: a mired wagon being pulled in opposite directions.

Jack Rakove reviews Pauline's Maier's "Ratification," on the U.S. Constitution

The great experiment in constitution-making

by Jack Rakove

Massage is among the healing arts Cynthia Ann Piltch studied for a new career.

Risks and rewards of third-age and encore careers

For third-agers, changing careers is exciting, scary, and challenging.

by Nell Porter-Brown

Video: see the plants and animals Harvard climatologists encountered in Brazil

In this video, travel to Brazil with Harvard climatologists to see their work and the plants and critters they encountered.

Matthew Nock sits in his lab’s control room, where researchers record subjects’ behavioral and physiological responses during experiments. For example, they might measure whether people who engage in self-injury show greater emotional distress, in response to frustrating tasks, than people who do not. (Nock’s lab manager and a postdoctoral fellow are seen in the adjoining room through one-way glass.)

Matthew Nock studies suicide and self-injury

Understanding suicide and self-injury

by Elizabeth Gudrais

Headlines from Harvard history

Headlines from Harvard history

FOGG FACADE. The Fogg Art Museum renovation, seen in December, has now reduced the building to a three-sided shell, into which Renzo Piano’s new design for expanded facilities will be fitted.

Roundup of recent Harvard news

HBS building boomlet and innovation lab, Rhodes and Marshall Scholars, HMS Center for Primary Care, studying "institutional corruption," and other University news

Daniel Rasmussen’s revised and enlarged senior thesis will be published this January.

Daniel Rasmussen's "American Uprising" covers the largest U.S. slave revolt

Daniel Rasmussen's new book rescues the forgotten facts of the largest slave revolt in U.S. history.

by Spencer Lee Lenfield

Harvard Commencement 2011 preliminary information

Early information on Commencement

Avi Steinberg has faith in the power of books and writing to help transform lives.

Profile of former prison librarian Avi Steinberg, author of "Running the Books"

Avi Steinberg's memoir of life as a prison librarian

by Nell Porter-Brown

Harvard's 2010 fiscal year financial report

The University's annual financial report portrays an institution adapting to an era of reduced revenues and expenses.

Excerpt from Tony Hiss, "In Motion: The Experience of Travel"

"In Motion: The Experience of Travel," by Tony Hiss, makes the case for mindful attention to one's environs—even the most ordinary.

Faculty retirement incentive: one-quarter of eligible professors accept offer

A quarter of the eligible senior faculty accept Harvard's retirement offer.