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George Bancroft
Brief life of a public historian: 1800-1891...
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A Peal Before Leaving
Question: “What was I, a young American student of medicine and electrical engineering—and an observant Jew—doing in the...
A Reunion of One’s Own
Connecting in the digital age...
New Year's Summiteers
Photograph courtesy of Pamela Wolfe Crimson hikers (from left) Anne Walston ’67, Éva Borsody Das ’63, and Ken Moller...
A Scatter of Acorns
Excerpt from Nicholas Dawidoff ’85 memoir The Crowd Sounds Happy: A Story of Love, Madness, and Baseball...
Getting My Feet Wet
I remember many things from my cousin’s wedding—my poofy bridesmaid’s dress, the humidity, how pretty the small church looked...
by Liz Goodwin
Cambridge 02138
Green energy options, foreign policy, medical errors, military jurist...
Race in a Genetic World
“I am an African American,” says Duana Fullwiley, “but in parts of Africa, I am white.” To do fieldwork as a medical...
Visionary Donors
Robert Bliss died in 1962, Mildred Bliss in 1969, but the benefactors of Dumbarton Oaks still cast a long shadow over their former home...
The Events of the Week
The many rituals of graduation peak on Commencement day, which this year include a Harvard College Class Day speech by chairman of the Federal...
Comings and Goings
University clubs offer a variety of social and intellectual events, including Harvard-affiliated speakers (please see the partial list below)...
Freeing Speech
Anthony Lewis’s Freedom for the Thought That We Hate: A Biography of the First Amendment offers a lucid and engaging overview of American...