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Lord Byron on Demand
Harvard University Press's backlist is both one of its greatest blessings on the world of scholars and a strong source of income—but only...
Hertzberg on the Record
The following is an extended sampling of writing by Hendrik Hertzberg '65, staff writer for the New Yorker, "...where he has since become the most stylish liberal political essayist in America...
Chapter & Verse
Harvey Carnes seeks the author of a poem about Lincoln: "young Abe/of the too-short pants/and too-long legs" who becomes "...Abe/of the sad...
First Principles, on the Web
In uncertain times, it can be helpful to return to first principles. Harvard scholars do so in all political and social weathers, of course...
A Satisfying Season
A wipeout on the slippery Astroturf of the University of Pennsylvania's Franklin Field dished the football team's hopes of gaining a second...
Crimson on the Hill
The Republicans may have swept Capitol Hill in the November elections, but the Democrats remain firmly in control of Harvard's contingent of...
Peak Professorships
The ranks of University Professors—Harvard's supreme academic appointment—have changed significantly with the elevation of two faculty...
Phenome Fellow
In a Marist monastery in southern Bavaria, 11-year-old Hans Hofmann began his classical education. "I studied Greek, Latin, and...
Yesterday's News
1928 Massachusetts reports an over-supply of trained teachers. Referring to this "interesting condition of affairs," the editors note...
Off the Shelf
A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America, by Lizabeth Cohen, Jones professor of American studies (Knopf...
At Home on the Range
Harvard brothers tend to a cattle ranch in Wyoming
Poetry and Politics
On November 12, two days before poet Tom Paulin was scheduled to deliver the annual Morris Gray Lecture, sponsored by the department of English...