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Mapping the Amazon
… width:407] Learn about the adventures of ethnobotanist Mark Plotkin ABE ’79 as he retraces the footsteps of explorer Alexander Hamilton Rice, founder of Harvard’s …
The Price of Slavery
… Several high-profile lawsuits filed recently in this country are seeking redress for slavery and other racial wrongs, focusing national attention on the … were much less likely to support an apology. What most surprises Dawson is the hostility he and other academics …
Issue: May-June 2003
Off the Shelf
… Reason and Politics: The Nature of Political Phenomena, by Mark Blitz ’66, Ph.D. … Flowers, also featured in the untold story of the Colossus machines, apparently the world’s first digital electronic …
Issue: September-October 2021
What Can Be Used to Treat COVID-19?
… who runs a two-hour-and-thirty-minute marathon changing their sneakers and all of a sudden running a two-hour marathon,” said Harvard … differently.” As new variants emerge and cases rise around the country (particularly in the Northeast), …
“A More Perfect Heaven”
… By his thirties , Nicolaus Copernicus had developed a theory that would turn the universe inside out, but for … that placed the sun, rather than the earth, at the center of the solar system. To friends and colleagues, he promised … his revolutionary ideas, yet decades later, perhaps wary of how those ideas would be received, he had published only …
Assaulting the Ramparts
… Arbuckle professor of business administration Rosabeth Moss Kanter, … and lead organizations, large and small. She also created the Advanced Leadership Initiative, which brings executives … window shows a weapon. Iron gates drop, and drawbridges rise to make it impossible to cross the moat. Legions of …
Issue: January-February 2020
“You Can Correct the Mistakes of My Generation”
… Drawing on his own success in brokering a peace treaty with the guerilla army FARC, ending five decades of civil war, former president of Colombia and Nobel … anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela, saying “We must ‘rise above the parochial concepts of nation, race, and …
The Abode of the Message
… The Abode of the Message is a Sufi retreat center located just over the … South Family Shaker Village, The Abode is now a community of the Sufi Order International. Many original structures …
Issue: January-February 2012
“The Best Day of the Year”
… The ritual of Harvard’s Commencement exercises has remained … this as well as Jacqueline A. O’Neill, who has attended the annual event for more than 30 years and now, as … over the morning program. As Harvard’s chief protocol officer, O’Neill oversees care of the honorands (and all …
Issue: May-June 2011
“Amazement at the Physicality of Things”
… concentrator, served as an undergraduate fellow during the preparations for the Houghton Library’s seventy-fifth … Until the 1990s, Houghton Library’s outer doors were made of steel. They made the building feel like Harvard’s Fort … library was, then, a place where undergraduates did not often tread. I entered Houghton for the first time on a …
The Ascent of Man
… Perhaps the last time biology had it together, at least in the … Clinton in the White House to declare the draft sequence of the human genome complete. “Without a doubt, this is the … other diseases—obesity, allergies, depression—are on the rise, less-welcome products of the technological progress …
Issue: July-August 2015
Off the Shelf
… A Sea of Glass, by Drew Harvell (University of California, $29.95). The Blaschkas, of glass-flowers fame, first modeled marine … in late medieval Marseille and Lucca reveals the rise of the modern consumer economy, with valuables enmeshed …
Issue: July-August 2016
Western Civ.
… The memorial minute on the life of the late Loeb professor of classical art and …
Issue: January-February 2025
The High Noon of the Print Culture
… "Of all childhood pastimes, reading was my passion," writes historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. '38, Jf '43, in the first volume of his memoirs, A Life in the Twentieth Century: Innocent …
“Fear and Anger Are the Essential Ingredients of Injustice”
… Stevenson , J.D.-M.P.A.’85, LL.D. ‘15, went straight to the point at the start of his remote Harvard Law School (HLS) Class Day speech … to have to change narratives.” He talked about the dramatic rise of mass incarceration in the United States—”Our prison …