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History Quantified
… is to sell it short, say Jared Diamond ’58 and Florence professor of government James A. Robinson. In Natural Experiments of History (Harvard University Press), a new book they coedited, Diamond, a geography professor at UCLA, and …
Issue: May-June 2010
Preserving Heirs and Airs
… The stone and brick townhouse at 137 Beacon Street, a block from the Public Garden, was one of the first grand manses that helped transform the polluted … points out the central heating system. The circular shaft rises from a central opening in the second-floor ceiling, …
Issue: January-February 2015
Yearning for “Big Humanities”
… Many of Harvard's leading humanities scholars convened on October 22 to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the Humanities Center—and to plot their course …
Issue: January-February 2005
H-R History Online
… Have you an urgent need to know the number of genito-urinary disorders in horses that doctors treated at the Free Clinic of Harvard's Veterinary School in April 1899? The …
Issue: September-October 2002
Jazz Photographer Frank Stewart, at Harvard
… Capturing the energy and spirit of jazz through still-image … and singer Camille Thurman, whose album Waiting for the Sunrise won this year’s best “jazz with vocals” Independent …
Issue: November-December 2019
With Friends Like These
… On the surface , the new Netflix series Friends from College is about a particular type of nostalgia among the Ivy League set. Each of its main characters hates his or her life in a distinct …
American Cheese Cultures
… Chances are , the last time you bought cheese, you didn’t ponder the ethical implications of your purchase. But American artisanal cheesemakers, many of whom went into the business for their own ethical …
Issue: January-February 2010
New Harvard Overseers and HAA Elected Directors Announced
… The University today announced the newly elected members of the Board of Overseers and the newly elected directors of the Harvard …
Football: Harvard 49, Princeton 7
… On Saturday at halftime of the game between Harvard and Princeton, the Tigers honored … their unbeaten 1964 Ivy League championship team. The sight of the hearty-looking septuagenarians parading on Powers …
Centennial Salute
… One hundred years ago, Henry Lee Higginson, class of 1855, founder of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and donor of Soldiers Field …
Issue: May-June 2008
China’s Social-Media Smoke Screen
… It has long been suspected that the Chinese government, as part of its effort to control the Internet within its borders, … batches of fake posts turning up around the same time as crises, holidays, and other events that might stir up public …
Issue: May-June 2017
Scenes from a Tempestuous Spring
… Harvard’s spring of 1969, covered at length in this magazine then and recently, was marked by some of the most momentous, … student activists protesting the Vietnam War and other crises in American society occupied University Hall, and …
Melvin Miller ’56: “Not going…to stand aside”
… I’ve always found that I thought about things—even from the time I was in grammar school—a little differently,” said … B. Miller ’56 in an interview with this magazine on the eve of his sixty-fifth reunion. “I was never too reluctant to express a different opinion.” In keeping with this ethos of his youth, Miller is the founder, editor, and publisher …
A Saudi Prince's Controversial Gift
… Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdul-aziz Alsaud, reportedly the richest member of the Saudi royal family and head of the investment firm … regime,” wrote Suzanne Gershowitz ’04 of the American Enterprise Institute in National Review. “[M]uch of the concern …
Issue: March-April 2006
Class Gifts
… The University had received $506 million in gifts through May 31 of the fiscal year, $13 million ahead of donation totals at the same time a year ago, according to …
Issue: July-August 2006