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The Places You’ll Go
… What links Friendly’s Ice Cream, the Merriam-Webster dictionary, and the Indian motorcycle? Where did the Game of Life, M1 rifle, and Dr. Seuss originate? Here’s a hint: … Last year, the museum publicly supported Dr. Seuss Enterprises’ removal of six books from publication, including two …
Issue: November-December 2021
Off the Shelf
… Glock: The Rise of America’s Gun , by Paul M. Barrett ’83, J.D. ’87 (Crown, $26). A veteran journalist profiles the making and marketing of a simple, lethal …
Issue: May-June 2012
In the Footsteps of William James
… "In the Footsteps of William James," a symposium on the legacy and uses of James's work , will unfold this summer over the long …
In the Streets and in the Studio
… Ben Shahn liked to tell the story of being introduced to someone as "Shahn the … and not merely mimic Europe's master painters. The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti, a series of 23 gouaches, tells the …
Made Visible
… In the United States and throughout the world, migration is a … media, places, and times, explores these two dimensions of human movement, and the space in between. Its images and … a documentary role, with the ability to reveal and surprise. Beside well-known symbols of migration—passports, the …
Issue: November-December 2019
The Historian-Autobiographers
… be grateful to Henry Adams for establishing a tradition of Harvard-trained historians who have written about their own lives, including their experiences as students and … as illustrations of the processes that led to the country's rise to a justified pre-eminence in world affairs. American …
Issue: November-December 2004
News in Brief
… Physician-Writers on the Podium A pair of prominent physician-authors will be the … . Toehold in Allston As construction of the enterprise research campus proceeds in Allston, across Western …
Issue: May-June 2025
Safe Streets
… Autumn evenings, light off the Charles River glistens through Memorial Drive’s rusting … target is distracted driving. Pedestrian deaths began to rise in 2009—two years after the iPhone’s debut. Now …
Issue: March-April 2025
Off the Shelf
… Revolutionary Generation: Harvard Men and the Consequences of Independence, by Conrad Edick Wright ’72 (University of Massachusetts Press, $34.95). Wright is the Ford editor …
Issue: September-October 2005
The Fruit of Others’ Labor
… Sue Greene, coordinator of The West Springfield Community Garden in Boston’s South End, … these 35 (mostly) vegetable plots, as it does in the dozens of other urban green spaces that are also open to the public …
Issue: May-June 2015
Art in the Wrack
… In a time well before the island of Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, became a … pressed, and mounted them, and in 1885 formed a scrapbook of 75 plates ranging in size from two by three inches to …
Issue: September-October 2009
Bruce Rogers and His Centaur
… his arts for many publishers and printers on both sides of the Atlantic, is widely considered the first great … in a Monotype version for that company's typesetting machines. The new fonts were first used in 1929. Centaur was …
Issue: September-October 2006
The Gene Hunter
… Louis M. Kunkel is a wiry man of medium height with a lot of energy, quiet passion, and notable persistence. The professor of pediatrics and of genetics has very little … to understand hereditary diseases and cancers that arise within us. Kunkel, in fact, is one of the researchers …
Issue: March-April 2011
What Was the Enlightenment, Really?
… It looks like something out of a science fiction novel. Architect Étienne-Louis … imagines Isaac Newton’s fantastical final resting place, is the first piece visitors see when they enter Dare to Know , Harvard Art Museums’ new installation of prints and drawings from the Enlightenment era. The …
Poet Frank Bidart Wins the National Book Award
… Last night , the National Book Award winners were announced at a ceremony … won for Half-Light, which assembles a half-century’s worth of verse from over his career. In his New York Times review … by Richard Rothstein ’63, and Kevin Young’s Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, …