Search
Staff Pick: Gold Rush Days
… T he 1848 discovery of gold at Sutter’s Mill launched the dreams and journeys of thousands of people who migrated … and laborers, early mining technology, and the rapid rise of cities, like San Francisco, and smaller “wild West” …
Issue: May-June 2020
The Plant Prospectors
… mornings , before classes, Michael Donoghue would roll out of bed in the “rickety old house” he shared with several other … more than 2,000 new plants to the West, including Acer griseum, the paperbark maple, known for its beautiful …
Issue: July-August 2016
The Developing Child
… teacher Patricia Pérez is reading to her class. The story involves a pig who wants to impress a lady friend … has not, in Latin America in general, been thought of as education ,” says Graham professor of education Catherine Snow. “The approach is: Let …
Issue: March-April 2009
Finding the Movie
… Julian Breece ’03 remembers feeling haunted by a picture on the wall of his childhood home in Washington, D.C.—a photograph of Alvin Ailey, signed by the legendary choreographer …
Issue: May-June 2023
Who Built the Pyramids?
… The pyramids and the Great Sphinx rise inexplicably from the desert at Giza, relics of a vanished culture. They dwarf the approaching sprawl of …
Issue: July-August 2003
A Classroom in the Now
… In the early 1990s, scientist, writer, and world-renowned … encountered Cherry Hamrick, a teacher in the small town of South Jordan, Utah, who wanted to bring mindfulness—the act of paying attention on purpose in the present moment—into …
At Home with Harvard: Harvard in the World
… This round-up is part of Harvard Magazine ’s series “At Home with Harvard,” a … watch, listen to, and do while social distancing. Read the previous selections, featuring articles about income … Billions ,” John Rosenberg reports on the social-enterprise work—for-profit companies with a social mission—of …
The Unstoppable Botterill
… With eight minutes gone in sudden-death overtime and the 1999 national women's hockey title at stake, A.J. … is the best skater in the world, with the best skating form of any woman you'll ever see," says her Harvard coach, Katey … that skating was what I absolutely loved to do." Quelle surprise. In twelfth grade Botterill moved to Calgary, where …
College Admits 7.9 Percent of Early Applicants
… The College has admitted 7.9 percent of early-action applicants to the class of 2026, slightly up from the 7.4 percent admitted from that …
In Praise of Giraffes
… ’64’s conflict-resolution work has taken him from apartheid-torn South Africa to meetings in Geneva, Switzerland, … Libyan revolution in 1969 and later to the northern border of what was then South Vietnam. Today Graham says of this … part of a person instead of just the head part.” No surprise, then, that Stick Your Neck Out, in addition to …
Issue: November-December 2005
At Home With Harvard: Editors' Favorite Stories of 2020
… issue. While some events from this year accounted for much of our web traffic (need one say “COVID”?), other articles brought our readers joy or provoked good, … Extinction of the Press" “There’s only one private enterprise that is mentioned in the United States Constitution and …
The Many Faces of Boston
… The ancestors of most Bostonians may have hailed from Ireland and Italy, but the current top two immigrant groups are from China and the Dominican Republic, according to City of Neighborhoods: The Changing Face of Boston, an exhibit at …
Issue: July-August 2014
College Admits 4.5 Percent of Applicants to Class of 2023
… The College has admitted 1,950 of 43,330 applicants to the class of 2023 (935 of whom were admitted through early action in …
Off the Shelf
… The Temptation of Despair: Tales of the 1940s, by Werner Sollors, Cabot professor of English … and our local, state, and federal governments.” The Rise of Western Power: A Comparative History of Western …
Issue: July-August 2014
The Business of Design Thinking
… at Harvard Business School back in August 2011 with a lofty goal: merge two seemingly opposite fields—business and … Thinking [a process for practical, creative resolution of problems or issues that looks for an improved future result], yet there were no classes or formal training as part of the HBS …