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Features | July-August 2025

Celebrating Integrity

Harvard passes a test of its values, yet challenges loom.

by Jonathan Shaw

Photograph of Sarah Richardson in her office

Features | November-December 2019

The Science of Sex

Historian and philosopher Sarah Richardson interrogates the science of sex and gender.

by Bennett McIntosh

William Monroe Trotter (first row, fifth from right) with other leaders of the Liberty League, circa 1920

Features | November-December 2019

William Monroe Trotter

Brief life of a black radical: 1872-1934

by Kerri K. Greenidge

A spoof passport written in Spanglish for the fictional country El Spirit Republic of Puerto Rico, with a domino in place of a national seal on its cover

Features | November-December 2019

Made Visible

The ubiquity of movement across man-made borders

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Photograph of A.O. Scott at the Quad Cinema, New York City.

Features | November-December 2019

The Way of the Critic

A.O. Scott on watching and reviewing a lot of movies

by Craig Lambert

The cover from the March-April 2001 issue of Harvard Magazine with an illustration depicting an anatomical drawing of a human surrounded by the different contributions to aging well, or not.

Faculty & Research |

From the Archives: The Talent for Aging Well

George E. Vaillant's generational research on Harvard men unveils the differences that distinguish the "happy-well" from the "sad-sick" in later life.

by Craig Lambert

An illustration of Harvard Yard with a superimposed rendering of a youthful male figure contemplating his place at the College

Features | September-October 2019

Throw Your Fastball

A life lesson from Willie Banks

by Chad M. Oldfather

Photograph of David Damrosch

Features | September-October 2019

A World of Literature

David Damrosch’s literary global reach

by Spencer Lee Lenfield

Painted portrait of Adella Hunt Logan

Features | September-October 2019

Adella Hunt Logan

Brief life of a rebellious black suffragist: 1863-1915

by Adele Logan Ale...

Photograph of Elizabeth Hinton

Features | September-October 2019

Color and Incarceration

Historian Elizabeth Hinton probes the roots of a gathering crisis.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Jack Szostak, in his lab at Massachusetts General Hospital, holds a model of a nucleic acid.

Features | July-August 2019

How Life Began

Jack Szostak’s pursuit of the biggest questions on Earth

by Erin O'Donnell