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The Year a Beat Poet Squatted at Harvard
In 1954, Gregory Corso moved into Eliot House. How he stayed there is a literary legend.
Image and the Arc of Feeling
Jorie Graham’s challenging lyrics use language to give readers the experience of the poem.
Profile of Lawrence S. Bacow, Harvard’s 29th president
Lawrence S. Bacow, a career educator, is schooled in making decisions.
William Morris Davis
Brief life of William Morris Davis, pioneering geomorphologist
The Supreme Court and a politicized U.S. Solicitor General
The “Tenth Justice” and the polarization of the Supreme Court
Harvard and the making of Big Football
Boosting the game, and The Game
Unequal Distribution of Incomes
The worrisome distribution of the fruits of American economic growth
Harvard’s Elsie Sunderland maps invisible ocean pollutants
Elsie Sunderland traces the flows of human pollutants in the oceans. They come back to bite us.
Moorfield Storey, first president of the NAACP
Brief life of a patrician reformer: 1845-1929
Harvard president Drew Faust in perspective
Drew Faust’s presidency in perspective
Profile of Harvard Kennedy School historian Khalil Gibran Muhammad
Historian Khalil Gibran Muhammad studies one of the most powerful ideas in the American imagination.