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Alice Hamilton
Brief life of a public-health pioneer and reformer: 1869-1970
by Daniel Stone
Winthrop Bell: Harvard Philosopher, MI6 Spy, and Early Forecaster of the Holocaust
Brief life of a philosopher and spy: 1884-1965
by Jason Bell
Zelia Nuttall
Brief life of a remarkable anthropologist (1857-1933)
by Merilee Grindle
Break Every Chain
How black plaintiffs in the Jim Crow South sought justice
by Max J. Krupnick
How to Make a Mammal
Studying the fates of cells, Sharad Ramanathan comes closer to understanding the biology of development.
by Jonathan Shaw
The Philosopher of the Real World
Susanna Siegel moves beyond dialectical debates.
by Lydialyle Gibson
Anna Jacobson Schwartz
Brief life of a pioneering economist: 1915-2012
by Jennifer Burns
Harvard’s G.O.A.T.
Remembering Charlie Brickley at the Crimson’s football sesquicentennial
by Dick Friedman
You Are What (Your Microbes) Eat
Diet, cooking, and the human microbiome
by Veronique Greenwood
“Let Us Be Courageous Together”
Claudine Gay’s presidential installation
A “Scholar’s Scholar”
A profile of Harvard’s thirtieth president
by John S. Rosenberg