Features
Academic publishing and scholarly communication: a status report
The troubled present and promising future of scholarly communication
Brief life of writer-reformer Edward Everett Hale, by Jeffrey Mifflin
Brief life of a science-minded writer and reformer: 1822-1909
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Violence against South Asian women and solutions
Addressing the root causes of violence against women in South Asia
by Rohini Pande
Cass Sunstein on the constitution in the 21st century
Cass Sunstein and the modern regulatory state
James Laughlin at Harvard, by Ian S. MacNiven, from LITERCHOOR IS MY BEAT
James Laughlin’s transit to Harvard and Europe—and pioneering literary publishing
History turns toward the global, the scientific, and the quantitative
Scholars pursue sweeping new interpretations of the human past.
John Muir
A brief life of a Scottish-American conservationist
Sociologist Orlando Patterson does landmark work on slavery and freedom.
Orlando Patterson may be the last of Harvard sociology’s big thinkers.
Harvard's Dale Jorgenson advocates taxing carbon and recycling the revenue
A plan for controlling greenhouse gases while enhancing economic growth
Brief life of America’s epic historian Francis Parkman, by Castle Freeman
Brief life of America’s epic historian: 1823-1893