Features
Alice Hamilton
Brief life of a public-health pioneer and reformer: 1869-1970
by Daniel Stone
Reopening the Doors to College
The United States must refresh the marriage of excellence and opportunity that characterizes American higher education at its best, argue sociologists Theda Skocpol and Suzanne Mettler.
by Theda Skocpol , Suzanne Mettler
A Yodel for Help in the Modern World
Playwright Christopher Durang, a “native American absurdist,” writes black comedies that turn painful events into hilarity.
by Craig Lambert
The Developing Child
With a new interdisciplinary center, Harvard turns its focus to the earliest years of life.
by Elizabeth Gudrais
Fernando Zóbel de Ayala
A brief profile of the peripatetic painter and philanthropist
by John Seed
The War and the Writ
In the fight against terrorists, habeas corpus has played a key role in efforts to balance civil liberties against national security.
by Jonathan Shaw
Frances Perkins
How the first female Cabinet member helped shape the New Deal
by Adam S. Cohen
Life Sciences, Applied
Bioengineering--at the intersection of biology, medical science, and engineering--is where scientists Joseph Vacanti, Pamela Silver, Kit Parker, David Mooney, Joanna Aizenberg, and Radhika Nagpal are defining a new field.
by Courtney Humphries
From Daguerreotype to Photoshop
Art historian Robin Kelsey examines photographs of all kinds to reveal what they say about human history, society, and culture.
by Craig Lambert
Animals Speak Color
Kit Reed introduces an exhibition at the Harvard Museum of Natural History that reveals the different roles color plays in the animal and plant kingdoms.
by Christopher Reed
Albert Gallatin Browne Jr.
William P. MacKinnon profiles the early war correspondent who covered the Utah War against the Mormon government of Brigham Young.
by William P. MacKinnon