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How Women Are Changing the NBA

From coaching staffs to front offices, female leaders are bringing new strategies to men’s basketball.

by David L. Tannenwald

Edwin Ginn

There will be no need of great national armies,” Edwin Ginn declaimed in 1901, once an international force controlled by a league of...

An Education in Ethics

Last January 13, in the amphitheater of Aldrich Hall 107, Henry B. Reiling began taking his students through the quaint details of a real-estate...

by John S. Rosenberg

“The Grand Wake for Harvard Indifference”

At noon on November 16, 1938, some 500 Harvard and Radcliffe students jammed Emerson Hall to express their outrage at Kristallnacht, as the...

Summers in Summary

Lawrence H. Summers brought to the Harvard presidency prodigious energy and a penchant for framing the University’s future in visionary terms.

by John S. Rosenberg

Hervey White

Splendiferous in his purple Russian blouse, with shaggy hair and beard, Hervey White, A.B. 1894, helped transform a tiny village in the...

“Taming” the Rhine

David Blackbourn has an affection for fens and marshes, lush, low-lying polders and high moors of heath and bog. When he leaves his home in...

by Jonathan Shaw

Psychiatry by Prescription

By the time he reached his early thirties, James was a promising scientist who had all the makings of an academic star. He had earned a stream...

Fixing Foreign Policy

This essay is adapted from the 2005-2006 Maurine and Robert Rothschild Lecture, delivered on April 24 under the sponsorship of the Radcliffe...

Governing Harvard

Harvard, founded in 1636, has by law been formally governed by a Board of Overseers since 1642, and by the Corporation since 1650. The last...

A Melting World

Photographs by David Arnold and H. Bradford Washburn The breathtaking aerial photographs of mountains and glaciers shot by H. Bradford...

by Jonathan Shaw