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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.
Paradise Lost?
Five thousand years ago in the Mesopotamian marshes, between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in southern Iraq, the Sumerians began history. They...
Militant about "Islamism"
"It's a mistake to blame Islam, a religion 14 centuries old, for the evil that should be ascribed to militant Islam, a totalitarian...
George Ticknor
By today's standards, Harvard College before the Civil War was a provincial academy, competent (judged Henry Adams) at preparing students to...
Federico Capasso: The Quantum Designer
From quantum materials design to “voodoo physics” in the nanoscientists’ weird world
The Historian-Autobiographers
Should Harvard be grateful to Henry Adams for establishing a tradition of Harvard-trained historians who have written about their own lives...
Understanding Welfare Reform
One million children pushed into poverty: That was the prediction of a widely cited study on the likely effect of welfare reform, released just...
Benning Wentworth
When Benning Wentworth, A.B. 1715, retired as royal governor of New Hampshire in the summer of 1767, he was one of the richest men in New...
The Future of Marriage
When I came to Harvard in 1970, the model for many young people was the wedding in Love Story," recalls Peter J. Gomes, who has performed...
The Hack as Genius
Earlier this year, Houghton Library announced one of the most exciting donations in its history: the Donald and Mary Hyde Collection of Dr...
by Adam Kirsch
Little Boat, Unsalvaged
Thwarts, chines, ribs mud-caked, this one's deadrise bow is liftedas if by gusts, whitecaps' scud and swat no fear with her. Would she ...