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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

The "Five-foot Shelf" Reconsidered

"On or about December, 1910," Virginia Woolf wrote, "human character changed." Woolf was not referring to a specific event...

by Adam Kirsch

William Brooks Cabot

Cabot in a caribou-skin coat. A sampling of his photographs of the Naskapi and their homeland is below. All images © William Brooks...

The Dow of Professional Sports

Traditionally, the best tickets put you nearest the action, but here in the skybox, we look down, as if from an aerie, on the baseball game...

by Craig Lambert

The "Great Good Place"

Harvard University hadn't been my first choice for post-graduate English studies, and I wouldn't have been there if the University of London had...

Human origins driven by technological and cultural revolutions

Ofer Bar-Yosef argues that cultural and technological revolutions have been more important than biological ones during the past 100, 000 years.

by Jonathan Shaw

The California Meltdown

  by William H. Hogan A decade ago, California, along with other states and federal policymakers, began to rethink its approach to the...

Neil L. Rudenstine president Harvard

Only 10 years ago, at the end of the 1990-1991 academic year, Harvard and the higher-education universe were very far from their current robust...

by John S. Rosenberg

A Life with Lycaenids

At the first lab she attended in a course on terrestrial arthropods, Naomi Pierce was expected to dissect a cockroach. Not the familiar kind we...

Randall Thompson

To many music lovers, the name Randall Thompson '20 brings first to mind the lofty sounds of his most famous anthem, based on the single word...

Boogie-Woogie

It's a small exhibition, but a bit of a blockbuster. "Mondrian: The Transatlantic Paintings" focuses on a group of 17 paintings that...