Features

Star-filled night sky with the Milky Way arching over a rocky silhouette.

We’re Thinking About Darkness All Wrong

There’s a growing movement to curb light pollution. It starts on your front porch.

by Matt Crossman

Anna Schwartz at U.S. Treasury Department 1982

Anna Jacobson Schwartz

Brief life of a pioneering economist: 1915-2012

by Jennifer Burns

Charles Brickley, 1914

Harvard’s G.O.A.T.

Remembering Charlie Brickley at the Crimson’s football sesquicentennial

by Dick Friedman

Illustration of an apple being pushed from a platform into a sea of colorful microbes

You Are What (Your Microbes) Eat

Diet, cooking, and the human microbiome

by Veronique Greenwood

Senior fellow Penny Pritzker and President Claudine Gay on stage during Gay’s installation

“Let Us Be Courageous Together”

Claudine Gay’s presidential installation

Claudine Gay and her husband, Christopher Afendulis, outside Houghton Library, June 13, 2023

A “Scholar’s Scholar”

A profile of Harvard’s thirtieth president

by John S. Rosenberg

Serhii Plokhy in his Harvard office, smiling with his arms crossed. Behind him hangs a Ukrainian flag signed by Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko

The Return of History

Ukrainian scholar Serhii Plokhy on the war in his home country

by Lydialyle Gibson

A March 1, 1965, civil rights meeting at Selma’s Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church

Getting Close, in Selma

Acting at a moment of conscience

by Drew Gilpin Faust

Team photo, Boston Tigers in 1940, Arthur Augustus “Fats” Johnson at far right

Arthur Augustus Johnson

Brief life of a Black baseball impresario: 1890-1951

by Kasey Uhlenhuth , Harry R. Lewis

Ursula Bailey working in a Harvard geology laboratory, 1945

Trailblazer in Space Science: The Legacy of Harvard's Ursula B. Marvin

Brief life of a pioneering planetary geologist: 1921-2018

by David A. Kring

President Larry Bacow and Adele Fleet Bacow, photographed at Elmwood, April 2023

Short and Sweet

Larry Bacow’s Harvard presidency, beyond the pandemic

by John S. Rosenberg