John Harvard's Journal

At Harvard’s Beck-Warren House, Ghosts Speak Many Languages

The quirky 1833 home now hosts Celtic scholars.

by Nell Porter-Brown

Carmen Arnold-Biucchi

Carmen Arnold-BiucchiPhotograph by Jim HarrisonHarvard's first curator of numismatic collections, overseeing a trove of 22,000 coins in the...

Genomic Joint Venture

Harvard, its hospitals, MIT, and the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research announced on June 19 that they will together create a...

Citing Harvard

Although it was not the educational institution directly involved in the affirmative-action cases decided by the Supreme Court on June 23...

Allston Deliberations

Having hired a team of consultants and engineers one year ago to assess the University's existing real estate assets in Allston, as well as the...

Diggin' It: Summer in Cambridge

Expansion of Harvard's Cambridge campus continued this summer as the University built what will be its largest underground space: a subterranean...

For the Virtual Museumgoer

The Busch-Reisinger museum will celebrate its hundredth birthday by mounting an exhibition, from October 24 through February 15, 2004, devoted...

Case Dismissed

When Harvard denied tenure to political theorist Peter Berkowitz, an associate professor of government, in 1998, he filed an internal grievance...

Pushing Civil Rights

In the spring of 1996, the appellate court decision in Hopwood v. Texas landed like a thunderclap in higher education. The Fifth Circuit, which...

by Garrett M. Graff

How to Care for Your Grandfather's Teddy Bear

Harvard offers a new on-line resource for anyone who has stuff worth keeping safe, such as photographs of one's wedding; or those fading...

America's Stake in the Multilateral World

Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León, LL.D. '03, president of Mexico from 1994 to 2000 and now director of Yale's Center for the Study of...