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Book cover of "Black Moses" by Caleb Gayle with subtitle about ambition and the fight for a Black state.

Civil Rights in the American West

A new book chronicles one man’s quest for a Black state.

Liv Redpath performing onstage

Liv Redpath on “What You Can Say” Through Opera

Liv Redpath’s operatic trajectory

by Nina Pasquini

Union soldiers standing near the bodies of dead Confederate soldiers September 19, 1862, on Miller farm.

The Battle of Antietam: America's Deadliest Day and Its Impact on the Civil War

A new history of the Civil War's Battle of Antietam

Darren Sears stands to the left of his framed work "Summit"

Ecological Edges: Darren Sears’s Watercolor Landscapes

The surreal, artistic cartography of Darren Sears

by Lydialyle Gibson

An illustration envisioning a remade SAT test

Higher Education Reform and the SAT

Nicholas Lemann on revising standardized testing to address real educational needs

A perfect match of poet and critic: Seamus Heaney and Helen Vendler at Sligo Town Hall for the Yeats International Summer School, 1987

The Friendship of Helen Vendler and Seamus Heaney

Seamus Heaney writes to Helen Vendler.

Leaf shapes of some of the various species of maples (genus Acer) on a black background

Learning the Trees of North America

A monumental new guide to North American species

by Jonathan Shaw

Jeanne Gang’s organic Gilder Center, grafted into the American Museum of Natural History

Fall Book Recommendations from Harvard Authors

Democratic organizing, “architectural grafting,” the Constitution, offshore wealth, and other new books

Collage of Chef Nisha Vora in the kitchen preparing a dish, a bowl of sticky coconut-milk-braised tofu over rice, and a plate of buttermilk-fried “chicken” with cornbread and dilly slaw.

From Harvard Law Books to Vegan Cookbooks

Nisha Vora’s vegan journey

by Claire Zulkey

A black-and-white portrait of Tomi Adeyemi, alongside the covers of her novels "Children of Blood and Bone," "Children of Anguish and Anarchy," and "Children of Virtue and Vengeance."

Harvard Author Behind Afrofuturist Trilogy “Blood and Bone”

The reality-based fantasies of novelist Tomi Adeyemi

by Lydialyle Gibson

Brooklyn Bridge Park: the beach at Main Street Park, in the shadow of the Manhattan Bridge

How Was Brooklyn Bridge Park Planned?

Michael Van Valkenburgh and the making of Brooklyn Bridge Park