Alumni

Explore Harvard alumni stories, news, and achievements—covering reunions, profiles, and the global impact of Harvard graduates.

What Trump Means for John Roberts’s Legacy

Executive power is on the docket at the Supreme Court.

by Lincoln Caplan

“Gorey’s World” at the Wadsworth Atheneum

Edward Gorey’s own art collection at the Wadsworth Atheneum

by Nell Porter-Brown

Benjamin Franklin’s Retirement and Reinvention

Two hundred and seventy years ago, Benjamin Franklin did something highly unusual. He retired.

by William N. Thor...

Bryan Stevenson On the Evolution of White Supremacy

“I don’t think slavery ended in 1865 —I think it just evolved. I think it turned into decades of terrorism and violence and lynching.”

by Lydialyle Gibson

Father Columba Stewart of Hill Museum & Manuscript Library Is Profiled

A globe-trotting monk with the Benedictine “survival gene” seeks out treasured manuscripts.

by Nell Porter-Brown

Children’s-Book Author Nancy Churnin Is Profiled

Nancy Churnin’s picture-book biographies for children span time and space.

by Sanya Sagar

Newport’s Winter Activities

Visiting Newport, Rhode Island, during the winter

by Nell Porter-Brown

Brief Life of Henry Chapman Mercer, Innovative Ceramicist

Brief life of an innovative ceramicist: 1856-1930  

by Nancy Freudenthal

Critic and Poet Fred Moten, Profiled by Jesse Mccarthy

Fred Moten’s subversive black-studies scholarship

by Jesse McCarthy