Faculty & Research


Research on Hold

Funding freeze halts Harvard projects overnight.

by Nina Pasquini

At Home with Harvard: American Democracy

Our coverage of the nation's ailing democracy

Bringing Black History to Light

A Houghton Library project to digitize thousands of African-American records and artifacts

by Lydialyle Gibson

Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College?

Historian Alexander Keyssar on why the unpopular institution has prevailed 

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Coastal Banks Shed Risky Mortgages—Putting the Financial System at Risk

To protect against rising seas, local lenders are selling off risky mortgages.

by Bennett McIntosh

At Home with Harvard: The Immigrant Experience

A selection of Harvard Magazine's writing on immigration, displacement, and the global refugee crisis

Calhoun-Fall

The rise and fall of Charleston’s John C. Calhoun statue, a monument to white supremacy 

by Peter H. Wood

At Home with Harvard: Inequality in America

Selections from Harvard Magazine’s extensive coverage of wealth and income inequality 

How Harvard Handled the 1918 Flu Pandemic

Fall semester interrupted, a century ago

by Matteo Wong

The Pandemic’s Economic Fallout

How the COVID-19 economic crisis has been fundamentally different from past recessions

by Matteo Wong

Harvard Scientists #Strike4BlackLives

Academia’s reckoning with anti-black racism

by Lydialyle Gibson