Open Book

Selections and sneak peeks from new releases by faculty and alumni, paired with editor insights.

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.

Illustration of a tilted dollar bill with George Washington’s face, partially submerged in ocean waves under cloudy skies.

Will the U.S. Dollar Always Be So Powerful?

The preeminence of U.S. currency at risk

Corita Kent’s a man you can lean on (1966) plays with its medium: screenprints are not reversed in the making, but her image is.

Harvard Professor on Printmaking

An art historian analyzes an overlooked medium.

by Murray Whyte

Photograph of the Lincoln Memorial

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Michael Ignatieff on Abraham Lincoln on solace

Julia Margaret Cameron, <i>Madonna and Two Children,</i> 1864, albumen print: artistically arranged&mdash;but could she control the expressions?

Harvard’s Robin Kelsey on photography

Robin Kelsey probes the place of photography within art.

Crisis of American neoliberal capitalism

A critique of the neoliberal economy

<i>Puck&rsquo;</i>s view of putting the squeeze on wealthy trusts in the Teddy Roosevelt era

An excerpt from "To Make Men Free: A History of the Republican Party"

In To Make Men Free, Heather Cox Richardson seeks to explain the back-and-forth history of Republican Party goals.

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Poet and literary figure John Hall Wheelock '08 (1886-1978) was an editor at Charles Scribner's Sons for 46 years, working with Hemingway...