Students & Alumni
Features on student life and alumni journeys, capturing the spirit, impact, and diversity of the Harvard community.
Harvard Retains Winthrop Name
Committee undecided on whether owning slaves merits denaming
by Max J. Krupnick
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 Shadow 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
Henry Chapman Mercer
Brief life of an innovative ceramicist: 1856-1930
by Nancy Freudenthal
The Low End Theory
Fred Moten’s subversive black-studies scholarship
by Jesse McCarthy
Prodigies’ Progress
Parents and superkids, then and now
by Ann Hulbert
A Composed Response
Composer Jonathan Bailey Holland on finding his musical voice
by Jennifer McFarl...
Robotic Healthcare
A doctor’s take on the destruction of medicine
Sketch Artist
Comedian Colin Jost, from Shouts and Murmurs to Saturday Night Live
by Oset Babür
A Novel Take on Eternal Life
Dara Horn breathes life into classical Jewish sources.
by Marina N. Bolotnikova
From Here to Timbuktu
A globe-trotting monk with the Benedictine “survival gene” seeks out treasured manuscripts.
by Nell Porter-Brown