John S. Rosenberg

Books & Literary Life |

Review of Andrea Louise Campbell’s “Trapped in America’s Safety Net”

From personal catastrophe to enforced poverty

Hanoi’s streets (in 2007, above) are now full of motorcycles and scooters, and shop shelves are no longer bare.

Social Sciences |

Harvard and Vietnam’s economic development

During a quarter-century of engagement in Vietnam's economic development, Harvard scholars create a unique educational institution.

<i>Bowles's new pocket map of the United States of America: the British possessions of Canada, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland, with the French and Spanish territories of Louisiana and Florida, as settled by the preliminary articles of peace signed at Versailles the 20th. Jany. 1783,</i> published by Carington Bowles (London, 1784)

Museums & Collections |

Harvard maps settle U.S.-Canada border

A library loan—with latitude

Graduate & Professional Schools |

Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative

“Third-stage” learners using a novel Harvard curriculum engage social challenges.

Daw Than Than Sein, U Win Hlaing, and daughter Win Win Thu at their home in the Ayeyarwaddy River Delta village of Wakouktaw; Proximity Designs&rsquo; irrigation equipment has helped them expand their farm and boost their income significantly.

Faculty |

Harvard social enterprise, policy reform in Myanmar

From supporting farmers to probing policy, Harvard people help Myanmar remake its future.

Anthony Lewis

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Some Changes

A letter from the editor

A rendering of the Giant Magellan Telescope in operation in Chile, deploying the lasers for its adaptive-optics system

Faculty |

The Big Science of Building a Giant Telescope

Harvard professors are among those building the Giant Magellan Telescope, with hope for new discoveries. 

<i>Mahatma Gandhi</i> (2001), by Brett Cook-Dizney, Hawes Hall

Visual Arts |

Contemporary art at Harvard Business School, thanks to Gerald W. Schwartz

An unusual art collection in an unexpected place

Harvard History |

The Perils of Prediction

Peering into the future—in print

Looking south into Harvard Yard

Harvard History |

Introduction to a Harvard 375th anniversary issue

Introduction to an anniversary

Harvard History |

Snapshots of Harvard’s past quarter-century


Snapshots of Harvard’s past quarter-century
, with illustrations by Mark Steele

“Building No. 15, 4th Road in Jiu Xian Qiao” (built mid 1950s, photographed in 2005).

Visual Arts |

In photographs by Wang Di and Xing Danwen, Beijing as "urban utopia"

Two Beijing photographers interpret China's breakneck change from Communist revolution to market-based consumerism.