Art Theft Redux
Anthony Amore, M.P.A. ’00, comments on a Rotterdam museum’s loss.
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Articles by Department: Alumni Writers
Focusing on the Tea Party
A new book by Harvard scholars Theda Skocpol and Vanessa Williamson attracts attention as the presidential primary season begins.
1.9.12
Civil War Reawakened
Adam Goodheart’s new book explores the Civil War.
4.27.11
"The Fires": How Mathematical Modeling Nearly Burned Down New York
In a new book, Joe Flood ’04 tells the story of the epidemic of fires that ravaged New York City in the 1970s.
8.3.10
"Hot Time in the Old Town": New York City's Deadly Heat Wave of 1896
Edward Kohn ’90, a historian at Bilkent University, shows how the crisis influenced the political careers of Theodore Roosevelt and William Jennings Bryan.
7.26.10
He Missed Out on Woodstock
Michael Winerip reflects on being in the younger generation of boomers.
8.17.09
Arianne Cohen Tells Tall Tales
Arianne Cohen ’03 celebrates “life from on high” in a new book that discusses tall people’s perspectives and prospects.
6.29.09
The Bells Return to Russia
A New Yorker article explores the Lowell House bells’ journey back to Russia—and how they came to be at Harvard in the first place.
4.26.09
Inaugural Addresses Then and Now
An archival look at presidential inaugural talks, and a contemporary, amusing historian’s take on the often-clunky, but increasingly populist, first-day rhetoric.
1.13.09
Obama's Daunting International Agenda
Journalist David E. Sanger’s new book outlines the huge international security challenges facing the new administration.
1.13.09
“Yankee” Rhymes with “Bernanke”
Roger Angell ’42 resumes writing his light name-dropping, year-end verse, “Greetings, Friends!”
12.16.08
Bittersweet Victory
The Obama win, and the changes in American society it portends, came too late for some. Roger Angell remembers one of those individuals.
11.20.08
The Mailer-Buckley Connection
The late Norman Mailer ’43, a prolific and pugnacious author, apparently wrote a lot of letters to go with his many published works—some 50,000 letters archived by Michael Lennon, according to The New Yorker…
10.3.08
Tall Tales
Arianne Cohen ’03—a onetime Harvard Magazine Ledecky Undergraduate Fellow— is publishing a second book—The Tall Book: A Celebration of Life on High, which promises “a fascinating and informative look into the world of tall people”…
9.12.08
Politicking as Crimson-Hued Blood Sport
Somehow, in the years since, Corsi has segued from political science to a different kind of political art, and has found different purposes for his prolific writings—and a much different tone for them. As author of Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry, he…