Humanities & Arts
Braxton Shelley
A gospel scholar shapes music theory.
by Jacob Sweet
Democracy Requests the Pleasure of Your Company
Active citizens are humanists.
by Doris Sommer
Not Just “Office Helpers”
From a huge new book on the history of information, an excerpt on the role of secretaries
Culture in the Cold War
In a new book, Louis Menand probes the cultural currents of postwar America.
by Spencer Lee Lenfield
Peabody Museum Discovers Possible Slave Remains in Its Collections
“We must begin to confront the reality of a past in which academic curiosity and opportunity overwhelmed humanity,” Harvard president Lawrence Bacow wrote.
by Marina N. Bolotnikova
Cassandra Albinson
A curator takes a fresh look at portraits of aristocratic European women.
by Jonathan Shaw
At Home with Harvard: Election Day
In a year like no other, read a selection of Harvard Magazine stories on the forces that will shape the presidential election outcome.
See Their Faces
Confronting “some of the most challenging images in the history of photography”
by Marina N. Bolotnikova
Mayra Rivera
How apocalyptic narratives help make sense of the modern world
by Lydialyle Gibson
Family History
A German American scholar is unsettled by an ancestor’s secret.
by Marina N. Bolotnikova