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A Radcliffe Institute panel examines the protest movement against police violence and structural racism.
Facing legal challenges, the University does away with its controversial regulations on final clubs, fraternities, and sororities.
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Winnie, Texas is not considered to be in a floodplain. But coastal hurricanes have flooded the town repeatedly since 2008.
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To protect against rising seas, local lenders are selling off risky mortgages.
A selection of Harvard Magazine's writing on immigration, displacement, and the global refugee crisis
A statue of John C. Calhoun is removed on June 24 in Charleston, South Carolina.
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The rise and fall of Charleston’s John C. Calhoun statue, a monument to white supremacy
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Facing legal challenges, the University does away with its controversial regulations on final clubs, fraternities, and sororities.
Beds were set up for Spanish flu patients outside the Harvard-affiliated Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in 1918.
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A selection of Harvard Magazine's writing on immigration, displacement, and the global refugee crisis
A statue of John C. Calhoun is removed on June 24 in Charleston, South Carolina.
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The rise and fall of Charleston’s John C. Calhoun statue, a monument to white supremacy
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Strict lines in the sand
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(1 of 4) Ipswich River Sanctuary (Mass Audubon)Photograph courtesy of Mass Audubon/Kelly Moffett
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A statue of John C. Calhoun is removed on June 24 in Charleston, South Carolina.
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The rise and fall of Charleston’s John C. Calhoun statue, a monument to white supremacy
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Beds were set up for Spanish flu patients outside the Harvard-affiliated Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in 1918.
Photograph courtesy of the Brigham and Women's Hospital ArchivesFall semester interrupted, a century ago
This 1895 map of New York City was created by socialist activist Walter Vrooman, who hoped that by showing the "concrete socialism" of every street, park, school, public building, and public dock in red (and allowing private enterprises to recede into the white background), he might persuade readers that the rest of the map should be socialist as well.
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Curator Garrett Dash Nelson ’09 on the Boston Public Library’s exhibition of “persuasive cartography”
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Beds were set up for Spanish flu patients outside the Harvard-affiliated Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in 1918.
Photograph courtesy of the Brigham and Women's Hospital ArchivesFall semester interrupted, a century ago
Georgina Milne tucks and flips, helping Harvard defeat Brown.
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Diver Georgina Milne pictures a post-pandemic return.
Salisbury Beach State Reservation
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Beds were set up for Spanish flu patients outside the Harvard-affiliated Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in 1918.
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(Click on arrow at right to view full image) No true likeness of Callimachus is known to exist, but the Libyan-born poet probably resembled the men whose faces appear on the Hellenistic coffins unearthed in Fayum, Egypt, including this one.
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Brief life (via Platonic dialogue) of a multifaceted poet: c. 310 B.C.E. - c. 240 B.C.E.
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Salisbury Beach State Reservation
Photograph by Georgia P. Zumwalt/Alamy Stock Photo
Strict lines in the sand
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(1of 7) Old Slater Mill sitePhotograph courtesy of Blackstone River Valley National Historical Park
Tracing America’s industrial roots in the Blackstone River Valley
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Contra dancing, Balkan music, sea chanteys—and more!
Built in 1962, the off-the-grid, one-room cabin is popular among ice climbers and back-country skiers.
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The Harvard Mountaineering Club’s Mount Washington cabin
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Red Rocks Conservation Area, in Gloucester, Massachusetts
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