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Graduate student union protesters, May 2019
Photograph by Michael Dwyer/Associated Press
After more than a year negotiating, the union sets a deadline of December 3.
Alumni share their moving stories through the first interest-group “class report.”
A social-science analysis of how Catholicism transformed Western culture
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A social-science analysis of how Catholicism transformed Western culture
How to reform voting and elections in the United States to create a representative democracy
Heliconius telesiphe
Photograph by Andrew Neild
Research in butterflies reveals how genes flow among species—and lead to tangled genetic trees
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Alumni share their moving stories through the first interest-group “class report.”
Results from the second campus survey of sexual misconduct show that sexual assault and harassment remain serious problems at institutions of higher education nationwide.
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(1 of 14) Sporting staid bowlers, early Harvard Band members pose for a formal portrait.Courtesy of the Harvard University Band
The Harvard Band celebrates a century.
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Alumni share their moving stories through the first interest-group “class report.”
Young alumni and others advance an agenda of governance change and divestment from fossil-fuel investments.
University Hall, where the Faculty of Arts and Sciences is based and holds faculty meetings
Photograph by Kris Snibbe/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
A formal, docketed discussion as proponents of divestment intensify their campaign
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Local artisans specializing in bespoke holiday treasures
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(1 of 3) “God’s Trombones, Harlem,” 2009
Photograph by Frank Stewart/Courtesy of the Cooper Gallery of African and African American Art
“The Sound of My Soul: Frank Stewart’s Life in Jazz,” at Harvard
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Russian ballerina Lubov Tchernicheva, 1920 production of Cleopatra
Russian ballerina Lubov Tchernicheva in Cleopatra, 1920. © E.O. Hoppé Estate Collection/Curatorial Assistance Inc.
Elegant photographs of dancing’s stars
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Lawrence S. Bacow
President Bacow describes the potential for Harvard’s new Allston campus to benefit both gown and town.
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(1 of 14) Sporting staid bowlers, early Harvard Band members pose for a formal portrait.Courtesy of the Harvard University Band
The Harvard Band celebrates a century.
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(1 of 4) Harrison Greenbaum’s What Just Happened? combines his two creative obsessions: comedy and magic.Photograph by Todd Seidenberg
For Harrison Greenbaum, it began with “Pick a card….”
Ali Sethi brings the Sanders Theatre crowd to its feet during a concert last spring. His Harvard mentor, Ali Asani (right, in suit and tie), joined him on stage.
Photograph by Jake Belcher/Courtesy of the Office for the Arts at Harvard
Singer Ali Sethi finds his voice in classical Pakistani music.
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Batch Catch: Having beaten Columbia's Fara'ad McCombs, Crimson junior wide receiver James Batch prepares to reel in a first-quarter touchdown pass.
Photograph by Tim O'Meara/The Harvard Crimson
Another crushing defeat for Harvard.
Max effort: On a first-quarter interception, Harvard junior defensive back Max Jones makes a mid-air steal from Dartmouth wide receiver Drew Estrada.
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The Crimson lose in heartbreaking fashion.
He went thataway: With the Harvard sideline supplying motivation, Jack Cook sets sail for the Princeton end zone to complete a 73-yard pass-and-run touchdown that gave the Crimson a halftime lead. The senior wideout had eight receptions for 141 yards, both game highs.
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Harvard falls to the undefeated Princeton Tigers.
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Paul Lee ’46 holds the replica Little Red Flag in this 2012 photograph. Surrounding him (clockwise from upper left) are Spencer Ervin ’54, Jeffrey Lee ’74, and Stephen Goodhue ’51.
Photograph courtesy of Judy Goodhue
Who’ll carry the traditionalists’ Little Red Flag?
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(1 of 14) Sporting staid bowlers, early Harvard Band members pose for a formal portrait.Courtesy of the Harvard University Band
The Harvard Band celebrates a century.
Painting of Amos A. Lawrence, 1887, by Eastman Johnson.
Courtesy of the Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of friends of Amos A. Lawrence to Harvard University. Photograph of painting ©President and Fellows of Harvard College
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At a gathering, circa 1918, of leaders of the Liberty League, Trotter sits in the first row (fifth from right).Photograph courtesy of the Hubert Harrison Papers, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library
Brief life of a black radical: 1872-1934
From the archives
American activists unfurl a banner in front of the Supreme Court.
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An historian tracks the death penalty’s persistence in America.
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(1 of 12) Adál Maldonado’s The Passport, 1995, from the series The Spirit Republic of Puerto Rico.Transfer from the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University, Gift of the artist, 2012.178. © ADзL. Image courtesy of Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum
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The ubiquity of movement across man-made borders
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How to reform voting and elections in the United States to create a representative democracy
President and supporter: Maricopa County sheriff Joe Arpaio, pardoned by President Trump
Photograph by Scott Olson/Getty Images
…and don’t always forgive
Sublime seaweed: nature photographer Josie Iselin’s cyanotype of Pikea californica
Photograph by Cyanotype by Josie Iselin
Recent books with Harvard connections
Where there are still plenty of real books: the Harvard Depository
Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell/ HPAC
A visit to the Harvard Depository
Close to home: Jimmy Hoffa (foreground) and Chuckie O’Brien near the federal courthouse, March 1, 1964, after Hoffa’s trial for jury-tampering
Photograph by Robert W. Kelley/The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images
A new look at “one of the greatest unsolved crimes in American history”
The Institute for World Literature expands global scholarship.
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(1 of 4) David Damrosch
Photograph by Stu Rosner
David Damrosch’s literary global reach
