Commentary

Alexander Heffner and Governor Maura Healey

Alumni Profiles |

Breaking Bread

Alexander Heffner ’12 plumbs the state of democracy.

by Jack R. Trapanick

Claudine Gay and her husband, Christopher Afendulis, outside Houghton Library, June 13, 2023

Features | September-October 2023

A “Scholar’s Scholar”

A profile of Harvard’s thirtieth president

by John S. Rosenberg

A March 1, 1965, civil rights meeting at Selma’s Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church

Features | September-October 2023

Getting Close, in Selma

Acting at a moment of conscience

by Drew Gilpin Faust

Team photo, Boston Tigers in 1940, Arthur Augustus “Fats” Johnson at far right

Features | September-October 2023

Arthur Augustus Johnson

Brief life of a Black baseball impresario: 1890-1951

by Kasey Uhlenhuth , Harry R. Lewis

Illustration of Massachusetts Hall, Harvard president’s office

The College Pump | September-October 2023

Presidents’ Paths

Life decisions en route to Massachusetts Hall

by Primus VI

Letters | July-August 2023

Cambridge 02138

Climate change, philanthropy, the GSAS naming gift

Letters | July-August 2023

Not Sporting?

Crimson athletics meets the transfer portal, compensation for student names and images, different demographics, and other looming threats

Cartoon of Anne Pusey redecoration president’s house 1953

John Harvard's Journal | July-August 2023

Yesterday’s News

Headlines from Harvard’s history

An illustration of a young woman at an easel, holding a paintbrush and tracing a path while looking out across a landscape of other people following their own path

University People | July-August 2023

Uncharted Territory

A recent graduate thinks about what is means to take unconventional paths after Harvard.

by Josie Abugov

Ursula Bailey working in a Harvard geology laboratory, 1945

Features | July-August 2023

Ursula B. Marvin

Brief life of a pioneering planetary geologist: 1921-2018

by David A. Kring

The late professors Roy J. Glauber and Henry Rosovsky

The College Pump | July-August 2023

Origin Stories

Eminent professors’ life foundations

by Primus VI