Featured series 
Tag: History
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Nation & World
Brainwashing? Like ‘The Manchurian Candidate’?
More than vestige of Cold War, mind-control techniques remain with us in social media, cults, AI, elsewhere, new book argues
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Arts & Culture
From ‘joyous’ to ‘erotically engaged’ to ‘white-hot angry’
Stephanie Burt’s new anthology rounds up 51 works by queer and trans poets spanning generations
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Science & Tech
Why are you cursing?
Steven Pinker breaks down the history of taboo words, different categories of swearing, and the meaning conveyed by a bleep
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Campus & Community
Take a stand, Abdul-Jabbar tells graduating seniors
Writer and basketball legend speaks to the moment in Class Day address
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Campus & Community
Finding common humanity, modern lessons in antiquity, a path forward
Yurong ‘Luanna’ Jiang, Aidan Scully, Thor Reimann to deliver orations
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Campus & Community
Marine vet’s future was a puzzle. Then he found archaeology.
Shane Rice credits Gen Ed class — and professor’s wall of declassified intelligence photos — with illuminating career path
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Campus & Community
‘There are secrets to unlock’
Harvard’s practice of preservation plays key role in future research
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Campus & Community
5 faculty members named Harvard College Professors
Recognized for excellence in teaching in fields ranging from geometry to politics
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Arts & Culture
Schlesinger exhibit turns spotlight on largely invisible past
Students, archivists collaborate to tell deeper story of Asian American women’s history
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Nation & World
When foreign governments took aim at universities
Scholars look to historical examples for insights amid current U.S. tensions
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Campus & Community
Slave trade database moving to Harvard
Publicly accessible digital tool compiles four decades of scholarship on more than 30,000 voyages and 200,000 people.
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Campus & Community
Cutting drug costs, embracing aging, demystifying AI — and more research ideas
8 graduate students pitch their work in Harvard Horizons talks
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Nation & World
Meacham sees a stark choice for America
Pulitzer-winning historian speaks to country’s past and future in conversation with Faust
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Work & Economy
You, too, can never, ever relax
In ‘Make Your Own Job,’ Erik Baker explores how entrepreneurialism has altered Americans’ relationship with work
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Science & Tech
When a stove’s virtues amount to more than just hot air
Science historian examines how Benjamin Franklin’s invention sparked new thinking on weather, technology
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Arts & Culture
An architect-detective’s medieval mystery
Exhibit traces scholar’s quest to reconstruct abbey destroyed after French Revolution
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Nation & World
How World War I veterans shaped the Civil Rights Movement
Study traces surge in activism among Black men who faced discrimination while defending country
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Science & Tech
Life-changing brain tech, but with a chilling caveat
Fellow’s paper draws from history to urge caution on brain-computer interfaces
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Health
Did a socially awkward scientist set back airborne disease control?
In talk on new book, Carl Zimmer theorizes key researcher’s discoveries were undercut by his personality
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Nation & World
Finding insights in history for war in Ukraine
Scholars say that Russia may appear to be gaining upper hand currently, but challenges lie ahead
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Arts & Culture
Choice is a good thing. Right?
Historian explores how having options became synonymous with freedom — and why it doesn’t always feel that way
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Arts & Culture
Welcome to age of the will to ignorance
Political scientist, historian examines why so many embrace ‘magical thinking that crowds out common sense and expertise’ in new book
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Nation & World
‘Sorry to see that 80 years later, this is still an important subject’
Magda Bader was just 14 when the Nazis sent her to Auschwitz. But memory remains clear of losing parents, a sister and her baby, starvation, fear
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Campus & Community
Origins of Indo-European? Donation to Art Museums?
Have you been paying attention? Test your knowledge of this week’s Gazette in our news quiz.
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Science & Tech
Landmark studies track source of Indo-European languages spoken by 40% of world
Researchers place Caucasus Lower Volga people, speakers of ancestor tongue, in today’s Russia about 6,500 years ago
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Nation & World
‘We cannot let our past become our children’s future’
Larry Bacow, whose mother survived Auschwitz, represents University at ceremony marking 80th anniversary of death camp’s liberation
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Arts & Culture
An archaeological record that doubles as art
Painter captured ancient Egyptian tomb’s secrets in vivid brushstrokes
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Arts & Culture
More than kind of blue
Imani Perry’s lyrical new book weaves memoir, history to consider central place of a color in Black America
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Arts & Culture
How maps (and cyclists) paved way for roads
Curator takes alternative route through cartographic history and finds a few surprises
