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‘The White Man’s College’: How Antisemitism Shaped Harvard’s Legacy Admissions

By Serena Jampel and Yasmeen A. Khan

Broken Recovery: Eating Disorders at Harvard

‘That Class Shut Harvard Down’: The Founding of African and African American Studies

‘You’re a Case Number’: The Bureaucratic Gaps Behind Harvard’s Mental Health Leaves of Absence

Millions of Missing People: Seeking Southeast Asian Studies at Harvard

‘Fighting the Same Fight’: Disabled Students Unite for Justice

The Abolitionist and the Prisoners’ Union

Fifty years ago, the Massachusetts corrections commissioner handed the keys to the men incarcerated at Walpole State Prison. They ran the facility for two months — to prove to the world that prisons shouldn’t exist at all.

150 Years, 9 Lives: Stories from The Harvard Crimson

In truth, the legacy of The Crimson is not contained in books; it’s in the people who have sustained it. Here are just nine of them.

Podcast: The Unabomber: The Man, the Myth, and the Manifesto

The Unabomber, caught in the 1990s, continues to remain a fixture in the imaginations of countless podcast hosts, documentary makers, and journalists — why? In this podcast, Fifteen Minutes Magazine breaks down the common stories used to explain his path to violence and examines the aftershocks of the publication of his manifesto.

Assets to Axes: How Harvard’s Land Investments Inspired Fear in Brazil’s Cerrado

Although the full extent of HMC’s former landholdings remain concealed behind a complex web of private equity firms, associated subsidiary companies and investment partners, what is clear is that HMC’s purchases contributed to a climate of anxiety, fear, and strain on Brazilian subsistence farmers.