Harvard University

The university’s last “finest hour” was more than 200 years ago.

In the 19th century, food science promised to improve the health, robustness, and productivity of humankind.

The KKK was clearly present at Harvard. But the university rarely mentions the 20th century in its attempts to reckon with its past.

The two prevailing historical visions of Louis Agassiz — one gentle and reverential, the other rigid and bigoted — may simply be two sides of the same coin.

In the 17th and 18th centuries, students at America’s elite universities were treated differently based on the social stature of their parents.

On Facebook's 15th anniversary, Harvard students and faculty reflect on being the first users of Earth's largest social network.

With the Dow sit-ins of the 1960s, students drew attention to links between the campus, war, and imperialism.

It’s not that there has been too much student protest. It’s that there has not been much, much more of it.

Sturmann Yanghis, a 17-year-old South African, was put on stage in America as a “wild savage.” Harvard claimed his remains when he died. Then they disappeared.

The Supreme Court considers new arguments challenging admissions practices that colleges use to select a diverse student body.

As a Harvard student, Kaczynski was part of an experiment backed by the Central Intelligence Agency that one author argued shaped his worldviews.

The remains of more than 100,000 Native Americans are held by prestigious U.S. institutions, despite a 1990 law meant to return them to tribal nations.

The school said it had benefited from slave-generated wealth and practiced racial discrimination.

For centuries, everyone from archaeologists to amateurs pillaged artifacts — and human remains. Now, the FBI is cracking down on those who continue to dig.

Group biographies and the female friendship vogue.

US monuments and memorials have overlooked frontline workers and people of color affected by past epidemics. Will we repeat history?

A lawsuit against Harvard University demands the return of an ancestor’s stolen image.

The historic pigments in the Forbes Collection include the esoteric, the expensive, and the toxic.

Mark Zuckerberg and his buddies built a corporate proto-culture that continues to influence the company today.

A new book says “the Internet was developed as a weapon and remains a weapon today.” Does the charge hold up?

Harvard digitizes two centuries of colonial history.

Rather than censuring the legacies of our ancestors, we should work to make our descendants proud.

Purposely brutalizing psychological experiments may have confirmed Theodore Kaczynski’s still-forming belief in the evil of science while he was in college.

Can speech be free when billionaires buy influence on campus?

The future of college in the asset economy.

Two centuries of New England intellectual history through the lives and ideas of people who are memorialized there.

Harvard made headlines by announcing that it would devote $100 million to remedying “the harms of the university’s ties to slavery.”

Museums that harbor unethically obtained human remains are undergoing a reckoning. It’s about time.

J. Edgar Hoover had both of them in his sights. Yet neither one was ever arrested. The untold story of how the Hall brothers beat the FBI.

The time when Harvard made an atheist their head chaplain.