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The Internet Is Rotting

Too much has been lost already. The glue that holds humanity’s knowledge together is coming undone.
John F. Kennedy at his graduation from Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1940

Ending the Kennedy Romance

The first volume of Frederik Logevall’s biography of JFK reveals the scope of his ambition and the weakness of his political commitments.
Industry at Night, by Horatio C. Forjohn, 1940.

Weary of Work

When factories created a population of tired workers, a new frontier in fatigue studies was born.
Henry Adams and his wife, Clover Adams at Wenlock Abbey, England, 1873

A Posthumous Life

Family blessings are a curse, or they can be. The life of Henry Adams explained in his book Education.
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Higher Education’s Racial Reckoning Reaches Far Beyond Slavery

Universities helped buttress a racist caste system well into the 20th century.
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Paul Samuelson Brought Mathematical Economics to the Masses

Paul Samuelson’s mathematical brilliance changed economics, but it was his popular touch that made him a household name.

Higher Education's Reckoning with Slavery

Two decades of activism and scholarship have led to critical self-examination.
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Race in Black and White

Slavery and the Civil War were central to the development of photography as both a technology and an art.

The Tools of Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley’s sixty-year love affair with the word “tool.”

Conservatives Say Campus Speech Is Under Threat. That’s Been True for Most of History.

There’s never been a golden age of free speech at American universities.
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What We've Learned In the 50 Years Since One Report Introduced the Black-White Achievement Gap

A Harvard education professor explains how far we've come in answering some of the most important questions in education since the famous Coleman report.
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The Strenuous Life: Theodore Roosevelt's Mixed Martial Arts

Almost a century before mixing martial arts became popularized, the 26th President was boxing, wrestling, and training judo in the White House.

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