Born in Massachusetts, the birth control pill remains the most popular form of contraception in the United States.

Driving west into Lawrence on Interstate 70, you are greeted a few miles before one of the exits into town by a billboard ...

St. John Paul II's Amanda Thompson is a valedictorian, Harvard-bound softball star with dreams of becoming U.S. president.

George Pierce Baker (1866-1935) was a Professor of English at Harvard and Yale and author of Dramatic Technique, a ...

War is one of the leading drivers of both political and economic change, and yet Harvard lacks the space to systematically ...

One of those people was my great uncle and namesake, George C. Greenidge of Roxbury, Massachusetts (b.1916–d.1997).

A visionary evolutionary biologist, he drew comparisons to Charles Darwin with his theories on the genetic roots of seemingly ...

Former Harvard University president Claudine Gay will return to teaching in the fall, leading a course called What Is a ...

Scientists have uncovered the oldest direct evidence yet that Earth’s tectonic plates were on the move 3.5 billion years ago. By analyzing magnetic fingerprints in ancient rocks, they reconstructed ...

The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Massachusetts, is another missive in a protracted battle between the administration of President Donald Trump and the elite university.

Tamara Lanier’s long odyssey to research her family tree all the way back to “Papa Renty,” made in a promise to her dying mother 16 years ago, culminated Wednesday when historic photographs of her ...

Yana van der Meulen Rodgers is a board member of the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Association. Economist Larry Summers will resign from his tenured job as a professor at Harvard ...