Curator Bonnie Lilienfeld, AB’84, shares more stories behind the stuff in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.

Spring quarter, like any other, offered an encyclopedia of public talks on campus, illuminating topics art historical, zoological, and most everything in between. At 11 of those talks, the Magazine staff were there. Here’s what we learned.

An early 20th-century student called for Indian independence and Gandhian ideals.

The latest Colloquium is an unlikely anthology, say its editors, and they couldn’t be prouder.

Writer Jeffrey Eugenides charms local readers who aren’t afraid of Derrida.

Want to work in publishing? Alumni offer advice.

Handsome, ambitious, and dead at 39, Howard T. Ricketts tried to unravel the mystery of a Mexico City epidemic.

The University turns a former seminary into a new home for economics.

On walks across Mexico City, a historian finds a path to the past.

A window into a hidden, underground culture.

Many humanities graduates want to get published. This crew decided to become publishers.

Peter Selz, AM’49, PhD’54, looks back on a life in modern art through the works that most inspired him.