Real political change in America doesn’t come from the top; it never has. It comes from the bottom, from ordinary people resisting in big and small ways.

The Harvard president, who pushed back against the Trump administration’s meddling with the university’s affairs, is trying to do a delicate balancing act — shielding the institution from political ...

A Norwich woman’s 14-year campaign to get Harvard University to give up photographs of two enslaved people she believes were her ancestors — who were forced to pose half-naked by a Harvard “scientist” ...

In “Necessary Trouble,” by Drew Gilpin Faust, and “Up Home,” by Ruth J. Simmons, the former presidents of Harvard and Brown recount their unlikely paths to leadership at two of America’s ...

In 2007, Drew Gilpin Faust became president of Harvard University, serving as the institution’s first female president. After a 10-year tenure, Ms. Faust said on Wednesday that she would step down.

Former Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust, pictured in Sanders Theatre in 2017, delivered an impassioned defense of higher education during her address to Phi Beta Kappa honorees on Tuesday. By ...

How did the idea for the South Asia initiative arise? From freshmen in Harvard College to faculty, there has been an increasing interest in strengthening its engagement with the region. There were ...

Former Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust filed an amicus brief to the Supreme Court Monday in Trump v. Anderson, the forthcoming case on former U.S. President Donald J. Trump’s ...

Former Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust filed an amicus brief to the Supreme Court Monday in Trump v. Anderson, the forthcoming case on former U.S. President Donald J. Trump’s disqualification from ...

No sooner did Harvard’s 28th president, Drew Gilpin Faust, come on the phone than I popped the Harvard question — why her new memoir skirts the apex of her academic trajectory, her presidency at ...