Seen & Heard

Slowing Down Time

Photography professor Virginia Beahan brings an old-school technique and a rare sensibility to her craft.

The Unbelievable Truth

The strange but true tale of a clever alum, a popular showman and a bizarre collection of oddities at the College museum.

A Sobering Reality

A recent grad who drank little as a student explains why the administration alone will never change the College’s drinking culture.

Blades of Glory

When the 1992 heavyweights reunited to prep for last year’s Head of the Charles, it was just like old times. Sort of.

Rider on the Storm

In 1961 the civil rights movement arrived at a critical juncture in Jackson, Mississippi. James Breeden ’56 was there.

America Is Queer

American history was made by many people who did not conform to conventional gender expectations.

Game On

The WNBA’s new president is intent on expanding the league’s fanbase—and thinks she has the players to do it.

Rich Man, Poor Man

Students in a public-policy sociology course who think they can end poverty face a more pessimistic reality.

Portfolio

Plot Boiler
New titles from Dartmouth writers (September/October 2024)
Flight Patterns
Daniel R. Sheldon ’99 explores bird “mysteries.”
In Her Element

Each summer, Alaskan Jill Fredston ’80 heads out to explore thousands of miles of rugged Arctic coastline in her oceangoing rowing shell.

Caroline Pott ’02
A conservation biologist on life in the middle of the Pacific

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