In later years, Summers lived with his partner and personal secretary, Hector Stewart Forbes, and his beloved dog, Tango.

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Playwright and filmmaker Zayd Ayers Dohrn ’06GSAS is the son of Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers ’87TC, radical activists who, as leaders of the Weather Underground, spent much of the 1960s and ’70s ...

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In This Land Is Your Land, a guide to some of America’s most consequential (and at times controversial) historical sites, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Beverly Gage ’04GSAS tells the story of the ...

When Robert Spitzer, the Columbia psychiatrist who revolutionized modern psychiatric diagnostics, died on Christmas Day 2015 at age eighty-three, history had already redeemed him. Six months earlier, ...

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Elizabeth Denny ’10GSAS is the director of the Outsider Art Fair, an annual exposition of works by self-taught artists. This year’s event, held at the Metropolitan Pavilion in New York City’s Chelsea ...