Some excerpts: On July 25—according to G. Edward White’s biography of Holmes—Roosevelt had a “secret meeting” with Holmes at Roosevelt’s summer home on Long Island. Roosevelt offered ...

Bell, the state could—and should—”prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind.” Forced sterilization, ...

Oliver Wendell Holmes, who issued Old Ironsides from the house whose site the stone marks, no doubt would have rescued his birthplace from such funereal treatment with another epic, but ...

Twenty-five years ago Oliver Wendell Holmes '61 took his place on the Supreme Bench of the United States, in that room of the Capital which had been the meeting place of Congress during a century ...

Oliver Wendell Holmes coined the term in a novel in 1861, calling Boston's elite families "the Brahmin Caste of New England." The Boston Brahmins have long held the interest of casual and ...