Arts & Culture
Explore Harvard’s vibrant arts scene—from campus exhibitions and theater to cultural analysis and literary reviews. Discover how creativity shapes the Harvard experience.
James Laughlin at Harvard, by Ian S. MacNiven, from LITERCHOOR IS MY BEAT
James Laughlin’s transit to Harvard and Europe—and pioneering literary publishing
History turns toward the global, the scientific, and the quantitative
Scholars pursue sweeping new interpretations of the human past.
Sociologist Orlando Patterson does landmark work on slavery and freedom.
Orlando Patterson may be the last of Harvard sociology’s big thinkers.
Dumbarton Oaks, Harvard's Washington, D.C., center, celebrates new spaces
Harvard’s Washington, D.C., humanities center enhances its community—and its intellectual reach
Harvard honors eight including Oprah Winfrey with W.E.B Du Bois Medal
The medal is the University's highest honor in the field of African and African American studies.
by Laura Levis
Master class by Stephanie Sandler on an Osip Mandelstam poem
Professor Stephanie Sandler teaches Osip Mandelstam's "Wasps," and the power of listening.
“The Roosevelts,” and Harvard
Historian Geoffrey Ward provides a Crimson backdrop for the new Ken Burns miniseries.
Bill Haney's documentaries with social conscience
Bill Haney makes documentary films that probe social issues.
by Laura Levis
Harvard Map Collection exhibits maps of the trenches in World War I
A new way to see World War I
Tara Altebrando is the coauthor of "Roomies"
Tara Altebrando ’92 is the coauthor of a timely book.
by Nu Xiong