Humanities
Explore the intellectual and creative pursuits within philosophy, history, literature, and the fine arts at Harvard.
Mount Vernon, Historic Preservation, and American Politics
Anne Neal Petri promotes George Washington and historic literacy.
How Harvard Handled the 1918 Flu Pandemic
Fall semester interrupted, a century ago
by Matteo Wong
At Home with Harvard: Pride Month
Stories on LGBTQ life, research, and history at Harvard
Callimachus
Brief life of a multifaceted poet: c. 310 B.C.E. - c. 240 B.C.E.
by Stephanie Burt , Mark Payne
Music theorist Alexander Rehding profiled by Jacob Sweet
A professor’s interstellar reach
by Jacob Sweet
Excerpt from Marjorie Garber, “Character: The History of a Cultural Obsession”
Marjorie Garber explores the word’s complexity and history.
At Home with Harvard: Racial Justice
Selections from Harvard Magazine's extensive coverage of racism, inequality, and incarceration
At Home with Harvard: The Real History of Women at Harvard
A selection of stories covering the admission of women, the Harvard-Radcliffe merger, the rise of women in the faculty ranks, Harvard’s first woman president, and more
At Home with Harvard: Rewriting History
From race and colonization to genetics and paleohistory, our favorite stories about the people reshaping the study of history
Walter Johnson writes about “The Broken Heart of America”
Walter Johnson’s radical history of St. Louis
At Home with Harvard: The Literary Life
Our editors curate their favorite literary stories in Harvard Magazine.