Humanities
Explore the intellectual and creative pursuits within philosophy, history, literature, and the fine arts at Harvard.
Ken Burns on America’s Unfinished Revolution
At Radcliffe, the filmmaker joined Harvard historians to discuss what the nation’s founding means today.
Casey Cep reviews “These Truths: A History of the United States,” by Jill Lepore
Jill Lepore excavates the history of America, down to its bedrock values.
by Casey N. Cep
Zora Neale Hurston’s Barracoon in the Spotlight
Fresh efforts to understand the writer’s history and craft
Visualizing the World at the Harvard Map Collection
Maps can be applied to straightforward ends; they can also be fanciful, surprising, or plain weird.
Lives Glimpsed through Passports
Houghton exhibit documents “the dream of a globalized world.”
Gender Studies Appoints Robert Reid-Pharr to Professorship
The CUNY scholar will become the first senior faculty hire for the program, which has added new members in recent years.
Crimmigration: Harvard Law students address immigrants’ legal challenges
Harvard Law students address immigrants’ legal challenges.
Underground: The Story of Harvard’s Class of 1968
A senior thesis, and a new film, on the “historic generational shift” of which the class of 1968 was a part.
Tomiko Brown-Nagin to Lead Radcliffe Institute
The legal historian will become dean on July 1.
William Sellers boosts history
William Sellers aims to expose a new generation to America’s origins.
Harvard’s Bok Players get audiences “below the neck”
A theatre troupe aims for higher ed.