Humanities
Explore the intellectual and creative pursuits within philosophy, history, literature, and the fine arts at Harvard.
The Year a Beat Poet Squatted at Harvard
In 1954, Gregory Corso moved into Eliot House. How he stayed there is a literary legend.
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.
Harvard’s Bok Players get audiences “below the neck”
A theatre troupe aims for higher ed.
William Sellers boosts history
William Sellers aims to expose a new generation to America’s origins.
Alain Locke as activist aesthete
Rediscovering Alain Locke and the project of black self-realization
by Adam Kirsch
Brew’s clues: profile of Theresa McCulla, the Smithsonian's "beer historian"
A historian tracks the craft-beer boom, and the evolution of American taste.
by Bailey Trela
Excerpt from "The Annotated African American Folktales"
The power and legacy of African-American folktales
Frederick Wiseman gives Harvard's first Norton Lecture on Cinema
Documentarian Frederick Wiseman is the first filmmaker to deliver a Norton Lecture.
Bryan Stevenson on the Evolution of White Supremacy
“I don’t think slavery ended in 1865 —I think it just evolved. I think it turned into decades of terrorism and violence and lynching.”
Critic and poet Fred Moten, profiled by Jesse McCarthy
Fred Moten’s subversive black-studies scholarship