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.

by Nell Porter-Brown

Harvard music professors create dynamic music theory diagrams

Two scholars—in jazz, and in German music—team up on a tool that makes musical structure visible.

by Sophia Nguyen

Historian Ronald Suny Discusses Armenian Genocide at Harvard's Davis Center

On the centenary, historian Ronald G. Suny discusses the causes of the twentieth century’s first genocide.

by Stephanie Garlock

Harvard's African and African American art gallery opens

Another art museum opens—this one, a gallery for African and African-American Art.

by Sophia Nguyen

Harvard arts and sciences enrollment, faculty growth

Highlights from Dean Michael D. Smith’s annual report

Schlesinger Library's new exhibit showcases the Civil War's personal histories

A Schlesinger Library exhibit reveals the domestic side of the war.

History turns toward the global, the scientific, and the quantitative

Scholars pursue sweeping new interpretations of the human past.

by Jonathan Shaw

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 Library helps preserve Tibet’s literary heritage

Harvard Library helps preserve Tibet’s literary heritage.

by Francesca Annic...

Harvard’s Loeb Classical Library goes digital

A digital “rebirth” for the series of Greek and Roman classics

by Francesca Annic...

Harvard students spend summer on arts and humanities research projects

Harvard undergraduates delve deep into summer humanistic research.

by Francesca Annic...