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.
Promoting the arts and humanities at Harvard Medical School
This fall, Harvard Medical School will launch a new program to promote the arts and humanities.
by Zara Zhang
Centennial Medalists 2015
The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences honors four distinguished alumni.
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.
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.
Harvard's African and African American art gallery opens
Another art museum opens—this one, a gallery for African and African-American Art.
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.
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.