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.
Harvard Horizons doctoral students' ideas that may reshape their disciplines
A new program recognizes eight doctoral students whose ideas, innovations, and insights could change their fields.
Harvard faculty chosen Radcliffe Institute fellows
Fifteen Harvard faculty members chosen.
Japanese falconry preserved by note-taking
An item in the history of note-taking
HarvardX offers Justice, Classics courses
New Harvard online courses go beyond quantitative subjects to include "Justice," ancient Greece
Harvard Divinity's Ahmed wins Grawemeyer Award
Harvard Divinity School scholar recognized for book on Muslim women and the veil
Helen Vendler on admitting and nurturing creative undergraduates
Helen Vendler on how to welcome and nurture the poets and painters of the future
Harvard professor finds new Christian gospel fragment refers to Jesus's wife
A papyrus fragment interpreted by Hollis professor Karen L. King quotes Jesus speaking of "my wife."
Short profile of David Jones, Ackerman professor of the culture of medicine
David Jones, Ackerman professor of the culture of medicine, works in both history and medicine.
Philosopher and scientist Robert O. Doyle has a new model of free will
Robert O. Doyle proposes a two-stage, “Jamesian,” model of free will.
Ofer Bar-Yosef finds evidence of 20,000-year-old pottery in China
Ofer Bar-Yosef dates pottery in China to 20,000 years ago, 10 millennia before the invention of agriculture.