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.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Jeffrey Schnapp's Library Test Kitchen course tries out new ideas for libraries

An innovative course yields new products, services, and experiences that model the possible future of libraries.

by Jonathan Shaw

Radcliffe fellow Trethewey named poet laureate

Natasha Trethewey was a 2001 Radcliffe Institute Fellow.

Harvard awards eight honorary degrees at Commencement 2012

Eight awarded honorary degrees at 361st Commencement exercises

Harvard graduate school centennial medalists 2012

Graduate School of Arts and Sciences confers its 2012 Centennial Medals

Harvard Radcliffe Institute 2012-2013 fellows

Harvard’s advanced-study center plans 51 resident academics, artists

Harvard sociobiologist E.O. Wilson on the origins of the arts

Sociobiologist E.O. Wilson on the evolution of culture

Amanda Claybaugh, explicator of the nineteenth-century novel

Meet the expert on nineteenth-century novels and reformist writings.

Harvard professors project education research in 2036

Faculty of Arts and Science professors project 400th anniversary

Harvard online showcased at SXSW Interactive

A smorgasbord of Harvard online ventures at South by Southwest Interactive

The Humanities, Digitized

Reconceiving the study of culture

by Jonathan Shaw