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.
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
The Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library, explored by Adam Kirsch
Adam Kirsch reads the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library—the latest stage in the “American conquest of the Middle Ages”
by Adam Kirsch
Sackler exhibition reveals artistic discovery in Renaissance Europe
An exhibition at the Sackler reveals the connections among Renaissance art, invention, and the evolution of science.
Photographs of early modern printed-paper sundials
Photographs of early modern printed-paper sundials
Jan Sadeler’s engravings of The Seven Liberal Arts
Jan Sadeler’s engravings of The Seven Liberal Arts
Inventions in Early Modern Europe
Images from Stradanus’s "Nova reperta," a series of engravings representing technological innovations of the modern age from the perspective of a practicing artist
Peter Der Manuelian is Harvard's resident Egyptologist
Meet Harvard's resident Egyptologist.