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.
David Edwards's New Book "The Lab: Creativity and Culture"
The Lab: Creativity and Culture sets forth a vision of multidisciplinary innovation.
Historian Vincent Brown uses multiple media to study slavery
The professor of African and African American studies uses multiple media to study slavery.
Jared Diamond and James Robinson apply "natural experiments" to studying histor
Applying "natural experiments" to the study of history
Gutenberg 2.0: What future for libraries?
Harvard’s libraries deal with disruptive change.
Harvard in China: Peter Bol and Tian Xiaofei discuss Chinese culture
A panel discussion with Peter Bol and Tian Xiaofei
Emma Dench teaches Roman history and lit
Meet a scholar enthralled by the Romans.
Biographical sketch of Chinese pharmacologist Li Shizhen
Brief life of a pioneering pharmacologist: 1518-1593
by Carla Nappi
New media transform college classrooms
Visual, audio, and interactive media are transforming the college classroom
Biographical sketch of Ayn Rand
Brief life of an iconoclastic individualist
An undergraduate ponders Orhan Pamuk's Norton Lectures
Ledecky Undergraduate Fellow Spencer Lenfield listens to Orhan Pamuk’s Norton Lectures.