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.
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.
Professor John Mugane directs Harvard’s African language program
Meet the director of Harvard’s African language program.
English and the humanities in decline?
A new lament about the status of English critiques the Harvard department's new curriculum.
Who Was Lincoln, Really?
Honoring the two-hundredth anniversary of his birth, Lincoln scholars attempt to cut through myth and legend to reveal the real man.
Does Thinking Make It So?
In The Cure Within, historian of science Anne Harrington explores the medical history of the mind-body connection.