Humanities
Explore the intellectual and creative pursuits within philosophy, history, literature, and the fine arts at Harvard.
At Harvard’s Peabody Museum, Photos Reimagine Iranian History
Artist Azadeh Akhlaghi reconstructs moments of Iranian political upheaval in a series of meticulously staged images.
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.
Itinerant Scholar
The interests of Berkman Center fellow Lewis Hyde include Thoreau; writing poetry; and intellectual property in the digital age—and he manages to draw connections between them.