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.
Jimmy Carter and James Agee ’32
Why this “sovereign prince of the English language” touched the president’s heart
Five Questions with "Rent Free" Star Jacob Roberts
The actor and filmmaker on creativity, collaboration, and celebrity canines
History and Love in Haiti
Alumna Nadine Pinede’s young-adult novel—in verse
David Gordon Mitten, Harvard Classicist, Professor, and Curator
An archaeologist/curator/hands-on humanist, and an artifact from the era of typewritten term papers
by Primus VI
Redefining Race as Ethnicity
The expansive literary scholarship of Werner Sollors
Harvard Writing Center’s Jane Rosenzweig on AI and Writing
Harvard Writing Center’s Jane Rosenzweig on AI and writing
Quincy Jones and Harvard
Remembering a great musician’s Crimson ties
A Potter’s Practice
Harvard ceramics program artist-in-residence Ashton Keen
Artists Respond to the Climate Crisis at the Lahore Biennale
At the Lahore Biennale, artists respond to the climate crisis.
Stevengraphs: Woven Silk Portraits from Coventry to Harvard
Five strange trading “cards”