Harvard’s Division of Arts and Humanities launched its inaugural Public Culture Project to encourage philosophical inquiry at Harvard, with the aim of addressing increasing polarization in the U.S.

For 60 years, Boston’s Museum of African American History has transported people to the past, letting visitors to a 200-year-old meeting house see where abolitionists like Frederick Douglass spoke and ...

(JTA) — A museum holding one of the most important photography collections of pre-Holocaust Jewish life wanted to scan thousands of images and make them accessible to the public online. As part of the ...

On a recent day in Hyde Park, fans of Taylor Swift gathered in their Eras Tour T-shirts to hear a scholarly breakdown of the singer’s lyrics. Authors Roxane Gay and Stephen Dubner reflected on the ...

An abrupt cessation of federal humanities funding will leave Illinois Humanities short an estimated $1 million for this fiscal year, which could have a trickle-down effect on the state’s museums and ...

For more than 130 years, the arts and humanities at the University of Chicago have played an important role in the evolution of those fields in America and across all of higher education. It is a ...

Three weeks ago, the Trump government ordered the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to cancel all the funding to the fifty State Humanities Councils, which until now played a vital role in ...

On Oct. 18, the University of Chicago will host more than two dozen lectures, symposia and exhibitions for its annual Arts & Humanities Day celebration. Now in its 45th year, this public showcase of ...

Re “Trump Seeks to Eliminate the National Endowment for the Arts” (news article, nytimes.com, May 2) and “Top Officials at National Endowment for Arts Resign Amid Cuts by Trump” (news article, May 7): ...

At their core, the humanities are all about what makes us human — like language, religion, philosophy, history, art, community, and identity. "The humanities help us understand the human experience in ...

SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) – Oregonians investing in the Cultural Tax Credit contributed more than $5.4 million to support arts, heritage and humanities nonprofits in 2023, the Oregon Cultural Trust announced ...