ACLS and the NEH will undertake this ambitious effort at reform of graduate education together with the American Historical Association, the Modern Language Association, and the Society of Biblical ...

Just over half (56 percent) of Americans agree strongly with the statement that “the humanities should be an important part of every American’s education,” while 38 percent “somewhat agreed” with the ...

(Guest post! Ben Schmidt is the visiting graduate fellow at the Cultural Observatory at Harvard, and a graduate student in history at Princeton University. His research is in intellectual and cultural ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—Mississippi State University’s Institute for the Humanities kicks off its 2023-2024 season this month with an in-depth discussion on American exceptionalism from the Civil War era ...

National Humanities Center President and Director Geoffrey G. Harpham spoke about the evolution of humanities in America to a crowded Thompson Room in the Barker Center yesterday. Alongside Sissela ...

In this multipart series, American Libraries presents case studies and interviews with thought leaders looking at research trends in academic libraries. We’ll be covering the topics of social justice, ...

“Jones” is a Muslim-American reader of this blog who is studying the humanities at the graduate level. He offered a great response on the earlier “Fragments in the Ruins” post about the incoherence of ...

Before the internet, humanities scholars conducted research traditionally, by examining historical documents, original artworks, and first editions of literary texts in the special collections reading ...

Clay Jenkinson, American humanities scholar, author and educator (and familiar to WGN Radio listeners as Thomas Jefferson and Teddy Roosevelt), joins John Williams to discuss the new Ken Burns ...

AAPHI scholars are fully funded Ph.D. graduate students in History, English and Art History, with intentional focus on training students for a broad range of careers in and beyond the academy. We ...