This spring quarter, UC Santa Cruz Humanities students immersed themselves in the story of three Hawaiian princes who introduced surfing to the United States in the late 19th century, using Santa Cruz ...

EPOCH partners with Connecticut Humanities to address Hartford’s history of housing insecurity while providing history majors a research space. Fiona Vernal, associate professor at the University of ...

After serving as interim dean since January, Cal State Fullerton history professor and author Jessica Yirush Stern has been named dean of the university’s College of Humanities and Social Sciences as ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—Natural history, American history and celebrity culture are part of the detailed research studies underway with the newest cohort of Mississippi State University’s Institute for the ...

The humanities are in crisis. That’s the crux of Nathan Heller’s recent article for The New Yorker, “The End of the English Major,” which is drawing national attention and debate. Heller, who himself ...

History of Humanities (HOH) is publishing its tenth volume in 2025, marking a milestone for the publication as well as the relatively young field of study that has grown up alongside it. Founded in ...

Tyler Stovall, a renowned historian, professor, and former Dean of Humanities at UC Santa Cruz, died Dec. 10, 2021 at his home in New York City. He was 67. Stovall was the author of 10 books and ...

Part I. Orality/aurality -- "Oral history in the age of digital possibilities" / by William Schneider -- "Why do we call it oral history? Refocusing on orality/aurality in the digital age" / by Sherna ...

The crisis, when it came, arrived so quickly that its scale was hard to recognize at first. From 2012 to the start of the pandemic, the number of English majors on campus at Arizona State University ...

The Mississippi Humanities Council honored a Jones College history and geography teacher as its 2026 Humanities Teacher of ...

You can want different things from a university—superlative basketball, an arts center, competent instruction in philosophy or physics, even a cure for cancer. No wonder these institutions struggle to ...

Part I. Orality/aurality -- "Oral history in the age of digital possibilities" / by William Schneider -- "Why do we call it oral history? Refocusing on orality/aurality in the digital age" / by Sherna ...