When artist Nicoletta Daríta de la Brown came across postcards with photographs of unidentified Black women from the early 20th century, she felt an immediate kinship. "I saw them and wanted to know ...

Do American universities produce too many Ph.D.s? It’s a decades-old question that has intensified in recent years as worries about a stagnant academic-job market, record graduate-student debt, and ...

Sritama Chatterjee is a second-year Ph.D. student at the Department of English, University of Pittsburgh. You can find her on Twitter @SritamaBarna. When I came to the U.S.A. last year for my Ph.D., ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There's been a sharp drop in the number of students majoring in the humanities. urbazon/E+ via Getty Images Stereotypes abound ...

To address the need for interdisciplinary scholarship that can help illuminate the complex ways that nature and culture are intertwined, the Yale Environmental Humanities Initiative has developed a ...

The unanimous vote by the board of trustees at Marymount University in Arlington, Virginia, to eliminate nine liberal arts majors, most in the humanities, has left sophomore communications major Grace ...

Harvard’s Arts and Humanities Division and the Mahindra Humanities Center will launch two new programs in fall 2021 to help promote undergraduate humanities research and collaboration across fields.

The Louisiana Endowment of the Humanities has announced its Prime Time literacy program will be held this fall in 25 parishes ...

At a time when many humanities programs at U.S. colleges and universities are struggling, Trinity University is well positioned to offer new scholarships, thanks to a donation from the family of a ...