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Site mobile navigation Search for: Home What Are the Humanities? Get Involved Publications and Web Resources Archive Menu Humanities in Action Perspectives. Resources. Involvement. Site navigation Home What Are the Humanities? Get Involved Publications and Web Resources Archive Search for: Featured Issue Public Square Individual Rights vs. Social Responsibilities in a Pandemic The COVID pandemic is not merely a crisis of public health, it is a crisis of faith in American institutions and in our civil society. Political polarization has confounded efforts to build consensus about how to combat the disease and increased distrust and resentment. In a pluralistic society committed to personal freedom, how can the humanities help us take action to ensure the common good? Learn More › By National Humanities Center October 2021 April 2022 The National Humanities Center is an independent, nonprofit organization dedicated exclusively to advanced study in all areas of the humanities. The Center supports excellence in humanities research and education at all levels and promotes broader public understanding and appreciation for the humanities through public engagement activities linked to its scholarly and educational programs. Humanities Perspectives Scholars providing context and humanistic insight on important topics. The Old ‘Irrelevance’ Canard , Elisa Tamarkin The Humanities Are Worth Fighting For , Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado Don’t Kill ‘Frankenstein’ With Real Frankensteins at Large , Maureen Dowd The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature , Sarah Hart The Dangerous Decline of the Historical Profession , Daniel Bessner Yes, the Great Books Make Us Better People , John McWhorter Issues Archive Public Square Healing Rifts and Restoring Civility Incivility and polarization, which have increasingly typified public discourse in the United States over the past couple of decades, have coalesced into a serious threat to democracy itself. Recent events, including an insurrectionist attack on Congress, demonstrate the very real dangers that rancor and disunity present. Learn More › By National Humanities Center January 2021 May 2022 Scholarship and Academia Addressing Structural Racism in the Academy By its very nature, institutional racism is elusive, hiding in plain sight under the guise of accepted traditions and through modes of professional behavior that cast a blind eye on the experiences of people of color. It is incumbent on us, therefore, to pay careful attention to those whose experiences of the academy have been shaped by encounters with racial bias if we are to have any hope of correcting them. Learn More › By National Humanities Center October 2020 May 2022 Scholarship and Academia Pursuing Justice and Preserving Open Debate Recently, over 150 notable journalists, writers, and academics signed a letter in Harper’s Magazine expressing concern over increasing intolerance on campuses, in newsrooms, and throughout our society. Numerous responses to this letter have raised important questions about freedom of expression and its limits, including the very possibility of truly open debate” in a society where historic inequities have long suppressed the voices of those on the margins. Learn More › By National Humanities Center July 2020 April 2022 Contact Us National Humanities Center 7 T.W. Alexander Drive, P.O. Box 12256 Research Triangle Park, NC 27709 Phone: 919.549.0661 | Fax: 919.990.8535 Email: info@nationalhumanitiescenter.org About the Project Humanities in Action is a project of the National Humanities Center , created to highlight important issues involving humanities research and teaching and offer humanities perspectives on important public...