About Us:What Are the Humanities?


The PHC supports humanities programs that bring our stories to life like this celebration of Martin Luther King's Birthday with Storyteller Kim Harris sponsored by the Susquehanna Folk Music Society.
The humanities are stories of human struggle and success, conflict and community, rooted in history, literature, and other fields of knowledge. They are ways to think critically about our most meaningful journeys: the search through experience for wisdom, and the search through personal life for connections to the lives of others around us, to those who have gone before us, and to those who will come after us.

Besides history and literature, humanities fields include philosophy, the history and criticism of the arts, comparative religion, the study of languages and linguistics, cultural anthropology and archaeology, jurisprudence, and studies within the social sciences concerned with humankind's search for meaning and value.

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