Humanities

The humanities are academic disciplines which study the human condition, using methods that arelargely analytic, critical, or speculative, as distinguished from the mainly empiricalapproaches of the natural and social sciences. Examples of the disciplines related tohumanities are ancient and modern...

According to this definition, which was used by the U.S. Congress when the National Endowmentfor the Humanities was established in 1964, the humanities include, but are not limited to,history;