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The Humanities Center at Great Basin College seeks to collect, curate, and cultivate the humanities to create a greater cultural and historical understanding to demystify human difference, celebrate diversity, and build an engaged citizenry to enhance the well-being of rural Nevada.

Humanities Crossroads

An online portal to showcase the rich history and cultural diversity of our region through creation and archiving of original and multimedia content.

Humanities in Action

An annual initiative organized around selected themes to provide the entire GBC community with opportunities to engage in civic conversation around significant issues of culture, place, and society.

Humanities Teaching Toolkit

An interdisciplinary space for GBC faculty to explore the use of the humanities content in their classrooms.

Featured Collection

Intertwined: Basques and Americans Crossing Paths

Sprawled between the Washington Monument and the U.S. Capitol, the Smithsonian hosts the National Folklife Festival each year. Hundreds of thousands…

Featured Exhibit

Great Basin Indian Archives @ VHC

The Great Basin Indian Archives @ VHC is a collaborative digital exhibition of Western Shoshone oral histories, language and cultural...

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A Thousand Cranes Poster

The poster for the 2024 A Thousand Cranes Project

Artist Talk with Evi Buell

Artist Evi Buell talks about her creative process and shows examples of the cameras she used to create some of the photographs in the exhibit "Another…

Film Review: First Cow

Film Title: First Cow
Reviewer Name: Russ Minter

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Film Review: Judas and The Black Messiah