The Humanities: A Guide to Key Concepts and Enduring Questions is written for teachers seeking fresh ways to bring the humanities into their classrooms. Drawing on philosophy, religion, history, languages, literature, music, dance, photography, and film, each chapter explores enduring questions within a discipline while offering insights teachers can adapt into lessons, discussions, and projects. This book equips teachers to help students think critically and creatively about the issues that continue to shape the human experience.

Robert DiYanni is a professor of humanities at New York University, where he serves on the faculties of the School of Professional Studies and the Stern School of Business. He earned his undergraduate degree in English from Rutgers University, attended a Master of Arts in Teaching program at Johns Hopkins University, and received a Ph.D. in English Language and Literature from the City University of New York Graduate Center. Robert DiYanni has offered more than 250 workshops and presentations on teaching literature, writing, interdisciplinary humanities, critical and creative thinking, and book publishing. He has run these sessions for public and independent schools in the United States and Canada; for international school consortia and associations in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East; and for secondary schools, colleges, and universities in the United States and beyond.