Saving the humanities through history: how understanding the humanities’ past illuminates their present and future importance, as they have discovered new findings critical to understanding our world. From the article:

…the exclusive focus on value, interpretation, and meaning provides a caricature of the humanities that is as biased as the triumphalist view of science. A closer look at the general history of the humanities shows that besides demonstrating value and interpretation, humanists have also tried to solve many concrete problems: the problem of reconstructing a text from extant copies, of comparing different art works or literary works to figure out the origin and author, of determining whether a tale about the past is trustworthy, of finding general principles underlying different languages. In all these activities, humanists sometimes make discoveries, some of which have applications for entirely different fields. These discoveries are too often erroneously credited to the sciences.

h/t Tricia Ross