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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 Item

Film Review: Shirkers

In the summer of 1992, a group of college students and their film teacher make a movie in the streets of Singapore, a place where there is little…

Featured Collection

Tortoise Talk

Tortoise Talk Vol1 Issue1.pdf

Tortoise Talk is the student journal of the Great Basin College Nature Club.

Featured Exhibit

Elkokoak: The Basques of Elko

The Virtual Humanities Center at Great Basin College is proud to present this growing collection of materials representing northeastern Nevada's...

Recently Added Items

A Thousand Cranes performance stage set.

A Thousand Cranes performance stage set.

2024 A Thousand Cranes Project Discussion Panel photo 1.

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2024 A Thousand Cranes Project Discussion Panel photo 1.

2024 A Thousand Cranes Project Poster

The poster for the 2024 A Thousand Cranes Project