The Theme section “The Classics of the Humanities” is open access and includes introductions to foundational texts from philology, historiography, art history, religion studies, literary theory, oriental studies, archaeology, linguistics, digital humanities and more. All texts are introduced by specialists in the field, and some texts have been translated into English for the first time, such as Karl Lachmann's text on stemmatic philology which was until today available in Latin only.

History of Humanities is the journal of the Society for the History of the Humanities which is hosted by the Vossius Center. It takes as its subject the history of a wide variety of disciplines including archaeology, art history, historiography, linguistics, literary studies, musicology, philology, and media studies, tracing these fields from their earliest developments, through their formalization into university disciplines, and to the modern day.

By exploring the history of humanities across time and civilizations and along with their socio-political and epistemic implications, the journal takes a critical look at the concept of humanities itself.