Can History Make Us Happy? A Conversation with Darrin McMahon

The Human Flourishing Program at Harvard University and the Department of History at Harvard University invite Harvard staff and students to a lecture on History and Human Flourishing.

Darrin M. McMahon (PhD, Yale) is the Mary Brinsmead Wheelock Professor of History at Dartmouth College. He is the author of Enemies of the Enlightenment: The French Counter-Enlightenment and the Making of Modernity (Oxford, 2001), Happiness: A History (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2006), and Divine Fury: A History of Genius (Basic, 2013). Most recently, he is the editor of History and Human Flourishing (Oxford, 2022).