#  Can History Make Us Happy? A Conversation with Darrin McMahon 

 



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 **March 1, 2023** 

 04:30PM - 06:00PM EST 

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 **Emerson Hall, Room 305**  



 

 



 

 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](https://history.dartmouth.edu/people/darrin-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).



 

 

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