Concentration Distribution Requirements
Distribution Requirements
All History concentrators are required to take:
One course in the North America Distribution.
One course in the Beyond North America Distribution.
One course in Pre-1750 Distribution.
GENED 1147 American Food
Semester:Fall
Year offered:2025
Prof. Joyce Chaplin ~ Mondays & Wednesdays 12:00-1:15
Hist 23: Immigration Law
Semester:Fall
Year offered:2025
Prof. Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof~ Mondays & Wednesdays 10:30-11:45
Hist 39 Jews in the Modern World
Semester:Fall
Year offered:2025
Prof. Derek Penslar ~ Mondays & Wednesdays 9:00-10:15
Hist 62 African Diaspora in the Americas
Semester:Fall
Year offered:2025
Prof. Vincent Brown ~ Tuesdays & Thursdays 9:00-10:15
Hist 76 The History of Energy
Semester:Fall
Year offered:2025
Prof. Ian Miller ~ Tuesdays & Thursdays 10:30-11:45
Hist 86 Race and Public Health Crises: From TB to AIDS to COVID-19
Semester:Fall
Year offered:2025
Prof. George Aumoithe ~ Tuesdays & Thursdays 12:00-1:15
Hist 120 Atlantic Slave Wars
Semester:Fall
Year offered:2025
Prof. Vincent Brown ~ Thursdays 12:45-2:45
Hist 124 Law and Order America
Semester:Fall
Year offered:2025
Dr. Aaron Jacobs~ Mondays 3:00-5:00
Hist 160 Abolitionist Women and Their Worlds
Semester:Fall
Year offered:2025
Prof. Tiya Miles ~ Tuesdays 12:45-2:45
Hist 165 Asian American Women's History at the Schlesinger Library
Semester:Fall
Year offered:2025
Prof. Erika Lee ~ Mondays 12:45-2:45
Hist 167 Race, Gender, and Law Through the Archive
Semester:Fall
Year offered:2025
Prof. Myisha Eatmon ~ Wednesdays 12:00-2:45
Hist 187 Writing Histories of Climate Change
Semester:Fall
Year offered:2025
Prof. Emma Rothschild & Victor Seow ~ Wednesdays 12:45-2:45
Hist 1936 The Rights of Nature
Semester:Fall
Year offered:2025
Prof. Jill Lepore ~ Tuesdays 6:00-8:00pm
Hist 1942 The Second World War
Semester:Fall
Year offered:2025
Prof. Erez Manela ~ Thursday 3:00-5:45
GENED 1034 Texts in Transition
Semester:Fall
Year offered:2025
Profs. Ann Blair & Leah Whittington ~ Mondays & Wednesdays 3:00-4:15pm
GENED 1136 Power and Civilization: China
Semester:Fall
Year offered:2025
Prof. Peter Bol & William Kirby~ Mondays & Wednesdays 10:30-11:45
GENED 1203 How the Germans Embraced Hitler: Politics, Culture, the Economy and the Death of Democracy
Semester:Fall
Year offered:2025
Prof. David Spreen ~ Tuesdays & Thursdays 10:30-11:45
Hist 39 Jews in the Modern World
Semester:Fall
Year offered:2025
Prof. Derek Penslar ~ Mondays & Wednesdays 9:00-10:15
Hist 44 Germany, 1848-1949
Semester:Fall
Year offered:2025
Prof. Alison Frank Johnson ~ Tuesdays & Thursdays 10:30-11:45
Hist 56 Coffee and the Nighttime
Semester:Fall
Year offered:2025
Prof. Cemal Kafadar ~ Mondays & Wednesdays 1:30-2:45pm
Hist 62 African Diaspora in the Americas
Semester:Fall
Year offered:2025
Prof. Vincent Brown ~ Tuesdays & Thursdays 9:00-10:15
Hist 76 The History of Energy
Semester:Fall
Year offered:2025
Prof. Ian Miller ~ Tuesdays & Thursdays 10:30-11:45
Hist 83 Heidegger's Being and Time
Semester:Fall
Year offered:2025
Prof. Peter Gordon ~ Tuesdays & Thursdays 9:00-10:15
Hist 86 Race and Public Health Crises: From TB to AIDS to COVID-19
Semester:Fall
Year offered:2025
Prof. George Aumoithe ~ Tuesdays & Thursdays 12:00-1:15
Hist 87 Democracy: the Long View and the Bumpy History
Semester:Fall
Year offered:2025
Prof. Alexander Keyssar ~ Tuesdays & Thursdays 4:30-5:45
Hist 115 Amsterdam: Portrait of an Early Modern Metropolis
Semester:Fall
Year offered:2025
Prof. Geert Janssen ~ Tuesdays 3:00-5:00pm
Hist 117 The 'Settler Revolution' at the Edge of Empire: Australia, 1770-1901
Semester:Fall
Year offered:2025
Prof. Stuart James Ward ~ Thursdays 12:45-2:45
Hist 132 Travelers in the Byzantine World
Semester:Fall
Year offered:2025
Prof. Dimiter Angelov ~ Wednesdays 3:45-5:45
Hist 137 A History of Love: Modern South and Southeast Asia
Semester:Fall
Year offered:2025
Sudarshana Chanda ~ Tuesdays 3:00-5:00
Hist 186 Moral Economy
Semester:Fall
Year offered: 2025
Sama Mammadova ~ Tuesdays 3:00-5:00
Hist 187 Writing Histories of Climate Change
Semester:Fall
Year offered:2025
Prof. Emma Rothschild & Victor Seow ~ Wednesdays 12:45-2:45
Hist 1939 Economic History of Modern China
Semester:Fall
Year offered:2025
Prof. Arunabh Ghosh ~ Wednesdays 12:45-2:45
Meets the Beyond North America History Concentration Requirement
Hist 1942 The Second World War
Semester:Fall
Year offered:2025
Prof. Erez Manela ~ Thursday 3:00-5:45
Hist 1953 Religion and Popular Culture in Modern Europe
Semester:Fall
Year offered:2025
Prof. Alison Frank Johnson ~ Thursdays 12:45-2:45
Hist 1956 History of the Soviet Union Through Film and Literature
Semester:Fall
Year offered:2025
Profs. Terry Martin & Justin Weir ~ Wednesdays 3:00-5:00pm
Hist 1966 Asia and Asians at Harvard
Semester:Fall
Year offered:2025
Prof. Sugata Bose ~ Tuesdays 9:45-11:45am
Hist 1984A Book History: Before the Modern Age
Semester:Fall
Year offered:2025
Prof. Ann Blair ~ Fridays 12:00-2:45 (Year-Long Course)
GENED 1034 Texts in Transition
Semester:Fall
Year offered:2025
Profs. Ann Blair & Leah Whittington ~ Mondays & Wednesdays 3:00-4:15pm
Hist 20A: Western Intellectual History
Semester:Fall
Year offered:2025
Prof. James Hankins~ Mondays & Wednesdays 10:30-11:45
Hist 29 The Fall of the Roman Empire
Semester:Fall
Year offered:2025
Prof. Michael McCormick ~ Mondays & Wednesdays 12:00-1:15
Hist 55 Early Modern Europe
Semester:Fall
Year offered:2025
Dr. Jin-Woo Choi ~ Tuesdays & Thursdays 1:30-2:30pm
Hist 56 Coffee and the Nighttime
Semester:Fall
Year offered:2025
Prof. Cemal Kafadar ~ Mondays & Wednesdays 1:30-2:45pm
Hist 115 Amsterdam: Portrait of an Early Modern Metropolis
Semester:Fall
Year offered:2025
Prof. Geert Janssen ~ Tuesdays 3:00-5:00pm
Hist 132 Travelers in the Byzantine World
Semester:Fall
Year offered:2025
Prof. Dimiter Angelov ~ Wednesdays 3:45-5:45
Hist 186 Moral Economy
Semester:Fall
Year offered: 2025
Sama Mammadova ~ Tuesdays 3:00-5:00
Hist 1984A Book History: Before the Modern Age
Semester:Fall
Year offered:2025
Prof. Ann Blair ~ Fridays 12:00-2:45 (Year-Long Course)
GENED 1017 America As Occupiers and Nation Builders
Semester: Spring
Year offered: 2026
Profs. Andrew Gordon & Erez Manela ~ Tuesdays & Thursdays 1:30-2:45
GENED 1159 American Capitalism
Semester: Spring
Year offered: 2026
Prof. Sven Beckert ~ Tuesdays & Thursdays 12:00-1:15
GENED 1206 Asian Americans as an American Paradox
Semester: Spring
Year offered: 2026
Profs. Ju Yon Kim, Erika Lee, & Taeku Lee ~ Tuesdays 12:00-2:45
Hist 21 Labor, Liberty, and Conflict in American History
Semester: Spring
Year offered: 2026
Prof. Joel Suarez~ Mondays & Wednesdays 3:00-4:15
Hist 66: The Coming of the Civil War
Semester: Spring
Year offered: 2026
Prof. Walter Johnson ~ Mondays & Wednesdays 1:30-2:45
Hist 68 The 20th Century United States: Politics, Society, Culture
Semester: Spring
Year offered: 2026
Prof. Lisa McGirr ~ Tuesdays & Thursdays 10:30-11:45
Hist 84 “Reasoning from the Past: Applied History and Decision Making”
Semester: Spring
Year offered: 2026
Prof. Frederik Logevall ~ Mondays & Wednesdays, 9:00-10:15
Hist 85 “U.S. Foreign Policy in a Global Age”
Semester: Spring
Year offered: 2026
Prof. Frederik Logevall ~ Mondays & Wednesdays, 3:00-4:15
Hist 116 Why Do Native People Matter?: History and the Politics of Making It
Semester: Spring
Year offered: 2026
Kabl Wilkerson ~ Tuesdays 3:00-5:45
Hist 161 Harvard and Native Lands
Semester: Spring
Year offered: 2026
Prof. Phil Delora & Alan Niles ~ Tuesdays 12:45-2:45
Hist 162 Oral Histories of Asian America: Migration, Memory, Method
Semester: Spring
Year offered: 2026
Will Sack ~ Tuesdays 9:45-11:45
Hist 174 Power and Protest in the Long 1960s
Semester: Spring
Year offered: 2026
Prof. Lisa McGirr ~ Wednesdays 9:45-11:45
Hist 1945 Slavery and Public History
Semester: Spring
Year offered: 2026
Prof. Tiya Miles ~ Wednesdays 12:00-2:45
Hist 1961 The Long Civil Rights Movement
Semester: Spring
Year offered: 2026
Prof. Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham ~ Tuesdays 12:45-2:45
Hist 1973 Re-Wilding Harvard
Semester: Spring
Year offered: 2026
Prof. Joyce Chaplin ~ Tuesdays 12:00-2:45
GENED 1017 America As Occupiers and Nation Builders
Semester: Spring
Year offered: 2026
Profs. Andrew Gordon & Erez Manela ~ Tuesdays & Thursdays 1:30-2:45
GENED 1068: The United States and China
Semester: Spring
Year offered: 2026
Prof. William Kirby ~ Tuesdays & Thursdays 10:30-11:45
GENED 1088 The Crusades and the Making of the Middle East and West
Semester: Spring
Year offered: 2026
Prof. Dimiter Angelov ~ Tuesdays & Thursdays 12:00-1:15
Hist 32A The Ottomans and the World
Semester: Spring
Year offered: 2026
Prof. Cemal Kafadar~ Mondays & Wednesdays 1:30-2:45
Hist 38 Modern China
Semester: Spring
Year offered: 2026
Prof. Arunabh Ghosh~ Mondays & Wednesdays 1:30-2:45
Hist 14 The First World War
Semester: Spring
Year offered: 2026
Prof. Jamie Martin ~ Mondays & Wednesdays 1:30-2:45
Hist 46 Life after Hitler: How Decolonization and Global Cold War Shaped Germany after WW2
Semester: Spring
Year offered: 2026
Prof. David Spreen ~ Mondays & Wednesdays 10:30-11:45
Hist 47 The Cold War
Semester: Spring
Year offered: 2026
Prof. Serhii Plokhii ~ Tuesdays & Thursdays 12:00-1:15
Hist 57 Empire, Nation, Partition: Modern South Asia in Global Perspective
Semester: Spring
Year offered: 2026
Prof. Sugata Bose ~ Tuesdays & Thursdays 10:30-11:45
Hist 70 The History of Sub-Saharan Africa to 1860
Semester: Spring
Year offered: 2026
Prof. Emmanuel Akyeampong ~ Mondays & Wednesdays 10:30-11:45
Hist 89 Critical Theory
Semester: Spring
Year offered: 2026
Prof. Peter Gordon ~ Tuesdays & Thursdays 9:00-10:15
Hist 118 The Empirics of Empire: Counting Community, Gender, and Race
Semester: Spring
Year offered: 2026
Dr. Urvi Khaitan~ Tuesdays 3:00-5:45
Hist 123 Immigrant Justice Lab
Semester: Spring
Year offered: 2026
Prof. Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof ~ Wednesdays 3:00-5:45
Hist 166 Modern Vietnam: A History through its Cities
Semester: Spring
Year offered: 2026
Prof. Uyen Nguyen ~ Tuesdays 12:45-2:45
Hist 1901 Nationalism, Political Independence, and Economic Development in Africa
Semester: Spring
Year offered: 2026
Prof. Emmanuel Akyeampong ~ Tuesdays 12:45-2:45
Hist 1926 Decolonization: an Unfinished History
Semester: Spring
Year offered: 2026
Prof. Stuart Ward ~ Thursdays 3:00-5:45
Hist 1946 What is Global European History
Semester: Spring
Year offered: 2026
Prof. David Spreen ~ Mondays 12:00-2:45
Hist 1964 The Social Life of Science in East Asia
Semester: Spring
Year offered: 2026
Prof. Ian Miller ~ Thursdays 12:00-2:45
Hist 1980 The Soviet Empire
Semester: Spring
Year offered: 2026
Prof. Terry Martin ~ Mondays 3:00-5:00
GENED 1088 The Crusades and the Making of the Middle East and West
Semester: Spring
Year offered: 2026
Prof. Dimiter Angelov ~ Tuesdays & Thursdays 12:00-1:15
GENED 1160 Harvard Gets Medieval
Semester: Spring
Year offered: 2026
Prof. Dan Smail ~ Mondays & Wednesdays 12:00-1:15
Hist 32A The Ottomans and the World
Semester: Spring
Year offered: 2026
Prof. Cemal Kafadar~ Mondays & Wednesdays 1:30-2:45
Hist 70 The History of Sub-Saharan Africa to 1860
Semester: Spring
Year offered: 2026
Prof. Emmanuel Akyeampong ~ Mondays & Wednesdays 10:30-11:45
Hist 1935 Political Debates in the Empire of New Rome
Semester: Spring
Year offered: 2026
Prof. Dimiter Angelov ~ Mondays 12:45-2:45
Hist 1962 The Legalities of Everyday Life: From the Future to the Past
Semester: Spring
Year offered: 2026
Prof. Tamar Herzog ~ Mondays 9:00-11:45
