Spring 2026
If you need a meeting time or location for a class, check my.harvard.edu. If you still have a question, call The History Department main line at 617-495-2556.
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
GENED 1159 American Capitalism
Semester: Spring
Year offered: 2026
Prof. Sven Beckert ~ 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
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
FYS 66M Harvard Collects: Exploring History and Culture in Museums, Libraries, and Archives
Semester: Spring
Offered: 2025
Dr. Chloe Chapin ~ Tuesdays 12:00-2:45
FYS 71C Law and Social Change: How Reform Movements Leverage the Law
Semester: Spring
Offered: 2026
Prof. Tomiko Brown-Nagin ~ Wednesdays 3:00-5:00
FYS 72Z Oil & Empire
Semester: Spring
Offered: 2026
Prof. Rosie Bsheer ~ Tuesdays 12:45-2:45
Hist 12 Conspiracy! A Possible History of U.S. Politics & Culture
Semester: Spring
Year offered: 2026
Dr. Aaron Jacobs ~ Mondays & Wednesdays 12:00-1:15
Hist 14 The First World War
Semester: Spring
Year offered: 2026
Prof. Jamie Martin ~ Mondays & Wednesdays 1:30-2:45
Meets the Beyond North America History Concentration Requirement
Hist 21 Labor, Liberty, and Conflict in American History
Semester: Spring
Year offered: 2026
Prof. Joel Suarez~ Mondays & Wednesdays 3:00-4:15
Meets the North America History Concentration Requirement
Hist 32A The Ottomans and the World
Semester: Spring
Year offered: 2026
Prof. Cemal Kafadar~ Mondays & Wednesdays 1:30-2:45
Meets either the Pre-1750 or the Beyond North America History Concentration Requirement, but not both.
Hist 33 The Holocaust
Semester: Spring
Year offered: 2026
Prof. Jules Riegel ~ Tuesdays & Thursdays 1:30-2:45
Hist 38 Modern China
Semester: Spring
Year offered: 2026
Prof. Arunabh Ghosh~ Mondays & Wednesdays 1:30-2:45
Meets the Beyond North America History Concentration Requirement
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
Meets the Beyond North America History Concentration Requirement
Hist 66 The Coming of the Civil War
Semester: Spring
Year offered: 2026
Prof. Walter Johnson ~ Mondays & Wednesdays 1:30-2:45
Meets the North America History Concentration Requirement
Hist 68 The 20th Century United States: Politics, Society, Culture
Semester: Spring
Year offered: 2026
Prof. Lisa McGirr ~ Tuesdays & Thursdays 10:30-11:45
Meets the North America History Concentration Requirement
Hist 70 The History of Sub-Saharan Africa to 1860
Semester: Spring
Year offered: 2026
Prof. Emmanuel Akyeampong ~ Mondays & Wednesdays 10:30-11:45
Meets the Beyond North America History Concentration Requirement
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
This is a special advanced lecture course jointly-offered with the Harvard Kennedy School and is open by application only to advanced undergraduate or graduate students. The total FAS enrollment will be limited to 25.
Meets the North America History Concentration Requirement
Hist 85 “U.S. Foreign Policy in a Global Age”
Semester: Spring
Year offered: 2026
Prof. Frederik Logevall ~ Mondays & Wednesdays, 3:00-4:15
This is a special advanced lecture course jointly-offered with the Harvard Kennedy School and is open by application only to advanced undergraduate or graduate students. The total FAS enrollment will be limited to 30.
Meets the North America History Concentration Requirement
Hist 88 How Harvard became HARVARD
Semester: Spring
Year offered: 2026
Prof. Julie Reuben ~ Mondays & Wednesdays 9:00-10:15
This is a special advanced lecture course jointly-offered with the Harvard Graduate School of Education and is open by application only to advanced undergraduate or graduate students. The total FAS enrollment will be limited to 25.
Meets the North America History Concentration Requirement
Hist 89 Critical Theory
Semester: Spring
Year offered: 2026
Prof. Peter Gordon ~ Tuesdays & Thursdays 9:00-10:15
Meets the Beyond North America History Concentration Requirement
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
Meets the North America History Concentration Requirement
Hist 118 The Empirics of Empire: Counting Community, Gender, and Race
Semester: Spring
Year offered: 2026
Dr. Urvi Khaitan ~ Tuesdays 3:00-5:45
Meets the Beyond North America History Concentration Requirement
Hist 123 Immigrant Justice Lab
Semester: Spring
Year offered: 2026
Prof. Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof ~ Wednesdays 3:00-5:45
Meets the North America History Concentration Requirement
Hist 143 Eastern Europe: Ukraine and Russia
Semester: Spring
Year offered: 2026
Prof. Serhii Plokhii~ Tuesdays 9:45-11:45
Meets the Beyond North America History Concentration Requirement
Hist 161 Harvard and Native Lands
Semester: Spring
Year offered: 2026
Prof. Phil Delora & Alan Niles ~ Tuesdays 12:45-2:45
Meets the North America History Concentration Requirement
Hist 162 Oral Histories of Asian America: Migration, Memory, Method
Semester: Spring
Year offered: 2026
Will Sack ~ Tuesdays 9:45-11:45
Meets the North America History Concentration Requirement
Hist 163 The Civil War and Reconstruction in History and Memory
Semester: Spring
Year offered: 2026
Dr. Aaron Jacobs ~ Mondays 3:00-5:00
Meets the North America History Concentration Requirement
Hist 166 Modern Vietnam: A History through its Cities
Semester: Spring
Year offered: 2026
Prof. Uyen Nguyen ~ Mondays 3:00-5:45
Meets the Beyond North America History Concentration Requirement
Hist 174 Power and Protest in the Long 1960s
Semester: Spring
Year offered: 2026
Prof. Lisa McGirr ~ Wednesdays 9:45-11:45
Meets the North America History Concentration Requirement
Hist 185 The Neoliberal Age
Semester: Spring
Year offered: 2026
Dr. Daniel Coleman ~ TBA
Meets the North America History Concentration Requirement
Hist 188 Ecologies of American Empire: The United States and Global Environments, 1898–2000
Semester: Spring
Year offered: 2026
Dr. Boyd Ruamcharoen ~ TBA
Meets the North America History Concentration Requirement
Hist 1901 Nationalism, Political Independence, and Economic Development in Africa
Semester: Spring
Year offered: 2026
Prof. Emmanuel Akyeampong ~ Tuesdays 12:45-2:45
Meets the Beyond North America History Concentration Requirement
Hist 1926 Decolonization: an Unfinished History
Semester: Spring
Year offered: 2026
Prof. Stuart Ward ~ Thursdays 3:00-5:45
Meets the Beyond North America History Concentration Requirement
Hist 1935 Political Debates in the Empire of New Rome
Semester: Spring
Year offered: 2026
Prof. Dimiter Angelov ~ Mondays 12:45-2:45
Meets the either the Beyond North America or Pre-1750 History Concentration Requirement
Hist 1945 Slavery and Public History
Semester: Spring
Year offered: 2026
Prof. Tiya Miles ~ Wednesdays 12:00-2:45
Meets the North America History Concentration Requirement
Hist 1946 What is Global European History
Semester: Spring
Year offered: 2026
Prof. David Spreen ~ Mondays 12:00-2:45
Meets the Beyond North America History Concentration Requirement
Hist 1961 The Northern Side of the Civil Rights Movement
Semester: Spring
Year offered: 2026
Prof. Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham ~ Tuesdays 12:45-2:45
Meets the North America History Concentration Requirement
Hist 1962 The Legalities of Everyday Life: The Long History
Semester: Spring
Year offered: 2026
Prof. Tamar Herzog ~ Mondays 9:00-11:45
Meets the Pre-1750 History Concentration Requirement
Hist 1964 The Social Life of Science in East Asia
Semester: Spring
Year offered: 2026
Prof. Ian Miller ~ Thursdays 12:00-2:45
Meets the Beyond North America History Concentration Requirement
Hist 1973 Re-Wilding Harvard
Semester: Spring
Year offered: 2026
Prof. Joyce Chaplin ~ Tuesdays 12:00-2:45
Hist 1980 The Soviet Empire
Semester: Spring
Year offered: 2026
Prof. Terry Martin ~ Mondays 3:00-5:00
Meets the Beyond North America History Concentration Requirement
Hist 1984B Book history before the modern age
Semester: Spring
Year offered: 2026
Prof. Ann Blair~ Fridays 12:00-2:45
Meets the Beyond North America History Concentration Requirement
Hist 1990 American Legal History
Semester: Spring
Year offered: 2026
Prof. Laura Weinrib ~ Thursdays & Fridays 1:30-3:30
Meets the North America History Concentration Requirement
Hist 97B: What is Intellectual History?
Semester: Spring
Offered: 2026
Prof. Ann Blair ~ Wednesday 3:00-5:45
Hist 97G: What is Legal History?
Semester: Spring
Offered: 2026
Prof. Myisha Eatmon ~ Wednesday 12:00-2:45
Hist 97M: What is International History?
Semester: Spring
Offered: 2026
Prof. Erez Manela ~ Thursday 3:00-5:45
Hist 97S: What is Micro-History History?
Semester: Spring
Offered: 2026
Prof. Mary Lewis ~ Thursday 12:00-2:45
Hist 97V: What is Borderlands History?
Semester: Spring
Offered: 2026
Prof. David Glovsky ~ Tuesday 12:00-2:45
Hist 99B: Senior Thesis Tutorial
Semester: Spring
Offered: 2026
Dr. Heelan ~ Wednesdays 6-8:45
Hist 91R: Supervised Reading and Research
Semester: Spring
Offered: 2026
Mary Lewis
Hist 92R “History Lab: Harvard in 1776” CANCELLED
Hist 2885 Introduction to Archival Research in Ottoman History
Semester: Spring
Year offered: 2026
Prof. Cemal Kafadar ~ Wednesdays 3:00-5:45
Hist 2039 History from Things
Semester: Spring
Year offered: 2026
Prof. Gabriel Pizzorno ~ Thursdays 3:00-5:45
Hist 2080 Medieval Law
Semester: Spring
Year offered: 2026
Prof. Charles Donahue ~ TBA
Hist 2412 Topics in Atlantic Slave History
Semester: Spring
Year offered: 2026
Prof. Vincent Brown ~ Wednesdays 9:00-11:45
Hist 2477 History of American Economic Regulation
Semester: Spring
Year offered: 2026
Prof. Kenneth Mack ~ Mondays & Tuesdays 1:30-3:00
Hist 2651 Japanese History: Seminar
Semester: Spring
Year offered: 2026
Prof. Andrew Gordon ~ Wednesdays 3:00-5:45
Hist 2950B Approaches to Global History
Semester: Spring
Year offered:2026
Prof. Sven Beckert ~ Mondays 3:45-5:45
Hist 2957 Law, Social Difference, and the Sustenance of Health
Semester: Spring
Year offered: 2026
Prof. Geroge Aumoithe ~ TBA
Hist 2973 History's Environmental Turn
Semester: Spring
Year offered: 2026
Prof. Ian Miller ~ Mondays 3:00-5:45
Hist 3920B: Teaching Practicum
Semester: Spring
Offered: 2026
Prof. Jesse Hoffnung-Graskof ~ Fridays 12:00-2:45
