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Offering programs of study for undergraduate and graduate students, the Department of History at Harvard University is home to a vibrant and dynamic community of scholars.

Undergraduates can choose History as their primary concentration or secondary field as they work toward the AB degree. They may also choose to participate in one...

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History is the study of the past. It encompasses every dimension of human interaction, including social life, the economy, culture, thought, and politics. Students of history study individuals, groups, communities, and nations from every imaginable perspective—employing all the techniques of the humanities and social sciences to raise questions and probe for answers. There is no concentration more diverse than History and none more individualistic.
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Graduate Program
2014 Apr 14

Bondage in Eurasia, from the Seventeenth to Twentieth Centuries

4:00pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

Harvard Law School, Lewis 214A

Allessandro Stanziani (Centre de Recherches Historiques, EHESS)
Presented by the Workshop on the Political Economy of Modern Capitalism, with support from the Warren Center



2014 Apr 15
Crossing Paths: The Diversity in Mexico-US Migration
4:30pm
Location: 
Belfer Case Study Room, CGIS South, S020, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
Filiz Garip
Associate Professor of Sociology, Harvard University


Mexicans in the United States are a diverse population. But this diversity often gets lost in scholarly work and in the popular press. This lecture will explore the sources of the diversity in the Mexican migrant stream, which, for more than a century now, has remained stable in its presence but changed remarkably not only in its composition and origins in Mexico, but also in its destinations and settlement patterns in the United...
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2014 Apr 17
Emancipation and the Atlantic Vortex
4:00pm to 6:00pm
Location: 
Robinson Hall, Basement Conference Room
Adam Rothman (Georgetown University)
A continuation of last year's Emancipation at 150 series
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2014 Apr 17

What is a Wereworlf? Genres, Practices, and Cataloguing Monsters from the Middle Ages to the Scientific Revolution

5:00pm

Location: 

Science Center 469

Surekha Davies, Western Connecticut University

Co-sponsored by the Early Modern History Workshop, the Humanities Center Seminar in Book History and the Early Sciences Working Group

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