Spring Courses

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NOTE: The History Department only has course locations for HISTORY classes. If your course is cross-listed, consult the original department.

General Education Courses (These courses count for History credit)

GENED 1017: Americans as Occupiers and Nation-Builders

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2022

Andrew Gordon/Erez Manela

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See also: Cross-Listed/Spring, General Education (GenEd) Courses/Spring, US or European History (Western)

GENED 1068: The United States and China

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2022

William Kirby

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See also: Cross-Listed/Spring, General Education (GenEd) Courses/Spring, US or European History (Western), Beyond the U.S.and Europe (Non-Western)

GENED 1088: The Crusades and the Making of the East and West

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2022

Dimiter Angelov

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See also: Cross-Listed/Spring, General Education (GenEd) Courses/Spring, Before 1750 (Pre-modern - PM)

GENED 1140: Borders

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2022

Mary Lewis

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See also: Cross-Listed/Spring, General Education (GenEd) Courses/Spring, US or European History (Western)

GENED 1159: American Capitalism

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2022

Sven Beckert

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See also: Cross-Listed/Spring, General Education (GenEd) Courses/Spring, US or European History (Western)

GENED 1160: Harvard Gets Medieval

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2022

Daniel Smail

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See also: Cross-Listed/Spring, General Education (GenEd) Courses/Spring, Before 1750 (Pre-modern - PM)

Freshman Seminars

FRSEMR 71C: Law and Social Change: How Reform Movements Leverage the Law

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2021

Tomiko Brown-Nagin

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Undergraduate Seminars (12, 13, 14, 70 and 80-level courses)

HISTORY 12O: The Great Divergence and Convergence: Disparity in the Global Economy 1500-Present

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2022

Michael O'Sullivan

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See also: Undergraduate Seminars/Spring, Beyond the U.S.and Europe (Non-Western)

HISTORY 12P: The History of Emotions

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2022

Derek Penslar

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See also: Undergraduate Seminars/Spring, US or European History (Western)

HISTORY 12Q: U.S. Latinx History

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2022

Kris Klein Hernández

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See also: Undergraduate Seminars/Spring, US or European History (Western)

HISTORY 12S: Biography and Autobiography in Renaissance Italy

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2022

James Hankins

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See also: Undergraduate Seminars/Spring, Before 1750 (Pre-modern - PM)

HISTORY 12U: The Social Life of Science in East Asia

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2022

Ian Miller

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See also: Undergraduate Seminars/Spring, US or European History (Western)

HISTORY 12X: The AIDS Epidemic

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2022

Johanna Folland

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See also: Undergraduate Seminars/Spring, US or European History (Western)

HISTORY 12Z: The History of American Conservatism from William F. Buckley, Jr., to Donald Trump

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2022

Aaron Bekemeyer

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See also: Undergraduate Seminars/Spring, US or European History (Western)

HISTORY 13C: St. Louis from Lewis and Clark to Michael Brown

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2022

Walter Johnson

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See also: Undergraduate Seminars/Spring, US or European History (Western)

HISTORY 13E: History of Modern Mexico

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2022

Kirsten Weld

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See also: Undergraduate Seminars/Spring, Beyond the U.S.and Europe (Non-Western)

HISTORY 14X: Conquering Pandemics: Medicine and the State in the Effort to Control Disease

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2022

John Mulhall

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See also: Undergraduate Seminars/Spring, Before 1750 (Pre-modern - PM)

HISTORY 14Z: Modern Iran: From Empires and Revolutions to the Everyday

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2022

Belle Cheves

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See also: Undergraduate Seminars/Spring, Beyond the U.S.and Europe (Non-Western)

HISTORY 15A: The Challenge of Making America Modern

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2022

Lizabeth Cohen

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See also: Undergraduate Seminars/Spring, US or European History (Western)

Directed Study for Undergraduates

HISTORY 91R: Supervised Reading and Research

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2022

Ian Miller

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See also: Directed Study for Undergraduates/Spring

HISTORY 92R: History Lab

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2022

Gabriel Pizzorno

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See also: Directed Study for Undergraduates/Spring

Tutorials (Hist 97 and 99)

HISTORY 97B: "What is Intellectual History?"

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2022

Ann Blair

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See also: Tutorials/Spring

HISTORY 97H: "What is Urban History?"

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2022

Lizabeth Cohen

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See also: Tutorials/Spring

HISTORY 97J: "What is Family History?"

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2022

Jane Kamensky

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See also: Tutorials/Spring

HISTORY 97M: "What is International History?"

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2022

Erez Manela

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See also: Tutorials/Spring

HISTORY 97O: "What is Military History?"

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2022

Derek Penslar

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See also: Tutorials/Spring

HISTORY 99B: Senior Thesis Tutorial

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2022

Carla Heelan

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See also: Tutorials/Spring

Lecture Courses (1000-1899-level courses)

HISTORY 1009: The Making of the Modern Middle East

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2022

Rosie Bsheer

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See also: Lecture Courses/Spring, Beyond the U.S.and Europe (Non-Western), 1000-Level Courses/Spring

HISTORY 1018: Coffee and the Nighttime: History and Politics, 1400-2020

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2022

Cemal Kafadar

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See also: Lecture Courses/Spring, Before 1750 (Pre-modern - PM), Beyond the U.S.and Europe (Non-Western), 1000-Level Courses/Spring

HISTORY 1029: Early Modern Britain, 1485-1714

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2022

Flynn Cratty

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See also: Lecture Courses/Spring, Before 1750 (Pre-modern - PM), 1000-Level Courses/Spring

HISTORY 1037: Modern Southeast Asia

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2022

Sugata Bose

Link:

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See also: Lecture Courses/Spring, Beyond the U.S.and Europe (Non-Western), 1000-Level Courses/Spring

HISTORY 1039: First Empires: Power and Propaganda in the Ancient World

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2022

Gabriel Pizzorno

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See also: Lecture Courses/Spring, Before 1750 (Pre-modern - PM), 1000-Level Courses/Spring

HISTORY 1067: An Introduction to the History of Economics

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2022

Ian Kumekawa

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See also: Lecture Courses/Spring, US or European History (Western), 1000-Level Courses/Spring

HISTORY 1217: U.S. Foreign Policy in a Global Age

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2022

Fredrik Logevall

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See also: Lecture Courses/Spring, US or European History (Western), 1000-Level Courses/Spring

HISTORY 1221: Postwar Germanies

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2022

Link:

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See also: Lecture Courses/Spring, US or European History (Western), 1000-Level Courses/Spring

HISTORY 1223: The American Century?: A History of the United States since World War II

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2022

Aaron Bekemeyer

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See also: Lecture Courses/Spring, US or European History (Western), 1000-Level Courses/Spring

HISTORY 1301: Western Intellectual History: The Prehistory of Modern Thought

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2022

James Hankins

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See also: Lecture Courses/Spring, Before 1750 (Pre-modern - PM), 1000-Level Courses/Spring

HISTORY 1701: West Africa from 1800 to the Present

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2022

Emmanuel Akyeampong

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See also: Lecture Courses/Spring, Beyond the U.S.and Europe (Non-Western), 1000-Level Courses/Spring

Conference Courses (1900-1999-level courses for Undergraduates and Graduates)

HISTORY 1906: Vienna in the 20th Century

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2022

Alison Frank Johnson

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See also: Conference Courses (for Undergraduates & Graduates)/Spring, US or European History (Western)

HISTORY 1918: Directions in Civil War

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2022

Drew Faust

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See also: Conference Courses (for Undergraduates & Graduates)/Spring, US or European History (Western)

HISTORY 1921: The History of Law in Europe

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2022

Tamar Herzog

Link:

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See also: Conference Courses (for Undergraduates & Graduates)/Spring, US or European History (Western)

HISTORY 1947: The Imperial Map: Geographic Information in the Age of Empire

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2022

Kelly O'Neill

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See also: Conference Courses (for Undergraduates & Graduates)/Spring, US or European History (Western)

HISTORY 1973: Re-Wilding Harvard

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2022

Joyce Chaplin

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See also: Conference Courses (for Undergraduates & Graduates)/Spring, US or European History (Western)

Graduate Proseminars (2000-level courses)

HISTORY 2300: Methods in Intellectual History: Proseminar

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2022

David Armitage

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See also: Graduate Proseminar/Spring, 2000-Level Courses/Spring

HISTORY 2400: Readings in Colonial and Revolutionary America: Proseminar

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2022

Vincent Brown

Link:

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See also: Graduate Proseminar/Spring, 2000-Level Courses/Spring

Graduate Seminars (2000 and 3900-level courses)

HISTORY 2004: Understanding Political Economy, The View from the Middle East, and South Asia: Seminar

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2022

Rosie Bsheer

Link:

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See also: Graduate Seminars/Spring, 2000-Level Courses/Spring

HISTORY 2056: Reading in Late Antique and Medieval History: Seminar

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2022

Michael McCormick

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See also: Graduate Seminars/Spring, 2000-Level Courses/Spring

HISTORY 2080: Medieval Law

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2022

Charles Donahue

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See also: Graduate Seminars/Spring, 2000-Level Courses/Spring

HISTORY 2445: Constitutions, Law, and Empire: Seminar

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2022

Annette Gordon-Reed/Peter Onuf

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See also: Graduate Seminars/Spring, 2000-Level Courses/Spring

HISTORY 2475: Legal History Workshop: Intimacy and the Law

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2022

Kenneth Mack/Anna Lvovsky

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See also: Graduate Seminars/Spring, 2000-Level Courses/Spring

HISTORY 2477: History of American Economic Regulation: Seminar

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2022

Kenneth Mack

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See also: Graduate Seminars/Spring, 2000-Level Courses/Spring

HISTORY 2487B: Slavery and the Universities: Seminar

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2022

Sven Beckert/Evelynn Hammonds

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See also: Graduate Seminars/Spring, 2000-Level Courses/Spring

HISTORY 2510: History and Memory in Latin America: Seminar

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2022

Kirsten Weld

Link:

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See also: Graduate Seminars/Spring, 2000-Level Courses/Spring

HISTORY 2651: Japanese History: Seminar

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2022

Andrew Gordon

Link:

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See also: Graduate Seminars/Spring, 2000-Level Courses/Spring

HISTORY 2708: Sources, Methodology, and Themes in African History: Seminar

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2022

Emmanuel Akyeampong

Link:

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See also: Graduate Seminars/Spring, 2000-Level Courses/Spring

HISTORY 2884: Topics in Ottoman Social and Cultural History: Seminar

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2022

Cemal Kafadar

Link:

Course Information

See also: Graduate Seminars/Spring, 2000-Level Courses/Spring

HISTORY 2950B: Approaches to Global History: Seminar

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2022

Sven Beckert/Charles Maier

Link:

Course Information

See also: Graduate Seminars/Spring, 2000-Level Courses/Spring

Teaching Practicum (3920B)

HISTORY 3920B: Colloquium on Teaching Practices

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2022

Dimiter Angelov

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