Spring Courses

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.

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 1014: Ancestry: Where Do We Come from and Why Do We Care?

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2021

Maya Jasanoff

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See also: Cross-Listed/Spring, GENED/Spring, General Education (GenEd) Courses/Spring, US or European History (Western), 1000-Level Courses/Spring

GENED 1044: Deep History

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2021

Daniel Smail/Matt Liebmann

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See also: Cross-Listed/Spring, GENED/Spring, General Education (GenEd) Courses/Spring, Before 1750 (Pre-modern - PM), Beyond the U.S.and Europe (Non-Western), 1000-Level Courses/Spring

GENED 1068: The United States and China

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2021

William Kirby

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

GENED 1095: Is War Inevitable?

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2021

Derek Penslar

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See also: Cross-Listed/Spring, GENED/Spring, General Education (GenEd) Courses/Spring, US or European History (Western), 1000-Level Courses/Spring

GENED 1117: Nature

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2021

Joyce Chaplin

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See also: Cross-Listed/Spring, GENED/Spring, General Education (GenEd) Courses/Spring, US or European History (Western), 1000-Level Courses/Spring

GENED 1159: American Capitalism

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2021

Sven Beckert

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See also: Cross-Listed/Spring, GENED/Spring, General Education (GenEd) Courses/Spring, US or European History (Western), 1000-Level Courses/Spring

Freshman Seminars

FRSEMR 63M: War Stories: Looking at War Through the Tales We Tell

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2021

Drew Faust

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FRSEMR 72E: That Seventies Seminar: Discovering a Decade that Made America

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2021

Jane Kamensky

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FRSEMR 72L: Political Crisis and Radical Change in Recent History

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2021

Charles Maier

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

HISTORY 12G: Atlantic Slave Wars

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2021

Vincent Brown

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

HISTORY 12H: How Empires Fall: Case Studies and Theoretical Approaches from the Bronze Age to Today

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2021

Henry Gruber

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

HISTORY 12K: Arabs, Jews, and "Arab Jews" in the Modern Middle East

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2021

Caroline Kahlenberg

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

HISTORY 12L: Power and Protest: U.S. Social Movements in the 1960s and 1970s

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2021

Lisa McGirr

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

HISTORY 12M: Abolitionist Women and Their Worlds

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2021

Tiya Miles

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

HISTORY 12N: Abolition Ecologies: Nature, Race, and Labor in the United States

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2021

Rebecca Croog

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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:

2021

Walter Johnson

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

HISTORY 14W: Soulcraft and Statecraft in China and the West

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2021

James Hankins

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See also: Undergraduate Seminars/Spring, Before 1750 (Pre-modern - PM), Beyond the U.S.and Europe (Non-Western)

HISTORY 80G: Travelers to Byzantium

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2021

Dimiter Angelov

Link:

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

HISTORY 82D: French Colonial Encounters: 1870's to Present

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2021

Mary Lewis

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

HISTORY 84G: Harvard and Slavery

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2021

Sven Beckert

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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:

2021

Lisa McGirr

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See also: Directed Study for Undergraduates/Spring

HISTORY 92R: History Lab

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2021

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:

2021

Ann Blair

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See also: Tutorials/Spring

HISTORY 97E: "What is Imperial History?"

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2021

Sugata Bose

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See also: Tutorials/Spring

HISTORY 97H: "What is Urban History?"

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2021

Lizabeth Cohen

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See also: Tutorials/Spring

HISTORY 97I: "What is Biography?"

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2021

Jill Lepore

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See also: Tutorials/Spring

HISTORY 97P: "What is Indigenous History?"

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2021

Philip Deloria

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See also: Tutorials/Spring

HISTORY 99B: Senior Thesis Tutorial

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2021

Carla Heelan

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See also: Tutorials/Spring

Lecture Courses (1000-1899-level courses)

HISTORY 1001: The War in Vietnam

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2021

Fredrik Logevall

Link:

Course Information

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

HISTORY 1002: The 20th Century United States: Politics, Society, Culture

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2021

Lisa McGirr

Link:

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

HISTORY 1004: Modern Europe, 1789 to the Present

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2021

Carla Heelan

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

HISTORY 1015: Native American Women: History and Myth

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2021

Tiya Miles

Link:

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

HISTORY 1023: Japan in Asia and the World

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2021

Andrew Gordon/David Howell

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

HISTORY 1035: Byzantine Civilization

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2021

Dimiter Angelov

Link:

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

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2021

Gabriel Pizzorno

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

HISTORY 1324: French Social Thought, Durkheim to Foucault

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2021

Peter Gordon

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

HISTORY 1405: American Legal History, 1776-1865

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2021

Annette Gordon-Reed

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

HISTORY 1433: History of American Populisms

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2021

Brett Flehinger

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

HISTORY 1602: Modern China

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2021

Arunabh Ghosh

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

HISTORY 1610: East Asian Environments: China, Japan, Korea

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2021

Ian Miller

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

HISTORY 1636: Intro to Harvard History: Beyond the Three Lies

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2021

Zachary Nowak

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

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

HISTORY 1911: Pacific History

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2021

David Armitage

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See also: Conference Courses (for Undergraduates & Graduates)/Spring, US or European History (Western), Beyond the U.S.and Europe (Non-Western)

HISTORY 1919: Austrian History in Literature

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2021

Alison Frank Johnson/Nadine Schwakopf

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

HISTORY 1933: Literature and Urban History: Views from Brazil and the United States

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2021

Sidney Chalhoub/Bruno Carvalho

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See also: Conference Courses (for Undergraduates & Graduates)/Spring, US or European History (Western), Beyond the U.S.and Europe (Non-Western)

HISTORY 1934: Topics in Music from 1800 to the Present

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2021

Peter Gordon/Alex Rehding

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

HISTORY 1937: Social Revolutions in Latin America

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2021

Alejandro de la Fuente

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See also: Conference Courses (for Undergraduates & Graduates)/Spring, Beyond the U.S.and Europe (Non-Western)

HISTORY 1951: Japanese Imperialism and the East Asian Modern

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2021

Ian Miller

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See also: Conference Courses (for Undergraduates & Graduates)/Spring, Beyond the U.S.and Europe (Non-Western)

HISTORY 1955: Pandemics in History

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2021

Erez Manela

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See also: Conference Courses (for Undergraduates & Graduates)/Spring, US or European History (Western), Beyond the U.S.and Europe (Non-Western)

HISTORY 1973B: Re-Wilding Harvard

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2021

Joyce Chaplin/David Moreno Mateos

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

HISTORY 1982: The Nuclear Age: An International History

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2021

Serhii Plokhii

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

Graduate Proseminars (2000-level courses)

HISTORY 2442: Readings in the History of the U.S. in the 19th Century: Proseminar

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2021

Walter Johnson

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

HISTORY 2653: Historiography of Modern Japan: Proseminar

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2021

Andrew Gordon

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

Graduate Seminars (2000 and 3900-level courses)

HISTORY 2008B: Jewish History as World History: Graduate Readings Seminar

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2021

Derek Penslar

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:

2021

Michael McCormick

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

HISTORY 2080: Medieval Law

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2021

Charles Donahue

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

HISTORY 2272: The Soviet Union: Seminar

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2021

Terry Martin

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HISTORY 2341B: Religion and Public Life in North America, 16th Century to the Present: Seminar

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2021

Catherine Brekus/David Holland

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

HISTORY 2525B: Administrating Differences in Latin America: Historical Approaches

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2021

Alejandro de la Fuente/Tamar Herzog

Link:

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

HISTORY 2955B: History of Global Capitalism: Seminar

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2021

Sven Beckert/Sophus Reinert

Link:

Course Information

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

Teaching Practicum (3920B)

HISTORY 3920B: Colloquium on Teaching Practices

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2021

Sidney Chalhoub

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