# Concentration Distribution Requirements
**Source**: https://history.fas.harvard.edu/node/1893961
**Parent**: https://history.fas.harvard.edu/101-courses
## 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.
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### [**GENED 1147 American Food**](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/157033)
**Semester:**Fall
**Year offered:**2025
Prof. Joyce Chaplin ~ Mondays & Wednesdays 12:00-1:15
### [**Hist 23: Immigration Law**](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/153922)
**Semester:**Fall
**Year offered:**2025
Prof. Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof~ Mondays & Wednesdays 10:30-11:45
### [**Hist 39 Jews in the Modern World**](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/154370)
**Semester:**Fall
**Year offered:**2025
Prof. Derek Penslar ~ Mondays & Wednesdays 9:00-10:15
### [**Hist 62 African Diaspora in the Americas**](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/158359)
**Semester:**Fall
**Year offered:**2025
Prof. Vincent Brown ~ Tuesdays & Thursdays 9:00-10:15
### [**Hist 76 The History of Energy**](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/154262)
**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**](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/158074)
**Semester:**Fall
**Year offered:**2025
Prof. George Aumoithe ~ Tuesdays & Thursdays 12:00-1:15
### [**Hist 120 Atlantic Slave Wars**](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/158366)
**Semester:**Fall
**Year offered:**2025
Prof. Vincent Brown ~ Thursdays 12:45-2:45
### [**Hist 124 Law and Order America**](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/165014)
**Semester:**Fall
**Year offered:**2025
Dr. Aaron Jacobs~ Mondays 3:00-5:00
### [**Hist 160 Abolitionist Women and Their Worlds**](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/154123)
**Semester:**Fall
**Year offered:**2025
Prof. Tiya Miles ~ Tuesdays 12:45-2:45
### [**Hist 165 Asian American Women's History at the Schlesinger Library**](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/153880)
**Semester:**Fall
**Year offered:**2025
Prof. Erika Lee ~ Mondays 12:45-2:45
### [**Hist 167 Race, Gender, and Law Through the Archive**](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/153918)
**Semester:**Fall
**Year offered:**2025
Prof. Myisha Eatmon ~ Wednesdays 12:00-2:45
### [**Hist 187 Writing Histories of Climate Change**](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/154081)
**Semester:**Fall
**Year offered:**2025
Prof. Emma Rothschild & Victor Seow ~ Wednesdays 12:45-2:45
### [**Hist 1936 The Rights of Nature**](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/154260)
**Semester:**Fall
**Year offered:**2025
Prof. Jill Lepore ~ Tuesdays 6:00-8:00pm
### [**Hist 1942 The Second World War**](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/158251)
**Semester:**Fall
**Year offered:**2025
Prof. Erez Manela ~ Thursday 3:00-5:45
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### [**GENED 1034 Texts in Transition**](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/153248)
**Semester:**Fall
**Year offered:**2025
Profs. Ann Blair & Leah Whittington ~ Mondays & Wednesdays 3:00-4:15pm
### [**GENED 1136 Power and Civilization: China**](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/153265)
**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**](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/157133)
**Semester:**Fall
**Year offered:**2025
Prof. David Spreen ~ Tuesdays & Thursdays 10:30-11:45
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### [**Hist 39 Jews in the Modern World**](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/154370)
**Semester:**Fall
**Year offered:**2025
Prof. Derek Penslar ~ Mondays & Wednesdays 9:00-10:15
### [**Hist 44 Germany, 1848-1949**](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/154758)
**Semester:**Fall
**Year offered:**2025
Prof. Alison Frank Johnson ~ Tuesdays & Thursdays 10:30-11:45
### [**Hist 56 Coffee and the Nighttime**](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/153133)
**Semester:**Fall
**Year offered:**2025
Prof. Cemal Kafadar ~ Mondays & Wednesdays 1:30-2:45pm
### [**Hist 62 African Diaspora in the Americas**](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/158359)
**Semester:**Fall
**Year offered:**2025
Prof. Vincent Brown ~ Tuesdays & Thursdays 9:00-10:15
### [**Hist 76 The History of Energy**](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/154262)
**Semester:**Fall
**Year offered:**2025
Prof. Ian Miller ~ Tuesdays & Thursdays 10:30-11:45
### [**Hist 83 Heidegger's Being and Time**](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/157067)
**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**](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/158074)
**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**](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/157299)
**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**](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/157301)
**Semester:**Fall
**Year offered:**2025
Prof. Stuart James Ward ~ Thursdays 12:45-2:45
### [**Hist 132 Travelers in the Byzantine World**](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/155066)
**Semester:**Fall
**Year offered:**2025
Prof. Dimiter Angelov ~ Wednesdays 3:45-5:45
### [**Hist 137 A History of Love: Modern South and Southeast Asia**](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/157333)
**Semester:**Fall
**Year offered:**2025
Sudarshana Chanda ~ Tuesdays 3:00-5:00
### [**Hist 186 Moral Economy**](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/158469)
**Semester:**Fall
**Year offered:** 2025
Sama Mammadova ~ Tuesdays 3:00-5:00
### [**Hist 187 Writing Histories of Climate Change**](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/154081)
**Semester:**Fall
**Year offered:**2025
Prof. Emma Rothschild & Victor Seow ~ Wednesdays 12:45-2:45
### [**Hist 1939 Economic History of Modern China**](https://hist%201939%20economic%20history%20of%20modern%20china/)
**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**](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/158251)
**Semester:**Fall
**Year offered:**2025
Prof. Erez Manela ~ Thursday 3:00-5:45
### [**Hist 1953 Religion and Popular Culture in Modern Europe**](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/156872)
**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**](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/156898)
**Semester:**Fall
**Year offered:**2025
Profs. Terry Martin & Justin Weir ~ Wednesdays 3:00-5:00pm
### [**Hist 1966 Asia and Asians at Harvard**](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/157289)
**Semester:**Fall
**Year offered:**2025
Prof. Sugata Bose ~ Tuesdays 9:45-11:45am
### [**Hist 1984A Book History: Before the Modern Age**](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/157120)
**Semester:**Fall
**Year offered:**2025
Prof. Ann Blair ~ Fridays 12:00-2:45 (Year-Long Course)
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### [**GENED 1034 Texts in Transition**](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/153248)
**Semester:**Fall
**Year offered:**2025
Profs. Ann Blair & Leah Whittington ~ Mondays & Wednesdays 3:00-4:15pm
### [**Hist 20A: Western Intellectual History**](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/158053)
**Semester:**Fall
**Year offered:**2025
Prof. James Hankins~ Mondays & Wednesdays 10:30-11:45
### [**Hist 29 The Fall of the Roman Empire**](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/156696)
**Semester:**Fall
**Year offered:**2025
Prof. Michael McCormick ~ Mondays & Wednesdays 12:00-1:15
### [**Hist 55 Early Modern Europe**](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/154998)
**Semester:**Fall
**Year offered:**2025
Dr. Jin-Woo Choi ~ Tuesdays & Thursdays 1:30-2:30pm
### [**Hist 56 Coffee and the Nighttime**](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/153133)
**Semester:**Fall
**Year offered:**2025
Prof. Cemal Kafadar ~ Mondays & Wednesdays 1:30-2:45pm
### [**Hist 115 Amsterdam: Portrait of an Early Modern Metropolis**](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/157299)
**Semester:**Fall
**Year offered:**2025
Prof. Geert Janssen ~ Tuesdays 3:00-5:00pm
### [**Hist 132 Travelers in the Byzantine World**](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/155066)
**Semester:**Fall
**Year offered:**2025
Prof. Dimiter Angelov ~ Wednesdays 3:45-5:45
### [**Hist 186 Moral Economy**](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/158469)
**Semester:**Fall
**Year offered:** 2025
Sama Mammadova ~ Tuesdays 3:00-5:00
### [**Hist 1984A Book History: Before the Modern Age**](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/157120)
**Semester:**Fall
**Year offered:**2025
Prof. Ann Blair ~ Fridays 12:00-2:45 (Year-Long Course)
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### **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
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### **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
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### **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
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