Fall Courses
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General Education Courses (These courses count for History credit) expand_more
GENED 1034 Texts in Transition
Semester:Fall
Year offered:2025
Profs. Ann Blair & Leah Whittington ~ Mondays & Wednesdays 3:00-4:15pm
GENED 1136 Power and Civilization: China
Semester:Fall
Year offered:2025
Prof. Peter Bol & William Kirby~ Mondays & Wednesdays 10:30-11:45
GENED 1147 American Food
Semester:Fall
Year offered:2025
Prof. Joyce Chaplin ~ TBA
GENED 1203 How the Germans Embraced Hitler: Politics, Culture, the Economy and the Death of Democracy
Semester:Fall
Year offered:2025
Prof. David Spreen ~ Tuesdays & Thursdays 10:30-11:45
First Year Seminars expand_more
FYS 47U Declarations of Independence: The Political Philosophy of the American Revolution
Semester: Fall
Offered: 2025
Prof. David Armitage ~ Wednesdays 12:45-2:45
FYS 66K The Philosophy of Laughter
Semester: Fall
Offered: 2025
Prof. Peter Gordon ~ Wednesdays 12:45-2:45
FYSEMR 72C A World without Airplanes
Semester: Fall
Offered: 2025
Joyce Chaplin ~ Tuesdays 9:45-11:45am
FYS 71M Global Capitalism: Past, Present, Future
Semester: Fall
Offered: 2025
Prof. Sophus Reinert ~ Wednesdays 6:00-8:00
FYS 73V Antisemitism, Then and Now
Semester: Fall
Offered: 2025
Prof. Derek Penslar ~ Mondays 3:00-5:00
Lecture Courses (10-89 level courses) expand_more
Hist 20A: Western Intellectual History
Semester:Fall
Year offered:2025
Prof. James Hankins~ Mondays & Wednesdays 10:30-11:45
Meets the Pre-1750 History Concentration Requirement
Hist 23: Immigration Law
Semester:Fall
Year offered:2025
Prof. Jesse Hoffnung-Garskoff~ Mondays & Wednesdays 10:30-11:45
Meets the North America History Concentration Requirement
Hist 29 The Fall of the Roman Empire
Semester:Fall
Year offered:2025
Prof. Michael McCormick ~ Mondays & Wednesdays 12:00-1:15
Meets the Pre-1750 History Concentration Requirement
Hist 39 Jews in the Modern World
Semester:Fall
Year offered:2025
Prof. Derek Penslar ~ Mondays & Wednesdays 9:00-10:15
Meets either the North America or the Beyond North America History Concentration Requirement, but not both.
Hist 44 Germany, 1848-1949
Semester:Fall
Year offered:2025
Prof. Alison Frank Johnson ~ Tuesdays & Thursdays 10:30-11:45
Meets the Beyond North America History Concentration Requirement
Hist 55 Early Modern Europe
Semester:Fall
Year offered:2025
Dr. Jin-Woo Choi ~ Tuesdays & Thursdays 1:30-2:30pm
Meets the Pre-1750 History Concentration Requirement
Hist 56 Coffee and the Nighttime
Semester:Fall
Year offered:2025
Prof. Cemal Kafadar ~ Mondays & Wednesdays 1:30-2:45pm
Meets either the Pre-1750 or the Beyond North America History Concentration Requirement, but not both.
Hist 62 African Diaspora in the Americas
Semester:Fall
Year offered:2025
Prof. Vincent Brown ~ Tuesdays & Thursdays 9:00-10:15
Meets the North America History Concentration Requirement
Hist 76 The History of Energy
Semester:Fall
Year offered:2025
Prof. Ian Miller ~ Tuesdays & Thursdays 10:30-11:45
Meets either the North America History or the Beyond North America History Concentration Requirement, but not both
Hist 83 Heidegger's Being and Time
Semester:Fall
Year offered:2025
Prof. Peter Gordon ~ Tuesdays & Thursdays 9:00-10:15
Meets the Beyond North America History Concentration Requirement
Hist 86 Race and Public Health Crises: From TB to AIDS to COVID-19
Semester:Fall
Year offered:2025
Prof. George Aumoithe ~ Tuesdays & Thursdays 12:00-1:15
Meets either the North America or the Beyond North America History Concentration Requirement, but not both.
Hist 87 Democracy: the Long View and the Bumpy History
Semester:Fall
Year offered:2025
Prof. Alexander Keyssar ~ Tuesdays & Thursdays 4:30-5:45
Meets the Beyond North America History Concentration Requirement.
Undergraduate Seminars (100-199 level courses) expand_more
Hist 115 Amsterdam: Portrait of an Early Modern Metropolis
Semester:Fall
Year offered:2025
Prof. Geert Janssen ~ Tuesdays 3:00-5:00pm
Meets the Pre-1750 or the Beyond North America History Concentration Requirement, but not both.
Hist 117 The 'Settler Revolution' at the Edge of Empire: Australia, 1770-1901
Semester:Fall
Year offered:2025
Prof. Stuart James Ward ~ Thursdays 12:45-2:45
Meets the Beyond North America History Concentration Requirement
Hist 120 Atlantic Slave Wars
Semester:Fall
Year offered:2025
Prof. Vincent Brown ~ Thursdays 12:45-2:45
Meets the North America History Concentration Requirement
Hist 124 Law and Order America
Semester:Fall
Year offered:2025
Dr. Aaron Jacobs~ Mondays 3:00-5:00
Meets the North America History Concentration Requirement
Hist 132 Travelers in the Byzantine World
Semester:Fall
Year offered:2025
Prof. Dimiter Angelov ~ Wednesdays 3:45-5:45
Meets the Pre-1750 or the Beyond North America History Concentration Requirement, but not both.
Hist 137 A History of Love: Modern South and Southeast Asia
Semester:Fall
Year offered:2025
Sudarshana Chanda ~ Tuesdays 3:00-5:00
Meets the Beyond North America History Concentration Requirement
Hist 160 Abolitionist Women and Their Worlds
Semester:Fall
Year offered:2025
Prof. Tiya Miles ~ Tuesdays 12:45-2:45
Meets the North America History Concentration Requirement
Hist 165 Asian American Women's History at the Schlesinger Library
Semester:Fall
Year offered:2025
Prof. Erika Lee ~ Mondays 12:00-2:45
Meets the North America History Concentration Requirement\
Hist 167 Race, Gender, and Law Through the Archive
Semester:Fall
Year offered:2025
Prof. Myisha Eatmon ~ Wednesdays 12:00-2:45
Meets the North America History Concentration Requirement
Hist 186 Moral Economy
Semester:Fall
Year offered: 2025
Sama Mammadova ~ Tuesdays 3:00-5:00
Meets the Pre-1750 History Concentration Requirement\
Hist 187 Writing Histories of Climate Change
Semester:Fall
Year offered:2025
Prof. Emma Rothschild & Victor Seow ~ Wednesdays 12:45-2:45
Meets either the North America or the Beyond North America History Concentration Requirement, but not both.\
Conference Courses (1900-1999-level courses for Undergraduates and Graduates) expand_more
Hist 1936 The Rights of Nature
Semester:Fall
Year offered:2025
Prof. Jill Lepore ~ Tuesdays 6:00-8:00pm
Meets the North America History Concentration Requirement
Hist 1939 Economic History of Modern China
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
Semester:Fall
Year offered:2025
Prof. Erez Manela ~ Thursday 3:00-5:45
Meets the Beyond North America History Concentration Requirement
Hist 1953 Religion and Popular Culture in Modern Europe
Semester:Fall
Year offered:2025
Prof. Alison Frank Johnson ~ Thursdays 12:45-2:45
Meets the Beyond North America History Concentration Requirement
Hist 1956 History of the Soviet Union Through Film and Literature
Semester:Fall
Year offered:2025
Profs. Terry Martin & Justin Weir ~ Wednesdays 3:00-5:00pm
Meets the Beyond North America History Concentration Requirement
Hist 1966 Asia and Asians at Harvard
Semester:Fall
Year offered:2025
Prof. Sugata Bose ~ Tuesdays 9:45-11:45am
Meets the Beyond North America History Concentration Requirement\
Hist 1984A Book History: Before the Modern Age
Semester:Fall
Year offered:2025
Prof. Ann Blair ~ Fridays 12:00-2:45 (Year-Long Course)
Meets the Pre-1750 History Concentration Requirement
Hist 1993 Introduction to Digital History
Semester:Fall
Year offered:2025
Dr. Gabriel Pizzorno ~ Thursdays 12:00-2:45
Tutorials (Hist 97 and 99) expand_more
HISTORY 99A: Senior Thesis Tutorial
Semester: Fall
Offered: 2025
Dr. Heelan ~ Wednesdays 6-8:45
Directed Study for Undergraduates expand_more
HISTORY 91R: Supervised Reading and Research
Semester: Fall
Offered: 2025
Ian Miller
Graduate Proseminars (2000 level courses)* expand_more
Hist 1800 A Critical Introduction to the Study of the Middle East
Semester:Fall
Year offered:2025
Dr. Jesse Howell ~ Mondays 12:00-2:45 + Discussion Section
Hist 2271 The Soviet Union: Proseminar
Semester:Fall
Year offered:2025
Prof. Terry Martin ~ Thursdays 3:00-5:45
Hist 2442 19th-Century United States History: Proseminar
Semester:Fall
Year offered:2025
Prof. Walter Johnson ~ Tuesdays 9:45-11:45
Hist 2638 Readings in 20th-Century Chinese History
Semester:Fall
Year offered:2025
Prof. Arunabh Ghosh ~ Mondays 3:00-5:00
Hist 2968 History and Economics: Proseminar
Semester:Fall
Year offered:2025
Prof. Emma Rothschild ~ Thursdays 3:45-4:45
Graduate Seminars (2000 level courses) expand_more
Hist 2055 Early Medieval History
Semester:Fall
Year offered:2025
Prof. Michael McCormick ~ Mondays 3:00-5:45
Hist 2444 U.S. Politics and the Late in the Twentieth Century: Seminar
Semester:Fall
Year offered:2025
Prof. Lisa McGirr ~ Thursdays 3:00-5:00
Hist 2446 History of Civil Liberties
Semester:Fall
Year offered:2025
Prof. Laura Weinrib ~ Wednesdays 3:45-5:45
Hist 2492A: Warren Center Seminar: Labor and the Political Economy in U.S. History
Semester:Fall
Year offered:2025
Profs. Sven Beckert & Joel Suarez ~ Thursday 12:45-2:45 (Year-Long Course)
Hist 2693 Modern South Asian and Indian Ocean History and Historiography
Semester:Fall
Year offered:2025
Prof. Sugata Bose ~ Mondays 9:45-11:45
Hist 2950A Approaches to Global History
Semester:Fall
Year offered:2025
Prof. Sven Beckert ~ Mondays 3:45-5:45
Teaching Practicum (3900, 3920A, 3940) expand_more
Hist 3900: Writing History
Semester: Fall
Offered: 2025
Prof. Mary Lewis ~ Tuesdays 12:00-2:45
Hist 3920A: Teaching Practicum
Semester: Fall
Offered: 2025
Prof. Jesse Hoffnung-Graskof ~ Fridays 12:00-2:45
Hist 3940: The Academic Job Market for Historians: Skills and Strategies
Semester: Fall
Offered: 2025
Prof. Phil Deloria ~ TBA