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# Fall Courses

**Source**: https://history.fas.harvard.edu/fall-courses
**Parent**: https://history.fas.harvard.edu/101-courses

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### General Education Courses (These courses count for History credit) expand\_more

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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 1147 American Food**](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/157033)

**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**](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/157133)

**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**](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/157122)

Semester: Fall

Offered: 2025

Prof. David Armitage ~ Wednesdays 12:45-2:45

### [**FYS 66K The Philosophy of Laughter**](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/158612)

Semester: Fall

Offered: 2025

Prof. Peter Gordon ~ Wednesdays 12:45-2:45

## [FYSEMR 72C A World without Airplanes](/class/fysemr-72c-world-without-airplanes "FYSEMR 72C A World without Airplanes")

Semester: Fall

Offered: 2025

Joyce Chaplin ~ Tuesdays 9:45-11:45am

### [**FYS 71M Global Capitalism: Past, Present, Future**](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/156945)

Semester: Fall

Offered: 2025

Prof. Sophus Reinert ~ Wednesdays 6:00-8:00

### [**FYS 73V Antisemitism, Then and Now**](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/157220)

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](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/158053)

**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**](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/153922)

**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**](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/156696)

**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**](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/154370)

**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**](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/154758)

**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**](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/154998)

**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**](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/153133)

**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**](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/158359)

**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**](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/154262)

**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**](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/157067)

**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**](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/158074)

**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**](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/157299)

**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**](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/157301)

**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**](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/158366)

**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**](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/165014)

**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**](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/155066)

**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**](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/157333)

**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**](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/154123)

**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**](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/153880)

**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**](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/153918)

**Semester:**Fall

**Year offered:**2025

Prof. Myisha Eatmon ~ Wednesdays 12:00-2:45

*Meets the North America History Concentration Requirement*

### [**Hist 186 Moral Economy**](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/158469)

**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**](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/154081)

**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**](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/154260)

**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**](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/157284)

**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

*Meets the Beyond North America History Concentration Requirement*

### [**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

*Meets the Beyond North America History Concentration Requirement*

### [**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

*Meets the Beyond North America History Concentration Requirement*

### [**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

*Meets the Beyond North America History Concentration Requirement*\

### [**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)

*Meets the Pre-1750 History Concentration Requirement*

### [**Hist 1993 Introduction to Digital History**](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/158258)

**Semester:**Fall

**Year offered:**2025

Dr. Gabriel Pizzorno ~ Thursdays 12:00-2:45

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### Tutorials (Hist 97 and 99) expand\_more

## [HISTORY 99A: Senior Thesis Tutorial](https://history.fas.harvard.edu/classes/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](https://history.fas.harvard.edu/classes/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**](https://history.fas.harvard.edu/class/hist-2271-soviet-union-proseminar)

**Semester:**Fall

**Year offered:**2025

Dr. Jesse Howell ~  Mondays 12:00-2:45 + Discussion Section

### [**Hist 2271 The Soviet Union: Proseminar**](https://history.fas.harvard.edu/class/hist-2271-soviet-union-proseminar)

**Semester:**Fall

**Year offered:**2025

Prof. Terry Martin ~ Thursdays 3:00-5:45

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### [**Hist 2442 19th-Century United States History: Proseminar**](https://history.fas.harvard.edu/class/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**](https://history.fas.harvard.edu/class/hist-2638-readings-20th-century-chinese-history)

**Semester:**Fall

**Year offered:**2025

Prof. Arunabh Ghosh ~ Mondays 3:00-5:00

### [**Hist 2968 History and Economics: Proseminar**](https://history.fas.harvard.edu/class/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**](https://history.fas.harvard.edu/class/hist-2055-early-modern-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**](https://history.fas.harvard.edu/class/hist-2444-us-politics-and-late-twentieth-century-seminar)

**Semester:**Fall

**Year offered:**2025

Prof. Lisa McGirr ~ Thursdays 3:00-5:00

### [**Hist 2446 History of Civil Liberties**](https://hls.harvard.edu/courses/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**](https://history.fas.harvard.edu/class/hist-2492a-warren-center-seminar-labor-and-political-economy-us-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**](https://history.fas.harvard.edu/class/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**](https://history.fas.harvard.edu/class/hist-2950a-approaches-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](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/155674)

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