Spring 2026

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General Education Courses (These courses count for History credit) expand_more

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

GENED 1159 American Capitalism

Semester: Spring

Year offered: 2026

Prof. Sven Beckert ~ 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

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

First Year Seminars expand_more

FYS 66M Harvard Collects: Exploring History and Culture in Museums, Libraries, and Archives

Semester: Spring

Offered: 2025

Dr. Chloe Chapin ~ Tuesdays 12:00-2:45

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

Semester: Spring

Offered: 2026

Prof. Tomiko Brown-Nagin ~ Wednesdays 3:00-5:00

FYS 72Z Oil & Empire

Semester: Spring

Offered: 2026

Prof. Rosie Bsheer ~ Tuesdays 12:45-2:45

Lecture Courses (10-89 level courses) expand_more

Hist 12 Conspiracy! A Possible History of U.S. Politics & Culture

Semester: Spring

Year offered: 2026

Dr. Aaron Jacobs ~ Mondays & Wednesdays 12:00-1:15

Hist 14 The First World War

Semester: Spring

Year offered: 2026

Prof. Jamie Martin ~ Mondays & Wednesdays 1:30-2:45

Meets the Beyond North America History Concentration Requirement

Hist 21 Labor, Liberty, and Conflict in American History

Semester: Spring

Year offered: 2026

Prof. Joel Suarez~ Mondays & Wednesdays 3:00-4:15

Meets the North America History Concentration Requirement

Hist 32A The Ottomans and the World

Semester: Spring

Year offered: 2026

Prof. Cemal Kafadar~ Mondays & Wednesdays 1:30-2:45

Meets either the Pre-1750 or the Beyond North America History Concentration Requirement, but not both.

Hist 33 The Holocaust

Semester: Spring

Year offered: 2026

Prof. Jules Riegel ~ Tuesdays & Thursdays 1:30-2:45

Hist 38 Modern China

Semester: Spring

Year offered: 2026

Prof. Arunabh Ghosh~ Mondays & Wednesdays 1:30-2:45

Meets the Beyond North America History Concentration Requirement

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

Meets the Beyond North America History Concentration Requirement

Hist 66 The Coming of the Civil War

Semester: Spring

Year offered: 2026

Prof. Walter Johnson ~ Mondays & Wednesdays 1:30-2:45

Meets the North America History Concentration Requirement

Hist 68 The 20th Century United States: Politics, Society, Culture

Semester: Spring

Year offered: 2026

Prof. Lisa McGirr ~ Tuesdays & Thursdays 10:30-11:45

Meets the North America History Concentration Requirement

Hist 70 The History of Sub-Saharan Africa to 1860

Semester: Spring

Year offered: 2026

Prof. Emmanuel Akyeampong ~ Mondays & Wednesdays 10:30-11:45

Meets the Beyond North America History Concentration Requirement

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

This is a special advanced lecture course jointly-offered with the Harvard Kennedy School and is open by application only to advanced undergraduate or graduate students. The total FAS enrollment will be limited to 25.

Meets the North America History Concentration Requirement

Hist 85 “U.S. Foreign Policy in a Global Age”

Semester: Spring

Year offered: 2026

Prof. Frederik Logevall ~ Mondays & Wednesdays, 3:00-4:15

This is a special advanced lecture course jointly-offered with the Harvard Kennedy School and is open by application only to advanced undergraduate or graduate students. The total FAS enrollment will be limited to 30.

Meets the North America History Concentration Requirement

Hist 88 How Harvard became HARVARD

Semester: Spring

Year offered: 2026

Prof. Julie Reuben ~ Mondays & Wednesdays 9:00-10:15

This is a special advanced lecture course jointly-offered with the Harvard Graduate School of Education and is open by application only to advanced undergraduate or graduate students. The total FAS enrollment will be limited to 25.

Meets the North America History Concentration Requirement

Hist 89 Critical Theory

Semester: Spring

Year offered: 2026

Prof. Peter Gordon ~ Tuesdays & Thursdays 9:00-10:15

Meets the Beyond North America History Concentration Requirement

Undergraduate Seminars (100-199 level courses) expand_more

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

Meets the North America History Concentration Requirement

Hist 118 The Empirics of Empire: Counting Community, Gender, and Race

Semester: Spring

Year offered: 2026

Dr. Urvi Khaitan ~ Tuesdays 3:00-5:45

Meets the Beyond North America History Concentration Requirement

Hist 123 Immigrant Justice Lab

Semester: Spring

Year offered: 2026

Prof. Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof ~ Wednesdays 3:00-5:45

Meets the North America History Concentration Requirement

Hist 143 Eastern Europe: Ukraine and Russia

Semester: Spring

Year offered: 2026

Prof. Serhii Plokhii~ Tuesdays 9:45-11:45

Meets the Beyond North America History Concentration Requirement

Hist 161 Harvard and Native Lands

Semester: Spring

Year offered: 2026

Prof. Phil Delora & Alan Niles ~ Tuesdays 12:45-2:45

Meets the North America History Concentration Requirement

Hist 162 Oral Histories of Asian America: Migration, Memory, Method

Semester: Spring

Year offered: 2026

Will Sack ~ Tuesdays 9:45-11:45

Meets the North America History Concentration Requirement

Hist 163 The Civil War and Reconstruction in History and Memory

Semester: Spring

Year offered: 2026

Dr. Aaron Jacobs ~ Mondays 3:00-5:00

Meets the North America History Concentration Requirement

Hist 166 Modern Vietnam: A History through its Cities

Semester: Spring

Year offered: 2026

Prof. Uyen Nguyen ~ Mondays 3:00-5:45

Meets the Beyond North America History Concentration Requirement

Hist 174 Power and Protest in the Long 1960s

Semester: Spring

Year offered: 2026

Prof. Lisa McGirr ~ Wednesdays 9:45-11:45

Meets the North America History Concentration Requirement 

Hist 185 The Neoliberal Age

Semester: Spring

Year offered: 2026

Dr. Daniel Coleman ~ TBA

Meets the North America History Concentration Requirement

Hist 188  Ecologies of American Empire: The United States and Global Environments, 1898–2000

Semester: Spring

Year offered: 2026

Dr. Boyd Ruamcharoen ~ TBA

Meets the North America History Concentration Requirement

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

Hist 1901 Nationalism, Political Independence, and Economic Development in Africa

Semester: Spring

Year offered: 2026

Prof. Emmanuel Akyeampong ~ Tuesdays 12:45-2:45

Meets the Beyond North America History Concentration Requirement

Hist 1926 Decolonization: an Unfinished History

Semester: Spring

Year offered: 2026

Prof. Stuart Ward ~ Thursdays 3:00-5:45

Meets the Beyond North America History Concentration Requirement

Hist 1935 Political Debates in the Empire of New Rome

Semester: Spring

Year offered: 2026

Prof. Dimiter Angelov ~ Mondays 12:45-2:45

Meets the either the Beyond North America or Pre-1750 History Concentration Requirement

Hist 1945 Slavery and Public History

Semester: Spring

Year offered: 2026

Prof. Tiya Miles ~ Wednesdays 12:00-2:45

Meets the North America History Concentration Requirement

Hist 1946 What is Global European History

Semester: Spring

Year offered: 2026

Prof. David Spreen ~ Mondays 12:00-2:45

Meets the Beyond North America History Concentration Requirement

Hist 1961 The Northern Side of the Civil Rights Movement

Semester: Spring

Year offered: 2026

Prof. Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham ~ Tuesdays 12:45-2:45

Meets the North America History Concentration Requirement

Hist 1962 The Legalities of Everyday Life: The Long History

Semester: Spring

Year offered: 2026

Prof. Tamar Herzog ~ Mondays 9:00-11:45

Meets the Pre-1750 History Concentration Requirement

Hist 1964 The Social Life of Science in East Asia

Semester: Spring

Year offered: 2026

Prof. Ian Miller ~ Thursdays 12:00-2:45

Meets the Beyond North America History Concentration Requirement

Hist 1973 Re-Wilding Harvard

Semester: Spring

Year offered: 2026

Prof. Joyce Chaplin ~ Tuesdays 12:00-2:45

Hist 1980 The Soviet Empire

Semester: Spring

Year offered: 2026

Prof. Terry Martin ~ Mondays 3:00-5:00

Meets the Beyond North America History Concentration Requirement

Hist 1984B Book history before the modern age

Semester: Spring

Year offered: 2026

Prof. Ann Blair~ Fridays 12:00-2:45

Meets the Beyond North America History Concentration Requirement

Hist 1990 American Legal History

Semester: Spring

Year offered: 2026

Prof. Laura Weinrib ~ Thursdays & Fridays 1:30-3:30

Meets the North America History Concentration Requirement

Tutorials (Hist 97 and 99) expand_more

Hist 97B: What is Intellectual History?

Semester: Spring

Offered: 2026

Prof. Ann Blair ~ Wednesday 3:00-5:45

Hist 97G: What is Legal History?

Semester: Spring

Offered: 2026

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

Hist 97M: What is International History?

Semester: Spring

Offered: 2026

Prof. Erez Manela ~ Thursday 3:00-5:45

Hist 97S: What is Micro-History History?

Semester: Spring

Offered: 2026

Prof. Mary Lewis ~ Thursday 12:00-2:45

Hist 97V: What is Borderlands History?

Semester: Spring

Offered: 2026

Prof. David Glovsky ~ Tuesday 12:00-2:45

Hist 99B: Senior Thesis Tutorial

Semester: Spring

Offered: 2026

Dr. Heelan ~ Wednesdays 6-8:45

Directed Study for Undergraduates (including Harvard in 1776) expand_more

Hist 91R: Supervised Reading and Research

Semester: Spring

Offered: 2026

Mary Lewis

Hist 92R “History Lab: Harvard in 1776” CANCELLED

Graduate Proseminars (2000 level courses) expand_more

Hist 2885 Introduction to Archival Research in Ottoman History

Semester: Spring

Year offered: 2026

Prof. Cemal Kafadar ~ Wednesdays 3:00-5:45

Graduate Seminars (2000 level courses) expand_more

Hist 2039 History from Things

Semester: Spring

Year offered: 2026

Prof. Gabriel Pizzorno ~ Thursdays 3:00-5:45

Hist 2080 Medieval Law

Semester: Spring

Year offered: 2026

Prof. Charles Donahue ~ TBA

Hist 2412 Topics in Atlantic Slave History

Semester: Spring

Year offered: 2026

Prof. Vincent Brown ~ Wednesdays 9:00-11:45

Hist 2477 History of American Economic Regulation

Semester: Spring

Year offered: 2026

Prof. Kenneth Mack ~ Mondays & Tuesdays 1:30-3:00

Hist 2651 Japanese History: Seminar

Semester: Spring

Year offered: 2026

Prof. Andrew Gordon ~ Wednesdays 3:00-5:45

Hist 2950B Approaches to Global History

Semester: Spring

Year offered:2026

Prof. Sven Beckert ~ Mondays 3:45-5:45

Hist 2957 Law, Social Difference, and the Sustenance of Health

Semester: Spring

Year offered: 2026

Prof. Geroge Aumoithe ~ TBA

Hist 2973 History's Environmental Turn

Semester: Spring

Year offered: 2026

Prof. Ian Miller ~ Mondays 3:00-5:45

Teaching Practicum (3920A & B, 3940) expand_more

Hist 3920B: Teaching Practicum

Semester: Spring

Offered: 2026

Prof. Jesse Hoffnung-Graskof ~ Fridays 12:00-2:45