# Spring 2026
**Source**: https://history.fas.harvard.edu/node/1893966
**Parent**: https://history.fas.harvard.edu/101-courses
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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**](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/159031)
Semester: Spring
Offered: 2025
Dr. Chloe Chapin ~ Tuesdays 12:00-2:45
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### [**FYS 71C Law and Social Change: How Reform Movements Leverage the Law**](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/158749)
Semester: Spring
Offered: 2026
Prof. Tomiko Brown-Nagin ~ Wednesdays 3:00-5:00
### [**FYS 72Z Oil & Empire**](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/158722)
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**](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/157940)
**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*
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### **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**](https://hls.harvard.edu/courses/american-legal-history-from-reconstruction-to-the-present/)
**Semester: Spring**
**Year offered: 2026**
Prof. Laura Weinrib ~ Thursdays & Fridays 1:30-3:30
*Meets the North America History Concentration Requirement*
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### 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](https://history.fas.harvard.edu/classes/history-91r-supervised-reading-and-research)
Semester: Spring
Offered: 2026
Mary Lewis
### [**Hist 92R “History Lab: Harvard in 1776”**](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/165876) CANCELLED
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### 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
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### Teaching Practicum (3920A & B, 3940) expand\_more
## [Hist 3920B: Teaching Practicum](/class/hist-3920-teaching-practicum "Hist 3920: Teaching Practicum")
Semester: Spring
Offered: 2026
Prof. Jesse Hoffnung-Graskof ~ Fridays 12:00-2:45