History of American Civilization
Faculty of the Committee on Higher Degrees in the History of American Civilization
Werner Sollors, Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English Literature and Professor of Afro-American Studies (Chair) (on leave 1999-00)
Sven Beckert, Assistant Professor of History (on leave 1999-00)
Morton J. Horwitz, Charles Warren Professor of American Legal History (Law School) (Acting Chair, 1999-00)
Richard Charles Adams, Assistant Professor of English and American Literature and Language and of History and Literature
Sacvan Bercovitch, Charles H. Carswell Professor of English and American Literature and Language
Lizabeth Cohen, Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies
Lawrence Buell, Harvard College Professor and the John P. Marquand Professor of English
Catherine A. Corman, Assistant Professor of History (on leave fall term)
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., W.E.B DuBois Professor of the Humanities
David D. Hall, Professor of American Religious History on the Bartlett and Emerson Funds (Divinity School)
Alan Heimert, Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature (on leave 1999-00)
Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Professor of History and of Afro-American Studies (on leave 1999-00)
James T. Kloppenberg, Professor of History (on leave spring term)
Ernest R. May, Charles Warren Professor of American History
Michael J. Sandel, Harvard College Professor and Professor of Government
Marc Shell, Irving Babbitt Professor of Comparative Literature and Professor of English
Theda Skocpol, Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and of Sociology
Doris Sommer, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures
John Stauffer, Assistant Professor of History and Literature and of English and American Literature and Language
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Professor of History and Director of the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History
Cornel West, Alphonse Fletcher, Jr., University Professor and Professor of Afro-American Studies (FAS) and Professor of the Philosophy of Religion (Divinity School)
Other Faculty Offering Instruction in the History of American Civilization
Allan M. Brandt, Professor of the History of Science (FAS) and Amalie Moses Kass Professor of the History of Medicine (Medical School)
Philip J. Fisher, Felice Crowl Reid Professor of English and American Literature
Donald Fleming, Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History (on leave 1999-00)
Akira Iriye, Charles Warren Professor of American History
Thomas K. McCraw, Isidor Straus Professor of Business History (Business School)
Helen Vendler, Arthur Kingsley Porter University Professor
Ruth R. Wisse, Martin Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature (on leave spring term)
This program is interdisciplinary. For further information about the variety of course offerings in specific departments, consult the office of the Committee, Barker Center 225, 12 Quincy Street.
Students are also referred to the following course offered at the Law School: Legal History 41900-11. American Legal History 1890—1960.
Primarily for Graduates
*American Civilization 370 (formerly American Civilization 270). Colloquium in American Civilization
Catalog Number: 3662
Members of the Committee
Half course (fall term). M., 3–5.
Note: The Colloquium is required of and limited to all first-year graduate students in American Civilization.
Graduate Courses of Reading and Research
*American Civilization 398. Reading and Research
Catalog Number: 1710
Richard Charles Adams 1665, Sven Beckert 2415 (on leave 1999-00), Sacvan Bercovitch 7638, Allan M. Brandt 3031, Lawrence Buell 2655, Lizabeth Cohen 3627, Philip J. Fisher 1470, Donald Fleming 1831 (on leave 1999-00), Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 2899, William E. Gienapp 2109, David D. Hall (Divinity School) 2510, Alan Heimert 1631 (on leave 1999-00), Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham 3517 (on leave 1999-00), Morton J. Horwitz (Law School) 6272, William R. Hutchison (Divinity School) 4061 (on leave fall term), Akira Iriye 1968, Barbara E. Johnson 7626, Thomas K. McCraw (Business School) 7371, Werner Sollors 7424 (on leave 1999-00), Stephan Thernstrom 4141, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich 1886, Helen Vendler 7226, Cornel West 1212, and Ronald Yanosky 3207
*American Civilization 399. Direction of Doctoral Dissertations
Catalog Number: 8803
Sacvan Bercovitch 7638, Allan M. Brandt 3031, Lawrence Buell 2655, Philip J. Fisher 1470, Donald Fleming 1831 (on leave 1999-00), Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 2899, William E. Gienapp 2109, David D. Hall (Divinity School) 2510, Alan Heimert 1631 (on leave 1999-00), Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham 3517 (on leave 1999-00), Morton J. Horwitz (Law School) 6272, William R. Hutchison (Divinity School) 4061 (on leave fall term), Akira Iriye 1968, Thomas K. McCraw (Business School) 7371, Werner Sollors 7424 (on leave 1999-00), John R. Stilgoe 8032, Stephan Thernstrom 4141, and Laurel Thatcher Ulrich 1886
Cross-listed Courses
History 1618. Material Life in Early America
[History 1632. Gilded Age America: Economy, Society and Politics: Conference Course]
[History 1654. The History of American Capitalism: From the Industrial Revolution to World War I: Conference Course]
[History 1656. The 19th Century Bourgeoisie: Western Europe and the U.S.: Seminar]
[History 1950. Comparative Labor History: U.S., France, Great Britain, and Germany: 1789–1914: Conference Course]
History 2601. The U.S. in the 20th Century: Seminar
History 2603. The United States in the 20th Century
History 2605. Culture and Society in Early America
History 2662. Readings in American Thought
Religion 1504. Religion in America: From the Coming of the Europeans to the 1870s
[Religion 1515. Religion and Culture in 19th-Century America and Europe: Seminar]
Religion 2464. Radical Religion in England and America, 1550–1750: Seminar
Spanish 265. A Bilingual Esthetic