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)
Richard Charles Adams, Assistant Professor of English and American Literature and Language and of History and Literature
Sven Beckert, Dunwalke Associate Professor of American History
Lawrence Buell, Harvard College Professor and the John P. Marquand Professor of English
Joyce Elizabeth Chaplin, Professor of History
Lizabeth Cohen, Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies
Catherine A. Corman, Assistant Professor of History (on leave 2000-01)
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Humanities
David Sumner Hall
Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Professor of History and of Afro-American Studies
Morton J. Horwitz, Charles Warren Professor of American Legal History (Law School) (Acting Chair, 1999-00)
James T. Kloppenberg, Professor of History
Ernest R. May, Charles Warren Professor of American History
Charles E. Rosenberg, Ernest E. Monrad Professor of Social Sciences
Marc Shell, Irving Babbitt Professor of Comparative Literature and Professor of English (on leave fall term)
Doris Sommer, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures
John Stauffer, Associate Professor of History and Literature and of English and American Literature and Language (on leave fall term)
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Harvard College Professor and the James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early 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) (on leave 2000-01)
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 Research Professor of American History
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 (on leave spring term)
Ruth R. Wisse, Martin Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature
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.
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, Sacvan Bercovitch 7638 (on leave fall term), Allan M. Brandt 3031, Lawrence Buell 2655, Lizabeth Cohen 3627, Catherine A. Corman 1096 (on leave 2000-01), Philip J. Fisher 1470, William F. Fisher (Clark University) 3323, Donald Fleming 1831, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 2899, William E. Gienapp 2109, Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham 3517, Morton J. Horwitz (Law School) 6272, Yunte Huang 3160 (on leave spring term), William R. Hutchison (Divinity School) 4061 (on leave fall term), Akira Iriye 1968, Barbara E. Johnson 7626 (on leave fall term), James T. Kloppenberg 3157, Thomas K. McCraw (Business School) 7371, Marc Shell 3176 (on leave fall term), Werner Sollors 7424, John Richard Stauffer 3889, Stephan Thernstrom 4141, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich 1886, Helen Vendler 7226 (on leave spring term), and Cornel West 1212 (on leave 2000-01)
*American Civilization 399. Direction of Doctoral Dissertations
Catalog Number: 8803
Sacvan Bercovitch 7638 (on leave fall term), Allan M. Brandt 3031, Lawrence Buell 2655, Lizabeth Cohen 3627, Philip J. Fisher 1470, Donald Fleming 1831, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 2899, William E. Gienapp 2109, David Sumner Hall, Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham 3517, 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, Marc Shell 3176 (on leave fall term), Werner Sollors 7424, John R. Stilgoe 8032, Stephan Thernstrom 4141, and Laurel Thatcher Ulrich 1886
Cross-listed Courses
Comparative Literature 182. Comparative Cultures of Money
English 187d. American Literatures in Languages Other than English
*English 272b. Major U.S. Authors: Faulkner
*English 273b. American History / American Fiction
[History 1618. Material Life in Early America]
[History 1632. Gilded Age America: Economy, Society and Politics: Conference Course]
History 1640 (formerly History 1660). The United States since World War II
History 1653. Baseball and American Society, 1840–Present
[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 1660. Using Primary Sources in African-American History: Conference Course
[History 1950. Comparative Labor History: U.S., France, Great Britain, and Germany: 1789–1914: Conference Course]
History 1951. 19th-Century Capitalism: Great Britain, the United States, Germany, and Japan: Conference Course
History 2600 (formerly History 2605). Readings in Colonial and Revolutionary America
History 2601. The U.S. in the 20th Century: Seminar
History 2602. Readings in the United States in the 19th Century
History 2606. Early American Social History: Seminar
[History 2607 (formerly History 2603). The United States in the 20th Century]
[History 2612 (formerly History 2602). 19th-Century United States: Research Seminar]
[History 2662. Readings in American Thought]
Religion 1465. Liberalism and Orthodoxy, 1600–1870
[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 1525. Radical Movements in Modern America
[Religion 2464. Radical Religion in England and America, 1550–1750: Seminar]
Spanish 165. Bilingual Arts
Spanish 186. Tobacco and Sugar
Spanish 268. Telling Limits in American Ethnic Literatures