History

Faculty of the Department of History

James T. Kloppenberg, Charles Warren Professor of American History, Harvard College Professor, Department Chair of History (Chair)
Emmanuel K. Akyeampong, Harvard College Professor and Professor of History and of African and African American Studies
David R. Armitage, Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History
Sven Beckert, Professor of History (Director of Undergraduate Studies)
David Blackbourn, Coolidge Professor of History
Ann M. Blair, Henry Charles Lea Professor of History (on leave spring term)
Sugata Bose, Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs
Vincent Brown, Dunwalke Associate Professor of American History
Joyce E. Chaplin, James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History
Lizabeth Cohen, Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies (on leave 2007-08)
Nancy F. Cott, Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History
Emma Dench, Professor of the Classics and of History
Caroline M. Elkins, Hugh K. Foster Associate Professor of African Studies
Drew Gilpin Faust, Lincoln Professor of History and President of Harvard University
Niall Ferguson, Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History (FAS) and Professor of Business Administration (Business School)
Alison F. Frank, Assistant Professor of History (on leave 2007-08)
Andrew Gordon, Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History (on leave 2007-08)
Peter E. Gordon, Professor of History
James Hankins, Professor of History
Henrietta Harrison, Professor of History
Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Victor S. Thomas Professor of History and of African and African American Studies
Patrice Higonnet, Robert Walton Goelet Professor of French History (on leave 2007-08)
Maya Jasanoff, Associate Professor of History (on leave spring term)
Andrew Jewett, Assistant Professor of History and of Social Studies
Walter Johnson, Professor of History and of African and African American Studies (on leave 2007-08)
Christopher P. Jones, George Martin Lane Professor of the Classics and of History
Cemal Kafadar, Vehbi Koc Professor of Turkish Studies
Edward L. Keenan, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of History (on leave 2007-08)
William C. Kirby, T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies (FAS) and Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration (Business School), Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor (on leave 2007-08)
Mark A. Kishlansky, Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of History, Contin Ed/Spec Prog Instructor
Angeliki E. Laiou, Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Byzantine History
Jill M. Lepore, David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History, Department Chair of History and Literature (on leave 2007-08)
Mary D. Lewis, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences (on leave 2007-08)
Xiaoyuan Liu, Visiting Professor of History (Iowa State University)
Gerard Livesey, Visiting Professor of History (University of Sussex)
Christopher Loveluck, Visiting Professor of History (University of Nottingham) (fall term only)
Malinda Maynor Lowery, Assistant Professor of History
Charles S. Maier, Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History
Erez Manela, Dunwalke Associate Professor of American History
Terry D. Martin, George F. Baker III Professor of Russian Studies (on leave 2007-08)
Kenneth R. Maxwell, Visiting Professor of History
Ernest R. May, Charles Warren Professor of American History
Michael McCormick, Francis Goelet Professor of Medieval History
Lisa M. McGirr, Professor of History
Ian J. Miller, Assistant Professor of History
Roy Mottahedeh, Gurney Professor of History (on leave fall term)
Afsaneh Najmabadi, Professor of History and of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality
Susan E. O’Donovan, Associate Professor of African and African American Studies and of History
Kelly A. O’Neill-Uzgiris, Assistant Professor of History
E. Roger Owen, A. J. Meyer Professor of Middle East History
Steven Ozment, McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History
Serhii Plokhii, Mykhailo S. Hrushevs’kyi Professor of Ukrainian History
Uta G. Poiger, Visiting Associate Professor of History and of History and Literature (University of Washington)
Emma Rothschild, Jeremy and Jane Knowles Professor of History
Daniel L. Smail, Professor of History (on leave 2007-08)
David Smith, Lecturer on History
Rachel St. John, Assistant Professor of History (on leave 2007-08)
Judith Surkis, Associate Professor of History and of History and Literature (on leave spring term)
Hue-Tam Ho Tai, Kenneth T. Young Professor of Sino-Vietnamese History (Director of Graduate Studies) (on leave spring term)
Eric Tang, Visiting Assistant Professor of History (University of Illinois, Chicago)
Stephan Thernstrom, Winthrop Professor of History (on leave spring term)
Benjamin Tromly, Lecturer on History
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, 300th Anniversary University Professor (on leave spring term)
David Wilkins, Visiting Professor of History (University of Minnesota) (spring term only)
John Womack, Jr., Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin American History and Economics

Other Faculty Offering Instruction in the Department of History

Mikael Adolphson, Associate Professor of Japanese History
Bernard Bailyn, Adams University Professor, Emeritus and James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History, Emeritus
Thomas N. Bisson, Henry Charles Lea Professor of Medieval History, Emeritus
Peter K. Bol, Charles H. Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Harold Bolitho, Professor of Japanese History (on leave 2007-08)
John H. Coatsworth, Monroe Gutman Professor of Latin American Affairs, Emeritus
Shaye J.D. Cohen, Nathan Littauer Professor of Hebrew Literature and Philosophy
Kathleen M. Coleman, Professor of Latin, Harvard College Professor
Albert M. Craig, Harvard-Yenching Professor of History, Emeritus
Christine Desan, Professor of Law (Law School)
Charles Donahue, Jr., Paul A. Freund Professor of Law (Law School)
Carter J. Eckert, Yoon Se Young Professor of Korean History
Mark C. Elliott, Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History
William L. Fash, Bowditch Professor of Central American and Mexican Archaeology and Ethnology
Donald Fleming, Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History, Emeritus
Peter L. Galison, Joseph Pellegrino University Professor
Ivan Gaskell, Senior Lecturer on History
Rachel L. Greenblatt, Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Jeffrey Gurock, Joseph Engel Visiting Professor in American Jewish History (Yeshiva University) (fall term only)
David D. Hall, John A. Bartlett Professor of New England Church History (Divinity School)
Jay M. Harris, Harry Austryn Wolfson Professor of Jewish Studies
Morton J. Horwitz, Charles Warren Professor of American Legal History (Law School)
Akira Iriye, Charles Warren Professor of American History, Emeritus, Charles Warren Research Professor of American History
Alexander Keyssar, Matthew W. Stirling, Jr. Professor of History and Social Policy (Kennedy School)
Sun Joo Kim, Associate Professor of Korean History
Philip A. Kuhn, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History and of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Emeritus
Nino Luraghi, Professor of the Classics (on leave fall term)
Harvey C. Mansfield, William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Government
Richard Pipes, Frank B. Baird, Jr., Professor of History, Emeritus
Leah Price, Professor of English, Harvard College Professor
Michael J. Puett, Professor of Chinese History
Bernard Septimus, Jacob E. Safra Professor of Jewish History and Sephardic Civilization
Michael A. Szonyi, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities
Roman Szporluk, Mykhailo S. Hrushevs’kyi Research Professor of Ukrainian History
Steven J. Zipperstein, Gerard Weinstock Visiting Professor of Jewish History (Stanford University) (fall term only)

Courses numbered 10–999 are Primarily for Undergraduates; courses numbered 1000–1999 are for Undergraduates and Graduates. These are distributed as follows:

1050–1099 Ancient History

1101–1299 Medieval and Renaissance History

1300–1599 Early and Modern Europe

1600–1699 United States

1700–1799 Latin America

1800–1930 Asia, Africa and Australasia

1931–3910 Historiography, Methodology, Global, and Comparative

Courses numbered 2000 and over are Primarily for Graduates. They are distributed as above, but stepped up by 1000. Courses designated as “Primarily for Graduates” may, with the permission of the instructor, be taken by senior History concentrators who are candidates for honors.

Directed Study for Undergraduates

The Department makes available, so far as its resources permit, opportunity for individual instruction in fields of special interest in which a regular course is not offered.
*History 91r. Supervised Reading and Research
Catalog Number: 1458
Sven Beckert and members of the department
Half course (fall term; repeated spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Note: Limited to juniors and seniors. Students wishing to enroll must petition the DUS for approval, stating the proposed project, and must have the consent of the proposed instructor. Ordinarily, students are required to have taken some course work as background for their project.

Tutorials in History

*History 97. Sophomore Tutorial
Catalog Number: 4469
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (fall term) and Mark A. Kishlansky, Joyce E. Chaplin, and Lisa M. McGirr (spring term)
Half course (fall term; repeated spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Introduction to the ways in which historians recreate the past. Students will read prototypes of historical genres and write their own histories in alternating sessions. Discussion sections and small tutorials.
Note: Required of, and limited to, all History concentrators in the spring term of their sophomore year. The fall term is limited to juniors entering the concentration and seniors pursuing the secondary field.

*History 99. Senior Thesis Tutorial
Catalog Number: 5803
Adam Gregory Beaver
Full course. Hours to be arranged.
Research and writing the senior thesis in History.
Note: Required of, and ordinarily limited to, seniors completing the History concentration’s thesis program. Permission must be obtained from the Tutorial Office. Either half year may be taken as a half course with the consent of the DUS.

Introductory Courses

Primarily for Undergraduates

History 10a. Western Societies, Politics, and Cultures: From Antiquity to 1650
Catalog Number: 0213
Angeliki E. Laiou, Emma Dench, and Steven Ozment
Half course (fall term). Tu., Th., at 11, plus section to be arranged. EXAM GROUP: 13
A survey of Mediterranean and West European societies from Greco-Roman antiquity to the Scientific Revolution.
Note: This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study B.

History 10b. Western Economies, Societies, and Polities: From 1648 to the Present
Catalog Number: 0262
Niall Ferguson
Half course (spring term). Tu., Th., at 12. EXAM GROUP: 14
Second half of a survey of European history, from the aftermath of the Thirty Years War to the aftermath of the Cold War. Also treats some parts of Asian, American and African history as other continents were affected by European expansion. Topics include agricultural, commercial and industrial development; demographic change and social stratification; mass migration, trade and globalization; religion and political ideology; monarchies, republics and empires; revolutions, wars and international orders.
Note: This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study A.

History 10c. A Global History of Modern Times
Catalog Number: 1925
Charles S. Maier
Half course (spring term). M., W., (F.), at 11. EXAM GROUP: 4
A history of world societies from the end of the 18th century until the present. Covers such transnational forces as demographic change, religious revivals, and technological and economic development; comparative political transformations, such as the impact of revolutionary ideologies on rural and urban life; and the interactions between different global regions, whether as a consequence of imperialism and war, economic trade and investment, or cultural diffusion.

History 20a. Western Intellectual History: Greco-Roman Antiquity
Catalog Number: 6308
James Hankins
Half course (fall term). M., W., at 12. EXAM GROUP: 5
A survey of major themes in the intellectual history of the Greek and Roman World, with special attention to metaphysics, psychology, epistemology, ethics, politics, and the philosophic life. Readings in the Presocratics, Plato, Aristotle, Lucretius, Epictetus, Cicero, Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, Plotinus, Augustine, and Boethius.
Note: This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study B.

History 20b. Western Intellectual History: The Middle Ages to the Seventeenth Century
Catalog Number: 7573
James Hankins
Half course (spring term). M., W., at 12. EXAM GROUP: 5
A survey of major themes in medieval and early modern intellectual history. Readings in Anselm, Abelard, Thomas Aquinas, William of Ockham, Petrarch, Machiavelli, Thomas More, Martin Luther, Montaigne, Francis Bacon, Descartes, Hobbes.
Note: This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study B.

Ancient History

For Undergraduates and Graduates

See also Classical Archaeology 180 and 181.
[*History 1051. Roman Imperialism: Reading Seminar]
Catalog Number: 0336 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Emma Dench (on leave spring term)
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Whether regarded as a model for European empires or as a precursor of western colonialism and globalization, Roman imperial expansion has captured both popular and scholarly imaginations. We proceed thematically, analyzing a variety of textual and material evidence for the changing nature of Roman imperialism between the mid-Republican and early imperial periods, and its impact on the politics, culture, religion, and society of Roman and local communities alike.
Note: Expected to be given in 2008–09.

*History 1084. Edward Gibbon and the Roman Empire: Reading Seminar - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 2669 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Christopher P. Jones
Half course (fall term). Th., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
The course studies the greatest of Roman historians, Edward Gibbon (1737-1794), though the prism of his masterwork, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Subjects to be considered include Gibbon’s views of Christianity, his account of peoples outside the empire, and his changing views about when "Rome" fell.

[History 1085. The Roman Empire, Augustus to Constantine]
Catalog Number: 3109
Christopher P. Jones
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
The Roman Empire from its foundation by Augustus to the death of Constantine; its social, political, and military development; its institutions (emperor, senate, army); Roman imperial art and coinage; Greek and Roman literature of the imperial period; religious developments, including Judaism and Christianity under Roman rule; women and minorities. Sections will focus on issues of particular interest and on the study of primary documents. No knowledge of ancient languages required.
Note: Expected to be given in 2008–09. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study B.

History 1091 (formerly Jewish Studies 125). Jewish History in the Second and Post-Temple Period
Catalog Number: 6035
Shaye J.D. Cohen
Half course (fall term). Tu., Th., 10–11:30. EXAM GROUP: 12, 13
A survey of Jewish history in antiquity from the Persian period (5th century BCE) to the Byzantine period (5th century CE). Topics include: political accommodation and resistance, Hellenism, the Hasmoneans and Herod the Great, the effects of Roman rule, Pharisees, Qumran, Christians, unity and diversity, the destruction of the temple and its aftermath, the emergence of rabbinic Judaism, homeland and diaspora.
Note: Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 1462.

Cross-listed Courses

Classical Studies 145. Ancient Greek Tyranny - (New Course)
Historical Study B-09. The Christian Revolution
Latin 115a (formerly Latin 115). Tacitus

Primarily for Graduates

[History 2051. Ethnic Identities in Classical Antiquity: Seminar]
Catalog Number: 0006
Emma Dench
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Explores questions of what it meant to be Greek, Athenian, Roman, Jewish, or Etruscan in classical antiquity, in what contexts were identities articulated, and how were relationships between selves and others imagined and played out.
Note: Expected to be given in 2008–09.

Medieval and Renaissance History

For Undergraduates and Graduates

See also Committee on Medieval Studies. Students are also directed to Divinity School courses.
History 1101. Medieval Europe
Catalog Number: 4278
Michael McCormick
Half course (spring term). M., W., (F.), at 11. EXAM GROUP: 4
This course will examine the emergence of medieval civilization from the ruins of the ancient world, and the evolution of that civilization into modern Europe. Themes include: the fall of Rome, the spread of Christianity, the rise and fall of Byzantium, the challenge of Islam, the Vikings, the Crusades, commerce and agriculture, the Feudal Revolution, the Twelfth Century Renaissance, spirituality and persecution, the origins of law and government, the Black Death, and the Italian Renaissance.
Note: Given in alternate years. Students prepared to pursue special topics can be accommodated. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study B.

[History 1111. The Fall of the Roman Empire]
Catalog Number: 6019
Michael McCormick
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Uses the latest results of archaeology, written sources, and the natural sciences to study the changes, violent or subtle, that transformed the Roman world to produce medieval civilization between ca. 300 and 700. Topics include Constantine’s conversion, economic recovery and collapse, the barbarians, women and power, pandemic disease; emphasizes reading of ancient sources in translation.
Note: This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study B. Expected to be given in 2009–10.

[History 1121. Vengeance, Hatred, and Law in Premodern Europe]
Catalog Number: 7743
Daniel L. Smail
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Will explore the great transformation in European legal habits that took place between 500 and 1600, as family-based forms of law, vengeance, and regulation gave way to royal, municipal, and ecclesiastical justice. Topics include the bloodfeud, the judicial ordeal, and judicial torture. The course is designed to raise ethical and substantive issues that are relevant to an understanding of the function of law and justice in the modern world.
Note: Expected to be given in 2009–10. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study B.

[*History 1122. Persons and Things in Medieval Europe: Reading Seminar]
Catalog Number: 9657 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Daniel L. Smail (on leave 2007-08)
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Will explore certain styles of thinking and forms of behavior that governed everyday life in medieval Europe. Major topics will include forms of identity, including kinship and gender, manners and clothing fashions, forms of exchange, and patterns of mobility.
Note: Expected to be given in 2009–10.

*History 1123. Material Cultures: England and France: Reading Seminar - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 2952 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Christopher Loveluck (University of Nottingham) 5901 (fall term only)
Half course (fall term). W., 3–5. EXAM GROUP: 8, 9
Comparative analysis of the forces that shaped societies in Britain (England and Wales) and West Francia (France and Flanders), between A.D. 600 and 1200, through the study of archaeological and textual reflections of those societies.

History 1124. Archaeology of Urban Identities - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 8694
Christopher Loveluck (University of Nottingham)
Half course (fall term). M., W., (F.), at 10. EXAM GROUP: 3
Uses archaeology to examine the transformation of European towns between A.D. 400 and 1600. The character of towns as central places and urban settlements changed radically in Europe, both reflecting and initiating changes in the contemporary societies which created them. Themes include: urban identities and lifestyles; rural hinterlands; local and international exchange networks; Late Antique, Frankish, Anglo-Saxon and Islamic European towns, and towns of the Viking Age and later Middle Ages.

History 1150. The Jews in Muslim and Christian Spain
Catalog Number: 5331
Bernard Septimus
Half course (spring term). Tu., Th., at 12. EXAM GROUP: 14
A study of the political, social, and cultural history of the Hispano-Jewish community from the Muslim conquest of Spain in 711 to the expulsion of the Jews from Christian Spain in 1492. Emphasis on literary and intellectual developments and on the complex relationship of the Jews to Iberian Christendom and Islam. Combines material from former courses History 1151 and 1152.
Note: This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study B.

[*History 1166. Family, Sex, and Marriage in Western Europe, East and West in the Medieval and Early Modern Period: Reading Seminar]
Catalog Number: 2725 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Steven Ozment and Angeliki E. Laiou
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Reading and discussion of major sources and studies illustrative of the development of family life in the Byzantine Empire and in medieval and early modern Western Europe, in a comparative perspective. Attention will be given to important historiographical controversies and to a variety of national traditions.
Note: Expected to be given in 2008–09.

*History 1212. The Imperial System: Byzantine Society and Civilization, 8thc.-1204: Reading Seminar
Catalog Number: 6078 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Angeliki E. Laiou
Half course (fall term). Tu., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
Byzantine society from the time of the Iconoclastic controversy through centuries of successful imperial rule and until the conquest of Constantinople by the participants of the Fourth Crusade. Topics will include state ideology and diplomacy, social structure, the formation of the aristocracy, the economy, urban and rural life, the role of women, relations with Western Europe and the Muslim world, art and culture. Considerable emphasis will be given to primary sources.

Cross-listed Courses

Celtic 107. Early Irish History
Celtic 151. The Literature of Medieval Celtic Christianity
Historical Study A-40. The Middle East and Europe since the Crusades: Relations and Perceptions
[Historical Study B-19. The Renaissance in Florence]
[Medieval Studies 117. Constitutional and Legal History of Medieval England]
Medieval Studies 119. Constitutional and Legal History of Medieval Continental Europe
[Medieval Studies 201 (formerly Medieval Studies 101). The Auxiliary Disciplines of Medieval History: Proseminar]

Primarily for Graduates

[*History 2101. Medieval Societies and Cultures: Proseminar]
Catalog Number: 6693
Daniel L. Smail
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Introduction to the study of medieval history and to the literature basic to the examination field. Readings include both canonical works as well as recent studies. Though designed for specialists in medieval European history, the course welcomes all non-specialists interested in exploring large issues of comparative history and chronological depth.
Note: Expected to be given in 2008–09. May not ordinarily be credited as one of the research seminars required in the first-year program.
Prerequisite: Reading knowledge of French and/or German.

*History 2120. Problems in Byzantine History: Proseminar
Catalog Number: 9720
Angeliki E. Laiou
Half course (spring term). W., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7
Graduate colloquium for students preparing for general examinations in Byzantine history. Focus on major issues and historiographical debates, 4th-12th century.
Note: May not be credited as a research seminar.
Prerequisite: Reading knowledge of French or German.

History 2122. Early Medieval History: Seminar: Communications in the Early Medieval Mediterranean
Catalog Number: 5011
Michael McCormick
Half course (spring term). M., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7
Communications, travel, and commerce in the early medieval Mediterranean. Meetings will include close philological and historical analysis of relevant Latin sources, and research papers by participants.
Prerequisite: Latin, with either German or French, is required. Normally History 2101 and or MS 101.

[History 2125. Problems in High and Late Medieval History: Seminar]
Catalog Number: 1874
Daniel L. Smail
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
This course is designed to introduce graduate students to the sources and methodologies necessary to conduct research on medieval Europe.
Note: Expected to be given in 2008–09.

History 2126. Medieval Law
Catalog Number: 3140
Charles Donahue, Jr. (Law School)
Half course (spring term). Tu., 4:45–6:45. EXAM GROUP: 18
Readings focused alternately on English legal tradition and on the Roman-canonical tradition. Short papers analyzing texts will be required but not a research paper. Topics for 2007-08: the Roman-canonical tradition.
Prerequisite: Some Latin required.

History 2271r. Topics in Byzantine History: Seminar
Catalog Number: 3868
Angeliki E. Laiou
Half course (spring term). Tu., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
Topic to be announced.
Prerequisite: Reading knowledge of Greek, Ancient or Medieval, French and/or German.

Early and Modern Europe

For Undergraduates and Graduates

*History 1309. History in Early Modern Europe: Research Seminar
Catalog Number: 6583 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Ann M. Blair (on leave spring term)
Half course (fall term). Tu., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
This course will examine the cultural significance of history as a discipline and as practice in Europe from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment. We will consider the nature and purposes of different kinds of historical writing and the ways in which histories were read and used. Histories were written to justify disciplines, states and religions; at the same time historical research prompted the development of new scholarly methods and subdisciplines. Emphasis on reading from primary sources including Machiavelli, Guicciardini, Francis Bacon, Voltaire and Gibbon.

[*History 1338. The English Revolution: Research Seminar] - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 0296 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Mark A. Kishlansky
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
This course will fulfill the concentration requirement for a research course requiring the completion of an historical essay based on primary materials. It will explore the causes, course, and consequences of the English Revolution by focusing on selected topics covering the range of issues that dominated the period from the convening of the Lord Parliament to the execution of Charles I. Emphasis will be on research techniques and the use of seventeenth century sources.
Note: Expected to be given in 2008–09.

*History 1339. Anglo-American Constitutional History 1603-1787: Reading Seminar - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 8660 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
David Smith 5904
Half course (spring term). M., 3–5. EXAM GROUP: 8, 9
This course surveys the historiography on English and American constitutional law from the reign of James I to the Framing. Major topics include sovereignty, republicanism, parliamentary authority, the development of legal protections, and the Atlantic constitution. Surveying a period punctuated by three Anglo-American revolutions, our focus will be on political instability and the search for constitutional balance.

*History 1341. Journeys to the Other Shore: Cross-Cultural Encounters in the Mediterranean, 1200-1600: Reading Seminar - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 9714 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Elizabeth Walker Mellyn 5902
Half course (fall term). W., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 7, 8
This course explores the history of the Mediterranean world from 1200 to 1600 through interactions among the diverse peoples of its societies and cultures. By examining texts of pilgrimage, trade, diplomacy and war we will complicate the categories of "East" and "West." Our study concludes with the gradual shift of political and economic power from southern Europe and the Mediterranean to northern Europe and the Atlantic.

*History 1344. Early Modern Europe, 1400-1750: Reading Seminar - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 6819 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Adam Gregory Beaver 5792
Half course (spring term). Tu., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
This course’s approach to the history of Early Modern Europe incorporates both traditional and new perspectives, investigating the classic debates while also exploring cutting edge methodologies and concerns. Alongside the grand narratives of the Renaissance and religious reformations that help to organize the period as a whole, we will investigate topics such as urban sociability, gender and sexuality, popular culture, and the fringes of intellectual and social life.

*History 1411. The History of Economic Thought Since 1750: Research Seminar
Catalog Number: 5927 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Emma Rothschild
Half course (fall term). M., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 7, 8
Examines the history of various kinds of economic thought, looking at 18th century laissez-faire political economy, and at late 19th century economists and social reformers. Will emphasize writings about long-distance or global connections, in different media from scientific theories to economic periodicals. Students will prepare individual research projects.

History 1413. The Evangelical Tradition, c. 1700-2000 - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 5888
David Hempton (Divinity School)
Half course (fall term). M., W., at 11, plus hour to be arranged. EXAM GROUP: 4
Investigates the Evangelical tradition from its origins in the religious revivals of the eighteenth century to its contemporary role in American culture and society. Will explore the complexities of gender, ethnicity, social class, and political culture. Will make use of primary and secondary materials to shed light on Evangelical theology, spirituality, and cultural expression throughout the North Atlantic region and beyond.
Note: Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 2358.

History 1414. The Expansion of Christendom: Global Christianity, c. 1650-1830 - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 2392
David Hempton (Divinity School)
Half course (spring term). M., W., at 11, plus hour to be arranged. EXAM GROUP: 4
Investigates themes in the history of Christianity from the mid-seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries. Will focus on European Christendom and its expansion to other parts of the world in the early modern period. What was at stake in the multifaceted cultural encounters between European Christianity and other religious traditions as Christianity expanded into new social spaces, and what was the relationship between Protestant and Catholic missionary movements and the expansion of the European seaborne empires?
Note: Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 2355.

[*History 1418. Political Justice Since 1789: Research Seminar]
Catalog Number: 3904 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Charles S. Maier
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Examines selected trials and debates, and some comparative and theoretical material, to open up key problems in recent history as well as general legal and moral issues.
Note: Expected to be given in 2008–09.

History 1421. Ireland 1689-1922 - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 1974
Gerard James Livesey (University of Sussex)
Half course (spring term). M., W., (F.), at 12. EXAM GROUP: 5
A general survey of the history of Modern Ireland looking at the transformation of the island across three centuries. Will examine the creation of cultural and religious communities in the eighteenth century, the problem of political violence, the creativity of cultural history and the distinctive dynamics of Irish society and conclude with an approach to the Irish revolution.

History 1422. The World of the French Revolution - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 1183
Gerard James Livesey (University of Sussex)
Half course (fall term). M., W., (F.), at 12. EXAM GROUP: 5
The French Revolution is one of the most fascinating and formative episodes in European history. This course will cover the full range of the Revolution from its origins, through the Terror to the Napoleonic coup. In our exploration of the Revolution, we consider the origins of political feminism, alternative market economies, the political novel, colonial insurrection, counter-revolution, the British reaction, Jacobins and sans culottes, and the structure of political terror.
Note: This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study B.

*History 1423. Democracy and Liberalism in France 1789-2007: Reading Seminar - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 0392 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Gerard James Livesey (University of Sussex)
Half course (spring term). W., 4–6. EXAM GROUP: 9
Will investigate the French democratic tradition, and will read and interrogate the basic documents and incidents that shaped the French commitment to popular sovereignty. Will work with the literature on the Declaration of the Rights of Man, socialism and democracy in the nineteenth century, the Dreyfus Affair, popular mobilization in the First World War, the Algerian conflict, the May events of 1968 and the current tensions between altermondialistes and the mainstream socialist tradition.

History 1424. Britain Since 1760: Island, Europe, Empire - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 2630
Maya Jasanoff
Half course (fall term). M., W., (F.), at 10. EXAM GROUP: 3
Survey history of Great Britain from the reign of George III to the administration of Tony Blair. These centuries witnessed Britain’s spectacular emergence as the world’s leading industrial and imperial power; and its dramatic decline in influence after World War II. How did Britons experience domestic and global change? Themes include political reform, social class, national identity, popular culture, rise and fall of empire, relations with Europe. Extensive use of written and visual primary sources.

*History 1425. The Rise of the British Empire, 1757-1857: Reading Seminar - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 8040 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Maya Jasanoff 5877 (on leave spring term)
Half course (fall term). M., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7
Examines the expansion of the British Empire from the Seven Years War to the Indian Mutiny-Rebellion. Large themes of resistance, cross-cultural relations, and government practice will be considered together with specific episodes such as the Hastings trial and challenges to British rule in South Asia, the American Revolution, the settlement of Australia, and the abolition of slavery. Readings divided between primary and secondary sources, with emphasis on imperial controversies past and present.

*History 1426. On Display: Commemoration, Collection and Public Spaces (c. 1600-2000): Reading Seminar - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 9970 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Rachel L. Greenblatt
Half course (spring term). Th., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 15, 16
Traces the collection, commissioning, creation and display of artworks and objects from their development in religious and royal settings of the early modern period to their uses in nation-building and self-representation in the twentieth-century. Topics include monuments and urban spaces in Christian-Jewish polemics, collections as displays of political power, and museums as sites of national, cultural and ethnic identity. Geographical focus on Central Europe, but Western Europe and North America will also be considered.

History 1427. Women’s Voices in Medieval and Early Modern Europe - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 7597
Rachel L. Greenblatt
Half course (fall term). M., W., (F.), at 10. EXAM GROUP: 3
Seeks out the voices of Jewish, Protestant and Catholic women, with an emphasis on women’s writings, and examines methods for uncovering information about women’s lives when their own voices are absent from the historical record. Considers ideal images and the daily realities of both men’s and women’s gendered roles in such areas as life-cycle rituals, livelihood and spirituality.

*History 1443. Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), Scholar, Diplomat, Artist: Research Seminar
Catalog Number: 4061 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Ivan Gaskell 3174
Half course (fall term). Th., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
An investigation of how 21st-century responses to artworks by Rubens may relate to the development of historical understanding. Examines the tensions between the specificity of Rubens’s artworks and other actions, and broader patterns and conventions of behavior in art, politics, and the western European social fabric more generally in the first half of the 17th century. Will examine artworks associated with Rubens, including paintings, drawings, prints, and illustrated books in Harvard and Boston collections.

*History 1444. John Locke: Research Seminar
Catalog Number: 6655 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
David R. Armitage
Half course (spring term). Tu., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
A comprehensive survey of the work of the philosopher and political theorist John Locke in historical context. Treats major works including the “Essay Concerning Human Understanding,” the “Two Treatises of Government,” “A Letter Concerning Toleration,” “Some Thoughts Concerning Education,” and “The Reasonableness of Christianity.”

[*History 1446. Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Research Seminar]
Catalog Number: 1471 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Alison F. Frank (on leave 2007-08)
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Explores the history of the political, social, and cultural center of the largest continental European Empire in modern history, and one of the birthplaces of European modernism. From the 1880s through WWI and into the early years of the Republic of Austria, the course examines not only Vienna’s intellectual vitality, but also the social and ideological divisions underlying the human catastrophes of World War and genocide in the twentieth century.
Note: Expected to be given in 2008–09.

[History 1449. Nationalism and Socialism in 20th-Century Central Europe]
Catalog Number: 5125
Alison F. Frank
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Introduction to theoretical literature concerning nationalism and socialism and to the history of the states of Central and Eastern Europe formed in the aftermath of WWI. Wedged between Germany and the USSR, the fledgling states of Central Europe struggled to balance nationalism and socialism as competing ways of interpreting the world and as programs for changing it. Their successes and failures will be placed in the context of the legacy of the Habsburg Empire.
Note: Expected to be given in 2009–10. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study A.

[History 1450. France 1500-1715]
Catalog Number: 7575
Ann M. Blair
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
A general survey of the history and historiography of early modern France ca. 1500-1715, with a special emphasis on topics in cultural history, including: humanism and printing; Protestantism; political thought; royal and court rituals; and the beginnings of the Enlightenment. Assigned readings from Rabelais, Montaigne, Pascal, Racine, and Voltaire among the primary sources; from Fernand Braudel, Natalie Davis, Robert Darnton among the secondary sources.
Note: Expected to be given in 2008–09. All assignments in English. An optional extra French-language reading section will be arranged in case of interest.

[History 1456. Central Europe, 1789-1918: Empires, Nations, States]
Catalog Number: 3736
Alison F. Frank
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Examines the development of nationalism and socialism as ideologies intended to shape the identities, public and private behavior, and political activities of subjects of the continental European empires in the long nineteenth century. Primary focus will be on the Habsburg Empire, with attention paid to other German-speaking lands and to the western territories of the Russian Empire (especially Poland).
Note: Expected to be given in 2008–09.

History 1458. “French Modern”, 1848-Present
Catalog Number: 5919
Judith Surkis
Half course (fall term). M., W., at 1. EXAM GROUP: 6
Examines impact of and responses to political and cultural modernity in France from the mid-19th century forward. Themes and topics include: citizenship and its exclusions; social revolt and reform; urbanization and mass culture; population anxiety, anti-Semitism, and racism; imperial expansion and rule; war and decolonization; postwar development and May ’68; "multiculturalism" and contemporary challenges to the republican model.

[*History 1459. Gender and Sexuality in Modern Europe: Research Seminar]
Catalog Number: 1562 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Judith Surkis (on leave spring term)
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Examines the social organization and cultural construction of gender and sexuality in modern Europe from 1789. Major focus on France, Britain, and German-speaking countries, in both metropolitan and imperial contexts. Particular attention will be paid to how normative concepts of femininity and masculinity play a role in the legitimization of social and political order as well as in attempts to effect and respond to social change.
Note: Expected to be given in 2008–09.

[*History 1460. French History through French Literature: Reading Seminar]
Catalog Number: 5038 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Patrice Higonnet (on leave 2007-08)
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Examines 19th century French history through some of the masterpieces of the post-revolutionary French tradition. The emphasis will be on the definitions of individualism (male and female) in an age of revolution and high capitalism. Readings will include Constant, Staël, Balzac, Stendhal, Sand, Tocqueville, Baudelaire, Flaubert, and Zola, as well as corresponding texts on the history of the period such as Marx and Walter Benjamin.
Note: Expected to be given in 2009–10.

[*History 1463. Paris From the French Revolution Through the 19th Century: Reading Seminar]
Catalog Number: 6355 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Patrice Higonnet (on leave 2007-08)
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Examines the art, literature, and history of the “capital of the 19th century.” Subjects will include Balzac, Flaubert, and Baudelaire; Delacroix, Manet, and Degas; the Revolutions of 1789, 1848, and 1871.
Note: Expected to be given in 2008–09.

[*History 1466. Vichy France: Research Seminar]
Catalog Number: 8154 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Patrice Higonnet 2730 (on leave 2007-08)
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
We cover the background of the Vichy years and the legacy of 1789 and the First World War; military affairs; Vichy’s social policy; Vichy, the Germans, and the Jews; Vichy and Free France; and the legacy of the Vichy years.
Note: Expected to be given in 2009–10. Students interested in this course should contact Professor Higonnet at higonnet@fas.harvard.edu. Films will be shown weekly.

History 1470. Modern European Intellectual History Subject and Structure, Nietzsche to Postmodernism
Catalog Number: 7131
Peter E. Gordon
Half course (spring term). Tu., Th., at 11. EXAM GROUP: 13
An introduction to major landmarks in Continental philosophy and social theory in the modern period, beginning with Nietzsche. Focuses on the various challenges to traditional enlightenment notions of freedom and subjectivity in psychoanalysis, Critical Theory, existentialism, French structuralism, and post-structuralism.
Note: This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study A.

[History 1471. The Thought of Martin Heidegger]
Catalog Number: 5691
Peter E. Gordon
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
A lecture course on the development of the ideas of the German philosopher Martin Heidegger. Mostly a sustained, critical reading of his monumental 1927 text, Being and Time. We will also discuss some of his later contributions to theories of technology, language, and art; as well as the controversy surrounding his engagement with Nazism.
Note: Expected to be given in 2009–10.
Prerequisite: History 1470; Social Studies 10; or a course in introductory philosophy or continental political theory.

[*History 1472. Epistemic Regimes: Research Seminar]
Catalog Number: 6425 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Peter E. Gordon
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Will address the now-prevalent idea that reality is a construction, i.e., that what counts as objectivity or truth may depend upon conceptual schemes, discourses, or practices of world-making, such that the conditions for something being "an object" or being "true" in natural science or social experience may admit of variation and structural transformation over time. Topics and authors include: Foucault, Heidegger, Latour, Sokal, Hacking, Poovey, Shapin, Cervantes, and the film trilogy, The Matrix.
Note: Expected to be given in 2008–09.
Prerequisite: One of the following: History 1470, Social Studies 10, French Social Thought, American Social Thought or one course in epistemology Philosophy.

*History 1474. Republics and Republicanism: Research Seminar
Catalog Number: 2494 Enrollment: Limited to 20.
James Hankins and Harvey C. Mansfield
Half course (fall term). M., 4–6. EXAM GROUP: 9
Surveys the history of republican political theory from antiquity to the modern era. Themes to be discussed include: the relationship between republicanism and liberalism; the roots of republicanism in Greek and Roman political thought; Italian civic humanism; and the ideological origins of the English and American Revolutions. Readings will be drawn from Aristotle, Cicero, Machiavelli, More, Montesquieu, the Federalist, Tocqueville, and others.

*History 1479. Intellectuals and Auschwitz: Research Seminar - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 5579 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Peter E. Gordon
Half course (spring term). W., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 7, 8
This seminar for advanced undergraduates investigates a variety of philosophical debates and intellectual controversies concerning National Socialism and the Holocaust; focusing on disputes as to the significance of the Holocaust for social theory, the philosophy of history, theories of empathy and historical as well as aesthetic representation. Authors include: Adorno, Agamben, Arendt, Blanchot, Celan, Derrida, Jaspers, Jonas, and Levi.

[*History 1483. French Colonial Encounters: 1870’s to Present: Research Seminar]
Catalog Number: 0461 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Mary D. Lewis (on leave 2007-08)
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Explores and compares three colonies in the French Empire: French West Africa, Algeria, and Indochina, considering how colonial rule was extended, how individuals responded, and what reverberations there were between colony and metropole.
Note: Expected to be given in 2008–09.
Prerequisite: An introduction to French history recommended.

[History 1484. Europe Since World War II]
Catalog Number: 4588
Mary D. Lewis
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Considers the political, economic, social and cultural development of Europe since the end of the Second World War. Examines post-war reconstruction; decolonization and the Cold War; the development of social democracy, new social movements, and the welfare state; the birth and expansion of the European Union; the emergence and importance of “immigrant politics” and new extreme-right movements; the events of 1989 and their significance.
Note: Expected to be given in 2008–09. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study A.
Prerequisite: History 10b recommended.

*History 1485. Weimar Intellectuals: Research Seminar
Catalog Number: 7638 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Peter E. Gordon
Half course (fall term). Tu., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
Explores major intellectual currents of the Weimar Republic (1919-1933) to assess how German intellectuals negotiated the stresses of modernity. Thematic units: urbanism and anxiety; technophilia and technophobia; Marxism and utopia; and the crisis of the political. Authors include Simmel, Weber, Mann, Benjamin, Bloch, Kracauer, Spengler, Junger, Heidegger, and Schmitt.
Prerequisite: One course in modern European intellectual history, social or political theory, or modern German Literature.

[*History 1490. Max Weber in His Time: Research Seminar]
Catalog Number: 9550 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
David Blackbourn
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
We still read and reinterpret Max Weber’s work on bureaucracy, charisma, and the links between religion and capitalism. This course places Weber (1864-1920) in his time, as a participant in contemporary German debates. Using his own scholarly and political writings, plus other biographical and historical materials, we examine Weber’s strong views on subjects that include German political leadership, nationalism, imperialism, the rise of socialism, university reform, Polish immigrant labor, Catholic "backwardness", and World War I.
Note: Expected to be given in 2008–09.

*History 1491. Religion and Popular Culture in 19th-Century Europe: Reading Seminar
Catalog Number: 6681 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
David Blackbourn
Half course (fall term). W., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 7, 8
Explores the relationship between social and political change and popular religious practice from the French Revolution to World War I. Considers methodological problems in the study of religion and popular culture; religious revivals and popular politics; pilgrimages and prophetic movements; the relationships between class, gender, and religious culture; the feminization of religion, and the origins and resistance to the secularization of state and society. Readings include primary documents and secondary texts.
Note: Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 2265.

History 1497. Women, Gender, and Sexuality in Modern Europe - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 8089
Uta G. Poiger (University of Washington)
Half course (spring term). Tu., Th., at 10. EXAM GROUP: 12
An introduction to European women’s and men’s changing social and political positions from the Enlightenment to the end of the cold war, paying particular attention to the relationship of gender and politics and to the body and sexuality. Topics include the French Revolution, bourgeois society, industrialization, imperialism, women’s movements, sexology and psychoanalysis, fascism and war, the cold war, and decolonization.

*History 1498. Citizenship, Migration, and European Cultures Since 1945: Reading Seminar - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 7630 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Uta G. Poiger (University of Washington)
Half course (spring term). Tu., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
An introduction to major contests about national belonging and "European culture" in the aftermath of war and genocide and in the context of the cold war, decolonization, globalization, and wars on terror. Topics include Displaced Persons and the postwar refugee crisis; reconstruction and Americanization; "Brown Babies" in postwar Europe; Jewishness after genocide; The Empire Talks Back; "Guestworkers"; the European Union; Islam in Europe.

History 1514. Early Modern Eastern Europe (1450-1795) - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 9973
Serhii Plokhii
Half course (fall term). M., W., (F.), at 11. EXAM GROUP: 4
Explores the history of the "other" Europe from the collapse of Mongol rule and the rise of an independent Muscovite state in the second half of the fifteenth century to the partitions of Poland in the late eighteenth century. Examines the early modern history of the territories that became Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, and Poland-a period that saw the formation and collapse of multiethnic states, the creation of modern empires, and fierce religious competition.

*History 1529. East European Identities: Russia and Ukraine: Reading Seminar - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 6477 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Serhii Plokhii 4454
Half course (fall term). Tu., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
Discusses the formation of modern national identities in the Slavic world, and traces the development of competing imperial and national projects from the Napoleonic Wars to the collapse of the Soviet Union and the rise of independent successor states. Examines the reflection of growing national awareness in Russian and Ukrainian political writings, historiography, literature, and culture, as well as the role of multiple "others" in the formation of modern East Slavic identities.

History 1531. History of the Soviet Union, 1917-1991
Catalog Number: 4501
Benjamin Tromly
Half course (spring term). Tu., Th., at 1. EXAM GROUP: 15
Examines the history of the Soviet Union from the Russian Revolution to Gorbachev’s failed reforms. Focus on the period 1928-53 when industrialization, nationalization and political terror created a distinct Soviet society and culture. Readings include novels, short stories, memoirs, Soviet propaganda, high policy deliberations, letters, journalism, songs, jokes, etc.

History 1541. The Russian Revolution - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 7581
Benjamin Tromly
Half course (fall term). Tu., Th., at 1. EXAM GROUP: 15
Examines revolutionary Russia including the transformation and collapse of the old regime, the revolutions of 1917, and the emergence of Bolshevik rule and the Stalinist dictatorship. Explores the connection between politics and social change, war and revolution, class and nation, as well as projects to transform society in the spheres of culture, religion, social identities and the family.

*History 1544. Stalinism: Research Seminar - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 4417 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Benjamin Tromly 5907
Half course (fall term). W., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 7, 8
Introduction to historical debates and primary sources with particular attention to Stalin’s personal dictatorship, uses of political violence, popular collaboration and resistance, nationality and empire, and popular belief and ideology.
Note: Reading knowledge of Russian not required.

*History 1545. Russian Intellectual Rebels, 1840-1991: Reading Seminar - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 0130 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Benjamin Tromly 5907
Half course (spring term). W., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 7, 8
Examines the emergence of the Russian intelligentsia and its place in imperial society and the Russian nation, the roles of thinkers during the revolutionary period, the transformation of intellectuals and intellectual life after 1917, and the reemergence of intellectual dissent after Stalin’s death. Discussion focuses on major writings of Russian intellectuals, as well as studies on intellectual dissent.
Note: Reading knowledge of Russian not required.

Cross-listed Courses

Celtic 107. Early Irish History
History and Literature 90b. Beauty and the Body - (New Course)
History and Literature 90e. Imperial Intimacies: Bodies and Cultures of Empire afer 1800 - (New Course)
History and Literature 90f. The British Atlantic World - (New Course)
Italian 177. The Culture of Italian Emigration - (New Course)
Jewish Studies 135. Jewish-Arab Encounters: the Classical Age - (New Course)
Jewish Studies 143. Jews in the Modern World - (New Course)
Jewish Studies 153. Jews and Communism in Russia: 1880 to the Fall of the Soviet Union: Seminar - (New Course)
[Slavic 169. 20th-Century Ukraine: Literature, Arts, and Society]
Slavic 196. Literature and Nationalism in Central Europe: Conference Course

Primarily for Graduates

History 2310. Problems in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe 1250-1750: Seminar
Catalog Number: 9057
Steven Ozment
Half course (spring term). Th., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
Directed reading and writing in European politics, society, and culture. For field exam candidates, senior thesis writers, and graduate students writing dissertations.
Note: Open to advanced undergraduates with permission of instructor.

*History 2321. Methods in Book History: Seminar - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 5169
Ann M. Blair and Leah Price
Half course (fall term). Th., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 15, 16
Will introduce students to methods and debates in the history of the book and of reading. Primarily for graduates; open to advanced undergraduates by consent of the instructors.

*History 2332. Early Modern England: Seminar
Catalog Number: 7105 Enrollment: Limited to 10.
Mark A. Kishlansky
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Students will conduct primary research on topics of significance in the history of England, ca. 1563–1714.
Note: Permission of instructor required.

[History 2342r. The French Revolution: Seminar]
Catalog Number: 1914
Patrice Higonnet
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
The history of Paris during the French Revolution.
Note: Expected to be given in 2008–09.

History 2410. Ideas in Europe in the 18th Century: Seminar
Catalog Number: 1077
Emma Rothschild
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
A graduate seminar which examines a number of 18th century writings (by Hume, Smith, Wollstonecraft, and Condorcet) and ideas (enlightenment, religion, empire), and explores different ways of writing about the history of ideas.

[History 2430. The British Empire Before 1800: Proseminar]
Catalog Number: 4452
David R. Armitage
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
History of the British Empire before 1800, with special emphasis on the Atlantic Ocean.
Note: Expected to be given in 2008–09.

[*History 2441. Central Europe: Seminar]
Catalog Number: 6464 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Alison F. Frank
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Major themes include nationalism, communism, the ‘Polish question,’ the ‘Jewish question,’ the political and economic viability of the Habsburg Empire, cultural exchange and diplomatic relations between Austria, Germany and the Russian Empire/Soviet Union.
Note: Expected to be given in 2009–10.
Prerequisite: Reading Knowledge of either German, Polish, Czech, or another Central European language.

History 2450. The French Revolution: Seminar - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 6925
Gerard James Livesey (University of Sussex)
Half course (fall term). W., 4–6. EXAM GROUP: 9
Critically examines Revisionism in light of the revival of the social interpretation of the Revolution and novel post-revisionist currents.

History 2471. Heidegger and Technology: Seminar - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 1419
Peter E. Gordon and Peter L. Galison
Half course (fall term). W., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 7, 8
An advanced seminar focusing on Heidegger’s assessment of modern technology and the relation of scientific and/or technological practices to human experience, history and philosophy.
Note: Offered jointly with History of Science 287.

*History 2473. Latin Texts of the Italian Renaissance: Proseminar
Catalog Number: 0140
James Hankins
Half course (fall term). Tu., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
Introduction to methods and techniques of textual scholarship with reference to Renaissance Latin texts. Topics include finding and describing manuscript and printed sources; paleography and codicology; text editing; rhetorical analysis. Course includes a six-week paleography workshop held in Houghton Library.
Note: Enrollment by permission of the instructor. May not ordinarily be credited as one of the research seminars required in the first-year program.
Prerequisite: A reading knowledge of Latin, French, Italian, and German.

History 2475. Problems and Sources in Modern German History: Seminar
Catalog Number: 8355 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
David Blackbourn
Half course (fall term). Tu., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
A research seminar that examines different ways of approaching German history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. We consider a variety of interpretations and methodologies. Particular attention is given to diverse source materials, including literary and visual sources.
Note: Reading knowledge of German not required.

[History 2480. The Scope of History: Seminar]
Catalog Number: 4804 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Mary D. Lewis
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Explores the historical method by considering the wide array of "levels" of analysis or foci that historians adopt, from local and national to transnational, comparative and global; considers the relationship between scope and problematic.
Note: Expected to be given in 2008–09.

[History 2531. The Soviet Union: Seminar]
Catalog Number: 7969
Terry D. Martin
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Introduction to archival and primary sources, as well as major historiographical debates. Primary focus on major research paper.
Note: Expected to be given in 2008–09.
Prerequisite: Reading knowledge of Russian.

[History 2532. The Soviet Union: Proseminar]
Catalog Number: 2405
Terry D. Martin
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Introduction to major debates in the historiography of the Soviet Union.
Note: Expected to be given in 2008–09.

Cross-listed Courses

*English 259. Methods in Book History: Graduate Seminar - (New Course)
[Historical Study A-27. Reason and Faith in the West]
Historical Study A-76. Germany 1871–1990: From Unification to Reunification
[Historical Study B-35. The French Revolution: Causes, Processes, and Consequences]
[Historical Study B-54. World War and Global Transformation in the 20th Century: World War II]
History of Science 287. Heidegger and Technology: Seminar - (New Course)

History of the United States

For Undergraduates and Graduates

[*History 1605. Early American Slave Revolts: Research Seminar]
Catalog Number: 4218 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Vincent Brown 4638
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Will analyze political dynamics of resistance and social control within the slave societies of the early Americas from the 17th to the early 19th centuries. Topics for consideration include maroon resistance, struggles over time, territory, status, and cultural practice within slavery, the organizing strategies of the enslaved, and competing visions of the future.
Note: Expected to be given in 2008–09.

History 1606. American Jewish History - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 4228
Jeffrey Gurock (Yeshiva University)
Half course (fall term). Tu., Th., 1–2:30. EXAM GROUP: 15, 16
A survey of the social, economic, religious and political history of the Jews in the United States within the contexts of American and Jewish history from the Colonial period through the contemporary era.

*History 1609. The Social History of American Judaism: Research Seminar - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 6122 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Jeffrey Gurock (Yeshiva University) 5894 (fall term only)
Half course (fall term). W., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7
American freedom and voluntarism have posed major challenges to the continuity of Judaism. How Jews have defined that challenge and attempted to reconcile, accommodate, or preserve unchanged their religious faith and practice in America will be the focus of this course. Topics include differing rabbinic and lay perceptions of social realities, issues of cooperation and competition among different Jewish movements, growth and development of religious institutions and their parallels within Christian society.

[*History 1610. Confronting Objects/Interpreting Culture: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on North America: Research Seminar]
Catalog Number: 2479 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (on leave spring term) and Ivan Gaskell
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Using case studies drawn from the Artemas Ward House and other Harvard collections, students will explore a range of methods used in interpreting art and artifacts from colonial North America and the early US. Emphasis on the interplay between particular objects and larger historical themes, such as colonialism, patriotism, or the beginnings of mechanization. Students will be introduced to a range of scholarly tools, including laboratory analysis of materials, quantitative studies of household inventories, and iconography.
Note: Expected to be given in 2008–09.

*History 1612. African Diaspora in the Americas: Reading Seminar
Catalog Number: 9564 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Vincent Brown
Half course (fall term). Th., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 15, 16
How can we best understand the diverse cultural practices of black people in the Americas, from where did those practices derive, and how are they related to each other? We explore a history of attempts to answer those questions, and examine ways that interpretations of the “African diaspora” have been conceived by scholars to better appreciate the complex histories of African-American cultural practices.

*History 1615. The Nine Lives of Benjamin Franklin: Research Seminar
Catalog Number: 6296 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Joyce E. Chaplin
Half course (fall term). Tu., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
Examines some of the multiple lives that Franklin led during the eighteenth century. Students examine in depth one of these lives or identify and explore yet another, to better comprehend Franklin and the worlds in which he lived: colonial America, British empire, independent US, books, science, popular culture, politics, war, personal improvement, and many others.

*History 1622. Readings in the History of Slavery: Reading Seminar
Catalog Number: 9361 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Susan E. O’Donovan
Half course (fall term). Th., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
Awareness has grown of slavery’s institutional role in national economic and political development. But the extent to which individual slaves were meaningful participants in this process of nation making remains an open question. By means of monographs, articles, and the occasional primary source, this course will investigate a still unfolding debate about slaves - as women, as men, as workers - and the extent to which they were agents of historical change.

History 1625. The American Civil War: Waging a War in History and Memory
Catalog Number: 7989
Susan E. O’Donovan
Half course (spring term). M., W., at 10. EXAM GROUP: 3
As much public as professional property, the Civil War has had many owners, it has assumed many shapes, and it has been put to many uses. Starting in the archives and ending in Hollywood, this course considers a range of those Civil Wars, their authors, and their meanings. Period accounts, fiction, film, and historians’ interpretations will provide the basis for understanding the war’s continued grip on the American imagination and on national political life.

[History 1629. Empire for Liberty: The US in the Nineteenth Century]
Catalog Number: 1940
Walter Johnson
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
This course treats the history of the nineteenth-century U.S. and the Civil War in light of the history of US imperialism, especially the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War, and the illegal invasions of Cuba and Nicaragua in the 1850s. Likewise, it relates the history of slavery in the United States to the Haitian Revolution, the Louisiana Purchase, Indian removal, Atlantic cotton, land and money markets, and the hemispheric history of antislavery.
Note: Expected to be given in 2008–09.

*History 1634. Southeast Asian Refugees and the US State: Reading Seminar - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 1681 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Eric Tang (University of Illinois, Chicago) 5906
Half course (fall term). Tu., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 15, 16
This course surveys the history of Southeast Asian refugee resettlement to the US and the US state policies that have shaped that refugee sojourn. From the denouement of French colonialism, to the Vietnam War quagmire, to the creation of makeshift refugee camps in Southern California, to the resettlement of refugees in America’s impoverished cities, the course traces the relationship between the U.S. state and the refugees from its long war in Southeast Asia.

*History 1635. Race and Race Relations Since Plessy: Research Seminar
Catalog Number: 4172 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Stephan Thernstrom
Half course (fall term). W., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7
An examination of the changing position of African Americans in the US society since disenfranchisement and the creation of the Jim Crow system at the turn of the century. The nature of segregation; the civil rights movement; the crisis of the sixties; the Moynihan and Kerner reports; economic and social trends since the 1960s.

*History 1636. Public Opinion and American Democracy: Reading Seminar - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 8339 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Andrew Jewett 5878
Half course (spring term). M., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7
Explores how Americans have understood the role of public opinion in their democracy since the founding period. Topics include the mobilization of nationalism in the Civil War, the Progressives’ push for direct democracy, the growing use (and fear) of propaganda techniques, conflicts over free speech, the rise of opinion polling, the devaluation of political engagement during the Cold War, and the post-1960s renewal of emphasis on participatory democracy.

[History 1638. American Social History Since 1920]
Catalog Number: 5967
Stephan Thernstrom
Half course (spring term). Tu., Th., at 12.
An analysis of major social changes and continuities from the 1920s to the present. Emphasizes demographic change, economic development, the class structure, immigration, race relations, ethnicity, gender, and religion. Makes extensive use of social science methods and examines quantitative evidence. A major theme is the question of American "exceptionalism"--how the US resembles and differs from other advanced industrial societies.
Note: Expected to be given in 2008–09. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study A.

[History 1639. The Expanding United States, 1803–1917]
Catalog Number: 9411
Rachel St. John
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Will explore the history of 19th century American expansion, from 1803 when the USwas an adolescent republic bounded by the Mississippi River and inhabited by a relatively homogeneous population, to 1917 when an expansive federal government presided over a continent-spanning nation, overseas territorial possessions, an industrial, capitalist economy, and a diverse population struggling over political inclusion, economic equity, and national identity.
Note: Expected to be given in 2008–09.

[History 1641. History of the US West]
Catalog Number: 3887
Rachel St. John
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
This lecture course will introduce students to the history of the place that we now know as the US West from before European expansion to the present. Lectures and readings will examine how both particular national boundaries and distinctive regional patterns have defined the West. Drawing on histories, memoirs, journals, films, and images, students will explore a variety of perspectives on the political, economic, social, cultural, and environmental transformations of the American West.
Note: Expected to be given in 2008–09.

[*History 1643. Civil War and Reconstruction: Research Seminar]
Catalog Number: 5156 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
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Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
This course will explore the American experience of Civil War and Reconstruction with attention to cultural, social, political, and military questions. Readings will include both primary and secondary texts. Students will be expected to participate actively in class discussions and to produce a substantial research paper.
Note: Expected to be given in 2009–10.

[*History 1644. Land of Opportunity? Social Class and Social Mobility in Modern American History: Reading Seminar ] - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 2620 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Stephan Thernstrom
Half course (spring term). W., 2–4.
An introduction to the study of social stratification in the 19th and 20th century US. The many meanings of "class"; migration and social mobility; the role of education, including elite colleges and universities; ethnic and racial differences in mobility rates and avenues; the alleged rise in economic inequality since the 1960s; poverty and the "underclass"; American values and the issue of American exceptionalism.
Note: Expected to be given in 2008–09.

*History 1645. History of American Immigration: Reading Seminar
Catalog Number: 7280 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Stephan Thernstrom
Half course (fall term). W., 4–6. EXAM GROUP: 9
Analysis of the immigration waves that have shaped the American population from colonial times to the present. The causes of international migration; shifting American attitudes toward immigrants; US immigration policy; the economic and social adjustment of newcomers; the Melting Pot vs. cultural pluralism.

History 1646. Consumption in the United States: From Wedgwood to Wal-Mart - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 1306
Louis Roland Hyman
Half course (spring term). M., W., at 2. EXAM GROUP: 7
Whether buying at a general store, shopping at a department store, or loitering at a mall, consumption has always formed an important part of the American experience. More than just commodities bought and sold, consumption is also about the institutions, social practices, cultural meanings, and economic functions that have surrounded the merchandise. This course will look at the changing meanings consumption has had for life, politics, and economy in the US over the past 300 years.

*History 1647. Labor and Business in American History: Reading Seminar - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 6589 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Louis Roland Hyman 5896
Half course (spring term). Tu., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 15, 16
Labor history and business history offer two distinct, and sometimes irreconcilable, interpretations of the economic past of the US. Rather than take one narrative as "correct" and the other as "incorrect," this course will use the interpretative differences of the two disciplines to explore how historians write history. Students will read foundational texts in both fields and will examine how each subgenre interprets the history of American political economy.

History 1648. The Rise and Fall of the Industrial United States - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 1052
Louis Roland Hyman
Half course (fall term). Tu., Th., at 2. EXAM GROUP: 16
Industrialization and deindustrialization have defined the twentieth-century experience in the United States. This course traces the emergence of American industrialization, its global ascendance, and complicates its purported decline. Connecting high finance and insider politics with the everyday lives of factory workers and office managers, this course charts both the creation of Henry Ford’s world and its undoing.

*History 1649. The History of the End of America: Research Seminar - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 0261 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Louis Roland Hyman 5896
Half course (fall term). W., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 7, 8
Even before the inception of the United States, the specter of the demise of the American way of life haunted Americans’ imaginations. How has the imagination of America’s end shaped politics and culture for the past three centuries? What do different doomsday scenarios reveal about the changing definitions of "America" over time? This research seminar will explore some of the different ways in which the future end of "America" has been imagined, encompassing millenarianism, class war, Martians, and other topics.

History 1650a. The United States in the World, to 1920
Catalog Number: 3435
Erez Manela
Half course (fall term). Tu., Th., at 11; Th., at 2; F., at 11. EXAM GROUP: 13
American foreign relations from the colonial period through World War I. Topics include the transition from colonial to imperial status; the changing role of the US in international relations; interaction between domestic politics and foreign policy; political, economic, and cultural relationships between Americans and other peoples.

History 1650b. The United States in the World, since 1920
Catalog Number: 4745
Erez Manela
Half course (spring term). Tu., Th., at 11. EXAM GROUP: 13
American foreign relations since World War I. Topics include the world role of the supposedly isolated US in the interwar years, World War II, postwar “hegemony,” the Cold War, and political, economic, and cultural interaction between Americans and other peoples.

History 1652. Introduction to Asian American History - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 8214
Eric Tang (University of Illinois, Chicago)
Half course (fall term). Tu., Th., at 10. EXAM GROUP: 12
This course is an introduction to the main political events and processes that define the Asian experience in the US, tracing theoretical concepts of race as they relate to the formation of a distinct Asian American political and cultural identity. Four broad historical periods are covered: nineteenth and early twentieth-century migration and labor; World War II and the ’silent’ decade of the 1950s; new immigration and the rise of Asian American panethnicity; globalization.
Note: This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study A.

*History 1653. The Asian American Radical Tradition: Reading Seminar - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 6632 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Eric Tang (University of Illinois, Chicago) 5906
Half course (spring term). Th., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 15, 16
This course examines the ways in which Asian American struggles for racial justice, labor rights and citizenship equality have indelibly shaped US culture and politics from the mid-19th century to the present. While appreciating the specific political histories of diverse Asian ethnic groups in the US, the course highlights recurring political themes and modes of radical activism that connect different epochs and ethnic groups, pointing to the existence of a distinct Asian American radical tradition.

[*History 1655. Native American Identities: Research Seminar]
Catalog Number: 7019 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Malinda Maynor Lowery 5320
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Using readings in history, literature, anthropology, sociology, law and policy, and the arts, this conference course will explore how Native Americans define themselves to one another and to non-Indians in local, personal, tribal, and national contexts.
Note: Expected to be given in 2008–09.

*History 1656. Harvard and Slavery: Research Seminar - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 1778 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Sven Beckert
Half course (fall term). Th., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
Will explore the links between Harvard and slavery during the first 229 years of the university’s history. Students will write original research papers on various aspects of the history of Harvard University and slavery, including how resources extracted from slave labor benefited the university, the ways Harvard administrators and faculty supported or struggled against the institution of slavery, and what kinds of links the university built to slaveholders.

[History 1657. Native America: The East]
Catalog Number: 1723
Malinda Maynor Lowery
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
This survey course uses culture to analyze Native American history. Students will gain a deeper understanding of the oral and spiritual histories of Native people east of the Mississippi prior to the arrival of Columbus, why and how Native nations adapted to the European presence, and how colonial and US Indian policy developed through the late twentieth century.
Note: Expected to be given in 2008–09. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study A.

[History 1658. Native America: The West]
Catalog Number: 5296
Malinda Maynor Lowery
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
This survey course uses culture to analyze Native American history. Students will gain a deeper understanding of the oral and spiritual histories of Native people west of the Mississippi prior to the arrival of Columbus, why and how Native nations adapted to the European presence, and how colonial and US Indian policy developed through the late twentieth century.
Note: Expected to be given in 2008–09. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study A.

*History 1659. Afro-Asian Encounters in the Modern World: Research Seminar - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 5841 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Eric Tang (University of Illinois, Chicago) 5906
Half course (spring term). W., 4–6. EXAM GROUP: 9
This course examines a long history of Black and Asian diasporic interactions focusing specifically, though not exclusively, on US-based encounters. Events range from "first contact" among Asians and Africans dating back to 1000 B.C.E., to the appearance of Asian migrant labor in the post-bellum South, to Asian American encounters with Black freedom movements, to the so-called Black-Asian conflicts of the postindustrial city. How is Black and Asian racial formation historically interlinked?

*History 1661. Social Thought in Modern America
Catalog Number: 8440
James T. Kloppenberg
Half course (fall term). Tu., Th., 11:30–1. EXAM GROUP: 13, 14
An inquiry into American ideas since 1890, examining developments in political and social theory, philosophy, and literature in the context of socioeconomic change. Topics include the breakdown of Victorian idealism and laissez-faire; the emergence of social science and progressivism; conflicts over gender, race, and ethnicity; interwar cultural ferment and political reform; post-World War II theories of consensus and 1960s radicalism; and the consequences for democracy of our contemporary culture of irony.

History 1663. Federal Indian Policy: 1700s to 1887 - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 8097
David Wilkins (University of Minnesota)
Half course (spring term). Tu., Th., at 10. EXAM GROUP: 12
Examines the formulation, implementation, evolution and comparison of Indian policy from pre-colonial times to the beginnings of the allotment period in the late 1880s. Will analyze the major federal Indian policies, examine the view and attitudes of the policy-makers, and gauge the reactions of indigenous nations to those policies.

*History 1665. Indigenous Diplomacy in American History: Research Seminar - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 7970 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
David Wilkins (University of Minnesota) 5970 (spring term only)
Half course (spring term). Th., 2–4.
Will cover the history of First Nation treaty-making; the legal and political status of Indian treaties, accords, agreements, and negotiated settlements; doctrines of interpretations of Indian diplomatic arrangements; and problem areas in indigenous/state diplomacy and ambiguous areas in treaty litigation that serve to distort the development of a cohesive body of law in this critical area.

*History 1667. The Northern Side of the Civil Rights Movement: Research Seminar - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 8594 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham
Half course (fall term). W., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 7, 8
Examines the movement for racial equality outside the South from the 1940s and into the early 1970s, and will examine integrationist efforts, as well as competing ideologies of black power through weekly urban case studies.

*History 1669. Gender in US History: Reading Seminar - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 1673 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Nancy F. Cott
Half course (spring term). Tu., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
Gender analysis will be the continuing theme in the readings in this course, which will cover important topics in U.S. history and examine examples of different historical methods, such as microhistory, biography, and demography. Topics will range from sexuality in the era of the American Revolution to plantation slavery, Progressive-era politics, consumption, social policy, and the social movements of the 1960s.

[History 1672. The US in the 1960s]
Catalog Number: 5900
Lisa M. McGirr
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
An introduction to the main developments in American society, culture, and politics during the premiere liberal decade of the 20th century. Topics include the New Frontier, the Great Society, the Vietnam war, the Civil Rights movement, the student movement, the counter-culture, and the rise of populist conservatism.
Note: Expected to be given in 2009–10.

[History 1676. Social Movements in the United States from Populism to the New Right]
Catalog Number: 4073
Lisa M. McGirr
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Examines social movements in America from the late 19th century until today in an historical perspective. Topics include populism, temperance, suffrage and the labor movement, as well as civil rights activism and the student movement. Attention will also be given to right-wing movements in the 20th century such as the Ku Klux Klan and the New Right. Course will address the origins of these various social movements, their strategies and tactics, and successes and failures.
Note: Expected to be given in 2009–10.

*History 1679. Making America Modern: The US during the 1920s: Reading Seminar
Catalog Number: 9496 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Lisa M. McGirr 2543
Half course (fall term). M., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7
Looking at the US in the period from the Great War to the Depression, closely explores the central developments of the decade—in society, culture, and politics—to determine its contribution to the making of “modern America.”

[*History 1690. The US and Imperialism: Research Seminar]
Catalog Number: 7201 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Erez Manela
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Explores American ideas and practices of imperialism, and anti-imperialism, in the 20th century, and their impacts on societies abroad. Topics include the US as colonial power; imperialism and anti-imperialism in American visions of international order; interactions with European imperialism; and attitudes and policies on decolonization and “nation-building” during the Cold War.
Note: Expected to be given in 2009–10.

Cross-listed Courses

African and African American Studies 118. African American History from the Slave Trade to 1900
[Historical Study A-85. The United States since World War II]
[Historical Study A-86 (formerly History 1692). Men and Women in Public and Private: the US in the 20th Century]
[Historical Study B-40. Pursuits of Happiness: Ordinary Lives in Revolutionary America]
[Historical Study B-49 (formerly History 1651). History of American Capitalism]
Religion 1468. Religion in America: From the Coming of the Europeans to the 1870s

Primarily for Graduates

History 2600. Readings in Colonial and Revolutionary America: Proseminar
Catalog Number: 9176
Joyce E. Chaplin
Half course (spring term). Tu., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
An introduction to scholarly literature on colonial and revolutionary America. Required for History Department graduate students specializing in US history. Open to those from other fields or programs.

[*History 2601. The US in the 20th Century: Seminar]
Catalog Number: 1270 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Lizabeth Cohen
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Research on topics in 20th-century US history.
Note: Expected to be given in 2008–09.
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.

[History 2602. Readings in the History of the US in the 19th Century: Proseminar]
Catalog Number: 2383 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
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Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
The second in the sequence of three proseminars required of all graduate students in American history and open to graduate students in other history fields and other departments as space permits.
Note: Expected to be given in 2008–09.

[History 2606 (formerly History 2606hf). Early American Social History: Seminar]
Catalog Number: 6049
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Research culminating in the production of a scholarly essay. Some prior knowledge of the period assumed.
Note: Expected to be given in 2009–10.

History 2607. Readings in the US in the 20th Century: Proseminar
Catalog Number: 2931
Lisa M. McGirr
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
The third proseminar required of all graduate students in American history. Readings in classics and recent monographs, with attention to politics, social life, and culture.

[History 2610. Race in Early America: Status, Identity, and Power: Seminar]
Catalog Number: 9276 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Joyce E. Chaplin
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
A research seminar in American history in which each student will complete an article-length essay based on original research.
Note: Expected to be given in 2009–10.

[History 2616. The Art and Craft of Historical Writing: Seminar]
Catalog Number: 4655
Jill M. Lepore
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
An intensive writing workshop and research seminar for history graduate students across field groups, divided into two parts, exposition, and narrative. Readings will be limited to essays on historical writing and samples of particularly effective academic prose.
Note: Expected to be given in 2008–09.

[History 2632. Slavery, Capitalism, and Imperialism in the 19th century United States: Seminar]
Catalog Number: 8558
Walter Johnson
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Will illuminate the imperial dimensions of the history of the nineteenth-century US.
Note: Expected to be given in 2009–10.

[*History 2640hf. Workshop in 20th-Century US History]
Catalog Number: 0565
Lizabeth Cohen
Half course (throughout the year). Hours to be arranged.
Note: Expected to be given in 2008–09.
Prerequisite: For dissertation writers only. Permission of the instructor.

History 2650hf. The Political Economy of Modern Capitalism: Seminar
Catalog Number: 3719
Sven Beckert and Christine Desan (Law School)
Half course (throughout the year). M., 4–6. EXAM GROUP: 9
A year-long research and reading course on the history of capitalism during the past 300 years.
Note: Offered jointly with the Law School as 98060A-1FS.

History 2652hf. Politics and Social Movements in North America: Seminar - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 2204
Lisa M. McGirr
Half course (throughout the year). Hours to be arranged.
An interdisciplinary research workshop attached to the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, focused on examining the intersection between politics and social movements. We will explore how, when, and why various groups of Americans have collectively organized to press their claims and influence the political process, and, in turn, what influence social mobilization had on the state. The group will include resident fellows, graduate students and invited speakers. Student research will culminate in the production of a scholarly essay based on primary sources.

[History 2661. Graduate Readings in 20th-Century African-American History: Seminar]
Catalog Number: 9004
Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Covers key literature on themes and developments shaping the national experience of African Americans from Redemption to the emerging multi-racial Republic.
Note: Expected to be given in 2009–10.

*History 2662 (formerly *History 2662hf). Readings in American Thought
Catalog Number: 8845 Enrollment: Limited to 20.
James T. Kloppenberg
Half course (spring term). W., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7
An examination of classic and contemporary histories of American thought.

History 2664. Race and African-American Intellectual History: Seminar
Catalog Number: 6804
Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham
Half course (spring term). W., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 7, 8
A research seminar in African-American intellectual history.

History 2665. Topics in the History of Atlantic Slavery: Seminar - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 4231
Vincent Brown
Half course (fall term). W., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 7, 8
Will introduce graduate students to major synthetic works on the history of Atlantic slavery, surveying the period between the mid-15th century and the late 19th, and provide them an opportunity to develop original research projects.

Cross-listed Courses

African and African American Studies 218. Topics in African American History
[*American Civilization 200 (formerly *American Civilization 370). Major Works in the History of American Civilization]
*American Civilization 201 (formerly *American Civilization 371). Themes in the History of American Civilization
*Economics 2339. The Economic History Workshop

History of Latin America

For Undergraduates and Graduates

*History 1745. Major Problems of Colombian History, 1400-2008: Reading Seminar
Catalog Number: 0100 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
John Womack, Jr.
Half course (spring term). W., 3–5. EXAM GROUP: 8, 9
Focus on Latin America’s most diversely divided country, from the first native chiefdoms to the current civil wars. Topics include historical geography, empire, class and cultural conflicts, progress and control, imperialism, god(s), the devil(s), politics, guns, drugs, cash, and revolution.
Prerequisite: History 1757 and/or 1759 helpful, but not required.

[*History 1746. Contestation, Rebellion, and Revolution in Brazil and Spanish South America (1770-1808): Research Seminar]
Catalog Number: 8945 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Kenneth R. Maxwell
Half course (spring term). M., 3–5.
A comparative examination of Brazil and the Andes in the two decades before independence. This course will explore the diverse forms of contestation in South America between 1770 and 1808. For Brazil this will involve the several pre-independence conspiracies, and for Spanish America the Rebellions in the Andes. The seminar will focus on the intellectual articulation of these movements and well as their social and economic roots.
Note: Expected to be given in 2008–09.

History 1749. Turning Points in Brazilian History: From Cabral to Lula
Catalog Number: 6818
Kenneth R. Maxwell
Half course (fall term). M., W., at 11. EXAM GROUP: 4
The course will begin with a discussion of Brazil led by the union organizer Lula. From an examination of the present it will look back to critical moments in the formation of Brazilian society. Each episode will be examined both in terms of its Atlantic or global dimension as well as within its domestic national context.

*History 1750. Brazil Between Revolutions, 1776-1789: Research Seminar
Catalog Number: 5510 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Kenneth R. Maxwell
Half course (fall term). M., 3–5. EXAM GROUP: 8, 9
Will focus on the period between the American declaration of independence to the French revolution, and the impact of events in North America on proto-nationalist movements in Brazil, particularly on the Minas Conspiracy of 1788-1789. Will assume prior knowledge of Latin American, European and US history of this period, as well as language skills in Portuguese, Spanish and French.

[History 1757. History of Latin America to 1825]
Catalog Number: 5991
Kenneth R. Maxwell
Half course (spring term). M., W., at 11.
Although the course will be organized chronologically, it will focus on distinctive historical turning points and seek to explain how and why distinctive societies developed in the region over the colonial centuries. The lectures will also delineate the ways colonial Latin America was connected into Atlantic and global developments between 1492 and 1825. It will not seek to provide a comprehensive survey of all aspects of colonial Latin American history in a traditional sense.
Note: Expected to be given in 2008–09.

History 1759. The History of Latin America, 1914-2008
Catalog Number: 7328
John Womack, Jr.
Half course (spring term). M., W., (F.), at 12. EXAM GROUP: 5
A survey of Latin American societies and politics, from World War I to the present, with emphasis on the conjunction of global and internal changes to explain economic developments and social and political struggles for power, justice, progress, and security.

Cross-listed Courses

Foreign Cultures 46. Caribbean Societies: Socioeconomic Change and Cultural Adaptations

Primarily for Graduates

*History 2781. The History of Industry and Industrial Labor in Mexico: Seminar
Catalog Number: 5731 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
John Womack, Jr.
Half course (fall term). W., 3–5. EXAM GROUP: 8, 9
Topics for 2007-2008: Industrial development, mainly mining, sugar, and textiles; industrial labor markets and industrial work; industrial and technical divisions of labor and strategic positions; their consequences in modern Mexican economic, social, and political history.
Prerequisite: History 1757, 1758, and 1759 helpful, but not required.

*History 2783. Readings in Latin American History: Proseminar - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 3369 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
John Womack, Jr.
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Graduate exploration of various areas of Latin American history, primarily for students preparing for general examinations in these fields, before or after 1810.

History of Asia, Africa, and Australasia

For Undergraduates and Graduates

History 1820. Premodern Vietnam
Catalog Number: 4581
Hue-Tam Ho Tai
Half course (fall term). Tu., Th., at 2. EXAM GROUP: 16
Vietnamese history from antiquity to the founding of the Nguyen dynasty in 1802 with emphasis on the period following independence from China in the 10th century. Topics include the Sinicization of Vietnam and the sources of Vietnamese national identity; tensions between aristocratic and bureaucratic rule; territorial expansion and national division; first contacts with the West; the changing status of women.

[History 1821. Modern Vietnam]
Catalog Number: 8192
Hue-Tam Ho Tai
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Survey of Vietnamese history from 1802 to the present. Covers the period of unified rule under the Nguyen dynasty, French colonial conquest, the struggle for independence, the Vietnam War, and the recent unification under Communism. Major topics include the relationship between the state, the village, and the individual; the transformation of Vietnamese society, culture, and politics under French rule; the rise of nationalism and Communism; the causes and consequences of the Vietnam War.
Note: Expected to be given in 2008–09.

*History 1828. Christianity and Chinese Society: Research Seminar
Catalog Number: 2587 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Henrietta Harrison
Half course (spring term). M., 3–5. EXAM GROUP: 8, 9
Examines the history of Catholic and Protestant Christianity in China from the 16th century to the present. The focus is on non-elite Chinese believers and the ways in which Christianity affected their lives.

History 1837. China’s Foreign Affairs: Tradition and Transformation - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 9744
Xiaoyuan Liu (Iowa State University)
Half course (fall term). M., W., (F.), at 10. EXAM GROUP: 3
This course traces the evolution of China’s external affairs from antiquity to our own time. It explores imperial systems of frontier and maritime relations and their transformation, in modern times, to the "foreign relations" of a modern nation-state.

[History 1838. China and the Cold War] - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 5994
Xiaoyuan Liu (Iowa State University)
Half course (spring term). M., W., (F.), at 10. EXAM GROUP: 3
How did China shape, and how was China shaped by, the Cold War? This course interprets China’s involvement in the Cold War in a larger historical context of the country’s modern transformation. It examines China’s role in Cold-War conflicts in the Asia-Pacific region; a series of crises along China’s Inner Asian frontiers; and the deepening internalization of the Cold War in China’s domestic politics.
Note: Expected to be given in 2008–09.

*History 1839. Ethnic Conflict in Twentieth-Century China: Research Seminar - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 0408 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Xiaoyuan Liu (Iowa State University) 5879
Half course (fall term). W., 4–6. EXAM GROUP: 9
Explores the conflicts between a centralizing Chinese nationalism and separatist ethnonationalist movements in twentieth-century China. Participants of the class read and discuss scholarship on three major ethnopolitical events -Mongolian independence, the Eastern Turkestan Republic of Xinjiang, and the Tibetan rebellion.

History 1847. Australia Old and New - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 7214
Stuart Macintyre (University of Melbourne)
Half course (fall term). M., W., (F.), at 1. EXAM GROUP: 6
Examines the history of Australia from European settlement to the present, with particular emphasis on the dynamics of a settler society that transferred European people, technology, culture and institutions to a distant island-continent, and reworked them into distinctive new forms. Treats Australian history in a comparative framework; invites comparisons with American experience.

*History 1848. Controversies in Australian History: Reading Seminar - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 7395 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Stuart F. Macintyre 6011
Half course (spring term). Th., 3–5. EXAM GROUP: 17, 18
Will examine episodes in the Australian past that gave rise to heated argument and exposed important divisions. Will consider the way these controversies have been remembered and used as reference points in contemporary discussion.

[History 1851. 20th-Century Japan]
Catalog Number: 8696
Andrew Gordon
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Japan’s emergence as a world power and the Japanese experience of modernity. Politics, social movements, and culture of the imperial era; the experience of World War II and postwar occupation; the “economic miracle” and postwar political economy; social and cultural transformation. From the 1980s boom to the 1990s bust; the early end to the Japanese century?
Note: Expected to be given in 2009–10. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study A.

History 1857 (formerly Historical Study B-67). Japan’s Modern Revolution - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 0946
Ian J. Miller
Half course (spring term). Tu., Th., at 11. EXAM GROUP: 13
This course invites you to participate in the great events and debates that defined Japan’s emergence as a modern nation-state. The course is based on readings in translation of historical texts. You will be asked to engage these texts with an eye to constructive criticism and analysis.

*History 1858. Japanese Imperialism: Reading Seminar - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 6688 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Ian J. Miller 5880
Half course (spring term). W., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7
This course examines one of the most important, but least studied empires of the modern world. By the early 1940s the Japanese empire encompassed some 200 million subjects, stretching from the cold northern woods of Sakhalin Island to the tropical rain forests of the Indonesian Archipelago. Rather than treating Japanese imperialism as exceptional, we will use it to explore the nature of modern empire, asking how its study might reshape broader understandings of imperialism and its consequences.

History 1874. The Middle East During the First Wave of Modern Globalization, 1870-1925
Catalog Number: 2291
E. Roger Owen
Half course (spring term). Tu., Th., at 10. EXAM GROUP: 12
Examines the place of the Middle East during the first wave of modern globalization including the role of formal and informal empire, government and greater economic integration. Explores different ways of writing such a history using case studies designed to illustrate different aspects of the various processes involved.

History 1877a. History of the Near East, 600-1055
Catalog Number: 1770
Roy Mottahedeh
Half course (spring term). M., W., at 12. EXAM GROUP: 5
A survey of the history of the Near East and North Africa from the rise of Islam in the 7th century to the Turkish ascendance in the mid-11th century. Includes Muhammad and his community, Arab conquests, Umayyads and Abbasids, sectarian movements, minority communities, government and religious institutions, and relations with Byzantium and the Latin West.

[*History 1877b. History of the Near East, 1055-1517: Reading Seminar]
Catalog Number: 3026 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Roy Mottahedeh (on leave spring term)
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Surveys history of the Near East from the coming of the steppe peoples to the Ottoman conquest of Egypt. Includes Seljuks, Crusades, Mongols, and the fall of the Abbasid caliphate, Mamluks, the development of Mediterranean and Indian Ocean trade, and the Timurids and their successors.
Note: Expected to be given in 2008–09.
Prerequisite: History 1877a helpful, but not required.

History 1878a. Ottoman State and Society I (1300–1550)
Catalog Number: 5471
Cemal Kafadar
Half course (spring term). Tu., Th., at 11. EXAM GROUP: 13
Surveys the emergence of the Ottoman state from a frontier principality into a world empire in its sociopolitical and cultural contexts. Topics include pre-Ottoman Anatolia; frontier society; methods of conquest; centralization of power; classical institutions of the land regime and of the central administration; urbanization; religion and literature. Relations with Byzantium, other Islamic states, and Europe are examined.

[History 1878b. Ottoman State and Society II (1550-1920)]
Catalog Number: 6470
Cemal Kafadar
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Surveys the transformations of the classical Ottoman order in the Middle East and southeastern Europe until the demise of the state. Topics include decentralization; social disturbances; the impact of the new world economy and new trade routes; reforms; changing relations with Europe; nationalist movements; the ‘Eastern Question.’ Ethnic structure, rural society, urban popular culture, guilds, gender and family life are also examined. The importance of this era for understanding today’s Middle East is stressed.
Note: Expected to be given in 2008–09.

*History 1887. Modern Iran: A Historical Overview: Research Seminar - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 0706 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Afsaneh Najmabadi
Half course (spring term). M., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 7, 8
Starting with the 1979 revolution, this course journeys back in time to offer an overview of modern Iranian history.

History 1890b. The Economic History of the Middle East Since World War II
Catalog Number: 1249
E. Roger Owen
Half course (fall term). Tu., Th., at 10 and a weekly section to be arranged. EXAM GROUP: 12
A critical overview of the processes of economic growth and transformation in the Middle East from World War II to the present. Countries to be studied include Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, the Arab states of the Arabian Peninsula, Israel/Palestine, Iran and Turkey.
Note: This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study A.

*History 1895. The Indian Ocean in Comparative Perspective: Research Seminar
Catalog Number: 8123 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Sugata Bose
Half course (spring term). Tu., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
Explores the history of the Indian Ocean inter-regional arena in the comparative context of histories of the Atlantic, Mediterranean and the Pacific worlds from the 1490s to the 1990s. The changing meanings of sovereignty, religiously informed universalisms and the links forged by intermediary capital and migrant labor in the age of global empire.

*History 1900. Islam in Sub-Saharan Africa, 630 C.E. to the Present: Reading Seminar - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 2923 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Emmanuel K. Akyeampong
Half course (spring term). W., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 7, 8
Explores in some detail main themes in the history of Islam in sub-Saharan Africa. Examines the form and content of Islamic belief and practice as conceived by Muhammad; Islam in sub-Saharan Africa; Islam, trade, and state formation; the West African jihads; Islam under colonial rule; Islam and gender; and Islamism and the engagement with modernity in contemporary Africa.

History 1906. West Africa from the Earliest Times to 1800
Catalog Number: 1425
Emmanuel K. Akyeampong
Half course (spring term). Tu., Th., at 11. EXAM GROUP: 13
Explores important themes in West African history: ecology and environmental changes; the introduction of agriculture and the emergence of sedentary societies; the trans-Saharan trade; the introduction and spread of Islam; migrations, and the formation of states; African slavery; the trans-Atlantic trade; and the spread of informal European influence. Also examines the sources and methods used in the reconstruction of West African history in the period under study.

[History 1907. West Africa from 1800 to the Present]
Catalog Number: 4650
Emmanuel K. Akyeampong
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Explores the internal dynamics of West African states from 1800, and West Africa’s relations with the wider world. Examines African perspectives of colonialism, nationalism, and the transfer of political power. Concludes with the study of the continued struggle of independent West African states to achieve economic independence.
Note: Expected to be given in 2008–09. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Historical Study A.

[*History 1912. Health, Disease, and Ecology in African History: Research Seminar]
Catalog Number: 5905 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Emmanuel K. Akyeampong 3421
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Examines the history of disease and health in sub-Saharan Africa from the 19th century to recent times, exploring African and western concepts of health, disease and healing. Illustration through discussion of case studies of individual diseases, including malaria/sickle cell trait, trypanosomiasis, tuberculosis, sexually transmitted diseases, alcoholism, AIDS, and onchocerciasis, and the public health policies affecting them.
Note: Expected to be given in 2008–09.
Prerequisite: Senior level undergraduate course.

[*History 1916. British Colonial Violence in the 20th Century: Research Seminar]
Catalog Number: 4626 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Caroline M. Elkins
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Will explore Britain’s deployment of various forms of violence in its 20th-century empire, and how this violence was understood, justified, and represented in the empire and at home. Imperial objectives and policies will be weighed alongside local factors such as race, settler presence, indigenous responses to colonial rule, and economic and strategic interests to assess the universality and particularity of British colonial violence.
Note: Expected to be given in 2009–10.

[*History 1917. Human Rights in Africa: An Historical Perspective: Research Seminar]
Catalog Number: 4514 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Caroline M. Elkins
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
An examination of the evolu