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HIST E-10a/W World History I (11612)
Donald Ostrowski, PhD, Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University.
Writing-intensive course. 4 units. Noncredit $250, undergraduate credit $405. Thursday, 5:30-7:30 pm. Harvard Hall 201. Optional sections Thursday 7:35-8:35 pm. Fall term.
An introductory global survey to AD 200. Topics include Africa as home of the human species; rise of civilizations in Egypt, Mesopotamia, the Indus River Valley, China, and Mesoamerica; cultures of ancient Greece and Rome; as well as the origins of Hinduism, Confucianism, Judaism, and Christianity.
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HIST E-10b/W World History II (21437)
Donald Ostrowski, PhD, Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University.
Writing-intensive course. 4 units. Noncredit $250, undergraduate credit $405. Thursday, 5:30-7:30 pm. Harvard Hall 201. Optional sections Thursday 7:35-8:35 pm. Spring term.
An introductory global survey from AD 200 to 1500. Topics include Roman and Byzantine Empires, the rise of Islam, China from the Han to the Ming dynasties, the Mongol Empire, Heian Japan, the rise of African civilizations, the Middle Ages and Renaissance in Europe, and pre-Columbian America.
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HIST E-1072 The Roman World (11476)
Sarolta A. Takács, PhD, Associate Professor of the Classics, Harvard University.
4 units. Noncredit $250, undergraduate credit $405, graduate credit $1,145. Tuesday, 5:30-7:30 pm. Emerson Hall 108. Fall term.
An examination of Rome's history from the time of its foundation to the time of Constantine the Great. Topics will include the development of imperialism, constitutional and social changes, and cultural and religious formation. Emphasis on primary sources (read in translation), including Plautus, Cicero, Livy, Tacitus, and Eusebius.
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HIST E-1146 Medieval Warfare and the Crusades (21320)
Nathaniel L. Taylor, PhD, Lecturer on History and Literature, Harvard University.
4 units. Noncredit $250, undergraduate credit $405, graduate credit $1,145. Wednesday, 5:30-7:30 pm. Emerson Hall 210. Spring term.
This course surveys the military landscape of medieval Europe examining the most important wars and battles as well as military aspects of important broader topics (the fall of Rome, the Germanic invasions, the Vikings, the Crusades, the Hundred Years War). Includes a trip to the Higgins Armory Museum in Worcester, one of the largest collections of medieval arms and armor in the Western Hemisphere.
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HIST E-1210 Renaissance Florence (11452)
James Hankins, PhD, Professor of History, Harvard University.
4 units. Noncredit $250, undergraduate credit $405, graduate credit $1,145. Tuesday, 7:35-9:35 pm. Harvard Hall 104. Fall term.
The Renaissance has been described by historians as a revival of antiquity, a revolt against the Middle Ages, and as the beginning of the modern world. This course examines these claims in the context of a detailed examination of the society and culture of Florence, the most important center of the Italian Renaissance, from the time of Dante to the time of Machiavelli.
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HIST E-1425/W Jane Austen's World in History, Literature, and Film (11301)
Maura A. Henry, PhD, Lecturer on History, Harvard University.
Writing-intensive course. 4 units. Noncredit $250, undergraduate credit $405, graduate credit $1,145. Tuesday, 5:30-7:30 pm. Harvard Hall 201. Films Tuesday, 7:35-9:35 pm. Fall term.
The course examines the cultural attitudes, institutions, and social practices of England during the period 1750-1850 through the lens of Jane Austen. Using an interdisciplinary approach, we will address topics such as class, gender, landed society, and culture, as well as the ways in which the late twentieth century views the past.
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HIST E-1430/W The British Monarchy and Monarchs (21424)
Maura A. Henry, PhD, Lecturer on History, Harvard University.
Writing-intensive course. 4 units. Noncredit $250, undergraduate credit $405, graduate credit $1,145. Tuesday, 5:30-7:30 pm. Harvard Hall 202. Spring term.
The course examines the institution of the monarchy and the individuals who have occupied the throne from Elizabeth I to Victoria. Topics include: divine right theory, Parliament, war, religion, empire, democracy, modernity, power, gender, politics, and culture.
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HIST E-1435/W Dress and Identity in England, France, and the United States, 1750-1930 (11590)
Caroline D. Alyea, PhD, Lecturer on History and Literature, Harvard University.
Writing-intensive course. 4 units. Noncredit $250, undergraduate credit $405, graduate credit $1,145. Wednesday, 7:35-9:35 pm. Sever Hall 113. Fall term.
This interdisciplinary course explores how people used dress and appearance to construct identities with respect to class, race, nationality, and gender. Topics include the eighteenth-century hierarchy of appearances; the connections between those appearances and rising consumption in England; the diversity of appearances and identities in colonial America; the refashioning of the hierarchy of appearances during the French Revolution; African Americans' and European immigrants' negotiations of appearance vis-à-vis the dominant American culture; the three-piece suit and changing notions of masculinity; idealized appearances and the Victorian lady; nineteenth-century women's dress reform; and the rise of the mass market of beauty and fashion. The course will emphasize analysis of advice books, social reform literature, fashion journals, artwork, photographs, advertising, and surviving clothing.
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HIST E-1552/W Imperial Russia: Peter the Great to the Soviet Revolution (11196)
Miriam H. Berlin, PhD, Associate, Kathryn W. and Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Russian Studies, Harvard University.
Writing-intensive course. 4 units. Noncredit $250, undergraduate credit $405, graduate credit $1,145. Tuesday, 5:30-7:30 pm. Emerson Hall 104. Fall term.
This course will examine the development of Russian society and culture from Peter the Great in the late seventeenth century to the revolutions of 1917. The autocratic state and powerful bureaucracy evolving in this period remained seemingly closed to reform efforts and invulnerable to the assaults of radicalism, the transformations of the emancipation era, and even to developing industrialization, until the revolutionary period from 1905 to 1917. This political culture and its institutional forms provide the elements essential for understanding what happened and what was possible in the Soviet period that followed, and in the new Russia of the present day.
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HIST E-1602 History of Women in America (21484)
Clara P. Bouricius, PhD, Lecturer on History and Literature, Harvard University.
4 units. Noncredit $250, undergraduate credit $405, graduate credit $1,145. Thursday, 5:30-7:30 pm. Sever Hall 202. Spring term.
American women's history from the seventeenth century to the present. Themes include immigration and migration, gender relations, women of different races and classes, and women's rights. Readings include diaries and letters, A Midwife's Tale, the Seneca Falls "Declaration of Sentiments," and The Feminine Mystique.
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HIST E-1608 Jacksonian America, 1815-1845 (11625)
William E. Gienapp, PhD, Professor of History, Harvard University.
4 units. Noncredit $250, undergraduate credit $405, graduate credit $1,145. Monday, 5:30-7:30 pm. Emerson Hall 101. Sections Monday, 7:35-8:35 pm. Fall term.
Note: this course begins Monday, Sept. 27.
An examination of the history of the United States during the age of Andrew Jackson, with attention to economic, political, social, and intellectual developments. Topics include the development of a democratic political culture, the process of industrialization, the market revolution and the commercialization of society, workers' lives, changes in the family and women's roles, revivalism, the romantic movement, and the beginning of modern American culture.
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HIST E-1630 The History of Boston, 1630-1865 (10161)
Thomas H. O'Connor, PhD, Professor of History, Emeritus, Boston College.
4 units. Noncredit $250, undergraduate credit $405, graduate credit $1,145. Thursday, 5:30-7:30 pm. Emerson Hall 105. Fall term.
The early history of Boston from its English origins and its founding in 1630 to the end of the Civil War. Topics will include colonial life, Puritanism, the struggle for independence, the influence of Bulfinch, the role of Mayor Quincy, social reform activities, the abolition movement, and the crisis of the Union.
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HIST E-1631 The History of Boston, 1865 to the Present (20146)
Thomas H. O'Connor, PhD, Professor of History, Emeritus, Boston College.
4 units. Noncredit $250, undergraduate credit $405, graduate credit $1,145. Thursday, 5:30-7:30 pm. Emerson Hall 105. Spring term.
The later history of Boston from the mid-nineteenth century to modern times. Topics will include foreign immigration, nativism, the Great Famine, the Know-Nothing movement, the rise of Irish politics, immigration from Southeastern Europe, the Curley era, racial conflict, and the new Bostonians.
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HIST E-1650/W American Constitutional History I (11589)
Robert J. Allison, PhD, Assistant Professor of History, Suffolk University.
Writing-intensive course. 4 units. Noncredit $250, undergraduate credit $405, graduate credit $1,145. Monday, 7:35-9:35 pm. Harvard Hall 201. Fall term.
Note: this course begins Monday, Sept. 27.
This class will explore the origins and development of American constitutional government from the Revolution to the Civil War. We will focus on the political issues that produced the federal and state constitutions of the 1770s and 1780s, and the issues of individual liberty versus government power, states rights, slavery, and minority rights in a republic ruled by the majority.
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HIST E-1651/W American Constitutional History II (21422)
Robert J. Allison, PhD, Assistant Professor of History, Suffolk University.
Writing-intensive course. 4 units. Noncredit $250, undergraduate credit $405, graduate credit $1,145. Monday, 7:35-9:35 pm. Emerson Hall 101. Spring term.
How have the Civil War, the industrial revolution, and the experiences of the twentieth century changed the Constitution? What has remained unchanged since 1787? We will examine ideas of citizenship, due process, equal protection, conflicts between Congress and Presidents, and tension between centralized power and personal liberty.
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HIST E-1686 Baseball and American Society, 1840-Present (21423)
William E. Gienapp, PhD, Professor of History, Harvard University.
4 units. Noncredit $250, undergraduate credit $405, graduate credit $1,145. Monday, 5:30-7:30 pm. Emerson Hall 108. Sections Monday, 7:35-8:35 pm. Spring term.
This course will examine the history of baseball within the context of cultural and social history. The focus will be on the ways in which baseball has reflected social, economic, and cultural changes in American history from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. More attention will be given to the period before 1950 than to the recent era.
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HIST E-1830 China in Modern Times (21533)
Philip A. Kuhn, PhD, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History and of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University.
Graduate Seminar 4 units. Graduate credit $1,235. Tuesday, 5:30-7:30 pm. Sever Hall 212. Prerequisite: knowledge of Chinese is not required. Limited enrollment. Spring term.
For more than a century, Chinese have been asking how much of their old culture must be sacrificed to enable their nation to survive in the modern world. This seminar explores the culture of the old empire and traces its collapse under the pressures of external attack and internal revolution. It then considers what cultural material--domestic and foreign--have been used to build a new political and social order. Reading emphasizes primary sources in translation.
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HIST E-1851 The History of Japan (21322)
Andrew Gordon, PhD, Professor of History, Harvard University.
4 units. Noncredit $250, undergraduate credit $405, graduate credit $1,145. Wednesday, 5:30-7:30 pm. Emerson Hall 101. Spring term.
The most striking modern transformation in the world is that of Japan during the past century. Today it is economically powerful, culturally rich, politically democratic, and socially stable. This course inquires into the roots of Japanese civilization, studying its history, traditional institutions, society, religious and intellectual development, and aesthetic achievements, before examining the process by which Japan has transformed itself into the nation it is today.
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