A review of the history of the Greek world from the beginnings of Greek archaic culture around 800 B.C., through the classical and Hellenistic periods to the definitive Roman conquest in 146 B.C., with concentration on political history, but attention also to social and cultural developments. Group(s): A

A survey of Russian political, social, and intellectual developments from Peter the Great through the Revolution of 1917. Group(s): B

The course explores selected questions in early modern Ukrainian history. It concentrates on the evolution of Ukrainian identity, culture, and political aspirations. These developments are placed in the context of the states that ruled Ukrainian lands and the diverse populations and non-Ukrainian cultures and political movements on these territories. Group(s): B

A big picture perspective on the period 1945-2005, the course moves from the New Europe arising from the catastrophe of the Great Depression, Nazi-fascism, and World War II to the New Europe arising out of the contrary forces of globalization. Lectures illuminated by East-West and TransAtlantic comparisons, films, memoirs, and discussions. Group(s): B

This course examines the cultural, political, and constitutional origins of the United States. It covers the series of revolutionary changes in politics and society between the mid-18th and early 19th centuries that took thirteen colonies out of the British Empire and turned them into an independent and expanding nation. Starting with the cultural and political glue that held the British Empire together, the course follows the political and ideological processes that broke apart and ends with the series of political struggles that shaped the identity of the US. Using a combination of primary and secondary materials relating to various walks of life and experience from shopping to constitutional debates, students will be expected to craft their own interpretations of this fundamental period of American history. Lectures will introduce students to important developments and provide a framework from them to develop their own analytical skills. Group(s): D

This course examines major themes in U.S. intellectual history since the Civil War. Among other topics, we will examine the public role of intellectuals; the modern liberal-progressive tradition and its radical and conservative critics; the uneasy status of religion ina secular culture; cultural radicalism and feminism; critiques of corporate capitalism and consumer culture; the response of intellectuals to hot and cold wars, the Great Depression, and the upheavals of the 1960's. Group(s): D

The social, cultural, economic, political, and demographic development of America's metropolis from colonial days to present. Slides and walking tours supplement the readings (novels and historical works). Group(s): D

Latin American economy, society, and culture from pre-Columbian times to 1810. Group(s): A, D

This course will examine the evolution of the Latin American economies from the colonial era to the twentieth century, focusing on the historical antecedents of contemporary problems. Each week, the lectures and discussions will address a set of issues that social scientists, including historians, economists, and political scientists, are currently debating. Topics include the measurement of early modern economic activity, the determinants of long-term trends in economic growth and human welfare, the relationship of inequality to economic growth, the significance of political and institutional change, the impact of imperialism and external economic relations, and the relative success of divergent strategies of industrialization. Group(s): D

The first semester of a two-semester survey of modern Indian history from the 18th century to the mid 20th century, which will focus on Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1866-1948) and his profound and complex contribution to Indian (and Pakistani) nationalist politics. Each semester's course stands on its' own. It is recommended, but not required, that you take the first semester before taking the second semester. That being said, the second semester will begin with a quick recap of the first semester. The aim of the two-semester course is to give you a thorough background in modern Indian history but along the way to also discuss key theoretical and historiographical (the history of history-writing) concepts, and questions relevant to the larger discipline of history. This will include discussion of the influential contribution of the Indian collective called Subaltern Studies, which has shaped our understanding of nationalist histories around the world. Group(s): C

Broad in scope, the course will examine the main areas of reform-era Chinese life (1978-present): economy, politics, society, culture, and the environment. We will explore how, under conditions not of their own choice, the Chinese people are both shapers of their own fate and constrained in their struggles for a better life and more just and equitable society. The analysis will help better understand the lived experiences of the Chinese people, as well as the causes and consequences of social inequality, social conflicts, and social and political change. Group(s): C

Issues pertaining to Korean history from its beginnings to the early modern era. Group(s): A, C

This course will include an in-depth examination of some major tinkers and texts of the French, Germans, and Scottish Enlightenments. By reading works of Montesquieu, Voltaire, Lessing, Mendelssohn, and Hume, we will examine their radically divergent responses to the central intellectual quandries of their day, and in many ways our own: the realtionship between rationalism, science, and faith; religion and the state; the individual and the polity; cosmopolitanism and particularism; pluralism and relativism; and the meaning of liberty. Group(s): A, B

Emphasis on working with primary sources, including archival research. Themes include the rise of corporate industry and the labor movement; demise of Reconstruction; emergence of populism, conquest of the West, immigration, and expansion of commerical culture; debates over social reform and feminism. Group(s): D

This seminar features extensive reading, multiple written assignments, and a term paper, as well as a likely trip to Gettsyburg. It focuses on the Civil War and on World Wars I and II. Group(s): D

This seminar will consist of weekly readings and discussion of works dealing with the history of slavery in the United States, the anti-slavery movement, the coming of emancipation during the Civil War, and how Americans tried to deal with the consequences of emancipation. There will also be one 20-page paper for the semester. Group(s): D

This course will examine some of the problems inherent in Western historical writing on non-European cultures, as well as broad questions of what itmeans to write history across cultures. The course will touch on therelationship between knowledge and power, given that much of the knowledge we will be considering was produced at a time of the expansion of Western power over the rest of the world. By comparing some of the "others" which European historians constructed in the different non-western societies they depicted, and the ways other societies dealt with alterity and self, we may be able to derive a better sense of how the Western sense of self was constructed. Group(s): C

Major cultural, political, social, economic and literary issues in the history of this 500-year long period. Reading and discussion of primary texts (in translation) and major scholarly works. All readings will be in English.Major Cultures Requirement: East Asian Civilization List B. Group(s): A, C

The wars in Vietnam and Indochina as seen in historical scholarship, contemporary media, popular culture and personal recollection. The seminar will consider American, Vietnamese, and international perspectives on the war, paying particular attention to Vietnam as the "first television war" and the importance of media images in shaping popular opinion about the conflict. Group(s): B, C, D

Explores the themes of love, virtue, and sexuality and their roles in the construction of orthodox morality, gender relations, medical and judicial knowledge, and political order in late imperial, modern and contemporary China. Group(s): A, C

A global examination of the coming, course, and consequences of World War II from the differing viewpoints of the major belligerents and those affected by them. Emphasis is not only on critical analysis but also on the craft of history-writing. Group(s): B, C, D

An introduction to the historical origins of forecasting, projections, long-range planning, and future scenarios. Topics include apocalyptic ideas and movements, utopias and dystopias, and changing conceptions of time, progress, and decline. A key theme is how relations of power, including understandings of history, have been shaped by expectations of the future. Group(s): ABCD

Despite--or because of--the adjective "east," East Central Europe was at the center of major historical developments in Europe in the twentieth century. From the two world wars to the communist period, the East Central European region was the site of key events that marked the history of the world. And, once again, it has recently been at the center of attention because of the violent disintegration of Yugoslavia and the expansion of the European Union and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to include several East Central European states. This course examines these and other topics in twentieth century East Central European history, and it emphasizes economic and political approaches alongside cultural and social ones. It also includes considerable treatment of the roles of Germany, the Soviet Union and the United States of America in the region.

The lecture course will analyze the patterns of Soviet interventions from the invasion of Poland at the onset of the Second World War in September, 1939 to the recent military conflict between Russia and Georgia in 2008. These interventions were of different character in every case: the mildest version of Soviet crisis managing strategy was threatening the use of force in Poland in 1956; it was possible to restore order by sending Soviet tanks to East Berlinin 1953; the Red Army had no difficulty in defeating the freedom fighters in Hungary during the Hungarian revolution, while tiny Finland could eventually be defeated only in a large scale traditional war during the winter of 1939-1940.

Soviet policy goals were achieved by most interventions: the one notable exception being Moscow's "Vietnam": the invasion of Afghanistan. During the crises emerging in the Soviet bloc a gradual improvement can be seen in Moscow's crisis managing strategy: in Berlin, 1953 the Soviet army alone was used to restore order, in Hugnary in 1956 initially the Kremlin tried to pacify the situation by using a combination of military and politcal means, during the Prague Spring a half year long bilateral and multilateral coordination process aimed at finding a political solution preceded the military intervention, while in Poland in 1981 the final option eventually could be avoided by the introduction of Marshal Law. During the course, two special cases of Soviet intervention will also be analyzed: the subtle process of the Sovietization in East Central Europe between 1944-1948 and the Soviet bloc's involvement in the Vietnam War.

The history of Europe's second Thirty Years War marked by economic crises, political turmoil, totalitarian ideologies, massive population transfers, and genocide; but also by extraordinary economic, scientific, and cultural developments. Group(s): B

This course surveys the main currents of British history from 1867 to the present, with particular attention to the changing place of Britain in the world and the changing shape of politics. Group(s): B

This course will examine the major political, economic, social, and cultural developments in the United States since 1960. Topics include the American presidency, the black freedom struggle, the triumph and agony of postwar liberalism, Vietnam, the New Left and counterculture, feminism and masculinity, the rise and institutionalization of modern conservatism, religion, the culture wars, environmentalism, diversity and its discontents, the New Gilded Age, globalization, and foreign policy since 9/11. Group(s): D

An analysis of American society in the period of Jackson and with particular emphasis on the emergence of democratic institutions. Group(s): D

Social history of the built environment since 1870, looking at urban and rural landscapes, vernacular architecture of industry, housing, recreation, and public space. Considers government policies, real estate investment, and public debates over land use and the natural environment. Group(s): D

Latin American economy, society, and culture from 1810 to present. Group(s): D

This course will examine the evolution of the Latin American economies from the colonial era to the twentieth century, focusing on the historical antecedents of contemporary problems. Each week, the lectures and discussions will address a set of issues that social scientists, including historians, economists, and political scientists, are currently debating. Topics include the measurement of early modern economic activity, the determinants of long-term trends in economic growth and human welfare, the relationship of inequality to economic growth, the significance of political and institutional change, the impact of imperialism and external economic relations, and the relative success of divergent strategies of industrialization. Group(s): D

Economy and society; African trade and conquest states; Islam; colonial rule and economic transformation; nationalism and postindependence states. Group(s): C

The second semester of a two-semester survey of modern Indian history from the 18th century to the mid 20th century, which will focus on Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1866-1948) and his profound and complex contribution to Indian (and Pakistani) nationalist politics. Each semester's course stands on its' own. It is recommended, but not required, that you take the first semester before taking the second semester. That being said, the second semester will begin with a quick recap of the first semester. The aim of the two-semester course is to give you a thorough background in modern Indian history but along the way to also discuss key theoretical and historiographical (the history of history-writing) concepts, and questions relevant to the larger discipline of history. This will include discussion of the influential contribution of the Indian collective called Subaltern Studies, which has shaped our understanding of nationalist histories around the world. Group(s): C

Close reading of the principal historians of classical Greece, especially Herodotus, Thucydides, and Polybius. Group(s): A

This course introduces students to the forces that transformed the aboriginal inhabitants of the Americas into "Indians." The class takes a very broad approach, moving chronologically and thematically from the dawn of time to the present. The course aims to expose students to the diversity of the Native American experience by including all the inhabitants of the Americas, from Greenland to Tierra del Fuego, within its purview. Group(s): A, D

This seminar will consist of weekly readings and discussion of works dealing with the history of slavery in the United States, the anti-slavery movement, the coming of emancipation during the Civil War, and how Americans tried to deal with the consequences of emancipation. There will also be one 20-page paper for the semester. Group(s): D

This is an advanced undergraduate seminar course that will retrace the history of the making of the Subaltern Studies problematic, considered a major intervention in both Indian nationalist history and the wider discipline of history itself, with a focus on the relationship between method, archives, and the craft of history writing. Group(s): A, C

Major cultural, political, social, economic and literary issues in the history of this 500-year long period. Reading and discussion of primary texts (in translation) and major scholarly works. All readings will be in English.Major Cultures Requirement: East Asian Civilization List B. Group(s): A, C

Explores the themes of love, virtue, and sexuality and their roles in the construction of orthodox morality, gender relations, medical and judicial knowledge, and political order in late imperial, modern and contemporary China. Group(s): A, C