Distribution Requirements

Students who entered the major in the spring of 2020, took a gap year, and joined the class of 2023 should consult with the Director of Undergraduate Studies about the new requirements.

NOTE: bolded courses will be offered in Fall 2023

Prerequisites

For more information, visit our Prerequisites page.

Effective January 2023, the prerequisite requirement for entering the History major are one course at the 200 or 300 level, and a second course recommended (but not required).

Prior to January 2023 the prerequisite requirement is one course from the following:

HIS 201: A History of the World
HIS 207: History of East Asia to 1800
HIS 208: East Asia Since 1800
HIS 210: The World of Late Antiquity
HIS 211: Europe from Antiquity to 1700
HIS 212: Europe in the World: From 1776 to the Present Day
HIS 241: Faith and Power in the Indian Ocean Arena
HIS 250: The Mother and Father Continent: A Global History of Africa
HIS 262 Capitalism: Origins, Alternatives, Futures
HIS 267: The Modern Middle East
HIS 270: Asian American History
EGR 277 / HIS 277: Technology and Society
HIS 278: Digital, Spatial, Visual, and Oral Histories
EAS 280/HIS 279 Nomadic Empires: From the Scythian Confederation to the Mongol Conquest
HIS 280: Approaches to American History
HIS 281: Approaches to European History
HIS 282: A Documents-Based Approach to Asian History
HIS 283: War in the Modern Western World
HIS 290: The Scientific Worldview of Antiquity and the Middle Ages
HIS 291: The Scientific Revolution and the European Order, 1500-1750
HIS 292: Science in the Modern World
HIS 295 Making America: Technology and History in the United States
HIS 393: Race, Drugs, and Drug Policy in America

Knowledge & Belief (KB)

HIS 201: A History of the World
HIS 205: The Byzantine Empire
HIS 210: The World of Late Antiquity
HIS 211: Europe from Antiquity to 1700
HIS 212: Europe in the World: From 1776 to the Present Day
NES 220/HIS 220: Jews, Muslims, and Christians in the Middle Ages
MED 227/HIS 227: The Worlds of the Middle Ages
JDS 232/HIS 232: Hatred or Tolerance? Jews & Christians in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
HIS 241: Faith and Power in the Indian Ocean Arena
HIS 250: The Mother and Father Continent: A Global History of Africa
NES 369/HIS 251: The World of the Cairo Geniza
EAS 279/HIS 276: The Qin Dynasty and the Beginnings of Empire in China
EGR 277/HIS 277: Technology and Society
HIS 281: Approaches to European History
HIS 292: Science in the Modern World
HIS 293: Science in a Global Context: 15th to 20th Century
HIS 294: Science and Medicine in the Early Modern World
HIS 295: Making America: Technology and History in the United States
STC 297/HIS 297: Transformative Questions in Biology
HIS 298: Information Revolutions
REL 357/HIS 310: Religion and the American Revolution
AAS 306/HIS 312: Topics in Race & Public Policy
EAS 321/HIS 321: Early Modern Japan
HUM 335/HIS 334: A Global History of Monsters
HIS 342: Southeast Asia's Global History
REL 356/HIS 348: Black Religions in Slavery and Freedom
ECS 350/HIS 354: Books and Their Readers
HIS 352 Democracy in Europe since 1945: The Contested History
HIS 359: Modern Jewish History: 1750-Present
HIS 360: The Russian Empire: State, People Nations
HIS 362: The Soviet Empire
HIS 366: Germany since 1806
SPI 364/HIS 368: Making Post-Pandemic Worlds: Epidemic History and the Future
HIS 369: European Intellectual History in the 20th Century
HIS 375: US Intellectual History: Development of American Thought
HIS 379: U.S. Legal History
HIS 385: Historical Consciousness: An Introduction
HIS 389: American Cultural History
HIS 391: History of Contemporary Science
HIS 392: History of Evolution
HIS 393: Race, Drugs, and Drug Policy in America
HIS 394: History of Ecology and Environmentalism
HIS 395: History of Medicine and the Body
HIS 396: History of Biology
HIS 397: Medicine and the Mind: A History of Psychiatry from the Asylum to Zoloft
HIS 398: The Einstein Era
AMS 399/HIS 399: In the Groove: Technology and Music in American History, From Edison to the iPod
HIS 403: The History of Free Speech
HIS 412: Marx and the Marxist Method of Analysis: A Primer for All Disciplines
HIS 414 Life Writings in Britain and America, 1650-1918
HIS 415: Healing in the Black Atlantic
HIS 418: Imagined Cities
HIS 423: The History of Christianity in Africa from St. Mark to Desmond Tutu
HIS 424: The Historian as Cultural Broker: The Making and Remaking of History in the First Millennium
HIS 425: History of Political Propaganda from the French Revolution
AAS 426/HIS 426: Memory, History and the Archive
HIS 427: Being Human: A Political History
HIS 428: Empire and Catastrophe
HIS 429: Fascism and Antifascism in Global History
HIS 432: Environment and War
HIS 434: Revolutionary Russia
HIS 437: Law after Rome
HIS 448: History: An Introduction to the Discipline
HIS 449: The French Enlightenment
HIS 452 Magic, Matter, Medicine: Science in the Medieval World
HIS 454: Afghanistan in World History: Between and Beyond Empires
SPI 466/HIS 467: Financial History
HIS 472: Medicine and Society in China: Past and Present
HUM 412/HIS 475: Digging for the Past: Archaeology from Ancient Greece to Modern America
HIS 480: Property: How, Why, and What We Own
HIS 481: Science and Film
HIS 488: The Soviet Atomic, Space, and Information Ages
HIS 489: The Scientific Self
HIS 492: The Therapeutic Persuasion: Psychotherapy and American Life
HIS 493: '1, 2, 3, Testing'... in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
HIS 494: Broken Brains, Shattered Minds
HIS 495: Alchemy: Art and Science
HIS 496: History of Neuroscience
HIS 498: History of Pseudoscience

Power & Conflict (PC)

HIS 202: The Sixties: Documentary, Youth, and the City
HIS 207: History of East Asia to 1800
HIS 208: East Asia since 1800
EAS 218/HIS 209: The Origins of Japanese Culture and Civilization: A History of Japan until 1600
HIS 212: Europe in the World: From 1776 to the Present Day
HIS 214: British Empire in World History, 1700-2000
NES 390/HIS 221: Medieval Cairo: A Survival Guide
NES 201/HIS 223 Introduction to the Middle East
HIS 225: The Mediterranean: From Rome to Fortress Europe
HIS 241: Faith and Power in the Indian Ocean Arena
HIS 249 / AFS 249: A Global History of Modern Ethiopia: Rastafari to Haile Selassie
AMS 361/HIS 261: Slavery, Antislavery, and the U.S. Constitution
HIS 262: Capitalism: Origins, Alternatives, Futures
HIS 267: The Modern Middle East
HIS 271: Native American History
EAS 280/HIS 279: Nomadic Empires: From the Scythian Confederation to the Mongol Conquest
HIS 280: Approaches to American History
HIS 281: Approaches to European History
HIS 282: A Documents-Based Approach to Asian History
HIS 283: War in the Modern Western World
HIS 293: Science in a Global Context: 15th to 20th Century
AMS 395/HIS 296: Performing the City: Race and Protest in 1960s Trenton and Princeton
HIS 301: Modern Eastern Europe: 19th to 20th Centuries
HIS 303: Colonial Latin America to 1810
HIS 304: Modern Latin America since 1810
HIS 306: Becoming Latino in the U.S.
HIS 315: Colonial and Postcolonial Africa
HIS 316: South African History: 1497 to the Present
HIS 317: Making of Modern India and Pakistan
COM 376/HIS 320: On the Edge of Authoritarianism: Literature and Politics in the Modern Mediterranean
EAS 321/HIS 321: Early Modern Japan
HIS 322: 20th-Century Japan
HIS 324: Early Modern China
HIS 325: China, 1850 to the Present
ART 329/HIS 330: Architecture of Confinement, from the Hospice to the Era of Mass Incarceration
HIS 332: Pre-Colonial India: Politics, Religion, and Culture in South Asia, 1000-1800 CE
HIS 333: Modern Brazilian History
NES 437/HIS 337: The Ottoman Empire, 1300-1800
HIS 341: Making Minorities: Modern South Asian Histories
HIS 342: Southeast Asia's Global History
HIS 343: The Formation of the Christian West
HIS 344: The Civilization of the High Middle Ages
HIS 345: The Crusades
NES 338/HIS 349: The Arab-Israeli Conflict
HIS 350: History of International Order
HIS 352 Democracy in Europe since 1945: The Contested History
HIS 358: History of the Balkans
HIS 360: The Russian Empire: State, People, Nations
HIS 361: The United States Since 1974
HIS 362: The Soviet Empire
HIS 363: The Napoleonic Wars
HIS 364: France and Its Empire from the Renaissance to Napoleon, 1500-1815
HIS 366: Germany since 1806
HIS 367: English Constitutional History
SPI 364/HIS 368: Making Post-Pandemic Worlds: Epidemic History and the Future
HIS 370: Britain from the American Revolution to World War II
HIS 372: Revolutionary America
HIS 373: Slavery and Democracy in the New Nation
HIS 374: History of the American West
HIS 376: The American Civil War and Reconstruction
HIS 377: Gilded Age and Progressive-Era United States, 1877-1920
HIS 379: U.S. Legal History
HIS 380: U.S. Foreign Relations
HIS 383: The United States, 1920-1974
HIS 384: Gender and Sexuality in Modern America
AAS 367/HIS 387: African American History Since Emancipation
HIS 388: Unrest and Renewal in Urban America
HIS 390: Formations of Knowledge: Historical Approaches to Science, Technology, and Medicine
HIS 401: American Women's History
HIS 402: Writing Slavery: Sources, Methods, Ethics
HIS 403: The History of Free Speech
HIS 404: The Rise of the Republican Party
HIS 405: Native American History
HIS 406: Two Empires: Russia and the US from Franklin to Trump
HIS 409: Women and Law in U.S. History
HIS 410: Culture and Revolution in the Modern Middle East
HIS 411: World After Empire
HIS 412: Marx and the Marxist Method of Analysis: A Primer for All Disciplines
HIS 417: Gandhi: The Making of the Mahatma
HIS 418: Imagined Cities
HIS 420: Desi Girl/Mother India: Gender, Sexuality, and History in Hindi Cinema
HIS 421: Venice and the Mediterranean World
HIS 425: History of Political Propaganda from the French Revolution
HIS 428: Empire and Catastrophe
HIS 429: Fascism and Antifascism in Global History
HIS 431: Ukraine on Fire, 1900 to the Present
HIS 432: Environment and War
NES 433/HIS 433: Imperialism and Reform in the Middle East and the Balkans
HIS 434: Revolutionary Russia
HIS 438: History of Palestine/Israel
HIS 439: China's Frontiers
HIS 440: History of the National Security State
HIS 441: Reconstructing the Union: Law, Democracy, and Race after the American Civil War
AMS 342/HIS 442: Race, Racism and Politics in Twentieth-Century America
HIS 443: Black Worldmaking: Freedom Movements Then and Now
HIS 445: Winston Churchill, Anglo-America and the 'Special Relationship' in the Twentieth Century
HIS 446: Political Prisons: Crime, Persecution and Incarceration in 19th Century Europe
HIS 459: The History of Incarceration in the U.S.
SPI 466/HIS 467: Financial History
HIS 468: Populism in Global History
HIS 474: Violence in America
AAS 477/HIS 477: The Civil Rights Movement
HIS 478: The Vietnam Wars
HIS 479: Society, Politics, and Ideas in 1980s America
HIS 480: Property: How, Why and What We Own
FRE 480/HIS 482: The Writer, The Prince, and the Public: Political Writing in the Eighteenth-Century
HIS 484: Borderlands, Border Lives
HIS 487: The Age of Democratic Revolutions
HIS 488: The Soviet Atomic, Space, and Information Ages

Pre-Modern, pre-1700 (PM)

HIS 205: The Byzantine Empire
HIS 207: History of East Asia to 1800
EAS 206/HIS 206: Medieval Asian Worlds: Korea, Japan, China, Inner and South Asia 300 CE-1700 CE
EAS 218/HIS 209: The Origins of Japanese Culture and Civilization: A History of Japan until 1600
HIS 210: The World of Late Antiquity
HIS 211: Europe from Antiquity to 1700
CLA 220/HIS 215: Slavery in the Roman World
CLA 216/HIS 216: Archaic and Classical Greece
CLA 217/HIS 217: The Greek World in the Hellenistic Age
CLA 218/HIS 218: The Roman Republic
CLA 219/HIS 219: The Roman Empire, 31 B.C. to A.D. 337
NES 220/HIS 220: Jews, Muslims, and Christians in the Middle Ages
NES 390/HIS 221: Medieval Cairo: A Survival Guide
HIS 222: Hellenism: The First 3000 Years
HIS 225: The Mediterranean: From Rome to Fortress Europe
MED 227/HIS 227: The Worlds of the Middle Ages
CLA 231/HIS 231: Ancient Greek and Roman Medicine: Bodies, Physicians, and Patients
JDS 232/HIS 232: Hatred or Tolerance? Jews & Christians in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
NES 350/HIS 245: The Islamic World from its Emergence to the Beginnings of Westernization
NES 369/HIS 251: The World of the Cairo Geniza
EAS 253/HIS 253: The Law in Action in Premodern Japan: A Comparative Perspective
EAS 280/HIS 279: Nomadic Empires: From the Scythian Confederation to the Mongol Conquest
HIS 294: Science and Medicine in the Early Modern World
HIS 303: Colonial Latin America to 1810
EAS 409/HIS 309: The Warrior Culture of Japan
NES 316/HIS 311: Global Trade before the Modern Period
HIS 314: Precolonial Africa
HIS 324 : Early Modern China
CLA 326/HIS 326: Topics in Ancient History
CLA 327/HIS 327: Topics in Ancient History
CLA 324/HIS 328: Classical Historians and Their Philosophies of History
HIS 332: Pre-Colonial India: Politics, Religion, and Culture in South Asia, 1000-1800 CE
NES 437/HIS 337: The Ottoman Empire, 1300-1800
HIS 343: The Formation of the Christian West
HIS 344: The Civilization of the High Middle Ages
HUM 320/HIS 346: Making Medieval Worlds: Methods and Materials
HIS 367: English Constitutional History
HIS 371: The Colonization of North America
HIS 413: Medieval Democracy: Italian City States of the Middle Ages
HIS 421: Venice and the Mediterranean World
HIS 422: Hindu, Muslim, Untouchable: Society and Politics in Pre-Modern South Asia, c. 1100-1800
HIS 423: The History of Christianity in Africa: From St. Mark to Desmond Tutu
HIS 424: The Historian as Cultural Broker: Writing and Rewriting Roman, Christian and Barbarian Histories in the First Millennium
HIS 437: Law after Rome
EAS 415/HIS 444 Intellectual History of China to the Fifth Century
HIS 452: Magic, Matter, Medicine: Science in the Medieval World
HIS 462: Difference and Deviance in the Early Middle Ages
HUM 412/HIS 475: Digging for the Past: Archaeology from Ancient Greece to Modern America
ART 478/HIS 476 The Vikings: History and Archaeology
HIS 491: Fertile Bodies: A Cultural History of Reproduction from Antiquity to the Enlightenment
HIS 495: Alchemy: Art and Science

Race & Difference (RD)

HIS 202: The Sixties: Documentary, Youth, and the City
HIS 208: East Asia since 1800
AAS 313/HIS 213: Modern Caribbean History
HIS 214: British Empire in World History, 1700-2000
HIS 250: The Mother and Father Continent: A Global History of Africa
HIS 270: Asian American History
HIS 271: Native American History
HIS 282: A Documents-Based Approach to Asian History
AMS 395/HIS 296: Performing the City: Race and Protest in 1960s Trenton and Princeton
HIS 306: Becoming Latino in the U.S.
HIS 314: Precolonial Africa
HIS 315: Colonial and Postcolonial Africa
HIS 316: South African History: 1497 to the Present
HIS 322: 20th-Century Japan
HIS 332: Pre-Colonial India: Politics, Religion, and Culture in South Asia, 1000-1800 CE
HIS 333: Modern Brazilian History
HUM 335/HIS 334: A Global History of Monsters
HIS 341: Making Minorities: Modern South Asian Histories
HIS 345: The Crusades
AAS 352/HIS 347: Race and Reproduction in U.S. History
REL 356/HIS 348: Black Religions in Slavery and Freedom
HIS 350: History of International Order
HIS 359: Modern Jewish History: 1750-Present
HIS 364: France and Its Empire from the Renaissance to Napoleon, 1500-1815
HIS 371: The Colonization of North America
HIS 372: Revolutionary America
HIS 373: Slavery and Democracy in the New Nation
HIS 376: The American Civil War and Reconstruction
HIS 380: U.S. Foreign Relations
AAS 331/HIS 382: Beyond Tuskegee: Race and Human Subjects Research in US History
HIS 383: The United States, 1920-1974
HIS 384: Gender and Sexuality in Modern America
AAS 366/HIS 386: African American History to 1863
AAS 367/HIS 387: African American History Since Emancipation
HIS 388: Unrest and Renewal in Urban America
HIS 389: American Cultural History
HIS 390: Formations of Knowledge: Historical Approaches to Science, Technology, and Medicine
HIS 393: Race, Drugs, and Drug Policy in America
HIS 395: History of Medicine and the Body
HIS 397: Medicine and the Mind: A History of Psychiatry from the Asylum to Zoloft
HIS 401: American Women's History
HIS 402: Writing Slavery: Sources, Methods, Ethics
HIS 405: Native American History
HIS 409: Women and Law in in U.S. History
HIS 411: World After Empire
HIS 415: Healing in the Black Atlantic
HIS 420: Desi Girl/Mother India: Gender, Sexuality, and History in Hindi Cinema
AMS 342/HIS 422: Hindu, Muslim, Untouchable: Society and Politics in Pre-Modern South Asia, c. 1100-1800
AAS 426/HIS 426: Memory, History and the Archive
HIS 439: China's Frontiers
HIS 441: Reconstructing the Union: Law, Democracy, and Race after the American Civil War
AMS 342/HIS 442: Race, Racism and Politics in Twentieth-Century America
HIS 443: Black Worldmaking: Freedom Movements Then and Now
EAS 415/HIS 444: Intellectual History of China to the Fifth Century
HIS 447: Ethnicity and History
HIS 456: New Orleans at 300: Invention & Reinvention in an American City
HIS 459: The History of Incarceration in the U.S.
HIS 462: Difference and Deviance in the Early Middle Ages
HIS 465: Latino Urban History
HIS 466: California History
HIS 468: Populism in Global History
AMS 442/HIS 470: History & Memory on the Lower East Side
HIS 471: The Political History of Civil Rights
HIS 472: Medicine and Society in China: Past and Present
AAS 477/HIS 477: The Civil Rights Movement
HIS 479: Society, Politics, and Ideas in 1980s America
HIS 484: Borderlands, Border Lives
HIS 485: History of African American Families
HIS 494: Broken Brains, Shattered Minds
HIS 496: History of Neuroscience