Prerequisites
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).
Thematic Distribution Requirements
The thematic distribution requirements are abbreviated as follows:
- Knowledge and Belief (KB)
- Power and Conflict (PC)
- Pre-Modern, pre-1700 (PM)
- Race and Difference (RD)
While many courses carry more than one designation, a single course may satisfy only one thematic requirement. Students must take at least one course in each thematic area.
| Course | Distribution Requirement | Semester Offered |
|---|---|---|
| HIS 201: A History of the World | KB | |
| HIS 202: The Sixties: Documentary, Youth, and the City | PC, RD | |
| HIS 205: The Byzantine Empire | KB, PM | Fall 2025 |
| EAS 206/HIS 206: Medieval Asian Worlds: Korea, Japan, China, Inner and South Asia 300 CE-1700 CE | PM | |
| HIS 207: History of East Asia to 1800 | PC, PM | |
| HIS 208: East Asia since 1800 | PC, RD | |
| EAS 218/HIS 209: The Origins of Japanese Culture and Civilization: A History of Japan until 1600 | PC, PM | |
| HIS 210: The World of Late Antiquity | KB, PM | Fall 2025 |
| HIS 211: Europe from Antiquity to 1700 | KB, PM | |
| HIS 212: Europe in the World: From 1776 to the Present Day | KB, PC | |
| AAS 313/HIS 213: Modern Caribbean History | RD | |
| HIS 214: British Empire in World History, 1600-2000 | PC, RD | Fall 2025 |
| CLA 216/HIS 216: Archaic and Classical Greece | PM | |
| CLA 217/HIS 217: The Greek World in the Hellenistic Age | PM | |
| CLA 218/HIS 218: The Roman Republic | PM | |
| CLA 219/HIS 219: The Roman Empire, 31 B.C. to A.D. 337 | PM | |
| NES 220/HIS 220: Jews, Muslims, and Christians in the Middle Ages | KB, PM | |
| NES 390/HIS 221: Medieval Cairo: A Survival Guide | PC, PM | |
| HIS 222: Hellenism: The First 3000 Years | PM | |
| NES 201/HIS 223 Introduction to the Middle East | PC | |
| HIS 225: The Mediterranean: From Rome to Fortress Europe | PC, PM | |
| AAS 326/HIS 226: Topics in African American Culture & Life | RD | |
| MED 227/HIS 227: The Worlds of the Middle Ages | KB, PM | |
| CLA 231/HIS 231: Ancient Greek and Roman Medicine: Bodies, Physicians, and Patients | PM | |
| JDS 232/HIS 232: Hatred or Tolerance? Jews & Christians in Medieval and Early Modern Europe | KB, PM | |
| ANT 333/HIS 233: Indigenous Health Futures: Health and Wellbeing within Native Nations | RD | |
| HIS 240: Modern Eastern Europe, 19th to 20th Centuries | PC | Fall 2025 |
| HIS 241: Faith and Power in the Indian Ocean Arena | KB, PC | |
| EAS 345/HIS 246: A Monster History of Japan, from Kojiki to Godzilla | PM, KB | |
| HUM 248/HIS 248: Near Eastern Humanities II: Medieval to Modern Thought and Culture | KB, PM | |
| HIS 249 / AFS 249: A Global History of Modern Ethiopia: Rastafari to Haile Selassie | PC | |
| HIS 250: The Mother and Father Continent: A Global History of Africa | KB, RD | |
| NES 369/HIS 251: The World of the Cairo Geniza | KB, PM | |
| HIS 252: Cuba: History and Revolution | RD, PC, G | |
| REL 255/HIS 255: Mapping American Religion | KB | |
| HIS 262: Capitalism: Origins, Alternatives, Futures | PC | |
| HIS 267: The Modern Middle East | PC | |
| AAS 268/HIS 268: Introduction to African American History Since Emancipation | PC, RD | |
| HIS 270: Asian American History | RD | |
| HIS 271: Native American History | PC, RD | |
| HIS 275: The “Voces de la Diáspora” Oral History Project | RD | |
| EAS 279/HIS 276: The Qin Dynasty and the Beginnings of Empire in China | KB | |
| EGR 277/HIS 277: Technology and Society | KB | |
| HIS 278: Digital, Spatial, Visual, and Oral Histories | KB | |
| EAS 280/HIS 279: Nomadic Empires: From the Scythian Confederation to the Mongol Conquest | PC, PM | |
| HIS 280: The Historian's Craft: Approaches to American History | PC | |
| HIS 281: Approaches to European History | KB, PC | |
| HIS 282: The Historian's Craft: Approaches to Asian History | PC, RD | |
| HIS 283: War in the Modern Western World | PC | |
| HIS 288: Attention and Modernity: Mind, Media and the Senses, 1500-2050 | KB | |
| NES 389/HIS 289: Everyday Writing in Medieval Egypt, 600 - 1500 | KB | |
| HIS 290: The Scientific Worldview of Antiquity and the Middle Ages | KB | |
| HIS 291: The Scientific Revolution | KB | Fall 2025 |
| HIS 292: Science in the Modern World | KB | |
| HIS 293: Science in a Global Context: 15th to 20th Century | KB, PC | |
| HIS 294: Science and Medicine in the Early Modern World | KB, PM | |
| HIS 295: Making America: Technology and History in the United States | KB | |
| STC 297/HIS 297: Transformative Questions in Biology | KB | |
| HIS 298: Information Revolutions | KB | |
| HIS 303: Colonial Latin America to 1810 | PC, PM | Fall 2025 |
| HIS 304: Modern Latin America since 1810 | PC | |
| HIS 306: Becoming Latino in the U.S. | PC, RD | Fall 2025 |
| HIS 307: The Spanish Empire | PC, RD | |
| AMS 306/HIS 308: Commemoration, Crisis, and Revolution in the City | KB | |
| EAS 409/HIS 309: The Warrior Culture of Japan | PM | |
| REL 357/HIS 310: Religion and the American Revolution | KB | |
| NES 316/HIS 311: Global Trade Before the Modern Period | PM | Fall 2025 |
| NES/317/HIS 312: Text and Technology: From Handwritten to Digital Formats | KB | |
| HIS 314: Precolonial Africa | PM, RD | |
| HIS 315: Africa in the Modern Age | PC, RD | Fall 2025 |
| HIS 316: South African History: 1497 to the Present | PC, RD | |
| HIS 317: Making of Modern India and Pakistan | PC | |
| HIS 319: Japan in Korea, Korea in Japan | PC, RD, G | |
| COM 376/HIS 320: On the Edge of Authoritarianism: Literature and Politics in the Modern Mediterranean | PC | |
| EAS 321/HIS 321: Early Modern Japan | KB, PC | |
| HIS 322: 20th-Century Japan | PC, RD | |
| EAS 309/HIS 323: Ideas and Society in Modern Japan, 1600-1945 | KB, PC | |
| HIS 324: Early Modern China | PM, PC | |
| HIS 325: Modern China: Empire, Nation, Revolution | PC | Fall 2025 |
| CLA 326/HIS 326: Topics in Ancient History | PM | |
| CLA 327/HIS 327: Topics in Ancient History and Religion: | PM | |
| CLA 324/HIS 328: Classical Historians and Their Philosophies of History | PM | |
| JDS 324/HIS 329: Trauma and Oral History: Giving Voice to the Unspeakable | KB, PC | |
| ART 329/HIS 330: Architecture of Confinement, from the Hospice to the Era of Mass Incarceration | PC | |
| EAS 326/HIS 331: Bamboo, Silk, Wood, and Paper: Ancient and Medieval Chinese Manuscripts | KB | |
| HIS 332: Pre-Colonial India: Politics, Religion, and Culture in South Asia, 1000-1800 CE | PC, PM, RD | |
| HIS 333: Modern Brazilian History | PC, RD | Fall 2025 |
| HUM 335/HIS 334: A Global History of Monsters | KB, RD | Fall 2025 |
| NES 437/HIS 337: The Ottoman Empire, 1300-1800 | PC, PM | |
| URB 384/HIS 340: Affordable Housing in the United States | RD | |
| HIS 342: Southeast Asia's Global History | KB, PC | |
| HIS 343: The Formation of the Christian West | PC, PM | |
| HIS 344: The Civilization of the High Middle Ages | PC, PM | |
| HIS 345: The Crusades | PC, RD | |
| HUM 320/HIS 346: Making Medieval Worlds: Methods and Materials | PM | |
| REL 356/HIS 348: Black Religions in Slavery and Freedom | KB, RD | |
| NES 338/HIS 349: The Arab-Israeli Conflict | PC | |
| HIS 350: History of International Order | PC, RD | |
| HIS 351: France, 1815 to the Present | PC | |
| HIS 358: History of the Balkans | PC | |
| HIS 359: Modern Jewish History: 1750-Present | KB, RD | |
| HIS 360: The Russian Empire: State, People, Nations | KB, PC | |
| HIS 361: Divided We Stand: The United States Since 1974 | PC | |
| HIS 362: The Soviet Century | KB, PC | Fall 2025 |
| HIS 365: Europe in the 20th Century | PC | |
| HIS 366: Germany Since 1806 | KB, PC | |
| HIS 367: English Constitutional History | PC, PM | |
| SPI 364/HIS 368: Making Post-Pandemic Worlds: Epidemic History and the Future | KB, PC | Fall 2025 |
| HIS 369: European Intellectual History in the 20th Century | KB | Fall 2025 |
| HIS 370: Britain from the American Revolution to World War II | PC | |
| HIS 371: The Colonization of North America | PM, RD | |
| HIS 372: Revolutionary America | PC, RD | |
| HIS 373: Slavery and Democracy in the New Nation | PC, RD | Fall 2025 |
| HIS 374: History of the American West | PC | |
| HIS 375: US Intellectual History: The Thinkers and Writers who Shaped America | KB | Fall 2025 |
| HIS 376: The American Civil War and Reconstruction | PC, RD | |
| HIS 377: Gilded Age and Progressive-Era United States, 1877-1920 | PC | |
| HUM 372/HIS 378/MED 372: World Travelers in the Middle Ages | PM | |
| HIS 379: U.S. Legal History | KB, PC | |
| HIS 380: U.S. Foreign Relations | PC, RD | |
| URB 392/ARC 392/HIS 381: Building African Cities, Past and Present | PC | |
| HIS 383: A More Perfect Union: The United States, 1920-1974 | PC, RD | Fall 2025 |
| HIS 384: Gender and Sexuality in Modern America | PC, RD | |
| HIS 385: Historical Consciousness: An Introduction | KB | |
| AAS 366/HIS 386: African American History to 1863 | RD | |
| HIS 387: Data & Culture | KB, HOS | |
| HIS 388: Unrest and Renewal in Urban America | PC, RD | |
| HIS 389: Culture Wars: American Cultural History | KB, RD | Fall 2025 |
| HIS 390: Formations of Knowledge: Historical Approaches to Science, Technology, and Medicine | PC, RD | Fall 2025 |
| HIS 393: Race, Drugs, and Drug Policy in America | KB, RD | |
| HIS 394: Thinking with Nature: History of Ecology & Environmentalism | KB | |
| HIS 395: History of Medicine and the Body | KB, RD | |
| HIS 396: History of Biology | KB | |
| HIS 397: Medicine and the Mind: A History of Psychiatry from the Asylum to Zoloft | KB, RD | |
| HIS 398: The Einstein Era | KB | |
| AMS 399/HIS 399: In the Groove: Technology and Music in American History, From Edison to the iPod | KB | |
| HIS 401: American Women's History | PC, RD | |
| HIS 402: Writing Slavery: Sources, Methods, Ethics | PC, RD | |
| HIS 403: The History of Free Speech | KB, PC | |
| HIS 404: The Rise of the Republican Party | PC | |
| HIS 405: Native American History | PC, RD | |
| HIS 406: Two Empires: Russia and the US from Franklin to Trump | PC | |
| HIS 407: History Behind the Headlines: Native America in the News | RD | |
| HIS 409: Women and Law in in U.S. History | RD, PC | |
| HIS 410: Revolution, Violence, and Gender in Modern Arabic Literature | PC | |
| HIS 411: World After Empire | PC, RD | |
| HIS 412: Marx and the Marxist Method of Analysis: A Primer for All Disciplines | KB, PC | |
| HIS 413: Transgression: A History of Magic | KB | |
| HIS 414: Life Writings in Britain and America, 1650-1918 | KB | |
| HIS 415: Revolution in the Archives | KB, PC | |
| HIS 416: Memory, Life History, and Asian America | KB, RD | Fall 2025 |
| HIS 417: Gandhi: The Making of the Mahatma | PC | |
| HIS 418: Imagined Cities | KB, PC | |
| HIS 420: Desi Girl/Mother India: Gender, Sexuality, and History in Hindi Cinema | PC, RD | |
| HIS 421: Venice and the Mediterranean World | PC, PM | |
| AMS 342/HIS 422: Hindu, Muslim, Untouchable: Exclusion in South Asian History | RD, PM | |
| HIS 423: The History of Christianity in Africa: From St. Mark to Desmond Tutu | KB, PM | |
| HIS 424: The Historian as Cultural Broker: The Making and Remaking of History in the First Millennium | KB, PM | |
| HIS 425: History of Political Propaganda from the French Revolution | KB, PC | Fall 2025 |
| AAS 426/HIS 426: Memory, History and the Archive | KB, RD | |
| HIS 427: Being Human: A Political History | KB | |
| HIS 428: Empire and Catastrophe | KB, PC | |
| HIS 429: Fascism and Antifascism in Global History | KB, PC | |
| HIS 430: History of the American West, 1500–1900 | RD, PC | Fall 2025 |
| HIS 431: Ukraine on Fire, 1900 to the Present | PC | |
| HIS 432: Environment and War | KB, PC | Fall 2025 |
| NES 433/HIS 433: Imperialism and Reform in the Middle East and the Balkans | PC | |
| HIS 434: Revolutionary Russia | KB, PC | |
| HIS 436: Socialist Cities in the 20th Century | PC | |
| HIS 437: Law After Rome | KB, PM | |
| HIS 438: History of Palestine/Israel | PC | |
| HIS 439: China's Frontiers | PC, RD | |
| HIS 440: History of the National Security State | PC | Fall 2025 |
| HIS 441: Reconstructing the Union: Law, Democracy, and Race after the American Civil War | PC, RD | |
| HIS 442: Modern Mexican History | RD | |
| HIS 443: Black Worldmaking: Freedom Movements Then and Now | PC, RD | |
| EAS 415/HIS 444: Intellectual History of China to the Fifth Century | PM, RD | |
| HIS 445: Winston Churchill, Anglo-America and the 'Special Relationship' in the Twentieth Century | PC | Fall 2025 |
| HIS 446: Political Prisons: Crime, Persecution and Incarceration in 19th Century Europe | PC | |
| HIS 447: Anti-Judaism: A History | KB, RD | Fall 2025 |
| HIS 448: History: An Introduction to the Discipline | KB | |
| HIS 449: The Enlightenment | KB | Fall 2025 |
| HIS 450: Abolition and Fall of American Slavery: The History of Antislavery Movements and Struggles in the United States | PC | |
| HIS 452: Magic, Matter, Medicine: Science in the Medieval World | KB, PM | |
| HIS 453: History of Slavery in Africa and the Middle East | RD, PC, G | |
| HIS 454: “Spare change for a starving queen?” Race and Gender Nonconformity in U.S. History | RD | Fall 2025 |
| AAS 456/HIS 456: What is New Orleans? | RD | |
| HIS 459: The History of Incarceration in the U.S. | PC, RD | |
| HIS 460: Topics in American Legal History: 20th Century American Legal Thought | KB | |
| HIS 461/NES 461: History of Coffee in Africa and the Middle East | PC | |
| HIS 462: Difference and Deviance in the Early Middle Ages | PM, RD | |
| HIS 465: Latino Urban History | RD | |
| HIS 466: California History | RD | |
| SPI 466/HIS 467: Financial History | KB, PC | Fall 2025 |
| HIS 468: The History of the United States during World War II | PC, RD | |
| HIS 469: Nazism and World Order | PC | Fall 2025 |
| HIS 470: World War I | PC | |
| HIS 471: The Political History of Civil Rights | RD | |
| HIS 472: Medicine and Society in China: Past and Present | KB, RD | Fall 2025 |
| HIS 473/ AFS 472/ ENV 473: Humans as Prey: An Environmental History of Human- Animal Relations | KB | |
| HIS 474: Cultural History of the Modern Nile Valley | KB | |
| HUM 412/HIS 475: Digging for the Past: Archaeology from Ancient Greece to Modern America | KB, PM | |
| ART 478/HIS 476 The Vikings: History and Archaeology | PM | |
| AAS 477/HIS 477: The Civil Rights Movement | PC, RD | |
| HIS 478: The Vietnam Wars | PC | |
| HIS 479: Society, Politics, and Ideas in 1980s America | PC, RD | |
| HIS 480: Property: How, Why, and What We Own | PC, KB | |
| HIS 481: Science and Film | KB | |
| FRE 480/HIS 482: The Writer, The Prince, and the Public: Political Writing in the Eighteenth-Century | PC | |
| HIS 483: History of the Manchu People and Their Culture | RD | |
| HIS 484: Borderlands, Border Lives | PC, RD | |
| HIS 485: History of African American Families | RD | |
| HIS 486: Women and War in Asia/America | RD, PC | Fall 2025 |
| HIS 487: The Age of Democratic Revolutions | PC | |
| HIS 488: The Soviet Atomic, Space, and Information Ages | KB, PC | |
| HIS 489: Environmental History of Latin America | PC, G | |
| HIS 491: Celluloid Science | KB | Fall 2025 |
| HIS 492: The Therapeutic Persuasion: Psychotherapy and American Life | KB | |
| HIS 493: '1, 2, 3, Testing'... in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine | KB | |
| HIS 494: Broken Brains, Shattered Minds | KB, RD | Fall 2025 |
| HIS 495: Alchemy: Art and Science | KB, PM | |
| HIS 496: The Science of Heaven and Hell | KB, PM |