Stanford University Bulletin

Code	Name	Description
HISTORY1	The History of 2022	How can we understand the events, ideas, and conflicts that have featured in the news cycle during the past year? "The History of 2022" offers historically informed reflections on this year's momentous events, providing an opportunity to understand o...
HISTORY101	The Greeks	250 years ago, for almost the first time in history, a few societies rejected kings who claimed to know what the gods wanted and began moving toward democracy. Only once before had this happened--in ancient Greece. This course asks how the Greeks did...
HISTORY102	History of the International System since 1914	After defining the characteristics of the international system at the beginning of the twentieth century, this course reviews the primary developments in its functioning in the century that followed. Topics include the major wars and peace settlement...
HISTORY102A	The Romans	How did a tiny village create a huge empire and shape the world, and why did it fail? Roman history, imperialism, politics, social life, economic growth, and religious change. Weekly participation in a discussion section is required; enroll in secti...
HISTORY103D	Human Society and Environmental Change	Interdisciplinary approaches to understanding human-environment interactions with a focus on economics, policy, culture, history, and the role of the state. Prerequisite: ECON 1.
HISTORY103F	The Changing Face of War: Introduction to Military History	(HISTORY 3F is 3 units; 103F is 5 units.) Introduces students to the rich history of military affairs and, at the same time, examines the ways in which we think of change and continuity in military history. How did war evolve from ancient times, both...
HISTORY105C	Human Trafficking: Historical, Legal, and Medical Perspectives	(Same as HISTORY 5C. 105C is 5 units, 5C is 3 units.) Interdisciplinary approach to understanding the extent and complexity of the global phenomenon of human trafficking, especially for forced prostitution, labor exploitation, and organ trade, focusi...
HISTORY106A	Global Human Geography: Asia and Africa	Global patterns of demography, economic and social development, geopolitics, and cultural differentiation, covering E. Asia, S. Asia, S.E. Asia, Central Asia, N. Africa, and sub-Saharan Africa. Use of maps to depict geographical patterns and processe...
HISTORY106B	Global Human Geography: Europe and Americas	Patterns of demography, economic and social development, geopolitics, and cultural differentiation. Use of maps to depict geographical patterns and processes.
HISTORY107	Introduction to Urban Studies	Today, for the first time in history, a majority of people live in cities. By 2050, cities will hold two-thirds of the world's population. This transformation touches everyone, and raises critical questions. What draws people to live in cities? How w...
HISTORY107B	The Archaeology of Institutions	Modern life is marked by institutions - schools, hospitals, international conglomerates, even prisons - so how did they develop and become so common? Historical archaeology can help us tell a different history of institutions because it combines docu...
HISTORY109P	Paris 1919: Self-Determination and the New(?) World Order	In the wake of the Great War (which we now know as WW1), the notion of self-determination, championed by the US president Woodrow Wilson, became an ideal of governance, spreading like wildfire across continents. It was received enthusiastically and r...
HISTORY10B	Renaissance to Revolution: Early Modern Europe	(Same as HISTORY 110B. HISTORY 10B is 3 units; HISTORY 110B is 5 units) Few historical settings offer a more illuminating perspective on our world today than old-regime Europe. Few cast a darker shadow. Science and the enlightened ambition to master...
HISTORY10C	The Problem of Modern Europe	(Same as HISTORY 110C. 10C is for 3 units; 110C is for 5 units.) From the late 18th century to the present. How Europeans responded to rapid social changes caused by political upheaval, industrialization, and modernization. How the experience and leg...
HISTORY10N	Thinking About War	This course examines classic approaches to war as an intellectual problem, looking at how a matter of such great physical violence and passions can be subjected to understanding and used in philosophy, political theory, and art. Questions to be exami...
HISTORY110B	Renaissance to Revolution: Early Modern Europe	(HISTORY 110B is 5 units; HISTORY 10B is 3 units). Few historical settings offer a more illuminating perspective on our world today than old-regime Europe. Few cast a darker shadow. Science and the enlightened ambition to master nature and society, t...
HISTORY110C	The Problem of Modern Europe	(Same as HISTORY 10C. 110C is for 5 units; 10C is for 3 units.) From the late 18th century to the present. How Europeans responded to rapid social changes caused by political upheaval, industrialization, and modernization. How the experience and lega...
HISTORY112C	What Didn't Make the Bible	Over two billion people alive today consider the Bible to be sacred scripture. But how did the books that made it into the bible get there in the first place? Who decided what was to be part of the bible and what wasn't? How would history look differ...
HISTORY113P	Media and Communication Before the Printing Press	Epic traditions, the call to crusade, public curses, music of the troubadours and trouveres: this course examines oral tradition and music--the "viral media" of pre-modern Europe--while tracing the impact of new recording technologies: manuscript pro...
HISTORY114	Origins of History in Greece and Rome	What's the history of `History'? The first ancient historians wrote about commoners and kings, conquest and power - those who had it, those who wanted it, those without it. Their powerful ways of recounting the past still resonate today and can be ha...
HISTORY114B	The Crusades: A Global History	(History 114B is 5 units; History 14B is 3 units) Questioning traditional western narratives of the crusades, this course studies Latin and Turkic invaders as rival barbarian formations, and explores the societies of western Afro-Eurasia and the Medi...
HISTORY115D	Europe in the Middle Ages, 300-1500	(HISTORY 15D is 3 units; HISTORY 115D is 5 units.) This course provides an introduction to Medieval Europe from the fall of Rome to the Renaissance. While the framework of the course is chronological, we'll concentrate particularly on the structure o...
HISTORY116	Traders and Crusaders in the Medieval Mediterranean	Trade and crusade were inextricably interconnected in the high Middle Ages. As merchant ships ferried knights and pilgrims across the Mediterranean, rulers borrowed heavily to finance their expeditions, while military expansion opened new economic op...
HISTORY116N	Howard Zinn and the Quest for Historical Truth	With more than two million copies in print, Howard Zinn's A People's History is a cultural icon. We will use Zinn's book to probe how we determine what was true in the past. A People's History will be our point of departure, but our journey will visi...
HISTORY117	Ancient Empires: Near East	Why do imperialists conquer people? Why do some people resist while others collaborate? This course tries to answer these questions by looking at some of the world's earliest empires. The main focus is on the expansion of the Assyrian and Persian Emp...
HISTORY11N	The Roman Empire: Its Grandeur and Fall	Preference to freshmen. Explore themes on the Roman Empire and its decline from the 1st through the 5th centuries C.E.. What was the political and military glue that held this diverse, multi-ethnic empire together? What were the bases of wealth and h...
HISTORY120A	The Russian Empire, 1450-1800	(Same as HISTORY 20A. 120A is 5 units, 20A is 3 units.) The rise of Russian state as a Eurasian "empire of difference"; strategies of governance of the many ethnic and religious groups with their varied cultures and political economies; particular at...
HISTORY126B	Protestant Reformation	The emergence of Protestant Christianity in 16th-century Europe. Analysis of writings by evangelical reformers (Luther, Calvin, Zwingli, Sattler, Hubmeier, Müntzer) and study of reform movements (Lutheran, Reformed, Anabaptist, Spiritualist) in their...
HISTORY12N	Income and wealth inequality from the Stone Age to the present	Rising inequality is a defining feature of our time. How long has economic inequality existed, and when, how and why has the gap between haves and have-nots widened or narrowed over the course of history? This seminar takes a very long-term view of t...
HISTORY12S	Multiculturalism in the Middle Ages: Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Medieval Spain	Before the year 1492, Spain had been a dynamic and complex region of Muslim and Christian kingdoms populated by Christians, Muslims, and Jews for nearly 800 years. What political, economic, and military exchanges took place among peoples of the three...
HISTORY133A	Blood and Roses: The Age of the Tudors	(Same as HISTORY 33A. 133A is for 5 units; 33A is for 3 units.) English society and state from the Wars of the Roses to the death of Elizabeth. Political, social, and cultural upheavals of the Tudor period and the changes wrought by the Reformation....
HISTORY133B	Revolutionary England: The Stuart Age	(Same as HISTORY 33B. HISTORY 133B is 5 units; 33B is 3 units.) From the accession of King James I in 1603 to the death of Queen Anne in 1714: a brutal civil war, the execution of one anointed king, and the deposition of another. Topics include the c...
HISTORY134A	The European Witch Hunts	(Same as HISTORY 34A. History majors and others taking 5 units, register for 134A.) After the Reformation, in the midst of state-building and scientific discovery, Europeans conducted a series of deadly witch hunts, violating their own laws and proce...
HISTORY137D	Germany's Wars and the World, 1848-2010	(History 37D is 3 units; History 137D is 5 units.)This course examines a series of explosive encounters between Germans, Europe, and the world. Starting with the overlooked revolutions of 1848 and ending with the reunification of West Germany and Eas...
HISTORY139	Modern Britain and the Empire, 1688-2016	(Same as HISTORY 39. 139 is 5 units; 39 is 3 units.) From American Independence to the latest war in Iraq. Topics include: the rise of the modern British state and economy; imperial expansion and contraction; the formation of class, gender, and natio...
HISTORY13P	Media and Communication Before the Printing Press	Epic traditions, the call to crusade, public curses, music of the troubadours and trouveres: this course examines oral tradition and music--the "viral media" of pre-modern Europe--while tracing the impact of new recording technologies: manuscript pro...
HISTORY13S	Misfits of the Middle Ages: Persecution and Tolerance in Medieval Europe	Medieval Europe is infamous for its persecutions. In the popular imagination, the Middle Ages were a uniquely unhappy time for Jews, heretics, lepers, witches, and countless other outsiders. But what is the truth about Europe¿s ¿Dark Ages?¿ What was...
HISTORY140	World History of Science: From Prehistory through the Scientific Revolution	(History 40 is 3 units; History 140 is 5 units.) The earliest developments in science, the prehistoric roots of technology, the scientific revolution, and global voyaging. Theories of human origins and the oldest known tools and symbols. Achievements...
HISTORY140A	The Scientific Revolution	(History 140A is 5 units; History 40A is 3 units.) What do people know and how do they know it? What counts as scientific knowledge? In the 16th and 17th centuries, understanding the nature of knowledge engaged the attention of individuals and instit...
HISTORY144	Gendered Innovations in Science, Medicine, Engineering, and Environment	(HISTORY 44 is offered for 3 units; HISTORY 144 is offered for 5 units.) Explores "Gendered Innovations" or how sex, gender, and intersectional analysis in research spark discovery and innovation. This course focuses on sex and gender, and considers...
HISTORY145B	Africa in the 20th Century	(Same as HISTORY 45B. Students taking 5 units, register for 145B.) CREATIVITY. AGENCY. RESILIENCE. This is the African history with which this course will engage. African scholars and knowledge production of Africa that explicitly engages with theor...
HISTORY147	History of South Africa	(Same as HISTORY 47. HISTORY 147 is for 5 units; HISTORY 47 is for 3 units) Introduction, focusing particularly on the modern era. Topics include: precolonial African societies; European colonization; the impact of the mineral revolution; the evol...
HISTORY148	The Egyptians	This course traces the emergence and development of the distinctive cultural world of the ancient Egyptians over nearly 4,000 years. Through archaeological and textual evidence, we will investigate the social structures, religious beliefs, and expre...
HISTORY148C	Los Angeles: A Cultural History	This course traces a cultural history of Los Angeles from the early twentieth century to the present. Approaching popular representations of Los Angeles as our primary source, we discuss the ways that diverse groups of Angelenos have represented thei...
HISTORY14B	The Crusades: A Global History	(HISTORY 14B is 3 units; HISTORY 114B is 5 units.) Questioning traditional western narratives of the crusades, this course studies Latin and Turkic invaders as rival barbarian formations, and explores the societies of western Afro-Eurasia and the Med...
HISTORY14S	Conversion in Ancient and Medieval Judaism, Christianity, and Islam	In the third century, a group of Roman soldiers submerged themselves in baptismal waters in the Syrian desert and became Christians, a radical act. A thousand years later, the Jews of Spain were forced to do the same; in 1391, their mass forced bapti...
HISTORY150A	Colonial and Revolutionary America	(HISTORY 50A is 3 units. HISTORY 150A is 5 units) This course surveys early American history from the onset of English colonization of North America in the late sixteenth century through the American Revolution and the creation of the United States i...
HISTORY150B	Nineteenth Century America	(Same as HISTORY 50B. 150B is 5 units; 50B is 3 units.) This course is a survey of nineteenth-century American history. Topics include: the legacy of the American Revolution; the invention of political parties; capitalist transformation and urbanizat...
HISTORY150C	The United States in the Twentieth Century	(Same as HISTORY 50C. 50C is for 3 units; 150C is for 5 units.) 100 years ago, women and most African-Americans couldn't vote; automobiles were rare and computers didn't exist; and the U.S. was a minor power in a world dominated by European empires....
HISTORY151	The American West	The American West is characterized by frontier mythology, vast distances, marked aridity, and unique political and economic characteristics. This course integrates several disciplinary perspectives into a comprehensive examination of Western North Am...
HISTORY151B	The End of American Slavery, 1776-1865	How did the institution of American slavery come to an end? The story is more complex than most people know. This course examines the rival forces that fostered slavery's simultaneous contraction in the North and expansion in the South between 1776 a...
HISTORY151C	Imagineering the American City	What will American cities look like in the future? Will they be "smart"? Will they be sustainable? Will they be equitable? This course will explore possible answers to these questions by looking back towards the nation's urban past. The city has been...
HISTORY151M	Between Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, JR.: Race, Religion, and the Politics of Freedom	Malcolm X (El Hajj Malik El Shabazz) and Martin Luther King, Jr. are both icons of the twentieth-century civil rights and black freedom movements. Often characterized as polar opposites - one advocating armed self-defense and the other non-violence a...
HISTORY152	History of American Law	(Formerly Law 318. Now Law 3504.) This course examines the growth and development of American legal institutions with particular attention to crime and punishment, slavery and race relations, the role of law in developing the economy, and the place...
HISTORY152K	America as a World Power in the Modern Era	This course will examine the modern history of American foreign relations, from the turn of the twentieth century to the present. Beginning with the fateful decision to go to war with Spain, it will examine the major crises and choices that have defi...
HISTORY153	Creation of the Constitution	The course begins with readings setting forth the intellectual and experiential background of the framing, including common law and natural rights theory, republicanism, economic & political scientific ideas, and colonial and post-Independence experi...
HISTORY153C	Reconstruction: Adding the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments	(Same as LAW 7100.) This course will explore the changes to the Constitution made after the Civil War and their enforcement statutes. Materials will primarily be original source texts, supplemented by selected secondary literature. The majority of cl...
HISTORY154	The History of Ideas in America, Part I (to 1900)	(Same as HISTORY 54. 154 is 5 units; 54 is 3 units.) How Americans considered problems such as slavery, imperialism, and sectionalism. Topics include: the political legacies of revolution; biological ideas of race; the Second Great Awakening; science...
HISTORY154B	The History of Ideas in America, Part II	This course explores intellectual life and culture in the United States during the twentieth century, examining the work and lives of social critics, essayists, artists, scientists, journalists, novelists, and sundry other thinkers. We will look at...
HISTORY154F	Against Slavery: African Americans and Self Emancipation	TBD.
HISTORY155	The White Supremacist Constitution: American Constitutional History	This course addresses U.S. constitutional history from the post-Civil War Reconstruction period through the mid-20th century. Because of the breadth of the subject matter, the view will necessarily be partial. In particular we will take as our focus...
HISTORY155F	The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1830 to 1877	(History 55F is 3 units; History 155F is 5 units.)This course explores the causes, course, and consequences of the American Civil War. The Civil War profoundly impacted American life at national, sectional, and constitutional levels, and radically ch...
HISTORY156G	Women and Medicine in US History: Women as Patients, Healers and Doctors	This course explores ideas about women's bodies in sickness and health, as well as women's encounters with lay and professional healers in the United States from the eighteenth century to the present. We begin with healthy women and explore ideas abo...
HISTORY158C	History of Higher Education in the U.S.	Major periods of evolution, particularly since the mid-19th century. Premise: insights into contemporary higher education can be obtained through its antecedents, particularly regarding issues of governance, mission, access, curriculum, and the chang...
HISTORY15D	Europe in the Middle Ages, 300-1500	(HISTORY 15D is 3 units; HISTORY 115D is 5 units.) This course provides an introduction to Medieval Europe from the fall of Rome to the Renaissance. While the framework of the course is chronological, we'll concentrate particularly on the structure o...
HISTORY16	Traders and Crusaders in the Medieval Mediterranean	Trade and crusade were inextricably interconnected in the high Middle Ages. As merchant ships ferried knights and pilgrims across the Mediterranean, rulers borrowed heavily to finance their expeditions, while military expansion opened new economic op...
HISTORY161	The Politics of Sex: Gender, Race, and Sex in Modern America	This course explores the ways that individuals and movements for social and economic equality have redefined and contested gender and sexuality in the modern United States. Using a combination of primary and secondary sources, we will explore the int...
HISTORY166C	The Cold War: An International History	Though it ended twenty years ago, we still live in a world shaped by the Cold War. Beginning with its origins in the mid-1940s, this course will trace the evolution of the global struggle, until its culmination at the end of the 1980s. Students wil...
HISTORY168	American History in Film Since World War ll	U.S. society, culture, and politics since WW II through feature films. Topics include: McCarthyism and the Cold War; ethnicity and racial identify; changing sex and gender relationships; the civil rights and anti-war movements; and mass media. Films...
HISTORY168D	American Prophet: The Inner Life and Global Vision of Martin Luther King, Jr.	Martin Luther King, Jr., was the 20th-century's best-known African-American leader, but the religious roots of his charismatic leadership are far less widely known. The documents assembled and published by Stanford's King Research and Education Inst...
HISTORY173	Mexican Migration to the United States	(History 73 is 3 units; History 173 is 5 units.) This course is an introduction to the history of Mexican migration to the United States. Barraged with anti-immigrant rhetoric and calls for bigger walls and more restrictive laws, few people in the Un...
HISTORY174	Mexico Since 1876: The Road to Ayotzinapa	(History 74 is for 3 units; History 174 is for 5 units.) In September of 2014, 43 students from a Mexican teacher's college in Ayotzinapa, Guerrero were abducted and disappeared via the actions of police and organized crime. This shocking human right...
HISTORY177C	Rebelión: Black Resistance in the Caribbean	In 1978, Afro-Columbian artist Joe Arroyo recorded his hit song `Rebelión,' including lines such as "esclavitud perpetua," a reference to the 1452 Dum Diversas Papal Bull, and lines like "No le pegue a la negra," which evince a slave resistance based...
HISTORY178	History of Latin American Revolutions	This course will examine the causes and consequences of Latin American Revolutions of the 20th century. It will focus on Mexico, Cuba, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Chile, and Bolivia. We will bring these revolutions and experiments in social change under an...
HISTORY179C	The Ethical Challenges of the Climate Catastrophe	(History 79C is 3 units; History 179C is 5 units.) This course explores the ethical challenges of the climate catastrophe from historical, social, economic, political, cultural and scientific perspectives. These include the discovery of global warmin...
HISTORY17N	Intimacy, Secrets and the Past: Biography in History and Fiction	Biography is one of the most popular- and controversial- modes of writing about the past and perhaps its greatest draw is in its promise to revel the otherwise sequestered details of life, its everyday secrets otherwise sequestered from view. This, o...
HISTORY181B	Making the Modern Middle East	(Same as 81B. 181B is 5 units; 81B is 3 units.) This course aims to introduce students to major themes in the modern history of the region linking the Mediterranean and Indian Ocean worlds. No prerequisites or prior knowledge of the Middle East is r...
HISTORY182G	Making Palestine Visible	Israel-Palestine is one of the most difficult subjects to talk about, in large part because we in the United States do not have much exposure to Palestinian history, culture, and politics in their own terms. This course aims to humanize Palestinians...
HISTORY183A	Enlightenment and Genocide: Modern Europe and the Ottoman Empire	(History 183A is 5 units; History 83A is 3 units.) In the early eighteenth century, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, wife of the British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, introduced Ottoman smallpox inoculation to western medicine. But over the next two ce...
HISTORY185B	Jews in the Contemporary World: Culture, Pop Culture, and Representation	(HISTORY 185B is 5 units; HISTORY 85B is 3 units.) From Barbra Streisand to Volodymyr Zelenskyy, from The Dybbuk to Broad City, and from Moscow to LA, this course applies a multicultural perspective on different experiences of Jewishness in the 20th...
HISTORY187	The Islamic Republics: Politics and Society in Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan	(Same as HISTORY 87. History majors and others taking 5 units, register for 187.) Explores the contested politics of these societies in modern times. Topics include controversies surrounding the meaning of revolution, state building, war, geopolitics...
HISTORY18S	Pirates, Captives, and Renegades: Encounters in the Early Modern Mediterranean World	In this course, we will study how mobile subjects, such as (barbary) pirates, slaves, captives, renegades, merchants, and dragomans shaped the history of the early modern Mediterranean. By studying a range of primary sources, including official docum...
HISTORY190	Early Chinese Thought	This lecture course examines the emergence of critical thought in early China. After a brief study of the social and political changes that made this emergence possible, it looks at the nature and roles of the thinkers, and finally their ideas about...
HISTORY191B	The City in Imperial China	(Same as HISTORY 91B. 191B is for 5 units; 91B is for 3 units.) The evolution of cities in the early imperial, medieval, and early modern periods. Topics include physical structure, social order, cultural forms, economic roles, relations to rural hin...
HISTORY193	The Chinese Empire from the Mongol Invasion to the Boxer Uprising	(Same as HISTORY 93. 193 is 5 units; 93 is 3 units.) A survey of Chinese history from the 11th century to the collapse of the imperial state in 1911. Topics include absolutism, gentry society, popular culture, gender and sexuality, steppe nomads, the...
HISTORY194B	Japan in the Age of the Samurai	(Same as HISTORY 94B. 194B is 5 units, 94B is 3 units.) From the Warring States Period to the Meiji Restoration. Topics include the three great unifiers, Tokugawa hegemony, the samurai class, Neoconfucian ideologies, suppression of Christianity, stru...
HISTORY194G	Humanities Core: Technology and Media in Modern Japan	This course considers the political, economic, social, cultural, and artistic effects of the introduction of new technologies and media to modern China and Japan. The methodology will integrate techniques gleaned from the disciplines of history and...
HISTORY195	Modern Korean History	(Same as HISTORY 95. 195 is for 5 units; 95 is for 3 units.) This lecture course provides a general introduction to the history of modern Korea. Themes include the characteristics of the Chosôn dynasty, reforms and rebellions in the nineteenth centur...
HISTORY195C	Modern Japanese History: From Samurai to Pokemon	(95C is 3 units; 195C is 5 units.) Japan's modern transformation from the late 19th century to the present. Topics include: the Meiji revolution; industrialization and social dislocation; the rise of democracy and empire; total war and US occupation;...
HISTORY196C	Resisting Empire: Anti-colonial Nationalism, Popular Politics & Decolonization in Modern South Asia	(HISTORY 96C is 3 units; 196C is 5 units.) How did subjects of British India respond to colonial rule? When and how did anti-colonial nationalism emerge in South Asia? How did leading thinkers of the region conceptualize the nature of colonialism and...
HISTORY197	Southeast Asia: From Antiquity to the Modern Era	The history of S.E. Asia, comprising Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Burma, Cambodia, and Laos, from antiquity to the present. The spread of Indian cultural influences, the rise of indigenous states, and the emerge...
HISTORY197C	The Structure of Colonial Power: South Asia since the Eighteenth Century	How did the colonial encounter shape the making of modern South Asia? Was colonial rule a radical rupture from the pre-modern past or did it embody historical continuities? Did colonial rule cause the economic underdevelopment of the region or were r...
HISTORY198	The History of Modern China	(Same as HISTORY 98. 198 is 5 units; 98 is 3 units.) This course charts major historical transformations in modern China, and will be of interest to those concerned with Chinese politics, culture, society, ethnicity, economy, gender, international re...
HISTORY1A	Global History: The Ancient World	World history from the origins of humanity to the Black Death. Focuses on the evolution of complex societies, wealth, violence, hierarchy, and large-scale belief systems.
HISTORY1B	Global History: The Early Modern World, 1300 to 1800	(Course is offered for 3 OR 5 units.) Topics include early globalization and cross-cultural exchanges; varying and diverse cultural formations in different parts of the world; the growth and interaction of empires and states; the rise of capitalism a...
HISTORY1C	Global History through Graphic Novels: The Modern Age	(Course is offered for 3 OR 5 units.) How did empires and nation-states evolve around the globe during the modern period? How did they shape global experiences of modernity? And how can one write a history of the entire world, so as to cover the nece...
HISTORY200A	Doing Legal History	What is law, and how do we write its history? Drawing on case studies from a broad range of periods and places, this course will explore how law is made, interpreted, enforced, experienced, and resisted. It will also explore how historians use both l...
HISTORY200B	Doing Environmental History: Water Justice	This course is an introduction to the field of environmental history, or the study of how humans have influenced, and have been influenced by, diverse environments over time. We will employ various sources (written, visual, aural) to learn about diff...
HISTORY200BG	Doing History: Biography as History	Although historians often focus on broad social forces, individuals can and do shape these currents in unexpected ways, as the headlines of our own time illustrate. What role do individuals play in historical change? How can we use individual life...
HISTORY200C	Doing the History of Race and Ethnicity	How does ethnicity and race operate in different time periods, and across different historical, national, and cultural contexts? This course guides students through an historical and cross-cultural exploration of ethnoracial identity formation, racis...
HISTORY200D	Doing the History of Science and Technology	The history of science has often been at the crux of key debates in the larger field of history, including debates over objectivity and bias, relativism and the problem of "present-ism." This course explores key questions, methods and debates in the...
HISTORY200E	Doing Economic History	The courses examines how historians and economists, from different intellectual traditions and schools, grapple with major problems of economic history including pre-modern agrarian orders; demographic fluctuations; diverse property regimes; financia...
HISTORY200F	Doing Microhistory	The genre of microhistory was expressly invented in the 1970s to recover the voices of people usually neglected in the past, often based on scanty sources. It's an exciting and risky endeavor, as the historian often has to fill in details lacking in...
HISTORY200J	Doing Oral History	Students explore exemplary historical works based on oral histories and develop a range of practical skills while completing their own interviews. Topics include oral history and narrative theory, interview techniques, transcript preparation, and dig...
HISTORY200K	Doing Literary History: Orwell in the World	This course will bring together the disciplines of history and literary studies by looking closely at the work of one major twentieth-century author: the British writer and political polemicist George Orwell. In 1946, Orwell writes, "What I have most...
HISTORY200L	Doing Public History	Examines history outside the classroom; its role in political/cultural debates in U.S. and abroad. Considers functions, practices, and reception of history in public arena, including museums, memorials, naming of buildings, courtrooms, websites, op-...
HISTORY200LB	Doing Labor History	How do historians access lives of the laboring poor in the past? What is the archive of the working-class life? Toiling in farms, plantations, workshops, mines, factories, brothels and households, workers seldom leave behind an account of their lives...
HISTORY200M	Doing Digital History	This course is designed to introduce students to the theories and methods of digital history. In keeping with the digital humanities- commitment to experimentation, public discourse, and praxis, we will compile a web presence for our seminar that inc...
HISTORY200MM	Doing Historical Memory	How do societies remember? What events and experiences become part of our shared patrimony and what stories are lost to time? Who decides? What are the dynamics -- and the politics -- of collective memory? In this course, we will examine these qu...
HISTORY200P	Doing Religious History	What is religion, and how do we write its history? This undergraduate colloquium uses case studies from a variety of regions and periods - but with a specific focus on the African continent - to consider how historians have dealt with the challenge o...
HISTORY200R	Doing Community History: Asian Americans and the Pandemic	Students utilize a community-engaged oral history methodology to produce short video documentaries focused on Asian Americans in the Covid-19 pandemic. In producing these collaborative digital history projects, students learn to evaluate the ways soc...
HISTORY200T	Doing the History of Gender and Sexuality: African Perspectives	What are gender and sexuality, and how do understandings of these concepts shape human experience across time and space? This course explores major topics in the history of gender and sexuality, with a focus on Africa. Course materials examine a rang...
HISTORY200U	Doing History: Beyond the Book	This class will teach you how to look for clues in the historical record beyond the usual written texts. The past took place in three dimensions, involved five senses, and included actors that were not human beings. This course takes seriously the ch...
HISTORY200Y	Doing Colonial History	This course will explore major themes and debates in the history of modern colonialism in the late 19th and 20th centuries. Using case studies from Asia and Africa, "Doing Colonial History" will address the following issues of global importance: colo...
HISTORY201	From Confederate Monuments to Wikipedia: The Politics of Remembering the Past	Gateway course for Public History/Public Service track. Examines various ways history is used outside of the classroom, and its role in political/cultural debates in the U.S. and abroad. Showcases issues and careers in public history with guest spe...
HISTORY201A	The Global Drug Wars	Explores the global story of the struggle over drugs from the nineteenth century to the present. Topics include the history of the opium wars in China, controversies over wine and tobacco in Iran, narco-trafficking and civil war in Lebanon, the Afgha...
HISTORY201B	Spatial History: Concepts, Methods, Problems	What can digital mapping and spatial analysis bring to history? How have historians written spatial history in the past? How do scholars in other disciplines deal with space and what can we learn from them? The course provides students with conceptua...
HISTORY201C	The U.S., U.N. Peacekeeping, and Humanitarian War	The involvement of U.S. and the UN in major wars and international interventions since the 1991 Gulf War. The UN Charter's provisions on the use of force, the origins and evolution of peacekeeping, the reasons for the breakthrough to peacemaking and...
HISTORY201P	History and Policy	Can historical thinking produce more humane forms of governance? This course exposes students to the discipline of history as an instrument of policy critique and formulation. Students will pursue their own research projects with the option of creati...
HISTORY202B	Coffee, Sugar, and Chocolate: Commodities and Consumption in World History, 1200-1800	Many of the basic commodities that we consider staples of everyday life became part of an increasingly interconnected world of trade, goods, and consumption between 1200 and 1800. This seminar offers an introduction to the material culture of the lat...
HISTORY202F	Surveillance States and Societies	The course analyzes the evolution, functions, structures and consequences of surveillance in the modern era. Among issues discussed are the rise of the modern state and population politics, information gathering and its uses in domestic and national...
HISTORY202G	Peoples, Armies and Governments of the Second World War	Clausewitz conceptualized war as always consisting of a trinity of passion, chance, and reason, mirrored, respectively, in the people, army and government. Following Clausewitz, this course examines the peoples, armies, and governments that shaped Wo...
HISTORY202J	Climate Politics: Science and Global Governance	Historical and contemporary perspectives on climate politics. Briefly covers the origins of climate understanding in the 1800s, then turns to the co-evolution of climate science and climate politics from the 20th century to the present, including mul...
HISTORY202S	The History of Genocide	This course will explore the history, politics, and character of genocide from the beginning of world history to the present. It will also consider the ways that the international system has developed to prevent and punish genocide.
HISTORY203	Premodern Economic Cultures	Modern economists have made a science of studying the aggregate effects of individual choices. This science is based on the realities of personal freedom and individual choice. Prior to the modern era, however, different realities comprised very diff...
HISTORY203C	History of Ignorance	Scholars pay a lot of attention to knowledge--how it arises and impacts society--but much less attention has been given to ignorance, even though its impacts are equally profound. Here we explore the political history of ignorance, through case studi...
HISTORY204A	Reimagining History: A Workshop	This class explores, through analysis and practice, the ways in which history can be told and experienced through means other than traditional scholarly narratives. Approaches include literary fiction and non-fiction, digital media, graphic arts, map...
HISTORY204D	Advanced Topics in Agnotology	Advanced research into the history of ignorance. Our goal will be to explore how ignorance is created, maintained and destroyed, using case studies from topics such as tobacco denialism, global climate denialism, and other forms of resistance to kno...
HISTORY204E	Totalitarianism	This course analyzes the evolution and nature of revolutionary and totalitarian polities through the reading of monographs on the Puritan Reformation, French Revolutionary, turn of the 20th Century, interwar, and Second World War eras. Among topics e...
HISTORY204G	War and Society	(History 204G is an undergraduate course offered for 5 units; History 304G is a graduate course offered for 4-5 units.) How Western societies and cultures have responded to modern warfare. The relationship between its destructive capacity and effects...
HISTORY205D	Freedom in Chains: Black Slavery in the Atlantic, 1400s-1800s	This course will focus on the history of slavery in the British, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Dutch Atlantic world(s), from the late 1400s to the 1800s. Its main focus will be on the experiences of enslaved Africans and their descendants. Between...
HISTORY205E	Comparative Historical Development of Latin America and East Asia	(Graduate students must enroll for 5 units.) Students will analyze, in historical perspective, the similarities and differences between the development of Latin America and East Asia from early modern times to the present. Focusing primarily on Brazi...
HISTORY205F	Global Futures: History, Statecraft, Systems	Where does the future come from? It comes from the past, of course, but how? What are the key drivers of continuity or change, and how can we trace those drivers going forward, too? What are the roles of contingency, chance, and choice, versus lon...
HISTORY205K	The Age of Revolution: America, France, and Haiti	(History 205K is an undergraduate course offered for 5 units; History 305K is a graduate course offered for 4-5 units.) This course examines the "Age of Revolution," spanning the 18th and 19th centuries. Primarily, this course will focus on the Ameri...
HISTORY205L	Prostitution & Sex Trafficking: Regulating Morality and the Status of Women	Examines governmental policies toward prostitution from the late 19th century to the present. Focuses on the underlying attitudes, assumptions, strategies, and consequences of various historical and current legal frameworks regulating prostitution,...
HISTORY205M	Silicon Valley in 10 Objects	Have you ever wanted to curate a museum exhibition, or explore alternative ways of studying history, beyond the term paper or article? In this hands-on class, we will research and design a real museum exhibition, to be staged at the Silicon Valley Ar...
HISTORY206C	The Modern Battle	The purpose of this seminar is to examine the evolution of modern warfare by closely following four modern battles/campaigns. For this purpose the seminar offers four mock staff rides, facilitating highly engaged, well-researched experience for parti...
HISTORY206D	Global Humanities: The Grand Millennium, 800-1800	How should we live? This course explores ethical pathways in European, Islamic, and East Asian traditions: mysticism and rationality, passion and duty, this and other worldly, ambition and peace of mind. They all seem to be pairs of opposites, but as...
HISTORY206E	CAPITALS: How Cities Shape Cultures, States, and People	This course takes students on a trip to major capital cities, at different moments in time: Renaissance Florence, Golden Age Madrid, Colonial Mexico City, Enlightenment and Romantic Paris, Existential and Revolutionary St. Petersburg, Roaring Berlin,...
HISTORY207	Biography and History	Designed along the lines of the PBS series, "In the Actor's Workshop," students will meet weekly with some of the leading literary biographers writing today. Included this spring will be "New Yorker" staff writer Judith Thurman -- whose biography of...
HISTORY207B	The Irish and the World	"When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious." The writer Edna O'Brien's portrait of Irish life encapsulates a history shaped by colonialism, famine, forced migration,...
HISTORY207C	The Global Early Modern	In what sense can we speak of "globalization" before modernity? What are the characteristics and origins of the economic system we know as "capitalism"? When and why did European economies begin to diverge from those of other Eurasian societies? With...
HISTORY207D	Transhistory Colloquium	Colloquium on the history of transgender practices and identities. Readings will include scholarly texts from the emerging historical field of transhistory as well as adjacent fields within gender history. Colloquium will investigate avenues for deep...
HISTORY207F	Crafting Digital Stories	Historians tell stories. Using digital methods, we can tell these stories in creative and innovative ways. This digital humanities course is a hands-on experience of working with different methods of digital storytelling. This course is best suited f...
HISTORY208C	The Laws of War in Global History	What are the laws of war and how have they changed since they appeared on the global stage in the 1860s? What does it mean to wage a lawful war? Readings cover persistent themes that have afflicted the laws of war since the nineteenth century and con...
HISTORY208D	Pre-Modern Warfare	This course examines the evolving nature of warfare and its impact on society across the Eurasian continent up to the Gunpowder Revolution and rise of the nation-state. Beginning with an attempt to define war, it will trace the evolution of military...
HISTORY209F	Maps in the Early Modern World	The significance of cartographic enterprise across the early modern world. Political, economic, and epistemological imperatives that drove the proliferation of nautical charts, domain surveys, city plans, atlases, and globes; the types of work such a...
HISTORY209S	Research Seminar for Majors	Required of History majors. How to conduct original, historical research and analysis, including methods such as using the libraries and archives at Stanford and elsewhere, and working collaboratively to frame topics, identify sources, and develop an...
HISTORY20A	The Russian Empire, 1450-1800	(Same as HISTORY 120A. 20A is 3 units; 120A is 5 units.) The rise of Russian state as a Eurasian "empire of difference"; strategies of governance of the many ethnic and religious groups with their varied cultures and political economies; particular a...
HISTORY20N	Russia in the Early Modern European Imagination	Critically assesses European travelers' travel accounts of Russia in comparison with what was really happening in Russia at the time; explores the phenomenon of travel writing. Write2, Freshman Seminar; requires frequent oral presentations, major res...
HISTORY21	The History of 2021	How can we understand the events, ideas, and conflicts that have featured in the news cycle during the past year? "The History of 2021" offers historically informed reflections on this year's momentous events, providing an opportunity to understand o...
HISTORY210	The History of Occupation, 1914-2010	(History 210 is an undergraduate course offered for 5 units; History 310 is a graduate course offered for 4-5 units.) Examines the major cases of occupation in the twentieth century, from the first World War until the present, and issues of similarit...
HISTORY210D	Neighbors: Intimate Relationships and Everyday Life in Hitler's Europe	This course explores how different groups of people experienced Nazi rule in Germany and German-occupied Europe. While we will cover the general history of Hitler's rise to power, the prewar years of his rule, and the Second World War, our focus will...
HISTORY210F	Making Italy Great Again: Mussolini, Italian Fascism, and Its Impact	100 years ago in 1922, Benito Mussolini and his followers marched Rome in a show of force that ushered in a period of radical change in Italian government and society, culminating in the establishment of the first fascist totalitarian regime. Who wa...
HISTORY210G	The Great War	The First World War provided a prototype and a reference for a new, horrific kind of war. It catalyzed the emergence of modern means of warfare and the social mechanisms necessary to sustain the industrialized war machine. Killing millions, it became...
HISTORY210J	Fascism and Authoritarianism	This course introduces students to the history of fascist and authoritarian movements in modern Europe, from their origins through the post-WWII era. Germany and Italy will serve as central case studies, though the course will consider other examples...
HISTORY211	Out of Eden: Deportation, Exile, and Expulsion from Antiquity to the Renaissance	This course examines the long pedigree of modern deportations and mass expulsions, from the forced resettlements of the ancient world to the expulsion of Jews from Spain in 1492, and from the outlawry of Saga-era Iceland to the culture of civic exile...
HISTORY212D	Dante's World: A Medieval and Renaissance Journey	700 years ago this year Dante Alighieri died. The Italian poet, philosopher, politician, and humanist crafted one of the great epics of world literature, The Divine Comedy. For seven centuries, his journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven has be...
HISTORY213F	Medieval Germany, 900-1250	(Undergraduates may sign up for German 213 or History 213F, graduate students should sign up for German 313 or History 313F. This course may be taken for variable units. Check the individual course numbers for unit spreads.) This course will provide...
HISTORY213G	Route-Place-Object: Re-defining "Cultural Landscape" in Medieval Germany	In modern perception, the definition of Germany's various cultural landscapes often follows narratives of regional remoteness and aesthetic coherency. Today's Bundesland (federal state) of Hesse makes a case in point. Ever since the Brothers Grimm co...
HISTORY214C	Renaissances: Living, Learning, and Loving around the Mediterranean (800-1500 CE)	This course explores three watershed moments in Mediterranean history: the Carolingian Renaissance, the Twelfth-Century Renaissance, and the Italian Renaissance. The class examines how each renaissance redefined a specific place and how those change...
HISTORY215B	Race and Ethnicity in Premodern Europe	How do historians, art historians, and literary historians of premodern Europe shape their research and their teaching around questions of race? How do current debates on race theory shape our perception of the past and deepen historical inquiry? Thi...
HISTORY216D	Nationalism, Colonialism, and the Lord of the Rings: The Middle Ages in the Modern World	From its inception the term "Middle Ages" carried negative connotations. Renaissance humanists bewailed the fall of the Roman Empire and its replacement with "barbarian" kingdoms. Enlightenment philosophes abhorred the Middle Ages even more intense...
HISTORY217D	Love, Death and the Afterlife in the Medieval West	Romantic love, it is often claimed, is an invention of the High Middle Ages. The vocabulary of sexual desire that is still current in the twenty-first century was authored in the twelfth and thirteenth, by troubadours, court poets, writers like Dante...
HISTORY218	The Holy Dead: Saints and Spiritual Power in Medieval Europe	Examines the cult of saints in medieval religious thought and life. Topics include martyrs, shrines, pilgrimage, healing, relics, and saints' legends.
HISTORY218C	Peace and War in Medieval Islam: From the Arab Conquests to the Crusades	This course interrogates the theory and reality of war-making and peacemaking across the first millennium of Islamic history (c.600-c.1600 CE). We will examine major historical events (e.g. the struggle of the early community of Muslims against the p...
HISTORY221B	The 'Woman Question' in Modern Russia	(History 221B is an undergraduate course offered for 5 units; History 321B is a graduate course offered for 4-5 units.) Russian radicals believed that the status of women provided the measure of freedom in a society and argued for the extension of ri...
HISTORY222	Crime and Punishment in Early Modern Europe and Russia	Explores criminal law in early modern Europe and Russia, ca 1500-1800, in law and in practice. Engages debates about use of exemplary public executions as tactic of governance, and about gradual decline in "violence" in Europe over this time. Explore...
HISTORY222B	The Baltic World	What makes a small, shallow and cold sea surrounded by very poor farming land stand out? Can we talk about a sea surrounded by nine countries as a single unit? This course traces and analyzes the interconnectedness and interdependence that shaped the...
HISTORY223E	Cities of Empire: An Urban Journey through Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean	This course explores the cities of the Habsburg, Ottoman and Russian empires in the dynamic and turbulent period of their greatest transformation from the 19th century through the Two World Wars. Through the reading of urban biographies of Venice an...
HISTORY223F	Russia's Industrial Revolutions: The Making and Breaking of a Superpower	In the span of a single century, Russia went from unstable empire to revolutionary proving ground, from scene of mass starvation to space pioneer, from the geopolitical sidelines to a seat among superpowers -- all before falling back again. This cou...
HISTORY223G	Russia and Ukraine: Empire, Nation, Myth	Explores theories of national myths and nationalism; identifies the founding myths of Russia and Ukraine and the medieval and early modern events they are based on. Extensive primary source readings. Focuses primarily up through eighteenth century, w...
HISTORY224A	The Soviet Civilization	(History 224A is an undergraduate course offered for 5 units; History 424A is a graduate course offered for 4-5 units.) Socialist visions and practices of the organization of society and messianic politics; Soviet mass state violence; culture, living...
HISTORY224C	Genocide and Humanitarian Intervention	Open to medical students, graduate students, and undergraduate students. Traces the history of genocide in the 20th century and the question of humanitarian intervention to stop it, a topic that has been especially controversial since the end of the...
HISTORY224D	The Soviet Civilization, Part 2	Prerequisite: HISTORY 224A/424A
HISTORY225E	From Vladimir to Putin: Key Themes in Russian History	Formative issues in Russian history from Muscovy to the present: autocracy and totalitarianism; tsars, emperors, and party secretaries; multi-ethnicity and nationalism; serfdom, peasantry; rebellions and revolutions, dissent and opposition; law and l...
HISTORY225G	Propaganda Century: 20th-Century Preoccupations with Mass Influence	The course explores the idea of propaganda as one of the central obsessions of 20th-century thought and politics. It traces the history of propaganda, from the early 20th century optimistic ideas about mass manipulation and political education to pos...
HISTORY226D	The Holocaust: Insights from New Research	Overview of the history of the Holocaust, the genocide of European Jews. Explores its causes, course, consequences, and memory. Addresses the events themselves, as well as the roles of perpetrators and bystanders, dilemmas faced by victims, collab...
HISTORY226E	Famine in the Modern World	Open to medical students, graduate students, and undergraduate students. Examines the major famines of modern history, the controversies surrounding them, and the reasons that famine persists in our increasingly globalized world. Focus is on the re...
HISTORY227	East European Women and War in the 20th and 21st Centuries	Thematic chronological approach through conflicts in the region: Balkan Wars, WWI, WWII, and Yugoslav wars. Ways women in E. Europe involved in and affected by wars; comparison with women in W. Europe in the two world wars. Examines women's involveme...
HISTORY227B	The Business of Socialism: Economic Life in Cold War Eastern Europe	This colloquium investigates the processes of buying, making, and selling goods and services in Cold War Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. We will familiarize ourselves with a variety of approaches to writing the history of economic life and discu...
HISTORY227D	All Quiet on the Eastern Front? East Europe and Russia in the First World War	Until recently history has been comparatively quiet about the experience of World War I in the east. Far from being a peripheral theater of war, however, the experiences of war on the Eastern Front were central to shaping the 20th century. Not only w...
HISTORY227K	Marx and Marxism: History and Social Change	This course examines the life and work of Karl Marx, his social and intellectual milieu, and the evolution of Marxism and historical materialism in theory and practice to the present. Basic concepts of Marxism will be discussed along with debates abo...
HISTORY228	Circles of Hell: Poland in World War II	Looks at the experience and representation of Poland's wartime history from the Nazi-Soviet Pact (1939) to the aftermath of Yalta (1945). Examines Nazi and Soviet ideology and practice in Poland, as well as the ways Poles responded, resisted, and sur...
HISTORY228C	Politics and Society in Early Soviet Russia: View from the Hoover Library & Archives	The course offers an examination of early Soviet history (1917-1924) based on the archival collections, digital records, and rare books and periodicals in the Hoover Library & Archives, with a focus on the papers of the American Relief Administration...
HISTORY230C	Paris: Capital of the Modern World	This course explores how Paris, between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries, became the political, cultural, and artistic capital of the modern world. It considers how the city has both shaped and been shaped by the tumultuous events of modern his...
HISTORY230L	Modern Irish History	No Description Set
HISTORY231	Leonardo's World: Science, Technology, and Art	Leonardo da Vinci is emblematic of creativity and innovation. His art is iconic, his inventions legendary. His understanding of nature, the human body, and machines made him a scientist and engineer as well as an artist. His fascination with drawing...
HISTORY231G	European Reformations	How do new approaches to the reforms of religious belief, practice, and community open new avenues for exploring the transformed religious landscape of early modern Europe? This advanced colloquium explores key theological and social aspects of the s...
HISTORY232G	Early Modern Cities	Colloquium on the history of early modern European cities, covering urbanization, street life, neighborhoods, fortifications, guilds and confraternities, charity, vagrancy, and begging, public health, city-countryside relationship, urban constitution...
HISTORY233	Reformation to Civil War: England under the Tudors and Stuarts	English political and religious culture from the end of the Wars of the Roses to the Civil War of the 1640s. Themes include the growth of the size and power of the state, Reformation, creation of a Protestant regime, transformation of the political c...
HISTORY233C	Two British Revolutions	Current scholarship on Britain,1640-1700, focusing on political and religious history. Topics include: causes and consequences of the English civil war and revolution; rise and fall of revolutionary Puritanism; the Restoration; popular politics in th...
HISTORY233F	Political Thought in Early Modern Britain	1500 to 1700. Theorists include Hobbes, Locke, Harrington, the Levellers, and lesser known writers and schools. Foundational ideas and problems underlying modern British and American political thought and life.
HISTORY233G	Global Visions: Faith and Knowledge in the Early Modern World	The early modern world saw Catholicism transform itself into a global faith. Missionaries traveled with expanding Portuguese, Spanish, French empires, and beyond to translate their message of salvation into every culture possible from the Haudenosaun...
HISTORY234G	Post-Colonial and Post-Shoah Readings: The Conundrums of Memory Politics	In April of 2020, amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, a huge controversy erupted in Germany on the relation between Postcolonial and Holocaust Studies. Previously, in 2012, Judith Butler on the occasion of being awarded the Adorno Prize was assailed for he...
HISTORY234P	The Age of Plague: Medicine and Society, 1300-1750	(Undergraduates, enroll in 234P. Graduates, enroll in 334P) The arrival of plague in Eurasia in 1347-51 affected many late medieval and early modern societies. It transformed their understanding of disease, raised questions about the efficacy of med...
HISTORY234R	Risk and Credit Before Modern Finance	In today's world, credit scores are nearly as important as citizenship. Creditworthiness is measured in numbers, but is also bound up with moral qualities. To lack credit is to be on the margins of society, and vice versa. How did we get here? How di...
HISTORY235D	When Worlds Collide: The Trial of Galileo	In 1633, the Italian mathematician Galileo was tried and condemned for advocating that the sun, not the earth, was the center of the cosmos. The Catholic Church did not formally admit that Galileo was right until 1992. Examines the many factors that...
HISTORY235F	Camus	"The admirable conjunction of a man, of an action, and of a work" for Sartre, "the ideal husband of contemporary letters" for Susan Sontag, reading "Camus's fiction as an element in France's methodically constructed political geography of Algeria" fo...
HISTORY235J	The Meaning of Life: Modern European Encounters with Consequential Questions	(History 235J is an undergraduate course offered for 5 units; History 335J is a graduate course offered for 4-5 units.) Across two centuries of social, political, and religious upheaval and transformation, modern Europeans confronted a series of inte...
HISTORY235L	Alien Imaginations: Extraterrestrial Speculations in Modern European History	(History 235L is an undergraduate course offered for 5 units; History 335L is a graduate course offered for 4-5 units.) This course will examine the historical basis and evolution of modern European beliefs concerning the existence and nature of alie...
HISTORY236F	French Kiss: The History of Love and the French Novel	The history of the French novel is also the history of love. How did individuals experience love throughout history? How do novels reflect this evolution of love through the ages? And, most significantly, how have French novels shaped our own underst...
HISTORY236J	A Tour of Dangerous Ideas: Radical Thinkers in Modern Europe	In this course we will examine ideas radical to their context in modern European thought, paying close attention to what it has meant to explain features of society, government, and politics in terms of power. What is power? What is human nature, and...
HISTORY237B	Michelangelo: Gateway to Early Modern Italy	Revered as one of the greatest artists in history, Michelangelo Buonarroti's extraordinarily long and prodigious existence (1475-1564) spanned the Renaissance and the Reformation in Italy. The celebrity artist left behind not only sculptures, paintin...
HISTORY237C	Building Modernity: Urban Planning and European Cities in the Twentieth Century	This seminar explores the history of urban planning in twentieth-century Europe. We will discuss visions of ideal cities and attempts at their implementation in the context of democratic and authoritarian systems as well as capitalism and socialism....
HISTORY237D	The French Revolution and the Birth of Modern Politics	(Students who have taken HISTORY 134 should not enroll in this course.) This course will focus on the birth of modern politics in the French Revolution. The goal will be to understand the structural contradictions of the French monarchy in the pre-r...
HISTORY237G	Outer Space Exploration in Germany in the Twentieth Century	Since the nineteenth century, Germans, like their counterparts around the world, have considered the meaning and the role of humanity in outer space. As space travel developed from a dream to a reality, and as Germany changed borders and political sy...
HISTORY238C	Virtual Italy	Classical Italy attracted thousands of travelers throughout the 1700s. Referring to their journey as the "Grand Tour," travelers pursued intellectual passions, promoted careers, and satisfied wanderlust, all while collecting antiquities to fill museu...
HISTORY238E	Narrating the British Empire	In this course, we will read major British literary works of the age of empire to explore the relationship between imperialism and modern literature. We will attend to the way imperialism shaped the evolution of a range of genres, from romantic to go...
HISTORY238J	The European Scramble for Africa: Origins and Debates	Why and how did Europeans claim control of 70% of African in the late nineteenth century? Students will engage with historiographical debates ranging from the national (e.g. British) to the topical (e.g. international law). Students will interrogate...
HISTORY239C	Humanities Core: Great Books, Big Ideas -- Europe, Modern	What is a good life? How should society be organized? Who belongs? How should honor, love, sin, and similar abstractions govern our actions? What duty do we owe to the past and future? This course examines tcourse examines these questions in the mode...
HISTORY239G	The Algerian Wars	From Algiers the White to Algiers the Red, Algiers, the Mecca of the Revolutionaries in the words of Amilcar Cabral, this course offers to study the Algerian Wars since the French conquest of Algeria (1830-) to the Algerian civil war of the 1990s. We...
HISTORY239J	Work and Leisure in Nineteenth Century Britain	This course charts the changes wrought by the Industrial Revolution, empire, and social factors in Britons' lives at work and at home in the nineteenth century. Readings will explore trade unionism and Chartism, urban migration, consumer culture, pri...
HISTORY239T	What is Time?	At a basic level, history is the study of change over time. But the modern discipline of history, as it was formed during the Enlightenment, radically changed conceptions of time itself: from something at times understood as cyclical or directionless...
HISTORY23N	The Soviet Union and the World: View from the Hoover Archives	This course seeks to explore the Soviet Union's influence on the world from 1917 to its end in 1991 from a variety of perspectives. Hoover Institution archival holdings will be the basic sources for the course.
HISTORY23S	Sex and Socialism	Among the major promises made by socialism and communism was the liberation of women from an imperialist, capitalist, and patriarchal world. How did these promises hold up in the face of the realities of revolution and state formation? This course ex...
HISTORY240	The History of Evolution	This course examines the history of evolutionary biology from its emergence around the middle of the eighteenth century. We will consider the continual engagement of evolutionary theories of life with a larger, transforming context: philosophical, p...
HISTORY240C	Great Minds of the Italian Renaissance and their World	What enabled Leonardo da Vinci to excel in over a dozen fields from painting to engineering and to anticipate flight four hundred years before the first aircraft took off? How did Michelangelo paint the Sistine Chapel Ceiling? What forces and insight...
HISTORY241C	Histories of Attention and Mind Control	This course follows the history of attention from the Enlightenment and the rise of capitalism to Cold War controversies over mind control and recent debates on the attention economy and the ethics of technology. Attention is the cognitive process of...
HISTORY241F	The Science and Politics of Apocalypse	For millennia, an apocalypse has been just around the corner. This course examines how expectations surrounding the end of the world - and the role that human beings might play in bringing it about - have transformed over the last two centuries. Afte...
HISTORY242G	Spaces and Practices of Natural History	Gentleman scientists once practiced natural history by studying specimens collected from around the world, stored in cabinets of curiosity. From the 17th to 19th centuries, natural history moved out of the cabinet and into the field; these environmen...
HISTORY242J	London Low Life in the Nineteenth Century	(History 242J is an undergraduate course offered for 5 units; History 342J is a graduate course offered for 4-5 units.) London began the nineteenth century as a city of one million, but was home to over six million people by the century¿s end. How d...
HISTORY243C	People, Plants, and Medicine: Colonial Science and Medicine	Explores the global exchange of knowledge, technologies, plants, peoples, disease, and medicines. Considers primarily Africans, Amerindians, and Europeans in the eighteenth-century Atlantic World but also takes examples from other knowledge tradition...
HISTORY243D	Emerging Diseases, Past and Present	This course will use our current experience with the COVID-19 pandemic as a lens to study the processes by which infectious diseases emerge. Because of recent developments in the "historicist sciences" (bioarchaeology and palaeogenetics), it is possi...
HISTORY243F	Letter Writing in 17th - and 18th - Century France: A Media Revolution	This interdisciplinary course examines the evolution of letter-writing practices in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France through the lens of a media revolution, and highlights the historical roots of contemporary media issues. We will read prim...
HISTORY243G	Tobacco and Health in World History: How Big Nic created the template for global science denial	Cigarettes are the world's leading cause of death--but how did we come into this world, where 6 trillion cigarettes are smoked every year? Here we explore the political, cultural, and technological origins of the cigarette and cigarette epidemic, us...
HISTORY244F	Innovations in Inclusive Design in Tech	This d-school class prototypes concepts and methods for inclusive design and considers intersecting social factors in designing new technologies. Examples of products (including objects, services, and systems) gone awry will serve as prompts for desi...
HISTORY245C	Casablanca - Algiers - Tunis : Cities on the Edge	Casablanca, Algiers and Tunis embody three territories, real and imaginary, which never cease to challenge the preconceptions of travelers setting sight on their shores. In this class, we will explore the myriad ways in which these cities of North Af...
HISTORY246F	The African State: An Inconvenient History	This course offers a history of the formation of postcolonial African states and how they came to be the way they are now. It will explore what exactly is meant by a "state", as well as examine the forms of governments that existed within Africa prio...
HISTORY246G	Participatory Research in African History	Historical research in Africa is liable to issues of authenticity and relevance to local communities, as well as power disparities between researcher and subject. Can we turn this weakness into a strength by developing theory and practice of partici...
HISTORY248	Religion, Radicalization and Media in Africa since 1945	What are the paths to religious radicalization, and what role have media- new and old- played in these conversion journeys? We examine how Pentecostal Christians and Reformist Muslims in countries such as South Africa, Nigeria, Sudan, and Ethiopia ha...
HISTORY248D	Histories of Race in Science and Medicine at Home and Abroad	This course has as its primary objective, the historical study of the intersection of race, science and medicine in the US and abroad with an emphasis on Africa and its Diasporas in the US. By drawing on literature from history, science and technolog...
HISTORY249	The Mamluks: Slave-Soldiers and Sultans of Medieval Egypt	Known as ghulam or mamluk in Arabic, the slave-soldier was a ubiquitous phenomenon in the world of medieval Islam. Usually pagan steppe nomads, mamluks were purchased in adolescence, converted to Islam, taught Arabic, and trained to lead armies. Some...
HISTORY24N	Stalin's Terror: Causes, Crimes, Consequences	This course explores the period of Stalin's rule in the Soviet Union from 1928 until 1953 and focuses on what the Russians called "the repressions." This includes, the war against the kulaks, the Ukrainian famine (Holodomor), the operations against t...
HISTORY250A	History of Native Americans in California	This course examines the political histories and cultural themes of Native Americans in California, 1700s1950s. Throughout the semester we will focus on: demographics, diversity of tribal cultures; regional environmental backgrounds; the Spanish Era...
HISTORY250B	Comparative History of Racial & Ethnic Groups in California	Comparative focus on the demographic, political, social and economic histories of American Indians & Alaska Natives, African Americans, Chinese Americans and Japanese Americans during late 18th and early 20th century California. Topics: relationship...
HISTORY251C	The American Enlightenment	The eighteenth century saw the rise of many exciting new political, religious, and scientific theories about human happiness, perfectibility, and progress that today we call "the Enlightenment." Most people associate the Enlightenment with Europe, bu...
HISTORY251J	American Slavery and Its Afterlives	How did the institution of American slavery come to an end? The story is more complex than most people know. This course examines the rival forces that fostered slavery's simultaneous contraction in the North and expansion in the South between 1776 a...
HISTORY252	Originalism and the American Constitution: History and Interpretation	Except for the Bible no text has been the subject of as much modern interpretive scrutiny as the United States Constitution. This course explores both the historical dimensions of its creation as well as the meaning such knowledge should bring to bea...
HISTORY252B	Diplomacy on the Ground: Case Studies in the Challenges of Representing Your Country	The tragic death of Ambassador Chris Stevens has recently highlighted the dangers of diplomacy in the modern era. This class will look at how Americans in embassies have historically confronted questions such as authoritarian rule, human rights abuse...
HISTORY252C	The Old South: Culture, Society, and Slavery	This course explores the political, social, and cultural history of the antebellum American South, with an emphasis on the history of African-American slavery. Topics include race and race making, slave community and resistance, gender and reproducti...
HISTORY252E	From Gold Rush to Google Bus: History of San Francisco	This class will examine the history of San Francisco from Native American and colonial settlement through the present. Focus is on social, environmental, and political history, with the theme of power in the city. Topics include Native Americans, the...
HISTORY253C	Histories of Racial Capitalism	This colloquium takes as its starting point the insistence that the movement, settlement, and hierarchical arrangements of indigenous communities and people of African descent is inseparable from regimes of capital accumulation. It builds on the conc...
HISTORY253F	Thinking the American Revolution	No period in American history has generated as much creative political thinking as the era of the American Revolution. This course explores the origins and development of that thought from the onset of the dispute between Great Britain and its Americ...
HISTORY253P	Before the Model Minority: South Asians in the US	The model minority myth has been used to create a wedge between Asian and Black people in the United States, and masks the histories and lives of itinerant South Asian traders, laborers, and farmers. Beginning in the 1860s, South Asians (mostly male,...
HISTORY254	Popular Culture and American Nature	Despite John Muir, Aldo Leopold, and Rachel Carson, it is arguable that the Disney studios have more to do with molding popular attitudes toward the natural world than politicians, ecologists, and activists. Disney as the central figure in the 20th-c...
HISTORY254B	Animism, Gaia, and Alternative Approaches to the Environment	Indigenous knowledges have been traditionally treated as a field of research for anthropologists and as mistaken epistemologies, i.e., un-scientific and irrational folklore. However, within the framework of environmental humanities, current interest...
HISTORY254E	The Rise of American Democracy	(History 254E is an undergraduate course offered for 5 units; History 354E is a graduate course offered for 4-5 units.) Where did American democracy come from? Prior to and during the American Revolution, few who lived in what became the United State...
HISTORY254F	Anti-Asian Violence in America: A History	This course places the recent wave of hate violence directed against Asian Americans in historical context. The recent violence is the latest in a history that began with the arrival of Asian immigrants in America in the mid-19th century and continu...
HISTORY254G	The News Media and American Democracy	The role of the news media in a democracy has been a source of controversy throughout American history. This colloquium will examine how technology, capitalism, law, and politics have reshaped the press over time and how the press, in turn, has impac...
HISTORY255B	Contested Masculinities in Modern America	This course examines masculinity in the twentieth-century United States across academic disciplines. Suspending the idea that manhood is biologically fixed or innate, this course presents masculinity as socially constructed and in a state of ongoing...
HISTORY255D	Racial Identity in the American Imagination	From Sally Hemings to Barack Obama, this course explores the ways that racial identity has been experienced, represented, and contested throughout American history. Engaging historical, legal, and literary texts and films, this course examines major...
HISTORY255F	The Civil War and Reconstruction Era	(Undergraduates, enroll in 255F; Graduates, enroll in 355F.) This course examines the critical period between 1860, when the first states seceded in defense of enslavement, and 1896, when the Supreme Court's Plessy v. Ferguson decision affirmed the c...
HISTORY255G	Planning Suburban America	In 2021 Governor Galvin Newsom singed a law ending single-family zoning in the state of California, a remarkable departure for the state of California, which had pioneered automobile-centric suburban development. This course aims to contextualize con...
HISTORY255J	Oral History Practicum: United States History and Stanford History Through Oral History	Oral history gathers, preserves, and interprets the spoken memories of participants in past events. The subjects of interviews range from public figures to behind-the-scenes actors to people and communities whose stories and perspectives are often ex...
HISTORY256C	Crime and Punishment in American History	This course engages scholarship on the history of crime and punishment in America from the colonial period to the recent past. Readings consist of some theory, a handful of primary sources, and mostly secondary readings on such topics as: knowledge p...
HISTORY256E	The American Civil War: The Lived Experience	What was it like to live in the United States during the Civil War? This course uses the lenses of racial/ethnic identity, gender, class, and geography (among others) to explore the breadth of human experience during this singular moment in American...
HISTORY256G	Constructing Race and Religion in America	This seminar focuses on the interrelationships between social constructions of race and social interpretations of religion in America. How have assumptions about race shaped religious worldviews? How have religious beliefs shaped racial attitudes? Ho...
HISTORY257C	LGBTQ History of the United States	An introductory course that explores LGBT/Queer social, cultural, and political history in the United States. By analyzing primary documents that range from personal accounts (private letters, autobiography, early LGBT magazines, and oral history i...
HISTORY257E	History of Conservatism	What is conservatism in America? Where did it come from, and where might it be going? Looking at conservatism as a political, social, and intellectual movement, we will consider these questions by reading primary and secondary sources and archival m...
HISTORY258A	Back to the Future: Media, Art, and Politics in the 1980s	(COMM 128 is offered for 5 units, COMM 228 is offered for 4 units. COMM 328 is offered for 3-5 units.)This seminar covers the intersection of politics, media and art in the U.S. from the end of the Vietnam War in 1975 to the fall of the Berlin Wall i...
HISTORY258B	History of Education in the United States	How education came to its current forms and functions, from the colonial experience to the present. Focus is on the 19th-century invention of the common school system, 20th-century emergence of progressive education reform, and the developments since...
HISTORY258C	Asian American and Settler Colonial Entanglements	Today, the subject of decolonization is at the forefront of a wealth of scholarship as scholars, activists, and institutions grapple with the legacies of colonialism that are far from over. For Asian Americans, there are entanglements with colonialis...
HISTORY258E	History of School Reform: Origins, Policies, Outcomes, and Explanations	Strongly recommended for students in the POLS M.A. program; others welcome. Focus is on 20th-century U.S. Intended and unintended patterns in school change; the paradox of reform that schools are often reforming but never seem to change much; rhetori...
HISTORY258G	The Origins of American Liberalism	In the 1870s, liberalism in America was associated with freedom of contract, small government, and, quite often, restrictions on suffrage. Today, liberalism means nearly the opposite of that. This class examines how factors like war, industrializatio...
HISTORY259C	The Civil Rights Movement in American History and Memory	This course examines the origins, conduct, and complex legacy of the Civil Rights Movement, as well as the continuing struggle over how the movement should be remembered and represented. Topics examined include: the NAACP legal campaign against se...
HISTORY259E	American Interventions, 1898-Present	This class seeks to examine the modern American experience with limited wars, beginning with distant and yet pertinent cases, and culminating in the war in Iraq. Although this class will examine war as a consequence of foreign policy, it will not fo...
HISTORY260K	Exploring American Religious History	This course will trace how contemporary beliefs and practices connect to historical trends in the American religious landscape.
HISTORY260P	American Protest Movements, Past and Present	(History 260P is an undergraduate course offered for 5 units; History 360P is a graduate course offered for 4-5 units.) Societal change comes only when individuals and groups speak out, perseverantly, against prevailing norms. This course examines th...
HISTORY261C	Topics in Writing & Rhetoric: Racism, Misogyny, and the Law	The gutting of the Voting Rights Act in 2013 by the Supreme Court of the United States led to the consequent disenfranchisement of many voters of color. For many citizens who desire a truly representative government, SCOTUS's decision predicted the c...
HISTORY261E	Introduction to Asian American History	This course provides an introduction to the field of Asian American history. Tracing this history between the arrival of the first wave of Asian immigrants to the US in the mid-nineteenth century and the present, we foreground the voices and personal...
HISTORY261G	Presidents and Foreign Policy in Modern History	Nothing better illustrates the evolution of the modern presidency than the arena of foreign policy. This class will examine the changing role and choices of successive presidential administrations over the past century, examining such factors as geo...
HISTORY261P	The Pen and the Sword: A Gendered History	As weapons, the pen and the sword have been used to wound, punish, and condemn as well as to protect, liberate, and elevate. Historically entangled with ideals of heroism, nobility, and civility, the pen and the sword have been the privileged instrum...
HISTORY262B	The Roots of Gendered Labor: Women and Work in American History	This class will explore the long, tangled history of women's labor in North America. Beginning with gendered labor practices among Native Americans, West Africans, and Europeans in the seventeenth century, this class will proceed thematically and chr...
HISTORY262E	Extremism in America, from the Ku Klux Klan to January 6	(262E is 5 units; 62E is 3 units.)This course is a historical analysis of extremism in the United States from Reconstruction through the present day, looking at such figures and movements and the KKK, the First Red Scare, Father Coughlin and the Chri...
HISTORY263C	Nature's Bounty: Natural Resources and U.S. Political Economy	The United States has long been among the wealthiest countries in the world, and its economic life has been closely tied to natural resource extraction. Taking the relation between these two historical facts as a question to be examined rather than a...
HISTORY263D	Junipero Serra	Why is Junipero Serra considered a representative figure of California? How have assessments of Serra evolved over the last 200 years? Why does his name appear so often on our campus? In this course we will consider these and other questions in terms...
HISTORY264	History of Prisons and Immigration Detention	This course will explore the history of the growing prison and immigration detention systems in the United States. They will pay particular attention to how they developed and how they affect different populations.
HISTORY264D	Modern America in Historical Perspective	No Description Set
HISTORY269F	Modern American History: From Civil Rights to Human Rights	(History 269F is an undergraduate course offered for 5 units; History 369F is a graduate course offered for 4-5 units.) This focuses on American social justice movements during the years since the passage of landmark civil rights legislation during t...
HISTORY26S	Building Utopia: Cities, 'Megaprojects', and Socialism in the USSR	'Utopia' has always been a realm of dreamers and intellectuals. But between 1917 and 1991, the political leaders of the Soviet Union actually built their socialist utopia, brick by brick. They constructed cities in a matter of months, moved whole fac...
HISTORY270F	History of the Police in the United States	How did police come to have the power to use violence? Who counts as a police officer and why? Topics include: growth of professional policing, creation of private police forces and vigilantism, slave patrols, political economy of policing, global po...
HISTORY271B	Latinx History	This course provides students with an introduction to Latinx history and places it within a broader cultural context. Along these lines it considers the legacies of colonialism, the transnational migration, race and racialization, and the histories...
HISTORY271C	Iberian Expansion Through the Looking Glass: One World or Many?	The conquerors, missionaries, and historians who reflected on Iberian overseas expansion during the early modern period often asked themselves a crucial question: was there only one world or many? Were the Americas a 'New World,' unknown to the ancie...
HISTORY272	Colonial Mexico: Images and Power	How did images maintain, construct, or transform political power during the conquest and colonization of Mexico? The creation and destruction of visual materials in this period had a complicated relationship with power. The pictographic codices that...
HISTORY273	Mexican Immigration to the United States	This course is an introduction to the history of Mexican migration to the United States. Barraged with anti-immigrant rhetoric and calls for bigger walls and more restrictive laws, few people in the United States truly understand the historical trend...
HISTORY273D	Caudillos and Dictators from Bolívar to Bolsonaro: Modern South America	Latin American history provides key insight into the origins and resurgence of authoritarianism as well as various forms of political and social resistance. Consequently, this course surveys the major social, economic, political, and cultural trends...
HISTORY273E	Revolution and Intervention in Central America and the Caribbean	This course examines key instances of revolution, reaction, and intervention in select Central American and Caribbean nations during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Students will explore how various forms of imperialism/neocolonialism intensi...
HISTORY274A	The Historical Archaeology of Latin America	How has the study of past material cultures contributed to our comprehension of the Iberian colonial experience in the New World? How has an archaeology of the recent past been presented to the public and made socially relevant in contemporary Latin...
HISTORY274C	Mexican American History	This course will explore the history of Mexican migrants and Mexican Americans from 1848 to the present.
HISTORY277	Refugees and Asylum	This course explores the histories of refugees and asylum seekers to the United States and helps students learn how people seek asylum by working on the legal cases of current asylum seekers.
HISTORY278B	The Historical Ecology of Latin America	This seminar explores the ways in which access to natural resources has translated into political and economic power in Latin America and the Caribbean, from the colonial period to the present. We will examine how state-building projects (colonialism...
HISTORY279B	Potatoes, Coca, and Tamales: Food in Latin American History	The history of Latin America is profoundly marked by the production, circulation, preparation, and consumption of food in its most different forms: as a staple food, drugs, ethnic dishes, drinks, etc. This course examines the cultural, social, econom...
HISTORY280B	The Birth of Islam: Authority, Community, and Resistance	This course explores the historical problem of how authority and community (in both the political and religious sense) were defined and challenged in the early Islamic period. Chronological topics covered include: the political, cultural, and religi...
HISTORY281D	Introduction to Islamic Law	What is Islamic law? What kinds of sources do we use to access Islamic law, and how has Islamic legal thinking and practice changed historically? This course introduces students to topics in Islamic law while addressing questions of continuity and...
HISTORY281E	Oil, Maps, Data: Technology in the Middle East	This course introduces students to a wide range of humanities and social science concepts pertaining to the global study of technology with an emphasis on the Middle East in the 19th, 20th and 21st-centuries. The main body of the course focuses on th...
HISTORY282J	Disasters in Middle Eastern History	(History 282J is an undergraduate course offered for 5 units; History 382J is a graduate course offered for 4-5 units.) This course explores the history of disasters in the Middle East from the early modern period to the mid-20th-century. We will tra...
HISTORY282K	Refugees and Migrants in the Middle East and Balkans: 18th Century to Present	This course studies one of the most pressing issues of our day--massive population displacements--from a historical perspective. Our focus will be the Ottoman Empire and its successor states, including Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia, Bosnia and Her...
HISTORY283B	The Ottoman Empire and Iran: An Intertwined History of Islamic Eurasia	A history of the Ottoman Empire and Iran (under the Timurid, Safavid, Afsharid and Qajar dynasties) from the 14th to the early 20th century. The course invites students to think the Ottoman and Iranian experiences as a connected history, bridging se...
HISTORY283C	The Medieval Middle East: Crusaders, Turks, and Mongols	This course surveys the history of the Middle East from c.950 A.D. to c.1517 A.D., placing particular emphasis on the following questions: What were the social, cultural, and political contexts for conversion to Islam in the Middle Ages? How did the...
HISTORY283E	Empire and Resistance in the Modern Middle East	Many scholars and pundits present European empires as the main historical actors shaping the modern Middle East. This course will assess that claim by examining the history of European imperialism in the Middle East, giving equal weight to the power...
HISTORY283F	Capital and Crisis in the Middle East and the World	(History 283F is an undergraduate course for 5 units; History 383F is a graduate course for 4-5 units.) How do economies change in times of crisis? How do economic crises intersect with pandemics, violence and environmental disaster to redefine the...
HISTORY283J	Global Islam	(Undergraduates, enroll in 283J; Graduates, enroll in 383J.) Explores the history and politics of Islam in Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the Americas --- and of the novel connections that have linked Muslim communities across the globe in...
HISTORY283K	Muslims, Christians, and Jews in the Eastern Mediterranean: From Ottoman to Modern Times	At a time when Europe was riven by sectarian war, the expanding Ottoman Empire came to rule over a religiously diverse population in what we now call the Balkans and Middle East. Focusing on the period 1323-1789, this course asks the following questi...
HISTORY284	The Ottoman Empire: Conquest, Coexistence, and Coffee	(History 284 is an undergraduate course offered for 5 units; History 384 is a graduate course offered for 4-5 units.) The Ottoman Empire ruled the Middle East, North Africa and Eastern Europe from the 15th to the early 20th centuries. How did the Ott...
HISTORY284E	Contemporary Muslim Political Thought	This course aims to provide an intellectual history of contemporary Muslim political thought. It presents post-nineteenth century Muslim contributions to political thought. It is designed as a survey of some major thinkers from the Arab world to Iran...
HISTORY284F	Empires, Markets and Networks: Early Modern Islamic World Between Europe and China, 1400-1900	Focuses on political regimes, transregional connections, economic interactions and sociocultural formations in the early modern Islamic Afro-Eurasia. Topics include complex political-economic systems of the Ottoman, Safavid and Mughal empires and exp...
HISTORY284G	The Neo-Imperial Middle East	This course begins with the withdrawal of the European empires from the Middle East in the wake of World War II and the ascendance of the United States (and to a lesser extent the Soviet Union) in the region. We will follow these superpowers' attempt...
HISTORY285C	The Immigrant in Modern America	The 2016 presidential election propelled the topic of immigration to the center of public attention. This is not the first time, however, that questions of immigration and what it means to be an American have revealed deep divisions within the U.S. T...
HISTORY285E	Counterinsurgency and Torture: Algeria, Vietnam, and Iraq	This course covers the post-WWII history of counterinsurgency, a type of warfare in which a powerful, state-backed military is pitted against guerrilla fighters, or insurgents. In the context of decolonization (the dissolution of European overseas em...
HISTORY286D	Yours in Struggle: African Americans and Jews in the 20th Century U.S.	This colloquium explores the history of African Americans and Jews in 20th century US beginning with Jewish immigration from Eastern Europe and the Great Migration to America's urban centers. It considers the geographical and economic tensions that d...
HISTORY286E	Labor Migration: Gender, Race, and Capitalism in North Africa and the Middle East	Current media coverage dwells on the plight of migrants passing through North Africa in search of higher-wage jobs in Europe. But labor migration from, to, and through North Africa and the Middle East is nothing new. Pushing beyond widespread views o...
HISTORY288C	Jews of the Modern Middle East and North Africa	This course will explore the cultural, social, and political histories of the Jews of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) from 1860 to present times. The geographic concentration will range from Morocco to Iran, Iraq to Turkey, and everywhere in...
HISTORY28S	Napoleon	This course examines the life and times of Napoleon Bonaparte. For twenty years, Napoleon commanded and captivated Europe, evoking fascination and fear in equal measure and profoundly shaping the course of the modern world. In this course we follow t...
HISTORY290	North Korea in a Historical and Cultural Perspective	North Korea has been dubbed secretive, its leaders unhinged, its people mindless dupes. Such descriptions are partly a result of the control that the DPRK exerts over texts and bodies that come through its borders. Filtered through foreign media, Nor...
HISTORY291E	Maps, Borders, and Conflict in East Asia	(Students enroll for 3 OR 5 units.)The nature of borders and border conflicts in N.E. Asia from the 17th to the early 20th century. Focus is on contact zones between China, Russia, Korea, and Japan. The geopolitical imperatives that drove states to...
HISTORY291G	Pre-Modern Chinese Warfare	This course examines the evolution of warfare in China, and its impact on the evolving political and social orders, from the earliest states through the Mongol conquest. It will study how changing military technology was inextricably linked to change...
HISTORY291K	Korean History and Culture before 1900	This course serves as an introduction to Korean culture, society, and history before the modern period. It begins with a discussion of early Korea and controversies over Korean origins; the bulk of the course will be devoted to the Chos'n period (139...
HISTORY292B	Chinese Legal History	This undergraduate colloquium introduces students to the history of law in imperial China through close reading of primary sources in translation and highlights of Anglophone scholarship. We begin with legal perspectives from the Confucian and Legali...
HISTORY292C	Gender in Modern South Asia	Gender is crucial to understanding the political, cultural, and economic trajectories of communities in colonial and postcolonial South Asia. Throughout this course, we will ask a series of questions: How does gender structure conceptions of home, co...
HISTORY292D	Japan in Asia, Asia in Japan	(History 292D is an undergraduate course offered for 5 units; History 392D is a graduate course offered for 4-5 units.) How Japan and Asia mutually shaped each other in the late 19th and 20th centuries. Focus is on Japanese imperialism in Asia and it...
HISTORY292F	Culture and Religions in Korean History	This colloquium explores the major themes of Korean history before 1800 and the role of culture and religions in shaping the everyday life of Chosôn-dynasty Koreans. Themes include the aristocracy and military in the Koryô dynasty, Buddhism and Confu...
HISTORY293B	Living in Ancient China: A Material Culture History	(Undergraduates, enroll in 293B. Master's students, enroll in 393B.) This course explores the embodied means and meanings of "living" in ancient China, roughly from 1200 BCE to 220 CE, as a way of understanding the sociocultural history of the period...
HISTORY293E	Female Divinities in China	This course examines the fundamental role of powerful goddesses in Chinese religion. It covers the entire range of imperial history and down to the present. It will look at, among other questions, what roles goddesses played in the spirit world, how...
HISTORY293F	Chinese Politics and Society	(Doctoral students register for 317B.) This seminar examines scholarship on major political developments in the People's Republic of China during its first four decades. The topics to be explored in depth this year include the incorporation of Tibet...
HISTORY294E	The Past in Ancient China	Introduction to the most important sources in the early Chinese historiographical tradition (broadly conceived), examining how the past was mobilized across a range of textual genres including poetry, speeches, philosophy, narrative, and rhetoric. Pr...
HISTORY294K	Chinese Migrations	This seminar will explore global patterns of Chinese migration, and consider both continuities and change within these movements. We will examine Chinese communities here in California, as well as in Asia, Africa, South America, and the Caribbean. In...
HISTORY295E	Trenches, Guerrillas, and Bombs: Modern Warfare in East Asian History	(295E is 5 units; 95E is 3 units.) This course is an introduction to the field of military history. But rather than centering on the typical Western perspectives, it focuses on studying the East Asian modern warfare during the early 20th century. Stu...
HISTORY295J	Chinese Women's History	The lives of women in the last 1,000 years of Chinese history. Focus is on theoretical questions fundamental to women's studies. How has the category of woman been shaped by culture and history? How has gender performance interacted with bodily disci...
HISTORY296E	Modern South Asia, 1500- Present	This course examines the major political, social, religious, and cultural developments within early modern, colonial, and postcolonial South Asia. Topics include religious reform, the role of women, anticolonialism, and national formation. Students w...
HISTORY296F	Science and Society in Modern South Asia	(Undergraduates, enroll in 296F. Graduates, enroll in 396F.) Modern science, technology and medicine are global phenomena, and yet scientific knowledge, as the product of human activity, reflects the social, political, economic and cultural contexts...
HISTORY296L	The Worlds of Labor in Modern India	This colloquium will introduce students to the exciting and expanding field of Indian labor history and provide them a comprehensive historiographical foundation in this area of historical research. Seminars will engage with one key monograph in the...
HISTORY297G	Rulers, Reformers, Radicals: History of India in Two Centuries	This course traces the cultural, religious, literary, and political lineages of India during the last two centuries. It investigates the conditions and impact of colonialism in the formation of the contemporary subcontinent. In doing so, the course e...
HISTORY298	Major Topics in Modern Chinese History: Cultural and Intellectual History	China has experienced profound changes over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In the span of less than two hundred years, the country has witnessed colonial incursions by multiple Western powers, the demise of an imperial system o...
HISTORY298C	Race, Gender, & Sexuality in Chinese History	This course examines the diverse ways in which identities--particularly race, ethnicity, gender and sexuality have been understood and experienced in Chinese societies, broadly defined, from the imperial period to the present day. Topics include cha...
HISTORY298E	Chinese Pop Culture: A History	This discussion course examines the evolution of popular culture in the Chinese-speaking world and diaspora from the late imperial era to the present. Analyzing myth, literature, medicine, music, art, film, fashion, and internet culture will help stu...
HISTORY298F	Social Movements and State Power in China, 1644-Present	This discussion course investigates the ideological, political and environmental conditions that have shaped social movements, uprisings and governance in China from the late imperial period to the present. It considers differences between the exper...
HISTORY299A	Senior Research I	No Description Set
HISTORY299B	Senior Research II	No Description Set
HISTORY299C	Senior Research III	No Description Set
HISTORY299CAP2	Crafting Digital Stories	Historians tell stories. Using digital methods, we can tell these stories in creative and innovative ways. This digital humanities course is a hands-on experience of working with different methods of digital storytelling. This course is best suited f...
HISTORY299F	Curricular Practical Training	Following internship work, students complete a research report outlining work activity, problems investigated, key results and follow-up projects. Meets the requirements for curricular practical training for students on F-1 visas. Student is responsi...
HISTORY299H	Junior Honors Colloquium	Required of junior History majors planning to write a History honors thesis during senior year. Meets four times during the quarter.
HISTORY299M	Undergraduate Directed Research: Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute	May be repeated for credit.
HISTORY299P	Mastering Uncertainty: The Power of Archival Thinking	When confronted with chaos and uncertainty, do you know how to stay calm, ask the right questions, and find the answers? Archival researchers do. Do you realize that less than 1 percent of primary sources have been digitized, and that 99 percent stil...
HISTORY299S	Undergraduate Directed Research and Writing	May be repeated for credit.
HISTORY29SC	River and Region: The Columbia River and the Shaping of the Pacific Northwest	This seminar will explore the crucial role of the Columbia River in the past, present, and future of the Pacific Northwest. Topics will include the lives and legacies of the indigenous peoples that Lewis and Clark encountered more than two centuries...
HISTORY301A	The Global Drug Wars	Explores the global story of the struggle over drugs from the nineteenth century to the present. Topics include the history of the opium wars in China, controversies over wine and tobacco in Iran, narco-trafficking and civil war in Lebanon, the Afgha...
HISTORY301P	History and Policy	Can historical thinking produce more humane forms of governance? This course exposes students to the discipline of history as an instrument of policy critique and formulation. Students will pursue their own research projects with the option of creati...
HISTORY302	Technopolitics: Materiality, Power, Theory	This graduate readings seminar provides a lively introduction to some of the major themes and issues in the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS). How do technologies and material assemblages perform power? How are their designs and uses shap...
HISTORY302B	Coffee, Sugar, and Chocolate: Commodities and Consumption in World History, 1200-1800	Many of the basic commodities that we consider staples of everyday life became part of an increasingly interconnected world of trade, goods, and consumption between 1200 and 1800. This seminar offers an introduction to the material culture of the lat...
HISTORY302D	Power in the Anthropocene: Pasts, Presents, Futures	The Anthropocene designates the present geological epoch, in which humans have irreversibly changed planet Earth, with impacts discernible in the atmosphere, biosphere, and more. The term has also become a "charismatic mega-category" in the humanitie...
HISTORY302F	Surveillance States and Societies	The course analyzes the evolution, functions, structures and consequences of surveillance in the modern era. Among issues discussed are the rise of the modern state and population politics, information gathering and its uses in domestic and national...
HISTORY302G	Peoples, Armies and Governments of the Second World War	Clausewitz conceptualized war as always consisting of a trinity of passion, chance, and reason, mirrored, respectively, in the people, army and government. Following Clausewitz, this course examines the peoples, armies, and governments that shaped Wo...
HISTORY303	Premodern Economic Cultures	Modern economists have made a science of studying the aggregate effects of individual choices. This science is based on the realities of personal freedom and individual choice. Prior to the modern era, however, different realities comprised very diff...
HISTORY303C	History of Ignorance	Scholars pay a lot of attention to knowledge--how it arises and impacts society--but much less attention has been given to ignorance, even though its impacts are equally profound. Here we explore the political history of ignorance, through case studi...
HISTORY303E	Infrastructure & Power in the Global South	In the last decade, the field of infrastructure studies has entered into conversation with area studies, post/colonial studies, and other scholarship on the "Global South." These intersections have produced dramatic new understandings of what "infras...
HISTORY303F	Words and Things in the History of Classical Scholarship	How have scholars used ancient texts and objects since the revival of the classical tradition? How did antiquarians study and depict objects and relate them to texts and reconstructions of the past? What changed and what stayed the same as humanist s...
HISTORY304	Approaches to History	For first-year History and Classics Ph.D. students. This course explores ideas and debates that have animated historical discourse and shaped historiographical practice over the past half-century or so. The works we will be discussing raise fundamen...
HISTORY304A	Reimagining History: A Workshop	This class explores, through analysis and practice, the ways in which history can be told and experienced through means other than traditional scholarly narratives. Approaches include literary fiction and non-fiction, digital media, graphic arts, map...
HISTORY304D	Advanced Topics in Agnotology	Advanced research into the history of ignorance. Our goal will be to explore how ignorance is created, maintained and destroyed, using case studies from topics such as tobacco denialism, global climate denialism, and other forms of resistance to kno...
HISTORY304G	War and Society	(History 204G is an undergraduate course offered for 5 units; History 304G is a graduate course offered for 4-5 units.) How Western societies and cultures have responded to modern warfare. The relationship between its destructive capacity and effects...
HISTORY304M	Historiography	For History and Classics MA and coterm students. This course explores how historians have explored the past, and the strengths and limits of the methods they have employed. Beginning with a survey of non-western historiography, we then investigate th...
HISTORY305	Graduate Pedagogy Workshop	Required of first-year History Ph.D. students. Perspectives on pedagogy for historians: course design, lecturing, leading discussion, evaluation of student learning, use of technology in teaching lectures and seminars. Addressing today's classroom:...
HISTORY305D	Global Urban History	This graduate readings course considers the work of historians working at the crossroads of urban history and global history, with particular attention to the role of the urban setting as both product and producer of social and spatial relations of p...
HISTORY305E	Comparative Historical Development of Latin America and East Asia	(Graduate students must enroll for 5 units.) Students will analyze, in historical perspective, the similarities and differences between the development of Latin America and East Asia from early modern times to the present. Focusing primarily on Brazi...
HISTORY305K	The Age of Revolution: America, France, and Haiti	(History 205K is an undergraduate course offered for 5 units; History 305K is a graduate course offered for 4-5 units.) This course examines the "Age of Revolution," spanning the 18th and 19th centuries. Primarily, this course will focus on the Ameri...
HISTORY305L	Prostitution & Sex Trafficking: Regulating Morality and the Status of Women	Examines governmental policies toward prostitution from the late 19th century to the present. Focuses on the underlying attitudes, assumptions, strategies, and consequences of various historical and current legal frameworks regulating prostitution,...
HISTORY305M	Silicon Valley in 10 Objects	Have you ever wanted to curate a museum exhibition, or explore alternative ways of studying history, beyond the term paper or article? In this hands-on class, we will research and design a real museum exhibition, to be staged at the Silicon Valley Ar...
HISTORY306	Beyond Borders: Approaches to Transnational History	This core colloquium for the Transnational, International, and Global (TIG) field will introduce students to the major historiographical trends, methodological challenges, and theoretical approaches to studying and writing transnational histories.
HISTORY306D	World History: Graduate Colloquium	How do historians engage the global scale in the classroom as well as in research? The world history canon including Toynbee, McNeill, Braudel, Wolf, and Wallerstein; contrasting approaches, recent research, and resources for teaching. Recommended: c...
HISTORY306K	World History Pedagogy Workshop	Students draft a syllabus and create a curriculum module for use in a world history lecture course. Corequisite: HISTORY 306D, recommended.
HISTORY307A	Legal History Workshop	(Same as LAW 3516.) The Legal History Workshop is designed as a forum in which faculty and students from the Law School, the History Department, and elsewhere in the university can discuss some of the best work now being done in the field of legal h...
HISTORY307B	The Irish and the World	"When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious." The writer Edna O'Brien's portrait of Irish life encapsulates a history shaped by colonialism, famine, forced migration,...
HISTORY307C	The Global Early Modern	In what sense can we speak of "globalization" before modernity? What are the characteristics and origins of the economic system we know as "capitalism"? When and why did European economies begin to diverge from those of other Eurasian societies? With...
HISTORY307D	Transhistory Colloquium	Colloquium on the history of transgender practices and identities. Readings will include scholarly texts from the emerging historical field of transhistory as well as adjacent fields within gender history. Colloquium will investigate avenues for deep...
HISTORY307E	Totalitarianism	This course analyzes the evolution and nature of revolutionary and totalitarian polities through the reading of monographs on the Puritan Reformation, French Revolutionary, turn of the 20th Century, interwar, and Second World War eras. Among topics e...
HISTORY308	Biography and History	Designed along the lines of the PBS series, "In the Actor's Workshop," students will meet weekly with some of the leading literary biographers writing today. Included this spring will be "New Yorker" staff writer Judith Thurman -- whose biography of...
HISTORY308D	Pre-Modern Warfare	This course examines the evolving nature of warfare and its impact on society across the Eurasian continent up to the Gunpowder Revolution and rise of the nation-state. Beginning with an attempt to define war, it will trace the evolution of military...
HISTORY309F	Maps in the Early Modern World	The significance of cartographic enterprise across the early modern world. Political, economic, and epistemological imperatives that drove the proliferation of nautical charts, domain surveys, city plans, atlases, and globes; the types of work such a...
HISTORY30SC	SoCo Humanities Research Intensive	Join two Stanford professors for a week of immersive, expert introduction to humanities research. This intensive, one-week course introduces rising sophomores to the excitement and wonder of humanities research, along the way preparing you for indepe...
HISTORY310	The History of Occupation, 1914-2010	(History 210 is an undergraduate course offered for 5 units; History 310 is a graduate course offered for 4-5 units.) Examines the major cases of occupation in the twentieth century, from the first World War until the present, and issues of similarit...
HISTORY310J	Fascism and Authoritarianism	This course introduces students to the history of fascist and authoritarian movements in modern Europe, from their origins through the post-WWII era. Germany and Italy will serve as central case studies, though the course will consider other examples...
HISTORY311	Out of Eden: Deportation, Exile, and Expulsion from Antiquity to the Renaissance	This course examines the long pedigree of modern deportations and mass expulsions, from the forced resettlements of the ancient world to the expulsion of Jews from Spain in 1492, and from the outlawry of Saga-era Iceland to the culture of civic exile...
HISTORY313	Core Colloquium: Graduate Readings in Medieval History	This course serves as a graduate-level introduction to major themes, problems, methods, and historiographical traditions in medieval European history.
HISTORY313F	Medieval Germany, 900-1250	(Undergraduates may sign up for German 213 or History 213F, graduate students should sign up for German 313 or History 313F. This course may be taken for variable units. Check the individual course numbers for unit spreads.) This course will provide...
HISTORY315B	Race and Ethnicity in Premodern Europe	How do historians, art historians, and literary historians of premodern Europe shape their research and their teaching around questions of race? How do current debates on race theory shape our perception of the past and deepen historical inquiry? Thi...
HISTORY317	Introduction to the Sources of Medieval History	This seminar is intended as a hands-on introduction to several major genres of source materials for the history of Western Europe from ca. 700-ca. 1400. Each week's meeting will consist of a mix of faculty-led bibliographical overviews, student prese...
HISTORY317D	Love, Death and the Afterlife in the Medieval West	Romantic love, it is often claimed, is an invention of the High Middle Ages. The vocabulary of sexual desire that is still current in the twenty-first century was authored in the twelfth and thirteenth, by troubadours, court poets, writers like Dante...
HISTORY318	The Holy Dead: Saints and Spiritual Power in Medieval Europe	Examines the cult of saints in medieval religious thought and life. Topics include martyrs, shrines, pilgrimage, healing, relics, and saints' legends.
HISTORY318C	Peace and War in Medieval Islam: From the Arab Conquests to the Crusades	This course interrogates the theory and reality of war-making and peacemaking across the first millennium of Islamic history (c.600-c.1600 CE). We will examine major historical events (e.g. the struggle of the early community of Muslims against the p...
HISTORY31Q	Resistance and Collaboration in Hitler's Europe	What is resistance and what did it entail in Nazi-occupied Europe? What prompted some to resist, while others accommodated or actively collaborated with the occupiers? How have postwar societies remembered their resistance movements and collaboration...
HISTORY321B	The 'Woman Question' in Modern Russia	(History 221B is an undergraduate course offered for 5 units; History 321B is a graduate course offered for 4-5 units.) Russian radicals believed that the status of women provided the measure of freedom in a society and argued for the extension of ri...
HISTORY322A	Crime and Punishment in Early Modern Europe and Russia	Explores criminal law in early modern Europe and Russia, ca 1500-1800, in law and in practice. Engages debates about use of exemplary public executions as tactic of governance, and about gradual decline in "violence" in Europe over this time. Explore...
HISTORY322E	Topics in Early Modern Russia and Ukraine	Explores and contrasts Ukraine and Russia ca 1450-1800, when most of Ukraine had not yet been conquered by Russia: governmental structures, religion and culture, ideology, social organization, agrarian economy.
HISTORY323E	Cities of Empire: An Urban Journey through Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean	This course explores the cities of the Habsburg, Ottoman and Russian empires in the dynamic and turbulent period of their greatest transformation from the 19th century through the Two World Wars. Through the reading of urban biographies of Venice an...
HISTORY324C	Genocide and Humanitarian Intervention	Open to medical students, graduate students, and undergraduate students. Traces the history of genocide in the 20th century and the question of humanitarian intervention to stop it, a topic that has been especially controversial since the end of the...
HISTORY325E	From Vladimir to Putin: Key Themes in Russian History	Formative issues in Russian history from Muscovy to the present: autocracy and totalitarianism; tsars, emperors, and party secretaries; multi-ethnicity and nationalism; serfdom, peasantry; rebellions and revolutions, dissent and opposition; law and l...
HISTORY326A	Modern Europe: Society and Politics	The goal of this course is to introduce graduate students to major works of history and literature in the field of nineteenth and early-twentieth century history. A colloquia will be given in tandem with a research seminar.
HISTORY326D	The Holocaust: Insights from New Research	Overview of the history of the Holocaust, the genocide of European Jews. Explores its causes, course, consequences, and memory. Addresses the events themselves, as well as the roles of perpetrators and bystanders, dilemmas faced by victims, collab...
HISTORY326E	Famine in the Modern World	Open to medical students, graduate students, and undergraduate students. Examines the major famines of modern history, the controversies surrounding them, and the reasons that famine persists in our increasingly globalized world. Focus is on the re...
HISTORY327	East European Women and War in the 20th and 21st Centuries	Thematic chronological approach through conflicts in the region: Balkan Wars, WWI, WWII, and Yugoslav wars. Ways women in E. Europe involved in and affected by wars; comparison with women in W. Europe in the two world wars. Examines women's involveme...
HISTORY327B	The Business of Socialism: Economic Life in Cold War Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union	(Graduate students, enroll in 327B. Undergraduate students, enroll in 227B.) This colloquium investigates the processes of buying, making, and selling goods and services in Cold War Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. We will familiarize ourselves w...
HISTORY327D	All Quiet on the Eastern Front? East Europe and Russia in the First World War	Until recently history has been comparatively quiet about the experience of World War I in the east. Far from being a peripheral theater of war, however, the experiences of war on the Eastern Front were central to shaping the 20th century. Not only w...
HISTORY327K	Marx and Marxism: History and Social Change	This course examines the life and work of Karl Marx, his social and intellectual milieu, and the evolution of Marxism and historical materialism in theory and practice to the present. Basic concepts of Marxism will be discussed along with debates abo...
HISTORY328	Circles of Hell: Poland in World War II	Looks at the experience and representation of Poland's wartime history from the Nazi-Soviet Pact (1939) to the aftermath of Yalta (1945). Examines Nazi and Soviet ideology and practice in Poland, as well as the ways Poles responded, resisted, and sur...
HISTORY328C	Politics and Society in Early Soviet Russia: View from the Hoover Library & Archives	The course offers an examination of early Soviet history (1917-1924) based on the archival collections, digital records, and rare books and periodicals in the Hoover Library & Archives, with a focus on the papers of the American Relief Administration...
HISTORY32S	Utopian Dreams, Dystopian Nightmares: Visions of the Ideal Society in Early Modern Britain	Visions of the ideal society are a mainstay in the European imagination, from Plato¿s Republic to Charles Fourier¿s phalanstère. Yet utopianism has always been maligned as idealistic, impracticable, or naïve, while its proponents accused variously of...
HISTORY330A	Early Modern Colloquium	Historiographical survey from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment. Topics include Renaissance, Reformation, European expansion, state and nation building, printing, military, and scientific revolutions, origins of Enlightenment. Designed to prepare...
HISTORY331	Leonardo's World: Science, Technology, and Art	Leonardo da Vinci is emblematic of creativity and innovation. His art is iconic, his inventions legendary. His understanding of nature, the human body, and machines made him a scientist and engineer as well as an artist. His fascination with drawing...
HISTORY331B	Core Colloquium on Modern Europe: The 19th Century	The major historical events and historiographical debates of the long 19th century from the French Revolution to WW I.
HISTORY331C	Modern European Core: The Twentieth Century	The historiography of 20th-century Europe. Topics include WW I, the Russian Revolution, National Socialism, and the EU.
HISTORY331G	European Reformations	How do new approaches to the reforms of religious belief, practice, and community open new avenues for exploring the transformed religious landscape of early modern Europe? This advanced colloquium explores key theological and social aspects of the s...
HISTORY332B	Heretics, Prostitutes and Merchants: The Venetian Empire	Between 1200-1600, Venice created a powerful empire at the boundary between East and West that controlled much of the Mediterranean, with a merchant society that allowed social groups, religions, and ethnicities to coexist. Topics include the feature...
HISTORY332G	Early Modern Cities	Colloquium on the history of early modern European cities, covering urbanization, street life, neighborhoods, fortifications, guilds and confraternities, charity, vagrancy, and begging, public health, city-countryside relationship, urban constitution...
HISTORY333	Reformation to Civil War: England under the Tudors and Stuarts	English political and religious culture from the end of the Wars of the Roses to the Civil War of the 1640s. Themes include the growth of the size and power of the state, Reformation, creation of a Protestant regime, transformation of the political c...
HISTORY333C	Two British Revolutions	Current scholarship on Britain,1640-1700, focusing on political and religious history. Topics include: causes and consequences of the English civil war and revolution; rise and fall of revolutionary Puritanism; the Restoration; popular politics in th...
HISTORY333F	Political Thought in Early Modern Britain	1500 to 1700. Theorists include Hobbes, Locke, Harrington, the Levellers, and lesser known writers and schools. Foundational ideas and problems underlying modern British and American political thought and life.
HISTORY334P	The Age of Plague: Medicine and Society, 1300-1750	(Graduates, enroll in 334P. Undergraduates, enroll in 234P.) The arrival of plague in Eurasia in 1347-51 affected many late medieval and early modern societies. It transformed their understanding of disease, raised questions about the efficacy of me...
HISTORY334R	Risk and Credit Before Modern Finance	In today's world, credit scores are nearly as important as citizenship. Creditworthiness is measured in numbers, but is also bound up with moral qualities. To lack credit is to be on the margins of society, and vice versa. How did we get here? How di...
HISTORY335D	When Worlds Collide: The Trial of Galileo	In 1633, the Italian mathematician Galileo was tried and condemned for advocating that the sun, not the earth, was the center of the cosmos. The Catholic Church did not formally admit that Galileo was right until 1992. Examines the many factors that...
HISTORY335J	The Meaning of Life: Modern European Encounters with Consequential Questions	(History 235J is an undergraduate course offered for 5 units; History 335J is a graduate course offered for 4-5 units.) Across two centuries of social, political, and religious upheaval and transformation, modern Europeans confronted a series of inte...
HISTORY335L	Alien Imaginations: Extraterrestrial Speculations in Modern European History	(History 235L is an undergraduate course offered for 5 units; History 335L is a graduate course offered for 4-5 units.) This course will examine the historical basis and evolution of modern European beliefs concerning the existence and nature of alie...
HISTORY336J	A Tour of Dangerous Ideas: Radical Thinkers in Modern Europe	In this course we will examine ideas radical to their context in modern European thought, paying close attention to what it has meant to explain features of society, government, and politics in terms of power. What is power? What is human nature, and...
HISTORY337B	Michelangelo: Gateway to Early Modern Italy	Revered as one of the greatest artists in history, Michelangelo Buonarroti's extraordinarily long and prodigious existence (1475-1564) spanned the Renaissance and the Reformation in Italy. The celebrity artist left behind not only sculptures, paintin...
HISTORY337C	Street History: Learning the Past in School and Out	Interdisciplinary. Since Herodotus, history and memory have competed to shape minds: history cultivates doubt and demands interpretation; memory seeks certainty and detests that which thwarts its aims. History and memory collide in modern society, of...
HISTORY337D	The French Revolution and the Birth of Modern Politics	(Students who have taken HISTORY 134 should not enroll in this course.) This course will focus on the birth of modern politics in the French Revolution. The goal will be to understand the structural contradictions of the French monarchy in the pre-r...
HISTORY338A	Graduate Colloquium in Modern British History, Part I	Influential approaches to problems in British, European, and imperial history. The 19th-century British experience and its relationship to Europe and empire. National identity, the industrial revolution, class formation, gender, liberalism, and state...
HISTORY338B	MODERN BRITISH HISTORY PART II	Themes include empire and racism, the crisis of liberalism, the rise of the welfare state, national identity, the experience of total war, the politics of decline, and modernity and British culture.
HISTORY338J	The European Scramble for Africa: Origins and Debates	Why and how did Europeans claim control of 70% of African in the late nineteenth century? Students will engage with historiographical debates ranging from the national (e.g. British) to the topical (e.g. international law). Students will interrogate...
HISTORY339J	Work and Leisure in Nineteenth Century Britain	This course charts the changes wrought by the Industrial Revolution, empire, and social factors in Britons' lives at work and at home in the nineteenth century. Readings will explore trade unionism and Chartism, urban migration, consumer culture, pri...
HISTORY339T	What is Time?	At a basic level, history is the study of change over time. But the modern discipline of history, as it was formed during the Enlightenment, radically changed conceptions of time itself: from something at times understood as cyclical or directionless...
HISTORY33A	Blood and Roses: The Age of the Tudors	(Same as HISTORY 133A. 33A is for 3 units; 133A is for 5 units.) English society and state from the Wars of the Roses to the death of Elizabeth. Political, social, and cultural upheavals of the Tudor period and the changes wrought by the Reformation....
HISTORY33B	Revolutionary England: The Stuart Age	(Same as HISTORY 133B. History majors and others taking 5 units, register for 133B.) From the accession of King James I in 1603 to the death of Queen Anne in 1714: a brutal civil war, the execution of one anointed king, and the deposition of another...
HISTORY340	The History of Evolution	This course examines the history of evolutionary biology from its emergence around the middle of the eighteenth century. We will consider the continual engagement of evolutionary theories of life with a larger, transforming context: philosophical, p...
HISTORY341C	Histories of Attention and Mind Control	This course follows the history of attention from the Enlightenment and the rise of capitalism to Cold War controversies over mind control and recent debates on the attention economy and the ethics of technology. Attention is the cognitive process of...
HISTORY342G	Spaces and Practices of Natural History	Gentleman scientists once practiced natural history by studying specimens collected from around the world, stored in cabinets of curiosity. From the 17th to 19th centuries, natural history moved out of the cabinet and into the field; these environmen...
HISTORY342J	London Low Life in the Nineteenth Century	(History 242J is an undergraduate course offered for 5 units; History 342J is a graduate course offered for 4-5 units.) London began the nineteenth century as a city of one million, but was home to over six million people by the century's end. How d...
HISTORY343C	People, Plants, and Medicine: Colonial Science and Medicine	Explores the global exchange of knowledge, technologies, plants, peoples, disease, and medicines. Considers primarily Africans, Amerindians, and Europeans in the eighteenth-century Atlantic World but also takes examples from other knowledge tradition...
HISTORY343D	Emerging Diseases, Past and Present	This course will use our current experience with the COVID-19 pandemic as a lens to study the processes by which infectious diseases emerge. Because of recent developments in the "historicist sciences" (bioarchaeology and palaeogenetics), it is possi...
HISTORY343G	Tobacco and Health in World History: How Big Nic created the template for global science denial	Cigarettes are the world's leading cause of death--but how did we come into this world, where 6 trillion cigarettes are smoked every year? Here we explore the political, cultural, and technological origins of the cigarette and cigarette epidemic, us...
HISTORY344F	Innovations in Inclusive Design in Tech	This d-school class prototypes concepts and methods for inclusive design and considers intersecting social factors in designing new technologies. Examples of products (including objects, services, and systems) gone awry will serve as prompts for desi...
HISTORY345A	Africa in the Era of the Slave Trade	The slave trade, including the trans-Saharan, Indian Ocean, and trans-Atlantic trades, constituted nearly a millennium of interaction with the wider world and set in motion transformations in African societies, polities, and cultures. Topics include...
HISTORY345B	African Encounters with Colonialism	This colloquium is a broad sweep of some of the main themes in the history of the colonial period for Africa. A course of this nature can not help but be a selective sample of the field. For example, topics on the end of slavery in Africa, on the s...
HISTORY346F	Women and Autobiography in African History	This graduate colloquium focuses on the place of women in modern African history. We focus specifically on the literary techniques that African women have used to represent themselves to the outside world. In the course of ten in-depth seminars, we w...
HISTORY346G	Participatory Research in African History	Historical research in Africa is liable to issues of authenticity and relevance to local communities, as well as power disparities between researcher and subject. Can we turn this weakness into a strength by developing theory and practice of partici...
HISTORY348	Religion, Radicalization and Media in Africa since 1945	What are the paths to religious radicalization, and what role have media- new and old- played in these conversion journeys? We examine how Pentecostal Christians and Reformist Muslims in countries such as South Africa, Nigeria, Sudan, and Ethiopia ha...
HISTORY349	Bodies, Technologies, and Natures in Africa	This interdisciplinary course explores how modern African histories, bodies, and natures have been entangled with technological activities. Viewing Africans as experts and innovators, we consider how technologies have mediated, represented, or perfor...
HISTORY349A	The Mamluks: Slave-Soldiers and Sultans of Medieval Egypt	Known as ghulam or mamluk in Arabic, the slave-soldier was a ubiquitous phenomenon in the world of medieval Islam. Usually pagan steppe nomads, mamluks were purchased in adolescence, converted to Islam, taught Arabic, and trained to lead armies. Some...
HISTORY34A	European Witch Hunts	(Same as HISTORY 134A. History majors and others taking 5 units, register for 134A.) After the Reformation, in the midst of state building and scientific discovery, Europeans conducted a series of deadly witch hunts, violating their own laws and proc...
HISTORY35	Sustainability and Civilization	Our civilization faces multiple sustainability challenges. Climate change often dominates public conversation, but in fact, a whole range of environmental, economic, political, and cultural trends threaten the structures that sustain the societies we...
HISTORY351A	Core in American History, Part I	May be repeated for credit.
HISTORY351B	Core in American History, Part II	No Description Set
HISTORY351C	Core in American History, Part III	Core in American History, Part III
HISTORY351D	Core in American History, Part IV	May be repeated once for credit.
HISTORY351E	Core in American History, Part V	Required of all first-year United States History Ph.D. students. Topics in Twentieth Century United States History.
HISTORY351F	Core in American History, Part VI	Required of all first-year Ph.D. students in U.S. History. This course is designed to provide graduate students with an intensive introduction to twentieth-century U.S. social, political, transnational, and cultural history and historiography. We wil...
HISTORY351J	American Slavery and Its Afterlives	How did the institution of American slavery come to an end? The story is more complex than most people know. This course examines the rival forces that fostered slavery's simultaneous contraction in the North and expansion in the South between 1776 a...
HISTORY352	Originalism and the American Constitution: History and Interpretation	Except for the Bible no text has been the subject of as much modern interpretive scrutiny as the United States Constitution. This course explores both the historical dimensions of its creation as well as the meaning such knowledge should bring to bea...
HISTORY352B	History of American Law	(Formerly Law 318. Now Law 3504.) This course examines the growth and development of American legal institutions with particular attention to crime and punishment, slavery and race relations, the role of law in developing the economy, and the place...
HISTORY353C	Histories of Racial Capitalism	This colloquium takes as its starting point the insistence that the movement, settlement, and hierarchical arrangements of indigenous communities and people of African descent is inseparable from regimes of capital accumulation. It builds on the conc...
HISTORY353F	Thinking the American Revolution	No period in American history has generated as much creative political thinking as the era of the American Revolution. This course explores the origins and development of that thought from the onset of the dispute between Great Britain and its Americ...
HISTORY354B	Animism, Gaia, and Alternative Approaches to the Environment	Indigenous knowledges have been traditionally treated as a field of research for anthropologists and as mistaken epistemologies, i.e., un-scientific and irrational folklore. However, within the framework of environmental humanities, current interest...
HISTORY354E	The Rise of American Democracy	(History 254E is an undergraduate course offered for 5 units; History 354E is a graduate course offered for 4-5 units.) Where did American democracy come from? Prior to and during the American Revolution, few who lived in what became the United State...
HISTORY354F	Law and Empire in U.S. History	(Same as LAW 3506. Instructor consent required for History 354F.) This course will examine the interrelationship between legal norms and empire in the history of the United States. Topics in this part will include the Constitution as an imperial do...
HISTORY354G	The News Media and American Democracy	The role of the news media in a democracy has been a source of controversy throughout American history. This colloquium will examine how technology, capitalism, law, and politics have reshaped the press over time and how the press, in turn, has impac...
HISTORY355D	Racial Identity in the American Imagination	From Sally Hemings to Barack Obama, this course explores the ways that racial identity has been experienced, represented, and contested throughout American history. Engaging historical, legal, and literary texts and films, this course examines major...
HISTORY355F	The Civil War and Reconstruction Era	(Undergraduates, enroll in 255F; Graduates, enroll in 355F.) This course examines the critical period between 1860, when the first states seceded in defense of enslavement, and 1896, when the Supreme Court's Plessy v. Ferguson decision affirmed the c...
HISTORY355G	Planning Suburban America	In 2021 Governor Galvin Newsom singed a law ending single-family zoning in the state of California, a remarkable departure for the state of California, which had pioneered automobile-centric suburban development. This course aims to contextualize con...
HISTORY356E	The American Civil War: The Lived Experience	What was it like to live in the United States during the Civil War? This course uses the lenses of racial/ethnic identity, gender, class, and geography (among others) to explore the breadth of human experience during this singular moment in American...
HISTORY356G	Constructing Race and Religion in America	This seminar focuses on the interrelationships between social constructions of race and social interpretations of religion in America. How have assumptions about race shaped religious worldviews? How have religious beliefs shaped racial attitudes? Ho...
HISTORY357E	History of Conservatism	What is conservatism in America? Where did it come from, and where might it be going? Looking at conservatism as a political, social, and intellectual movement, we will consider these questions by reading primary and secondary sources and archival m...
HISTORY358A	Back to the Future: Media, Art, and Politics in the 1980s	(COMM 128 is offered for 5 units, COMM 228 is offered for 4 units. COMM 328 is offered for 3-5 units.)This seminar covers the intersection of politics, media and art in the U.S. from the end of the Vietnam War in 1975 to the fall of the Berlin Wall i...
HISTORY358G	The Origins of American Liberalism	In the 1870s, liberalism in America was associated with freedom of contract, small government, and, quite often, restrictions on suffrage. Today, liberalism means nearly the opposite of that. This class examines how factors like war, industrializatio...
HISTORY359C	The Civil Rights Movement in American History and Memory	This course examines the origins, conduct, and complex legacy of the Civil Rights Movement, as well as the continuing struggle over how the movement should be remembered and represented. Topics examined include: the NAACP legal campaign against se...
HISTORY359E	American Interventions, 1898-Present	This class seeks to examine the modern American experience with limited wars, beginning with distant and yet pertinent cases, and culminating in the war in Iraq. Although this class will examine war as a consequence of foreign policy, it will not fo...
HISTORY360P	American Protest Movements, Past and Present	(History 260P is an undergraduate course offered for 5 units; History 360P is a graduate course offered for 4-5 units.) Societal change comes only when individuals and groups speak out, perseverantly, against prevailing norms. This course examines th...
HISTORY361D	History of Civil Rights Law	(Same as LAW 7838.) This is a seminar that will examine canonical civil rights law using history. We will investigate the historical context behind the enactment of particular laws and judicial decisions. We will also discuss the meaning and implicat...
HISTORY364	History of Prisons and Immigration Detention	This course will explore the history of the growing prison and immigration detention systems in the United States. They will pay particular attention to how they developed and how they affect different populations.
HISTORY369F	Modern American History: From Civil Rights to Human Rights	(History 269F is an undergraduate course offered for 5 units; History 369F is a graduate course offered for 4-5 units.) This focuses on American social justice movements during the years since the passage of landmark civil rights legislation during t...
HISTORY36N	Gay Autobiography	Preference to freshmen. Gender, identity, and solidarity as represented in nine autobiographies: Isherwood, Ackerley, Duberman, Monette, Louganis, Barbin, Cammermeyer, Gingrich, and Lorde. To what degree do these writers view sexual orientation as a...
HISTORY371	Graduate Colloquium: Explorations in Latin American History and Historiography	Introduction to modern Latin American history and historiography, including how to read and use primary sources for independent research.
HISTORY371B	Latinx History	This course provides students with an introduction to Latinx history and places it within a broader cultural context. Along these lines it considers the legacies of colonialism, the transnational migration, race and racialization, and the histories...
HISTORY371C	Iberian Expansion Through the Looking Glass: One World or Many?	The conquerors, missionaries, and historians who reflected on Iberian overseas expansion during the early modern period often asked themselves a crucial question: was there only one world or many? Were the Americas a 'New World,' unknown to the ancie...
HISTORY372B	Colonial Mexico: Images and Power	How did images maintain, construct, or transform political power during the conquest and colonization of Mexico? The creation and destruction of visual materials in this period had a complicated relationship with power. The pictographic codices that...
HISTORY373	Mexican Immigration to the United States	This course is an introduction to the history of Mexican migration to the United States. Barraged with anti-immigrant rhetoric and calls for bigger walls and more restrictive laws, few people in the United States truly understand the historical trend...
HISTORY374C	Mexican American History	This course will explore the history of Mexican migrants and Mexican Americans from 1848 to the present.
HISTORY377	Refugees and Asylum	This course explores the histories of refugees and asylum seekers to the United States and helps students learn how people seek asylum by working on the legal cases of current asylum seekers.
HISTORY378	The Historical Ecology of Latin America	This seminar explores the ways in which access to natural resources has translated into political and economic power in Latin America and the Caribbean, from the colonial period to the present. We will examine how state-building projects (colonialism...
HISTORY37D	Germany's Wars and the World, 1848-2010	(History 37D is 3 units; History 137D is 5 units.)This course examines a series of explosive encounters between Germans, Europe, and the world. Starting with the overlooked revolutions of 1848 and ending with the reunification of West Germany and Eas...
HISTORY380B	The Birth of Islam: Authority, Community, and Resistance	This course explores the historical problem of how authority and community (in both the political and religious sense) were defined and challenged in the early Islamic period. Chronological topics covered include: the political, cultural, and religi...
HISTORY380C	Archives, Documents, and Manuscripts: Sources of Ottoman History	The seminar focuses on Ottoman-Turkish texts in various genres - political and moral treatises, histories, legal canons and court records, imperial decrees and fiscal documents, travelogues, private letters and novellas - gathered from archival sourc...
HISTORY381D	Introduction to Islamic Law	What is Islamic law? What kinds of sources do we use to access Islamic law, and how has Islamic legal thinking and practice changed historically? This course introduces students to topics in Islamic law while addressing questions of continuity and...
HISTORY381E	Oil, Maps, Data: Technology in the Middle East	This course introduces students to a wide range of humanities and social science concepts pertaining to the global study of technology with an emphasis on the Middle East in the 19th, 20th and 21st-centuries. The main body of the course focuses on th...
HISTORY382J	Disasters in Middle Eastern History	(History 282J is an undergraduate course offered for 5 units; History 382J is a graduate course offered for 4-5 units.) This course explores the history of disasters in the Middle East from the early modern period to the mid-20th-century. We will tra...
HISTORY383B	The Ottoman Empire and Iran: An Intertwined History of Islamic Eurasia	A history of the Ottoman Empire and Iran (under the Timurid, Safavid, Afsharid and Qajar dynasties) from the 14th to the early 20th century. The course invites students to think the Ottoman and Iranian experiences as a connected history, bridging se...
HISTORY383B	The Ottoman Empire and Iran: An Intertwined History of Islamic Eurasia	A history of the Ottoman Empire and Iran (under the Timurid, Safavid, Afsharid and Qajar dynasties) from the 14th to the early 20th century. The course invites students to think the Ottoman and Iranian experiences as a connected history, bridging se...
HISTORY383C	The Medieval Middle East: Crusaders, Turks, and Mongols	This course surveys the history of the Middle East from c.950 A.D. to c.1517 A.D., placing particular emphasis on the following questions: What were the social, cultural, and political contexts for conversion to Islam in the Middle Ages? How did the...
HISTORY383F	Capital and Crisis in the Middle East and the World	How are crises imagined, named, and categorized? How do economic crises intersect with pandemics, violence and environmental disaster to redefine the workings of capital? This course approaches these questions through critical reading in the historie...
HISTORY383J	Global Islam	(Undergraduates, enroll in 283J; Graduates, enroll in 383J.) Explores the history and politics of Islam in Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the Americas --- and of the novel connections that have linked Muslim communities across the globe in...

The History of 2022

How can we understand the events, ideas, and conflicts that have featured in the news cycle during the past year? "The History of 2022" offers historically informed reflections on this year's momentous events, providing an opportunity to understand o...

HISTORY101

The Greeks

250 years ago, for almost the first time in history, a few societies rejected kings who claimed to know what the gods wanted and began moving toward democracy. Only once before had this happened--in ancient Greece. This course asks how the Greeks did...

HISTORY102

History of the International System since 1914

After defining the characteristics of the international system at the beginning of the twentieth century, this course reviews the primary developments in its functioning in the century that followed. Topics include the major wars and peace settlement...

HISTORY102A

The Romans

How did a tiny village create a huge empire and shape the world, and why did it fail? Roman history, imperialism, politics, social life, economic growth, and religious change. Weekly participation in a discussion section is required; enroll in secti...

HISTORY103D

Human Society and Environmental Change

Interdisciplinary approaches to understanding human-environment interactions with a focus on economics, policy, culture, history, and the role of the state. Prerequisite: ECON 1.

HISTORY103F

The Changing Face of War: Introduction to Military History

(HISTORY 3F is 3 units; 103F is 5 units.) Introduces students to the rich history of military affairs and, at the same time, examines the ways in which we think of change and continuity in military history. How did war evolve from ancient times, both...

HISTORY105C

Human Trafficking: Historical, Legal, and Medical Perspectives

(Same as HISTORY 5C. 105C is 5 units, 5C is 3 units.) Interdisciplinary approach to understanding the extent and complexity of the global phenomenon of human trafficking, especially for forced prostitution, labor exploitation, and organ trade, focusi...

HISTORY106A

Global Human Geography: Asia and Africa

Global patterns of demography, economic and social development, geopolitics, and cultural differentiation, covering E. Asia, S. Asia, S.E. Asia, Central Asia, N. Africa, and sub-Saharan Africa. Use of maps to depict geographical patterns and processe...

HISTORY106B

Global Human Geography: Europe and Americas

Patterns of demography, economic and social development, geopolitics, and cultural differentiation. Use of maps to depict geographical patterns and processes.

HISTORY107

Introduction to Urban Studies

Today, for the first time in history, a majority of people live in cities. By 2050, cities will hold two-thirds of the world's population. This transformation touches everyone, and raises critical questions. What draws people to live in cities? How w...

HISTORY107B

The Archaeology of Institutions

Modern life is marked by institutions - schools, hospitals, international conglomerates, even prisons - so how did they develop and become so common? Historical archaeology can help us tell a different history of institutions because it combines docu...

HISTORY109P

Paris 1919: Self-Determination and the New(?) World Order

In the wake of the Great War (which we now know as WW1), the notion of self-determination, championed by the US president Woodrow Wilson, became an ideal of governance, spreading like wildfire across continents. It was received enthusiastically and r...

HISTORY10B

Renaissance to Revolution: Early Modern Europe

(Same as HISTORY 110B. HISTORY 10B is 3 units; HISTORY 110B is 5 units) Few historical settings offer a more illuminating perspective on our world today than old-regime Europe. Few cast a darker shadow. Science and the enlightened ambition to master...

HISTORY10C

The Problem of Modern Europe

(Same as HISTORY 110C. 10C is for 3 units; 110C is for 5 units.) From the late 18th century to the present. How Europeans responded to rapid social changes caused by political upheaval, industrialization, and modernization. How the experience and leg...

HISTORY10N

Thinking About War

This course examines classic approaches to war as an intellectual problem, looking at how a matter of such great physical violence and passions can be subjected to understanding and used in philosophy, political theory, and art. Questions to be exami...

HISTORY110B

Renaissance to Revolution: Early Modern Europe

(HISTORY 110B is 5 units; HISTORY 10B is 3 units). Few historical settings offer a more illuminating perspective on our world today than old-regime Europe. Few cast a darker shadow. Science and the enlightened ambition to master nature and society, t...

HISTORY110C

The Problem of Modern Europe

(Same as HISTORY 10C. 110C is for 5 units; 10C is for 3 units.) From the late 18th century to the present. How Europeans responded to rapid social changes caused by political upheaval, industrialization, and modernization. How the experience and lega...

HISTORY112C

What Didn't Make the Bible

Over two billion people alive today consider the Bible to be sacred scripture. But how did the books that made it into the bible get there in the first place? Who decided what was to be part of the bible and what wasn't? How would history look differ...

HISTORY113P

Media and Communication Before the Printing Press

Epic traditions, the call to crusade, public curses, music of the troubadours and trouveres: this course examines oral tradition and music--the "viral media" of pre-modern Europe--while tracing the impact of new recording technologies: manuscript pro...

HISTORY114

Origins of History in Greece and Rome

What's the history of `History'? The first ancient historians wrote about commoners and kings, conquest and power - those who had it, those who wanted it, those without it. Their powerful ways of recounting the past still resonate today and can be ha...

HISTORY114B

The Crusades: A Global History

(History 114B is 5 units; History 14B is 3 units) Questioning traditional western narratives of the crusades, this course studies Latin and Turkic invaders as rival barbarian formations, and explores the societies of western Afro-Eurasia and the Medi...

HISTORY115D

Europe in the Middle Ages, 300-1500

(HISTORY 15D is 3 units; HISTORY 115D is 5 units.) This course provides an introduction to Medieval Europe from the fall of Rome to the Renaissance. While the framework of the course is chronological, we'll concentrate particularly on the structure o...

HISTORY116

Traders and Crusaders in the Medieval Mediterranean

Trade and crusade were inextricably interconnected in the high Middle Ages. As merchant ships ferried knights and pilgrims across the Mediterranean, rulers borrowed heavily to finance their expeditions, while military expansion opened new economic op...

HISTORY116N

Howard Zinn and the Quest for Historical Truth

With more than two million copies in print, Howard Zinn's A People's History is a cultural icon. We will use Zinn's book to probe how we determine what was true in the past. A People's History will be our point of departure, but our journey will visi...

HISTORY117

Ancient Empires: Near East

Why do imperialists conquer people? Why do some people resist while others collaborate? This course tries to answer these questions by looking at some of the world's earliest empires. The main focus is on the expansion of the Assyrian and Persian Emp...

HISTORY11N

The Roman Empire: Its Grandeur and Fall

Preference to freshmen. Explore themes on the Roman Empire and its decline from the 1st through the 5th centuries C.E.. What was the political and military glue that held this diverse, multi-ethnic empire together? What were the bases of wealth and h...

HISTORY120A

The Russian Empire, 1450-1800

(Same as HISTORY 20A. 120A is 5 units, 20A is 3 units.) The rise of Russian state as a Eurasian "empire of difference"; strategies of governance of the many ethnic and religious groups with their varied cultures and political economies; particular at...

HISTORY126B

Protestant Reformation

The emergence of Protestant Christianity in 16th-century Europe. Analysis of writings by evangelical reformers (Luther, Calvin, Zwingli, Sattler, Hubmeier, Müntzer) and study of reform movements (Lutheran, Reformed, Anabaptist, Spiritualist) in their...

HISTORY12N

Income and wealth inequality from the Stone Age to the present

Rising inequality is a defining feature of our time. How long has economic inequality existed, and when, how and why has the gap between haves and have-nots widened or narrowed over the course of history? This seminar takes a very long-term view of t...

HISTORY12S

Multiculturalism in the Middle Ages: Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Medieval Spain

Before the year 1492, Spain had been a dynamic and complex region of Muslim and Christian kingdoms populated by Christians, Muslims, and Jews for nearly 800 years. What political, economic, and military exchanges took place among peoples of the three...

HISTORY133A

Blood and Roses: The Age of the Tudors

(Same as HISTORY 33A. 133A is for 5 units; 33A is for 3 units.) English society and state from the Wars of the Roses to the death of Elizabeth. Political, social, and cultural upheavals of the Tudor period and the changes wrought by the Reformation....

HISTORY133B

Revolutionary England: The Stuart Age

(Same as HISTORY 33B. HISTORY 133B is 5 units; 33B is 3 units.) From the accession of King James I in 1603 to the death of Queen Anne in 1714: a brutal civil war, the execution of one anointed king, and the deposition of another. Topics include the c...

HISTORY134A

The European Witch Hunts

(Same as HISTORY 34A. History majors and others taking 5 units, register for 134A.) After the Reformation, in the midst of state-building and scientific discovery, Europeans conducted a series of deadly witch hunts, violating their own laws and proce...

HISTORY137D

Germany's Wars and the World, 1848-2010

(History 37D is 3 units; History 137D is 5 units.)This course examines a series of explosive encounters between Germans, Europe, and the world. Starting with the overlooked revolutions of 1848 and ending with the reunification of West Germany and Eas...

HISTORY139

Modern Britain and the Empire, 1688-2016

(Same as HISTORY 39. 139 is 5 units; 39 is 3 units.) From American Independence to the latest war in Iraq. Topics include: the rise of the modern British state and economy; imperial expansion and contraction; the formation of class, gender, and natio...

HISTORY13P

Media and Communication Before the Printing Press

Epic traditions, the call to crusade, public curses, music of the troubadours and trouveres: this course examines oral tradition and music--the "viral media" of pre-modern Europe--while tracing the impact of new recording technologies: manuscript pro...

HISTORY13S

Misfits of the Middle Ages: Persecution and Tolerance in Medieval Europe

Medieval Europe is infamous for its persecutions. In the popular imagination, the Middle Ages were a uniquely unhappy time for Jews, heretics, lepers, witches, and countless other outsiders. But what is the truth about Europe¿s ¿Dark Ages?¿ What was...

HISTORY140

World History of Science: From Prehistory through the Scientific Revolution

(History 40 is 3 units; History 140 is 5 units.) The earliest developments in science, the prehistoric roots of technology, the scientific revolution, and global voyaging. Theories of human origins and the oldest known tools and symbols. Achievements...

HISTORY140A

The Scientific Revolution

(History 140A is 5 units; History 40A is 3 units.) What do people know and how do they know it? What counts as scientific knowledge? In the 16th and 17th centuries, understanding the nature of knowledge engaged the attention of individuals and instit...

HISTORY144

Gendered Innovations in Science, Medicine, Engineering, and Environment

(HISTORY 44 is offered for 3 units; HISTORY 144 is offered for 5 units.) Explores "Gendered Innovations" or how sex, gender, and intersectional analysis in research spark discovery and innovation. This course focuses on sex and gender, and considers...

HISTORY145B

Africa in the 20th Century

(Same as HISTORY 45B. Students taking 5 units, register for 145B.) CREATIVITY. AGENCY. RESILIENCE. This is the African history with which this course will engage. African scholars and knowledge production of Africa that explicitly engages with theor...

HISTORY147

History of South Africa

(Same as HISTORY 47. HISTORY 147 is for 5 units; HISTORY 47 is for 3 units) Introduction, focusing particularly on the modern era. Topics include: precolonial African societies; European colonization; the impact of the mineral revolution; the evol...

HISTORY148

The Egyptians

This course traces the emergence and development of the distinctive cultural world of the ancient Egyptians over nearly 4,000 years. Through archaeological and textual evidence, we will investigate the social structures, religious beliefs, and expre...

HISTORY148C

Los Angeles: A Cultural History

This course traces a cultural history of Los Angeles from the early twentieth century to the present. Approaching popular representations of Los Angeles as our primary source, we discuss the ways that diverse groups of Angelenos have represented thei...

HISTORY14B

The Crusades: A Global History

(HISTORY 14B is 3 units; HISTORY 114B is 5 units.) Questioning traditional western narratives of the crusades, this course studies Latin and Turkic invaders as rival barbarian formations, and explores the societies of western Afro-Eurasia and the Med...

HISTORY14S

Conversion in Ancient and Medieval Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

In the third century, a group of Roman soldiers submerged themselves in baptismal waters in the Syrian desert and became Christians, a radical act. A thousand years later, the Jews of Spain were forced to do the same; in 1391, their mass forced bapti...

HISTORY150A

Colonial and Revolutionary America

(HISTORY 50A is 3 units. HISTORY 150A is 5 units) This course surveys early American history from the onset of English colonization of North America in the late sixteenth century through the American Revolution and the creation of the United States i...

HISTORY150B

Nineteenth Century America

(Same as HISTORY 50B. 150B is 5 units; 50B is 3 units.) This course is a survey of nineteenth-century American history. Topics include: the legacy of the American Revolution; the invention of political parties; capitalist transformation and urbanizat...

HISTORY150C

The United States in the Twentieth Century

(Same as HISTORY 50C. 50C is for 3 units; 150C is for 5 units.) 100 years ago, women and most African-Americans couldn't vote; automobiles were rare and computers didn't exist; and the U.S. was a minor power in a world dominated by European empires....

HISTORY151

The American West

The American West is characterized by frontier mythology, vast distances, marked aridity, and unique political and economic characteristics. This course integrates several disciplinary perspectives into a comprehensive examination of Western North Am...

HISTORY151B

The End of American Slavery, 1776-1865

How did the institution of American slavery come to an end? The story is more complex than most people know. This course examines the rival forces that fostered slavery's simultaneous contraction in the North and expansion in the South between 1776 a...

HISTORY151C

Imagineering the American City

What will American cities look like in the future? Will they be "smart"? Will they be sustainable? Will they be equitable? This course will explore possible answers to these questions by looking back towards the nation's urban past. The city has been...

HISTORY151M

Between Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, JR.: Race, Religion, and the Politics of Freedom

Malcolm X (El Hajj Malik El Shabazz) and Martin Luther King, Jr. are both icons of the twentieth-century civil rights and black freedom movements. Often characterized as polar opposites - one advocating armed self-defense and the other non-violence a...

HISTORY152

History of American Law

(Formerly Law 318. Now Law 3504.) This course examines the growth and development of American legal institutions with particular attention to crime and punishment, slavery and race relations, the role of law in developing the economy, and the place...

HISTORY152K

America as a World Power in the Modern Era

This course will examine the modern history of American foreign relations, from the turn of the twentieth century to the present. Beginning with the fateful decision to go to war with Spain, it will examine the major crises and choices that have defi...

HISTORY153

Creation of the Constitution

The course begins with readings setting forth the intellectual and experiential background of the framing, including common law and natural rights theory, republicanism, economic & political scientific ideas, and colonial and post-Independence experi...

HISTORY153C

Reconstruction: Adding the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments

(Same as LAW 7100.) This course will explore the changes to the Constitution made after the Civil War and their enforcement statutes. Materials will primarily be original source texts, supplemented by selected secondary literature. The majority of cl...

HISTORY154

The History of Ideas in America, Part I (to 1900)

(Same as HISTORY 54. 154 is 5 units; 54 is 3 units.) How Americans considered problems such as slavery, imperialism, and sectionalism. Topics include: the political legacies of revolution; biological ideas of race; the Second Great Awakening; science...

HISTORY154B

The History of Ideas in America, Part II

This course explores intellectual life and culture in the United States during the twentieth century, examining the work and lives of social critics, essayists, artists, scientists, journalists, novelists, and sundry other thinkers. We will look at...

HISTORY154F

Against Slavery: African Americans and Self Emancipation

TBD.

HISTORY155

The White Supremacist Constitution: American Constitutional History

This course addresses U.S. constitutional history from the post-Civil War Reconstruction period through the mid-20th century. Because of the breadth of the subject matter, the view will necessarily be partial. In particular we will take as our focus...

HISTORY155F

The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1830 to 1877

(History 55F is 3 units; History 155F is 5 units.)This course explores the causes, course, and consequences of the American Civil War. The Civil War profoundly impacted American life at national, sectional, and constitutional levels, and radically ch...

HISTORY156G

Women and Medicine in US History: Women as Patients, Healers and Doctors

This course explores ideas about women's bodies in sickness and health, as well as women's encounters with lay and professional healers in the United States from the eighteenth century to the present. We begin with healthy women and explore ideas abo...

HISTORY158C

History of Higher Education in the U.S.

Major periods of evolution, particularly since the mid-19th century. Premise: insights into contemporary higher education can be obtained through its antecedents, particularly regarding issues of governance, mission, access, curriculum, and the chang...

HISTORY15D

Europe in the Middle Ages, 300-1500

(HISTORY 15D is 3 units; HISTORY 115D is 5 units.) This course provides an introduction to Medieval Europe from the fall of Rome to the Renaissance. While the framework of the course is chronological, we'll concentrate particularly on the structure o...

HISTORY16

Traders and Crusaders in the Medieval Mediterranean

Trade and crusade were inextricably interconnected in the high Middle Ages. As merchant ships ferried knights and pilgrims across the Mediterranean, rulers borrowed heavily to finance their expeditions, while military expansion opened new economic op...

HISTORY161

The Politics of Sex: Gender, Race, and Sex in Modern America

This course explores the ways that individuals and movements for social and economic equality have redefined and contested gender and sexuality in the modern United States. Using a combination of primary and secondary sources, we will explore the int...

HISTORY166C

The Cold War: An International History

Though it ended twenty years ago, we still live in a world shaped by the Cold War. Beginning with its origins in the mid-1940s, this course will trace the evolution of the global struggle, until its culmination at the end of the 1980s. Students wil...

HISTORY168

American History in Film Since World War ll

U.S. society, culture, and politics since WW II through feature films. Topics include: McCarthyism and the Cold War; ethnicity and racial identify; changing sex and gender relationships; the civil rights and anti-war movements; and mass media. Films...

HISTORY168D

American Prophet: The Inner Life and Global Vision of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Martin Luther King, Jr., was the 20th-century's best-known African-American leader, but the religious roots of his charismatic leadership are far less widely known. The documents assembled and published by Stanford's King Research and Education Inst...

HISTORY173

Mexican Migration to the United States

(History 73 is 3 units; History 173 is 5 units.) This course is an introduction to the history of Mexican migration to the United States. Barraged with anti-immigrant rhetoric and calls for bigger walls and more restrictive laws, few people in the Un...

HISTORY174

Mexico Since 1876: The Road to Ayotzinapa

(History 74 is for 3 units; History 174 is for 5 units.) In September of 2014, 43 students from a Mexican teacher's college in Ayotzinapa, Guerrero were abducted and disappeared via the actions of police and organized crime. This shocking human right...

HISTORY177C

Rebelión: Black Resistance in the Caribbean

In 1978, Afro-Columbian artist Joe Arroyo recorded his hit song `Rebelión,' including lines such as "esclavitud perpetua," a reference to the 1452 Dum Diversas Papal Bull, and lines like "No le pegue a la negra," which evince a slave resistance based...

HISTORY178

History of Latin American Revolutions

This course will examine the causes and consequences of Latin American Revolutions of the 20th century. It will focus on Mexico, Cuba, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Chile, and Bolivia. We will bring these revolutions and experiments in social change under an...

HISTORY179C

The Ethical Challenges of the Climate Catastrophe

(History 79C is 3 units; History 179C is 5 units.) This course explores the ethical challenges of the climate catastrophe from historical, social, economic, political, cultural and scientific perspectives. These include the discovery of global warmin...

HISTORY17N

Intimacy, Secrets and the Past: Biography in History and Fiction

Biography is one of the most popular- and controversial- modes of writing about the past and perhaps its greatest draw is in its promise to revel the otherwise sequestered details of life, its everyday secrets otherwise sequestered from view. This, o...

HISTORY181B

Making the Modern Middle East

(Same as 81B. 181B is 5 units; 81B is 3 units.) This course aims to introduce students to major themes in the modern history of the region linking the Mediterranean and Indian Ocean worlds. No prerequisites or prior knowledge of the Middle East is r...

HISTORY182G

Making Palestine Visible

Israel-Palestine is one of the most difficult subjects to talk about, in large part because we in the United States do not have much exposure to Palestinian history, culture, and politics in their own terms. This course aims to humanize Palestinians...

HISTORY183A

Enlightenment and Genocide: Modern Europe and the Ottoman Empire

(History 183A is 5 units; History 83A is 3 units.) In the early eighteenth century, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, wife of the British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, introduced Ottoman smallpox inoculation to western medicine. But over the next two ce...

HISTORY185B

Jews in the Contemporary World: Culture, Pop Culture, and Representation

(HISTORY 185B is 5 units; HISTORY 85B is 3 units.) From Barbra Streisand to Volodymyr Zelenskyy, from The Dybbuk to Broad City, and from Moscow to LA, this course applies a multicultural perspective on different experiences of Jewishness in the 20th...

HISTORY187

The Islamic Republics: Politics and Society in Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan

(Same as HISTORY 87. History majors and others taking 5 units, register for 187.) Explores the contested politics of these societies in modern times. Topics include controversies surrounding the meaning of revolution, state building, war, geopolitics...

HISTORY18S

Pirates, Captives, and Renegades: Encounters in the Early Modern Mediterranean World

In this course, we will study how mobile subjects, such as (barbary) pirates, slaves, captives, renegades, merchants, and dragomans shaped the history of the early modern Mediterranean. By studying a range of primary sources, including official docum...

HISTORY190

Early Chinese Thought

This lecture course examines the emergence of critical thought in early China. After a brief study of the social and political changes that made this emergence possible, it looks at the nature and roles of the thinkers, and finally their ideas about...

HISTORY191B

The City in Imperial China

(Same as HISTORY 91B. 191B is for 5 units; 91B is for 3 units.) The evolution of cities in the early imperial, medieval, and early modern periods. Topics include physical structure, social order, cultural forms, economic roles, relations to rural hin...

HISTORY193

The Chinese Empire from the Mongol Invasion to the Boxer Uprising

(Same as HISTORY 93. 193 is 5 units; 93 is 3 units.) A survey of Chinese history from the 11th century to the collapse of the imperial state in 1911. Topics include absolutism, gentry society, popular culture, gender and sexuality, steppe nomads, the...

HISTORY194B

Japan in the Age of the Samurai

(Same as HISTORY 94B. 194B is 5 units, 94B is 3 units.) From the Warring States Period to the Meiji Restoration. Topics include the three great unifiers, Tokugawa hegemony, the samurai class, Neoconfucian ideologies, suppression of Christianity, stru...

HISTORY194G

Humanities Core: Technology and Media in Modern Japan

This course considers the political, economic, social, cultural, and artistic effects of the introduction of new technologies and media to modern China and Japan. The methodology will integrate techniques gleaned from the disciplines of history and...

HISTORY195

Modern Korean History

(Same as HISTORY 95. 195 is for 5 units; 95 is for 3 units.) This lecture course provides a general introduction to the history of modern Korea. Themes include the characteristics of the Chosôn dynasty, reforms and rebellions in the nineteenth centur...

HISTORY195C

Modern Japanese History: From Samurai to Pokemon

(95C is 3 units; 195C is 5 units.) Japan's modern transformation from the late 19th century to the present. Topics include: the Meiji revolution; industrialization and social dislocation; the rise of democracy and empire; total war and US occupation;...

HISTORY196C

Resisting Empire: Anti-colonial Nationalism, Popular Politics & Decolonization in Modern South Asia

(HISTORY 96C is 3 units; 196C is 5 units.) How did subjects of British India respond to colonial rule? When and how did anti-colonial nationalism emerge in South Asia? How did leading thinkers of the region conceptualize the nature of colonialism and...

HISTORY197

Southeast Asia: From Antiquity to the Modern Era

The history of S.E. Asia, comprising Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Burma, Cambodia, and Laos, from antiquity to the present. The spread of Indian cultural influences, the rise of indigenous states, and the emerge...

HISTORY197C

The Structure of Colonial Power: South Asia since the Eighteenth Century

How did the colonial encounter shape the making of modern South Asia? Was colonial rule a radical rupture from the pre-modern past or did it embody historical continuities? Did colonial rule cause the economic underdevelopment of the region or were r...

HISTORY198

The History of Modern China

(Same as HISTORY 98. 198 is 5 units; 98 is 3 units.) This course charts major historical transformations in modern China, and will be of interest to those concerned with Chinese politics, culture, society, ethnicity, economy, gender, international re...

HISTORY1A

Global History: The Ancient World

World history from the origins of humanity to the Black Death. Focuses on the evolution of complex societies, wealth, violence, hierarchy, and large-scale belief systems.

HISTORY1B

Global History: The Early Modern World, 1300 to 1800

(Course is offered for 3 OR 5 units.) Topics include early globalization and cross-cultural exchanges; varying and diverse cultural formations in different parts of the world; the growth and interaction of empires and states; the rise of capitalism a...

HISTORY1C

Global History through Graphic Novels: The Modern Age

(Course is offered for 3 OR 5 units.) How did empires and nation-states evolve around the globe during the modern period? How did they shape global experiences of modernity? And how can one write a history of the entire world, so as to cover the nece...

HISTORY200A

Doing Legal History

What is law, and how do we write its history? Drawing on case studies from a broad range of periods and places, this course will explore how law is made, interpreted, enforced, experienced, and resisted. It will also explore how historians use both l...

HISTORY200B

Doing Environmental History: Water Justice

This course is an introduction to the field of environmental history, or the study of how humans have influenced, and have been influenced by, diverse environments over time. We will employ various sources (written, visual, aural) to learn about diff...

HISTORY200BG

Doing History: Biography as History

Although historians often focus on broad social forces, individuals can and do shape these currents in unexpected ways, as the headlines of our own time illustrate. What role do individuals play in historical change? How can we use individual life...

HISTORY200C

Doing the History of Race and Ethnicity

How does ethnicity and race operate in different time periods, and across different historical, national, and cultural contexts? This course guides students through an historical and cross-cultural exploration of ethnoracial identity formation, racis...

HISTORY200D

Doing the History of Science and Technology

The history of science has often been at the crux of key debates in the larger field of history, including debates over objectivity and bias, relativism and the problem of "present-ism." This course explores key questions, methods and debates in the...

HISTORY200E

Doing Economic History

The courses examines how historians and economists, from different intellectual traditions and schools, grapple with major problems of economic history including pre-modern agrarian orders; demographic fluctuations; diverse property regimes; financia...

HISTORY200F

Doing Microhistory

The genre of microhistory was expressly invented in the 1970s to recover the voices of people usually neglected in the past, often based on scanty sources. It's an exciting and risky endeavor, as the historian often has to fill in details lacking in...

HISTORY200J

Doing Oral History

Students explore exemplary historical works based on oral histories and develop a range of practical skills while completing their own interviews. Topics include oral history and narrative theory, interview techniques, transcript preparation, and dig...

HISTORY200K

Doing Literary History: Orwell in the World

This course will bring together the disciplines of history and literary studies by looking closely at the work of one major twentieth-century author: the British writer and political polemicist George Orwell. In 1946, Orwell writes, "What I have most...

HISTORY200L

Doing Public History

Examines history outside the classroom; its role in political/cultural debates in U.S. and abroad. Considers functions, practices, and reception of history in public arena, including museums, memorials, naming of buildings, courtrooms, websites, op-...

HISTORY200LB

Doing Labor History

How do historians access lives of the laboring poor in the past? What is the archive of the working-class life? Toiling in farms, plantations, workshops, mines, factories, brothels and households, workers seldom leave behind an account of their lives...

HISTORY200M

Doing Digital History

This course is designed to introduce students to the theories and methods of digital history. In keeping with the digital humanities- commitment to experimentation, public discourse, and praxis, we will compile a web presence for our seminar that inc...

HISTORY200MM

Doing Historical Memory

How do societies remember? What events and experiences become part of our shared patrimony and what stories are lost to time? Who decides? What are the dynamics -- and the politics -- of collective memory? In this course, we will examine these qu...

HISTORY200P

Doing Religious History

What is religion, and how do we write its history? This undergraduate colloquium uses case studies from a variety of regions and periods - but with a specific focus on the African continent - to consider how historians have dealt with the challenge o...

HISTORY200R

Doing Community History: Asian Americans and the Pandemic

Students utilize a community-engaged oral history methodology to produce short video documentaries focused on Asian Americans in the Covid-19 pandemic. In producing these collaborative digital history projects, students learn to evaluate the ways soc...

HISTORY200T

Doing the History of Gender and Sexuality: African Perspectives

What are gender and sexuality, and how do understandings of these concepts shape human experience across time and space? This course explores major topics in the history of gender and sexuality, with a focus on Africa. Course materials examine a rang...

HISTORY200U

Doing History: Beyond the Book

This class will teach you how to look for clues in the historical record beyond the usual written texts. The past took place in three dimensions, involved five senses, and included actors that were not human beings. This course takes seriously the ch...

HISTORY200Y

Doing Colonial History

This course will explore major themes and debates in the history of modern colonialism in the late 19th and 20th centuries. Using case studies from Asia and Africa, "Doing Colonial History" will address the following issues of global importance: colo...

HISTORY201

From Confederate Monuments to Wikipedia: The Politics of Remembering the Past

Gateway course for Public History/Public Service track. Examines various ways history is used outside of the classroom, and its role in political/cultural debates in the U.S. and abroad. Showcases issues and careers in public history with guest spe...

HISTORY201A

The Global Drug Wars

Explores the global story of the struggle over drugs from the nineteenth century to the present. Topics include the history of the opium wars in China, controversies over wine and tobacco in Iran, narco-trafficking and civil war in Lebanon, the Afgha...

HISTORY201B

Spatial History: Concepts, Methods, Problems

What can digital mapping and spatial analysis bring to history? How have historians written spatial history in the past? How do scholars in other disciplines deal with space and what can we learn from them? The course provides students with conceptua...

HISTORY201C

The U.S., U.N. Peacekeeping, and Humanitarian War

The involvement of U.S. and the UN in major wars and international interventions since the 1991 Gulf War. The UN Charter's provisions on the use of force, the origins and evolution of peacekeeping, the reasons for the breakthrough to peacemaking and...

HISTORY201P

History and Policy

Can historical thinking produce more humane forms of governance? This course exposes students to the discipline of history as an instrument of policy critique and formulation. Students will pursue their own research projects with the option of creati...

HISTORY202B

Coffee, Sugar, and Chocolate: Commodities and Consumption in World History, 1200-1800

Many of the basic commodities that we consider staples of everyday life became part of an increasingly interconnected world of trade, goods, and consumption between 1200 and 1800. This seminar offers an introduction to the material culture of the lat...

HISTORY202F

Surveillance States and Societies

The course analyzes the evolution, functions, structures and consequences of surveillance in the modern era. Among issues discussed are the rise of the modern state and population politics, information gathering and its uses in domestic and national...

HISTORY202G

Peoples, Armies and Governments of the Second World War

Clausewitz conceptualized war as always consisting of a trinity of passion, chance, and reason, mirrored, respectively, in the people, army and government. Following Clausewitz, this course examines the peoples, armies, and governments that shaped Wo...

HISTORY202J

Climate Politics: Science and Global Governance

Historical and contemporary perspectives on climate politics. Briefly covers the origins of climate understanding in the 1800s, then turns to the co-evolution of climate science and climate politics from the 20th century to the present, including mul...

HISTORY202S

The History of Genocide

This course will explore the history, politics, and character of genocide from the beginning of world history to the present. It will also consider the ways that the international system has developed to prevent and punish genocide.

HISTORY203

Premodern Economic Cultures

Modern economists have made a science of studying the aggregate effects of individual choices. This science is based on the realities of personal freedom and individual choice. Prior to the modern era, however, different realities comprised very diff...

HISTORY203C

History of Ignorance

Scholars pay a lot of attention to knowledge--how it arises and impacts society--but much less attention has been given to ignorance, even though its impacts are equally profound. Here we explore the political history of ignorance, through case studi...

HISTORY204A

Reimagining History: A Workshop

This class explores, through analysis and practice, the ways in which history can be told and experienced through means other than traditional scholarly narratives. Approaches include literary fiction and non-fiction, digital media, graphic arts, map...

HISTORY204D

Advanced Topics in Agnotology

Advanced research into the history of ignorance. Our goal will be to explore how ignorance is created, maintained and destroyed, using case studies from topics such as tobacco denialism, global climate denialism, and other forms of resistance to kno...

HISTORY204E

Totalitarianism

This course analyzes the evolution and nature of revolutionary and totalitarian polities through the reading of monographs on the Puritan Reformation, French Revolutionary, turn of the 20th Century, interwar, and Second World War eras. Among topics e...

HISTORY204G

War and Society

(History 204G is an undergraduate course offered for 5 units; History 304G is a graduate course offered for 4-5 units.) How Western societies and cultures have responded to modern warfare. The relationship between its destructive capacity and effects...

HISTORY205D

Freedom in Chains: Black Slavery in the Atlantic, 1400s-1800s

This course will focus on the history of slavery in the British, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Dutch Atlantic world(s), from the late 1400s to the 1800s. Its main focus will be on the experiences of enslaved Africans and their descendants. Between...

HISTORY205E

Comparative Historical Development of Latin America and East Asia

(Graduate students must enroll for 5 units.) Students will analyze, in historical perspective, the similarities and differences between the development of Latin America and East Asia from early modern times to the present. Focusing primarily on Brazi...

HISTORY205F

Global Futures: History, Statecraft, Systems

Where does the future come from? It comes from the past, of course, but how? What are the key drivers of continuity or change, and how can we trace those drivers going forward, too? What are the roles of contingency, chance, and choice, versus lon...

HISTORY205K

The Age of Revolution: America, France, and Haiti

(History 205K is an undergraduate course offered for 5 units; History 305K is a graduate course offered for 4-5 units.) This course examines the "Age of Revolution," spanning the 18th and 19th centuries. Primarily, this course will focus on the Ameri...

HISTORY205L

Prostitution & Sex Trafficking: Regulating Morality and the Status of Women

Examines governmental policies toward prostitution from the late 19th century to the present. Focuses on the underlying attitudes, assumptions, strategies, and consequences of various historical and current legal frameworks regulating prostitution,...

HISTORY205M

Silicon Valley in 10 Objects

Have you ever wanted to curate a museum exhibition, or explore alternative ways of studying history, beyond the term paper or article? In this hands-on class, we will research and design a real museum exhibition, to be staged at the Silicon Valley Ar...

HISTORY206C

The Modern Battle

The purpose of this seminar is to examine the evolution of modern warfare by closely following four modern battles/campaigns. For this purpose the seminar offers four mock staff rides, facilitating highly engaged, well-researched experience for parti...

HISTORY206D

Global Humanities: The Grand Millennium, 800-1800

How should we live? This course explores ethical pathways in European, Islamic, and East Asian traditions: mysticism and rationality, passion and duty, this and other worldly, ambition and peace of mind. They all seem to be pairs of opposites, but as...

HISTORY206E

CAPITALS: How Cities Shape Cultures, States, and People

This course takes students on a trip to major capital cities, at different moments in time: Renaissance Florence, Golden Age Madrid, Colonial Mexico City, Enlightenment and Romantic Paris, Existential and Revolutionary St. Petersburg, Roaring Berlin,...

HISTORY207

Biography and History

Designed along the lines of the PBS series, "In the Actor's Workshop," students will meet weekly with some of the leading literary biographers writing today. Included this spring will be "New Yorker" staff writer Judith Thurman -- whose biography of...

HISTORY207B

The Irish and the World

"When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious." The writer Edna O'Brien's portrait of Irish life encapsulates a history shaped by colonialism, famine, forced migration,...

HISTORY207C

The Global Early Modern

In what sense can we speak of "globalization" before modernity? What are the characteristics and origins of the economic system we know as "capitalism"? When and why did European economies begin to diverge from those of other Eurasian societies? With...

HISTORY207D

Transhistory Colloquium

Colloquium on the history of transgender practices and identities. Readings will include scholarly texts from the emerging historical field of transhistory as well as adjacent fields within gender history. Colloquium will investigate avenues for deep...

HISTORY207F

Crafting Digital Stories

Historians tell stories. Using digital methods, we can tell these stories in creative and innovative ways. This digital humanities course is a hands-on experience of working with different methods of digital storytelling. This course is best suited f...

HISTORY208C

The Laws of War in Global History

What are the laws of war and how have they changed since they appeared on the global stage in the 1860s? What does it mean to wage a lawful war? Readings cover persistent themes that have afflicted the laws of war since the nineteenth century and con...

HISTORY208D

Pre-Modern Warfare

This course examines the evolving nature of warfare and its impact on society across the Eurasian continent up to the Gunpowder Revolution and rise of the nation-state. Beginning with an attempt to define war, it will trace the evolution of military...

HISTORY209F

Maps in the Early Modern World

The significance of cartographic enterprise across the early modern world. Political, economic, and epistemological imperatives that drove the proliferation of nautical charts, domain surveys, city plans, atlases, and globes; the types of work such a...

HISTORY209S

Research Seminar for Majors

Required of History majors. How to conduct original, historical research and analysis, including methods such as using the libraries and archives at Stanford and elsewhere, and working collaboratively to frame topics, identify sources, and develop an...

HISTORY20A

The Russian Empire, 1450-1800

(Same as HISTORY 120A. 20A is 3 units; 120A is 5 units.) The rise of Russian state as a Eurasian "empire of difference"; strategies of governance of the many ethnic and religious groups with their varied cultures and political economies; particular a...

HISTORY20N

Russia in the Early Modern European Imagination

Critically assesses European travelers' travel accounts of Russia in comparison with what was really happening in Russia at the time; explores the phenomenon of travel writing. Write2, Freshman Seminar; requires frequent oral presentations, major res...

HISTORY21

The History of 2021

How can we understand the events, ideas, and conflicts that have featured in the news cycle during the past year? "The History of 2021" offers historically informed reflections on this year's momentous events, providing an opportunity to understand o...

HISTORY210

The History of Occupation, 1914-2010

(History 210 is an undergraduate course offered for 5 units; History 310 is a graduate course offered for 4-5 units.) Examines the major cases of occupation in the twentieth century, from the first World War until the present, and issues of similarit...

HISTORY210D

Neighbors: Intimate Relationships and Everyday Life in Hitler's Europe

This course explores how different groups of people experienced Nazi rule in Germany and German-occupied Europe. While we will cover the general history of Hitler's rise to power, the prewar years of his rule, and the Second World War, our focus will...

HISTORY210F

Making Italy Great Again: Mussolini, Italian Fascism, and Its Impact

100 years ago in 1922, Benito Mussolini and his followers marched Rome in a show of force that ushered in a period of radical change in Italian government and society, culminating in the establishment of the first fascist totalitarian regime. Who wa...

HISTORY210G

The Great War

The First World War provided a prototype and a reference for a new, horrific kind of war. It catalyzed the emergence of modern means of warfare and the social mechanisms necessary to sustain the industrialized war machine. Killing millions, it became...

HISTORY210J

Fascism and Authoritarianism

This course introduces students to the history of fascist and authoritarian movements in modern Europe, from their origins through the post-WWII era. Germany and Italy will serve as central case studies, though the course will consider other examples...

HISTORY211

Out of Eden: Deportation, Exile, and Expulsion from Antiquity to the Renaissance

This course examines the long pedigree of modern deportations and mass expulsions, from the forced resettlements of the ancient world to the expulsion of Jews from Spain in 1492, and from the outlawry of Saga-era Iceland to the culture of civic exile...

HISTORY212D

Dante's World: A Medieval and Renaissance Journey

700 years ago this year Dante Alighieri died. The Italian poet, philosopher, politician, and humanist crafted one of the great epics of world literature, The Divine Comedy. For seven centuries, his journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven has be...

HISTORY213F

Medieval Germany, 900-1250

(Undergraduates may sign up for German 213 or History 213F, graduate students should sign up for German 313 or History 313F. This course may be taken for variable units. Check the individual course numbers for unit spreads.) This course will provide...

HISTORY213G

Route-Place-Object: Re-defining "Cultural Landscape" in Medieval Germany

In modern perception, the definition of Germany's various cultural landscapes often follows narratives of regional remoteness and aesthetic coherency. Today's Bundesland (federal state) of Hesse makes a case in point. Ever since the Brothers Grimm co...

HISTORY214C

Renaissances: Living, Learning, and Loving around the Mediterranean (800-1500 CE)

This course explores three watershed moments in Mediterranean history: the Carolingian Renaissance, the Twelfth-Century Renaissance, and the Italian Renaissance. The class examines how each renaissance redefined a specific place and how those change...

HISTORY215B

Race and Ethnicity in Premodern Europe

How do historians, art historians, and literary historians of premodern Europe shape their research and their teaching around questions of race? How do current debates on race theory shape our perception of the past and deepen historical inquiry? Thi...

HISTORY216D

Nationalism, Colonialism, and the Lord of the Rings: The Middle Ages in the Modern World

From its inception the term "Middle Ages" carried negative connotations. Renaissance humanists bewailed the fall of the Roman Empire and its replacement with "barbarian" kingdoms. Enlightenment philosophes abhorred the Middle Ages even more intense...

HISTORY217D

Love, Death and the Afterlife in the Medieval West

Romantic love, it is often claimed, is an invention of the High Middle Ages. The vocabulary of sexual desire that is still current in the twenty-first century was authored in the twelfth and thirteenth, by troubadours, court poets, writers like Dante...

HISTORY218

The Holy Dead: Saints and Spiritual Power in Medieval Europe

Examines the cult of saints in medieval religious thought and life. Topics include martyrs, shrines, pilgrimage, healing, relics, and saints' legends.

HISTORY218C

Peace and War in Medieval Islam: From the Arab Conquests to the Crusades

This course interrogates the theory and reality of war-making and peacemaking across the first millennium of Islamic history (c.600-c.1600 CE). We will examine major historical events (e.g. the struggle of the early community of Muslims against the p...

HISTORY221B

The 'Woman Question' in Modern Russia

(History 221B is an undergraduate course offered for 5 units; History 321B is a graduate course offered for 4-5 units.) Russian radicals believed that the status of women provided the measure of freedom in a society and argued for the extension of ri...

HISTORY222

Crime and Punishment in Early Modern Europe and Russia

Explores criminal law in early modern Europe and Russia, ca 1500-1800, in law and in practice. Engages debates about use of exemplary public executions as tactic of governance, and about gradual decline in "violence" in Europe over this time. Explore...

HISTORY222B

The Baltic World

What makes a small, shallow and cold sea surrounded by very poor farming land stand out? Can we talk about a sea surrounded by nine countries as a single unit? This course traces and analyzes the interconnectedness and interdependence that shaped the...

HISTORY223E

Cities of Empire: An Urban Journey through Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean

This course explores the cities of the Habsburg, Ottoman and Russian empires in the dynamic and turbulent period of their greatest transformation from the 19th century through the Two World Wars. Through the reading of urban biographies of Venice an...

HISTORY223F

Russia's Industrial Revolutions: The Making and Breaking of a Superpower

In the span of a single century, Russia went from unstable empire to revolutionary proving ground, from scene of mass starvation to space pioneer, from the geopolitical sidelines to a seat among superpowers -- all before falling back again. This cou...

HISTORY223G

Russia and Ukraine: Empire, Nation, Myth

Explores theories of national myths and nationalism; identifies the founding myths of Russia and Ukraine and the medieval and early modern events they are based on. Extensive primary source readings. Focuses primarily up through eighteenth century, w...

HISTORY224A

The Soviet Civilization

(History 224A is an undergraduate course offered for 5 units; History 424A is a graduate course offered for 4-5 units.) Socialist visions and practices of the organization of society and messianic politics; Soviet mass state violence; culture, living...

HISTORY224C

Genocide and Humanitarian Intervention

Open to medical students, graduate students, and undergraduate students. Traces the history of genocide in the 20th century and the question of humanitarian intervention to stop it, a topic that has been especially controversial since the end of the...

HISTORY224D

The Soviet Civilization, Part 2

Prerequisite: HISTORY 224A/424A

HISTORY225E

From Vladimir to Putin: Key Themes in Russian History

Formative issues in Russian history from Muscovy to the present: autocracy and totalitarianism; tsars, emperors, and party secretaries; multi-ethnicity and nationalism; serfdom, peasantry; rebellions and revolutions, dissent and opposition; law and l...

HISTORY225G

Propaganda Century: 20th-Century Preoccupations with Mass Influence

The course explores the idea of propaganda as one of the central obsessions of 20th-century thought and politics. It traces the history of propaganda, from the early 20th century optimistic ideas about mass manipulation and political education to pos...

HISTORY226D

The Holocaust: Insights from New Research

Overview of the history of the Holocaust, the genocide of European Jews. Explores its causes, course, consequences, and memory. Addresses the events themselves, as well as the roles of perpetrators and bystanders, dilemmas faced by victims, collab...

HISTORY226E

Famine in the Modern World

Open to medical students, graduate students, and undergraduate students. Examines the major famines of modern history, the controversies surrounding them, and the reasons that famine persists in our increasingly globalized world. Focus is on the re...

HISTORY227

East European Women and War in the 20th and 21st Centuries

Thematic chronological approach through conflicts in the region: Balkan Wars, WWI, WWII, and Yugoslav wars. Ways women in E. Europe involved in and affected by wars; comparison with women in W. Europe in the two world wars. Examines women's involveme...

HISTORY227B

The Business of Socialism: Economic Life in Cold War Eastern Europe

This colloquium investigates the processes of buying, making, and selling goods and services in Cold War Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. We will familiarize ourselves with a variety of approaches to writing the history of economic life and discu...

HISTORY227D

All Quiet on the Eastern Front? East Europe and Russia in the First World War

Until recently history has been comparatively quiet about the experience of World War I in the east. Far from being a peripheral theater of war, however, the experiences of war on the Eastern Front were central to shaping the 20th century. Not only w...

HISTORY227K

Marx and Marxism: History and Social Change

This course examines the life and work of Karl Marx, his social and intellectual milieu, and the evolution of Marxism and historical materialism in theory and practice to the present. Basic concepts of Marxism will be discussed along with debates abo...

HISTORY228

Circles of Hell: Poland in World War II

Looks at the experience and representation of Poland's wartime history from the Nazi-Soviet Pact (1939) to the aftermath of Yalta (1945). Examines Nazi and Soviet ideology and practice in Poland, as well as the ways Poles responded, resisted, and sur...

HISTORY228C

Politics and Society in Early Soviet Russia: View from the Hoover Library & Archives

The course offers an examination of early Soviet history (1917-1924) based on the archival collections, digital records, and rare books and periodicals in the Hoover Library & Archives, with a focus on the papers of the American Relief Administration...

HISTORY230C

Paris: Capital of the Modern World

This course explores how Paris, between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries, became the political, cultural, and artistic capital of the modern world. It considers how the city has both shaped and been shaped by the tumultuous events of modern his...

HISTORY230L

Modern Irish History

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HISTORY231

Leonardo's World: Science, Technology, and Art

Leonardo da Vinci is emblematic of creativity and innovation. His art is iconic, his inventions legendary. His understanding of nature, the human body, and machines made him a scientist and engineer as well as an artist. His fascination with drawing...

HISTORY231G

European Reformations

How do new approaches to the reforms of religious belief, practice, and community open new avenues for exploring the transformed religious landscape of early modern Europe? This advanced colloquium explores key theological and social aspects of the s...

HISTORY232G

Early Modern Cities

Colloquium on the history of early modern European cities, covering urbanization, street life, neighborhoods, fortifications, guilds and confraternities, charity, vagrancy, and begging, public health, city-countryside relationship, urban constitution...

HISTORY233

Reformation to Civil War: England under the Tudors and Stuarts

English political and religious culture from the end of the Wars of the Roses to the Civil War of the 1640s. Themes include the growth of the size and power of the state, Reformation, creation of a Protestant regime, transformation of the political c...

HISTORY233C

Two British Revolutions

Current scholarship on Britain,1640-1700, focusing on political and religious history. Topics include: causes and consequences of the English civil war and revolution; rise and fall of revolutionary Puritanism; the Restoration; popular politics in th...

HISTORY233F

Political Thought in Early Modern Britain

1500 to 1700. Theorists include Hobbes, Locke, Harrington, the Levellers, and lesser known writers and schools. Foundational ideas and problems underlying modern British and American political thought and life.

HISTORY233G

Global Visions: Faith and Knowledge in the Early Modern World

The early modern world saw Catholicism transform itself into a global faith. Missionaries traveled with expanding Portuguese, Spanish, French empires, and beyond to translate their message of salvation into every culture possible from the Haudenosaun...

HISTORY234G

Post-Colonial and Post-Shoah Readings: The Conundrums of Memory Politics

In April of 2020, amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, a huge controversy erupted in Germany on the relation between Postcolonial and Holocaust Studies. Previously, in 2012, Judith Butler on the occasion of being awarded the Adorno Prize was assailed for he...

HISTORY234P

The Age of Plague: Medicine and Society, 1300-1750

(Undergraduates, enroll in 234P. Graduates, enroll in 334P) The arrival of plague in Eurasia in 1347-51 affected many late medieval and early modern societies. It transformed their understanding of disease, raised questions about the efficacy of med...

HISTORY234R

Risk and Credit Before Modern Finance

In today's world, credit scores are nearly as important as citizenship. Creditworthiness is measured in numbers, but is also bound up with moral qualities. To lack credit is to be on the margins of society, and vice versa. How did we get here? How di...

HISTORY235D

When Worlds Collide: The Trial of Galileo

In 1633, the Italian mathematician Galileo was tried and condemned for advocating that the sun, not the earth, was the center of the cosmos. The Catholic Church did not formally admit that Galileo was right until 1992. Examines the many factors that...

HISTORY235F

Camus

"The admirable conjunction of a man, of an action, and of a work" for Sartre, "the ideal husband of contemporary letters" for Susan Sontag, reading "Camus's fiction as an element in France's methodically constructed political geography of Algeria" fo...

HISTORY235J

The Meaning of Life: Modern European Encounters with Consequential Questions

(History 235J is an undergraduate course offered for 5 units; History 335J is a graduate course offered for 4-5 units.) Across two centuries of social, political, and religious upheaval and transformation, modern Europeans confronted a series of inte...

HISTORY235L

Alien Imaginations: Extraterrestrial Speculations in Modern European History

(History 235L is an undergraduate course offered for 5 units; History 335L is a graduate course offered for 4-5 units.) This course will examine the historical basis and evolution of modern European beliefs concerning the existence and nature of alie...

HISTORY236F

French Kiss: The History of Love and the French Novel

The history of the French novel is also the history of love. How did individuals experience love throughout history? How do novels reflect this evolution of love through the ages? And, most significantly, how have French novels shaped our own underst...

HISTORY236J

A Tour of Dangerous Ideas: Radical Thinkers in Modern Europe

In this course we will examine ideas radical to their context in modern European thought, paying close attention to what it has meant to explain features of society, government, and politics in terms of power. What is power? What is human nature, and...

HISTORY237B

Michelangelo: Gateway to Early Modern Italy

Revered as one of the greatest artists in history, Michelangelo Buonarroti's extraordinarily long and prodigious existence (1475-1564) spanned the Renaissance and the Reformation in Italy. The celebrity artist left behind not only sculptures, paintin...

HISTORY237C

Building Modernity: Urban Planning and European Cities in the Twentieth Century

This seminar explores the history of urban planning in twentieth-century Europe. We will discuss visions of ideal cities and attempts at their implementation in the context of democratic and authoritarian systems as well as capitalism and socialism....

HISTORY237D

The French Revolution and the Birth of Modern Politics

(Students who have taken HISTORY 134 should not enroll in this course.) This course will focus on the birth of modern politics in the French Revolution. The goal will be to understand the structural contradictions of the French monarchy in the pre-r...

HISTORY237G

Outer Space Exploration in Germany in the Twentieth Century

Since the nineteenth century, Germans, like their counterparts around the world, have considered the meaning and the role of humanity in outer space. As space travel developed from a dream to a reality, and as Germany changed borders and political sy...

HISTORY238C

Virtual Italy

Classical Italy attracted thousands of travelers throughout the 1700s. Referring to their journey as the "Grand Tour," travelers pursued intellectual passions, promoted careers, and satisfied wanderlust, all while collecting antiquities to fill museu...

HISTORY238E

Narrating the British Empire

In this course, we will read major British literary works of the age of empire to explore the relationship between imperialism and modern literature. We will attend to the way imperialism shaped the evolution of a range of genres, from romantic to go...

HISTORY238J

The European Scramble for Africa: Origins and Debates

Why and how did Europeans claim control of 70% of African in the late nineteenth century? Students will engage with historiographical debates ranging from the national (e.g. British) to the topical (e.g. international law). Students will interrogate...

HISTORY239C

Humanities Core: Great Books, Big Ideas -- Europe, Modern

What is a good life? How should society be organized? Who belongs? How should honor, love, sin, and similar abstractions govern our actions? What duty do we owe to the past and future? This course examines tcourse examines these questions in the mode...

HISTORY239G

The Algerian Wars

From Algiers the White to Algiers the Red, Algiers, the Mecca of the Revolutionaries in the words of Amilcar Cabral, this course offers to study the Algerian Wars since the French conquest of Algeria (1830-) to the Algerian civil war of the 1990s. We...

HISTORY239J

Work and Leisure in Nineteenth Century Britain

This course charts the changes wrought by the Industrial Revolution, empire, and social factors in Britons' lives at work and at home in the nineteenth century. Readings will explore trade unionism and Chartism, urban migration, consumer culture, pri...

HISTORY239T

What is Time?

At a basic level, history is the study of change over time. But the modern discipline of history, as it was formed during the Enlightenment, radically changed conceptions of time itself: from something at times understood as cyclical or directionless...

HISTORY23N

The Soviet Union and the World: View from the Hoover Archives

This course seeks to explore the Soviet Union's influence on the world from 1917 to its end in 1991 from a variety of perspectives. Hoover Institution archival holdings will be the basic sources for the course.

HISTORY23S

Sex and Socialism

Among the major promises made by socialism and communism was the liberation of women from an imperialist, capitalist, and patriarchal world. How did these promises hold up in the face of the realities of revolution and state formation? This course ex...

HISTORY240

The History of Evolution

This course examines the history of evolutionary biology from its emergence around the middle of the eighteenth century. We will consider the continual engagement of evolutionary theories of life with a larger, transforming context: philosophical, p...

HISTORY240C

Great Minds of the Italian Renaissance and their World

What enabled Leonardo da Vinci to excel in over a dozen fields from painting to engineering and to anticipate flight four hundred years before the first aircraft took off? How did Michelangelo paint the Sistine Chapel Ceiling? What forces and insight...

HISTORY241C

Histories of Attention and Mind Control

This course follows the history of attention from the Enlightenment and the rise of capitalism to Cold War controversies over mind control and recent debates on the attention economy and the ethics of technology. Attention is the cognitive process of...

HISTORY241F

The Science and Politics of Apocalypse

For millennia, an apocalypse has been just around the corner. This course examines how expectations surrounding the end of the world - and the role that human beings might play in bringing it about - have transformed over the last two centuries. Afte...

HISTORY242G

Spaces and Practices of Natural History

Gentleman scientists once practiced natural history by studying specimens collected from around the world, stored in cabinets of curiosity. From the 17th to 19th centuries, natural history moved out of the cabinet and into the field; these environmen...

HISTORY242J

London Low Life in the Nineteenth Century

(History 242J is an undergraduate course offered for 5 units; History 342J is a graduate course offered for 4-5 units.) London began the nineteenth century as a city of one million, but was home to over six million people by the century¿s end. How d...

HISTORY243C

People, Plants, and Medicine: Colonial Science and Medicine

Explores the global exchange of knowledge, technologies, plants, peoples, disease, and medicines. Considers primarily Africans, Amerindians, and Europeans in the eighteenth-century Atlantic World but also takes examples from other knowledge tradition...

HISTORY243D

Emerging Diseases, Past and Present

This course will use our current experience with the COVID-19 pandemic as a lens to study the processes by which infectious diseases emerge. Because of recent developments in the "historicist sciences" (bioarchaeology and palaeogenetics), it is possi...

HISTORY243F

Letter Writing in 17th - and 18th - Century France: A Media Revolution

This interdisciplinary course examines the evolution of letter-writing practices in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France through the lens of a media revolution, and highlights the historical roots of contemporary media issues. We will read prim...

HISTORY243G

Tobacco and Health in World History: How Big Nic created the template for global science denial

Cigarettes are the world's leading cause of death--but how did we come into this world, where 6 trillion cigarettes are smoked every year? Here we explore the political, cultural, and technological origins of the cigarette and cigarette epidemic, us...

HISTORY244F

Innovations in Inclusive Design in Tech

This d-school class prototypes concepts and methods for inclusive design and considers intersecting social factors in designing new technologies. Examples of products (including objects, services, and systems) gone awry will serve as prompts for desi...

HISTORY245C

Casablanca - Algiers - Tunis : Cities on the Edge

Casablanca, Algiers and Tunis embody three territories, real and imaginary, which never cease to challenge the preconceptions of travelers setting sight on their shores. In this class, we will explore the myriad ways in which these cities of North Af...

HISTORY246F

The African State: An Inconvenient History

This course offers a history of the formation of postcolonial African states and how they came to be the way they are now. It will explore what exactly is meant by a "state", as well as examine the forms of governments that existed within Africa prio...

HISTORY246G

Participatory Research in African History

Historical research in Africa is liable to issues of authenticity and relevance to local communities, as well as power disparities between researcher and subject. Can we turn this weakness into a strength by developing theory and practice of partici...

HISTORY248

Religion, Radicalization and Media in Africa since 1945

What are the paths to religious radicalization, and what role have media- new and old- played in these conversion journeys? We examine how Pentecostal Christians and Reformist Muslims in countries such as South Africa, Nigeria, Sudan, and Ethiopia ha...

HISTORY248D

Histories of Race in Science and Medicine at Home and Abroad

This course has as its primary objective, the historical study of the intersection of race, science and medicine in the US and abroad with an emphasis on Africa and its Diasporas in the US. By drawing on literature from history, science and technolog...

HISTORY249

The Mamluks: Slave-Soldiers and Sultans of Medieval Egypt

Known as ghulam or mamluk in Arabic, the slave-soldier was a ubiquitous phenomenon in the world of medieval Islam. Usually pagan steppe nomads, mamluks were purchased in adolescence, converted to Islam, taught Arabic, and trained to lead armies. Some...

HISTORY24N

Stalin's Terror: Causes, Crimes, Consequences

This course explores the period of Stalin's rule in the Soviet Union from 1928 until 1953 and focuses on what the Russians called "the repressions." This includes, the war against the kulaks, the Ukrainian famine (Holodomor), the operations against t...

HISTORY250A

History of Native Americans in California

This course examines the political histories and cultural themes of Native Americans in California, 1700s1950s. Throughout the semester we will focus on: demographics, diversity of tribal cultures; regional environmental backgrounds; the Spanish Era...

HISTORY250B

Comparative History of Racial & Ethnic Groups in California

Comparative focus on the demographic, political, social and economic histories of American Indians & Alaska Natives, African Americans, Chinese Americans and Japanese Americans during late 18th and early 20th century California. Topics: relationship...

HISTORY251C

The American Enlightenment

The eighteenth century saw the rise of many exciting new political, religious, and scientific theories about human happiness, perfectibility, and progress that today we call "the Enlightenment." Most people associate the Enlightenment with Europe, bu...

HISTORY251J

American Slavery and Its Afterlives

How did the institution of American slavery come to an end? The story is more complex than most people know. This course examines the rival forces that fostered slavery's simultaneous contraction in the North and expansion in the South between 1776 a...

HISTORY252

Originalism and the American Constitution: History and Interpretation

Except for the Bible no text has been the subject of as much modern interpretive scrutiny as the United States Constitution. This course explores both the historical dimensions of its creation as well as the meaning such knowledge should bring to bea...

HISTORY252B

Diplomacy on the Ground: Case Studies in the Challenges of Representing Your Country

The tragic death of Ambassador Chris Stevens has recently highlighted the dangers of diplomacy in the modern era. This class will look at how Americans in embassies have historically confronted questions such as authoritarian rule, human rights abuse...

HISTORY252C

The Old South: Culture, Society, and Slavery

This course explores the political, social, and cultural history of the antebellum American South, with an emphasis on the history of African-American slavery. Topics include race and race making, slave community and resistance, gender and reproducti...

HISTORY252E

From Gold Rush to Google Bus: History of San Francisco

This class will examine the history of San Francisco from Native American and colonial settlement through the present. Focus is on social, environmental, and political history, with the theme of power in the city. Topics include Native Americans, the...

HISTORY253C

Histories of Racial Capitalism

This colloquium takes as its starting point the insistence that the movement, settlement, and hierarchical arrangements of indigenous communities and people of African descent is inseparable from regimes of capital accumulation. It builds on the conc...

HISTORY253F

Thinking the American Revolution

No period in American history has generated as much creative political thinking as the era of the American Revolution. This course explores the origins and development of that thought from the onset of the dispute between Great Britain and its Americ...

HISTORY253P

Before the Model Minority: South Asians in the US

The model minority myth has been used to create a wedge between Asian and Black people in the United States, and masks the histories and lives of itinerant South Asian traders, laborers, and farmers. Beginning in the 1860s, South Asians (mostly male,...

HISTORY254

Popular Culture and American Nature

Despite John Muir, Aldo Leopold, and Rachel Carson, it is arguable that the Disney studios have more to do with molding popular attitudes toward the natural world than politicians, ecologists, and activists. Disney as the central figure in the 20th-c...

HISTORY254B

Animism, Gaia, and Alternative Approaches to the Environment

Indigenous knowledges have been traditionally treated as a field of research for anthropologists and as mistaken epistemologies, i.e., un-scientific and irrational folklore. However, within the framework of environmental humanities, current interest...

HISTORY254E

The Rise of American Democracy

(History 254E is an undergraduate course offered for 5 units; History 354E is a graduate course offered for 4-5 units.) Where did American democracy come from? Prior to and during the American Revolution, few who lived in what became the United State...

HISTORY254F

Anti-Asian Violence in America: A History

This course places the recent wave of hate violence directed against Asian Americans in historical context. The recent violence is the latest in a history that began with the arrival of Asian immigrants in America in the mid-19th century and continu...

HISTORY254G

The News Media and American Democracy

The role of the news media in a democracy has been a source of controversy throughout American history. This colloquium will examine how technology, capitalism, law, and politics have reshaped the press over time and how the press, in turn, has impac...

HISTORY255B

Contested Masculinities in Modern America

This course examines masculinity in the twentieth-century United States across academic disciplines. Suspending the idea that manhood is biologically fixed or innate, this course presents masculinity as socially constructed and in a state of ongoing...

HISTORY255D

Racial Identity in the American Imagination

From Sally Hemings to Barack Obama, this course explores the ways that racial identity has been experienced, represented, and contested throughout American history. Engaging historical, legal, and literary texts and films, this course examines major...

HISTORY255F

The Civil War and Reconstruction Era

(Undergraduates, enroll in 255F; Graduates, enroll in 355F.) This course examines the critical period between 1860, when the first states seceded in defense of enslavement, and 1896, when the Supreme Court's Plessy v. Ferguson decision affirmed the c...

HISTORY255G

Planning Suburban America

In 2021 Governor Galvin Newsom singed a law ending single-family zoning in the state of California, a remarkable departure for the state of California, which had pioneered automobile-centric suburban development. This course aims to contextualize con...

HISTORY255J

Oral History Practicum: United States History and Stanford History Through Oral History

Oral history gathers, preserves, and interprets the spoken memories of participants in past events. The subjects of interviews range from public figures to behind-the-scenes actors to people and communities whose stories and perspectives are often ex...

HISTORY256C

Crime and Punishment in American History

This course engages scholarship on the history of crime and punishment in America from the colonial period to the recent past. Readings consist of some theory, a handful of primary sources, and mostly secondary readings on such topics as: knowledge p...

HISTORY256E

The American Civil War: The Lived Experience

What was it like to live in the United States during the Civil War? This course uses the lenses of racial/ethnic identity, gender, class, and geography (among others) to explore the breadth of human experience during this singular moment in American...

HISTORY256G

Constructing Race and Religion in America

This seminar focuses on the interrelationships between social constructions of race and social interpretations of religion in America. How have assumptions about race shaped religious worldviews? How have religious beliefs shaped racial attitudes? Ho...

HISTORY257C

LGBTQ History of the United States

An introductory course that explores LGBT/Queer social, cultural, and political history in the United States. By analyzing primary documents that range from personal accounts (private letters, autobiography, early LGBT magazines, and oral history i...

HISTORY257E

History of Conservatism

What is conservatism in America? Where did it come from, and where might it be going? Looking at conservatism as a political, social, and intellectual movement, we will consider these questions by reading primary and secondary sources and archival m...

HISTORY258A

Back to the Future: Media, Art, and Politics in the 1980s

(COMM 128 is offered for 5 units, COMM 228 is offered for 4 units. COMM 328 is offered for 3-5 units.)This seminar covers the intersection of politics, media and art in the U.S. from the end of the Vietnam War in 1975 to the fall of the Berlin Wall i...

HISTORY258B

History of Education in the United States

How education came to its current forms and functions, from the colonial experience to the present. Focus is on the 19th-century invention of the common school system, 20th-century emergence of progressive education reform, and the developments since...

HISTORY258C

Asian American and Settler Colonial Entanglements

Today, the subject of decolonization is at the forefront of a wealth of scholarship as scholars, activists, and institutions grapple with the legacies of colonialism that are far from over. For Asian Americans, there are entanglements with colonialis...

HISTORY258E

History of School Reform: Origins, Policies, Outcomes, and Explanations

Strongly recommended for students in the POLS M.A. program; others welcome. Focus is on 20th-century U.S. Intended and unintended patterns in school change; the paradox of reform that schools are often reforming but never seem to change much; rhetori...

HISTORY258G

The Origins of American Liberalism

In the 1870s, liberalism in America was associated with freedom of contract, small government, and, quite often, restrictions on suffrage. Today, liberalism means nearly the opposite of that. This class examines how factors like war, industrializatio...

HISTORY259C

The Civil Rights Movement in American History and Memory

This course examines the origins, conduct, and complex legacy of the Civil Rights Movement, as well as the continuing struggle over how the movement should be remembered and represented. Topics examined include: the NAACP legal campaign against se...

HISTORY259E

American Interventions, 1898-Present

This class seeks to examine the modern American experience with limited wars, beginning with distant and yet pertinent cases, and culminating in the war in Iraq. Although this class will examine war as a consequence of foreign policy, it will not fo...

HISTORY260K

Exploring American Religious History

This course will trace how contemporary beliefs and practices connect to historical trends in the American religious landscape.

HISTORY260P

American Protest Movements, Past and Present

(History 260P is an undergraduate course offered for 5 units; History 360P is a graduate course offered for 4-5 units.) Societal change comes only when individuals and groups speak out, perseverantly, against prevailing norms. This course examines th...

HISTORY261C

Topics in Writing & Rhetoric: Racism, Misogyny, and the Law

The gutting of the Voting Rights Act in 2013 by the Supreme Court of the United States led to the consequent disenfranchisement of many voters of color. For many citizens who desire a truly representative government, SCOTUS's decision predicted the c...

HISTORY261E

Introduction to Asian American History

This course provides an introduction to the field of Asian American history. Tracing this history between the arrival of the first wave of Asian immigrants to the US in the mid-nineteenth century and the present, we foreground the voices and personal...

HISTORY261G

Presidents and Foreign Policy in Modern History

Nothing better illustrates the evolution of the modern presidency than the arena of foreign policy. This class will examine the changing role and choices of successive presidential administrations over the past century, examining such factors as geo...

HISTORY261P

The Pen and the Sword: A Gendered History

As weapons, the pen and the sword have been used to wound, punish, and condemn as well as to protect, liberate, and elevate. Historically entangled with ideals of heroism, nobility, and civility, the pen and the sword have been the privileged instrum...

HISTORY262B

The Roots of Gendered Labor: Women and Work in American History

This class will explore the long, tangled history of women's labor in North America. Beginning with gendered labor practices among Native Americans, West Africans, and Europeans in the seventeenth century, this class will proceed thematically and chr...

HISTORY262E

Extremism in America, from the Ku Klux Klan to January 6

(262E is 5 units; 62E is 3 units.)This course is a historical analysis of extremism in the United States from Reconstruction through the present day, looking at such figures and movements and the KKK, the First Red Scare, Father Coughlin and the Chri...

HISTORY263C

Nature's Bounty: Natural Resources and U.S. Political Economy

The United States has long been among the wealthiest countries in the world, and its economic life has been closely tied to natural resource extraction. Taking the relation between these two historical facts as a question to be examined rather than a...

HISTORY263D

Junipero Serra

Why is Junipero Serra considered a representative figure of California? How have assessments of Serra evolved over the last 200 years? Why does his name appear so often on our campus? In this course we will consider these and other questions in terms...

HISTORY264

History of Prisons and Immigration Detention

This course will explore the history of the growing prison and immigration detention systems in the United States. They will pay particular attention to how they developed and how they affect different populations.

HISTORY264D

Modern America in Historical Perspective

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HISTORY269F

Modern American History: From Civil Rights to Human Rights

(History 269F is an undergraduate course offered for 5 units; History 369F is a graduate course offered for 4-5 units.) This focuses on American social justice movements during the years since the passage of landmark civil rights legislation during t...

HISTORY26S

Building Utopia: Cities, 'Megaprojects', and Socialism in the USSR

'Utopia' has always been a realm of dreamers and intellectuals. But between 1917 and 1991, the political leaders of the Soviet Union actually built their socialist utopia, brick by brick. They constructed cities in a matter of months, moved whole fac...

HISTORY270F

History of the Police in the United States

How did police come to have the power to use violence? Who counts as a police officer and why? Topics include: growth of professional policing, creation of private police forces and vigilantism, slave patrols, political economy of policing, global po...

HISTORY271B

Latinx History

This course provides students with an introduction to Latinx history and places it within a broader cultural context. Along these lines it considers the legacies of colonialism, the transnational migration, race and racialization, and the histories...

HISTORY271C

Iberian Expansion Through the Looking Glass: One World or Many?

The conquerors, missionaries, and historians who reflected on Iberian overseas expansion during the early modern period often asked themselves a crucial question: was there only one world or many? Were the Americas a 'New World,' unknown to the ancie...

HISTORY272

Colonial Mexico: Images and Power

How did images maintain, construct, or transform political power during the conquest and colonization of Mexico? The creation and destruction of visual materials in this period had a complicated relationship with power. The pictographic codices that...

HISTORY273

Mexican Immigration to the United States

This course is an introduction to the history of Mexican migration to the United States. Barraged with anti-immigrant rhetoric and calls for bigger walls and more restrictive laws, few people in the United States truly understand the historical trend...

HISTORY273D

Caudillos and Dictators from Bolívar to Bolsonaro: Modern South America

Latin American history provides key insight into the origins and resurgence of authoritarianism as well as various forms of political and social resistance. Consequently, this course surveys the major social, economic, political, and cultural trends...

HISTORY273E

Revolution and Intervention in Central America and the Caribbean

This course examines key instances of revolution, reaction, and intervention in select Central American and Caribbean nations during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Students will explore how various forms of imperialism/neocolonialism intensi...

HISTORY274A

The Historical Archaeology of Latin America

How has the study of past material cultures contributed to our comprehension of the Iberian colonial experience in the New World? How has an archaeology of the recent past been presented to the public and made socially relevant in contemporary Latin...

HISTORY274C

Mexican American History

This course will explore the history of Mexican migrants and Mexican Americans from 1848 to the present.

HISTORY277

Refugees and Asylum

This course explores the histories of refugees and asylum seekers to the United States and helps students learn how people seek asylum by working on the legal cases of current asylum seekers.

HISTORY278B

The Historical Ecology of Latin America

This seminar explores the ways in which access to natural resources has translated into political and economic power in Latin America and the Caribbean, from the colonial period to the present. We will examine how state-building projects (colonialism...

HISTORY279B

Potatoes, Coca, and Tamales: Food in Latin American History

The history of Latin America is profoundly marked by the production, circulation, preparation, and consumption of food in its most different forms: as a staple food, drugs, ethnic dishes, drinks, etc. This course examines the cultural, social, econom...

HISTORY280B

The Birth of Islam: Authority, Community, and Resistance

This course explores the historical problem of how authority and community (in both the political and religious sense) were defined and challenged in the early Islamic period. Chronological topics covered include: the political, cultural, and religi...

HISTORY281D

Introduction to Islamic Law

What is Islamic law? What kinds of sources do we use to access Islamic law, and how has Islamic legal thinking and practice changed historically? This course introduces students to topics in Islamic law while addressing questions of continuity and...

HISTORY281E

Oil, Maps, Data: Technology in the Middle East

This course introduces students to a wide range of humanities and social science concepts pertaining to the global study of technology with an emphasis on the Middle East in the 19th, 20th and 21st-centuries. The main body of the course focuses on th...

HISTORY282J

Disasters in Middle Eastern History

(History 282J is an undergraduate course offered for 5 units; History 382J is a graduate course offered for 4-5 units.) This course explores the history of disasters in the Middle East from the early modern period to the mid-20th-century. We will tra...

HISTORY282K

Refugees and Migrants in the Middle East and Balkans: 18th Century to Present

This course studies one of the most pressing issues of our day--massive population displacements--from a historical perspective. Our focus will be the Ottoman Empire and its successor states, including Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia, Bosnia and Her...

HISTORY283B

The Ottoman Empire and Iran: An Intertwined History of Islamic Eurasia

A history of the Ottoman Empire and Iran (under the Timurid, Safavid, Afsharid and Qajar dynasties) from the 14th to the early 20th century. The course invites students to think the Ottoman and Iranian experiences as a connected history, bridging se...

HISTORY283C

The Medieval Middle East: Crusaders, Turks, and Mongols

This course surveys the history of the Middle East from c.950 A.D. to c.1517 A.D., placing particular emphasis on the following questions: What were the social, cultural, and political contexts for conversion to Islam in the Middle Ages? How did the...

HISTORY283E

Empire and Resistance in the Modern Middle East

Many scholars and pundits present European empires as the main historical actors shaping the modern Middle East. This course will assess that claim by examining the history of European imperialism in the Middle East, giving equal weight to the power...

HISTORY283F

Capital and Crisis in the Middle East and the World

(History 283F is an undergraduate course for 5 units; History 383F is a graduate course for 4-5 units.) How do economies change in times of crisis? How do economic crises intersect with pandemics, violence and environmental disaster to redefine the...

HISTORY283J

Global Islam

(Undergraduates, enroll in 283J; Graduates, enroll in 383J.) Explores the history and politics of Islam in Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the Americas --- and of the novel connections that have linked Muslim communities across the globe in...

HISTORY283K

Muslims, Christians, and Jews in the Eastern Mediterranean: From Ottoman to Modern Times

At a time when Europe was riven by sectarian war, the expanding Ottoman Empire came to rule over a religiously diverse population in what we now call the Balkans and Middle East. Focusing on the period 1323-1789, this course asks the following questi...

HISTORY284

The Ottoman Empire: Conquest, Coexistence, and Coffee

(History 284 is an undergraduate course offered for 5 units; History 384 is a graduate course offered for 4-5 units.) The Ottoman Empire ruled the Middle East, North Africa and Eastern Europe from the 15th to the early 20th centuries. How did the Ott...

HISTORY284E

Contemporary Muslim Political Thought

This course aims to provide an intellectual history of contemporary Muslim political thought. It presents post-nineteenth century Muslim contributions to political thought. It is designed as a survey of some major thinkers from the Arab world to Iran...

HISTORY284F

Empires, Markets and Networks: Early Modern Islamic World Between Europe and China, 1400-1900

Focuses on political regimes, transregional connections, economic interactions and sociocultural formations in the early modern Islamic Afro-Eurasia. Topics include complex political-economic systems of the Ottoman, Safavid and Mughal empires and exp...

HISTORY284G

The Neo-Imperial Middle East

This course begins with the withdrawal of the European empires from the Middle East in the wake of World War II and the ascendance of the United States (and to a lesser extent the Soviet Union) in the region. We will follow these superpowers' attempt...

HISTORY285C

The Immigrant in Modern America

The 2016 presidential election propelled the topic of immigration to the center of public attention. This is not the first time, however, that questions of immigration and what it means to be an American have revealed deep divisions within the U.S. T...

HISTORY285E

Counterinsurgency and Torture: Algeria, Vietnam, and Iraq

This course covers the post-WWII history of counterinsurgency, a type of warfare in which a powerful, state-backed military is pitted against guerrilla fighters, or insurgents. In the context of decolonization (the dissolution of European overseas em...

HISTORY286D

Yours in Struggle: African Americans and Jews in the 20th Century U.S.

This colloquium explores the history of African Americans and Jews in 20th century US beginning with Jewish immigration from Eastern Europe and the Great Migration to America's urban centers. It considers the geographical and economic tensions that d...

HISTORY286E

Labor Migration: Gender, Race, and Capitalism in North Africa and the Middle East

Current media coverage dwells on the plight of migrants passing through North Africa in search of higher-wage jobs in Europe. But labor migration from, to, and through North Africa and the Middle East is nothing new. Pushing beyond widespread views o...

HISTORY288C

Jews of the Modern Middle East and North Africa

This course will explore the cultural, social, and political histories of the Jews of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) from 1860 to present times. The geographic concentration will range from Morocco to Iran, Iraq to Turkey, and everywhere in...

HISTORY28S

Napoleon

This course examines the life and times of Napoleon Bonaparte. For twenty years, Napoleon commanded and captivated Europe, evoking fascination and fear in equal measure and profoundly shaping the course of the modern world. In this course we follow t...

HISTORY290

North Korea in a Historical and Cultural Perspective

North Korea has been dubbed secretive, its leaders unhinged, its people mindless dupes. Such descriptions are partly a result of the control that the DPRK exerts over texts and bodies that come through its borders. Filtered through foreign media, Nor...

HISTORY291E

Maps, Borders, and Conflict in East Asia

(Students enroll for 3 OR 5 units.)The nature of borders and border conflicts in N.E. Asia from the 17th to the early 20th century. Focus is on contact zones between China, Russia, Korea, and Japan. The geopolitical imperatives that drove states to...

HISTORY291G

Pre-Modern Chinese Warfare

This course examines the evolution of warfare in China, and its impact on the evolving political and social orders, from the earliest states through the Mongol conquest. It will study how changing military technology was inextricably linked to change...

HISTORY291K

Korean History and Culture before 1900

This course serves as an introduction to Korean culture, society, and history before the modern period. It begins with a discussion of early Korea and controversies over Korean origins; the bulk of the course will be devoted to the Chos'n period (139...

HISTORY292B

Chinese Legal History

This undergraduate colloquium introduces students to the history of law in imperial China through close reading of primary sources in translation and highlights of Anglophone scholarship. We begin with legal perspectives from the Confucian and Legali...

HISTORY292C

Gender in Modern South Asia

Gender is crucial to understanding the political, cultural, and economic trajectories of communities in colonial and postcolonial South Asia. Throughout this course, we will ask a series of questions: How does gender structure conceptions of home, co...

HISTORY292D

Japan in Asia, Asia in Japan

(History 292D is an undergraduate course offered for 5 units; History 392D is a graduate course offered for 4-5 units.) How Japan and Asia mutually shaped each other in the late 19th and 20th centuries. Focus is on Japanese imperialism in Asia and it...

HISTORY292F

Culture and Religions in Korean History

This colloquium explores the major themes of Korean history before 1800 and the role of culture and religions in shaping the everyday life of Chosôn-dynasty Koreans. Themes include the aristocracy and military in the Koryô dynasty, Buddhism and Confu...

HISTORY293B

Living in Ancient China: A Material Culture History

(Undergraduates, enroll in 293B. Master's students, enroll in 393B.) This course explores the embodied means and meanings of "living" in ancient China, roughly from 1200 BCE to 220 CE, as a way of understanding the sociocultural history of the period...

HISTORY293E

Female Divinities in China

This course examines the fundamental role of powerful goddesses in Chinese religion. It covers the entire range of imperial history and down to the present. It will look at, among other questions, what roles goddesses played in the spirit world, how...

HISTORY293F

Chinese Politics and Society

(Doctoral students register for 317B.) This seminar examines scholarship on major political developments in the People's Republic of China during its first four decades. The topics to be explored in depth this year include the incorporation of Tibet...

HISTORY294E

The Past in Ancient China

Introduction to the most important sources in the early Chinese historiographical tradition (broadly conceived), examining how the past was mobilized across a range of textual genres including poetry, speeches, philosophy, narrative, and rhetoric. Pr...

HISTORY294K

Chinese Migrations

This seminar will explore global patterns of Chinese migration, and consider both continuities and change within these movements. We will examine Chinese communities here in California, as well as in Asia, Africa, South America, and the Caribbean. In...

HISTORY295E

Trenches, Guerrillas, and Bombs: Modern Warfare in East Asian History

(295E is 5 units; 95E is 3 units.) This course is an introduction to the field of military history. But rather than centering on the typical Western perspectives, it focuses on studying the East Asian modern warfare during the early 20th century. Stu...

HISTORY295J

Chinese Women's History

The lives of women in the last 1,000 years of Chinese history. Focus is on theoretical questions fundamental to women's studies. How has the category of woman been shaped by culture and history? How has gender performance interacted with bodily disci...

HISTORY296E

Modern South Asia, 1500- Present

This course examines the major political, social, religious, and cultural developments within early modern, colonial, and postcolonial South Asia. Topics include religious reform, the role of women, anticolonialism, and national formation. Students w...

HISTORY296F

Science and Society in Modern South Asia

(Undergraduates, enroll in 296F. Graduates, enroll in 396F.) Modern science, technology and medicine are global phenomena, and yet scientific knowledge, as the product of human activity, reflects the social, political, economic and cultural contexts...

HISTORY296L

The Worlds of Labor in Modern India

This colloquium will introduce students to the exciting and expanding field of Indian labor history and provide them a comprehensive historiographical foundation in this area of historical research. Seminars will engage with one key monograph in the...

HISTORY297G

Rulers, Reformers, Radicals: History of India in Two Centuries

This course traces the cultural, religious, literary, and political lineages of India during the last two centuries. It investigates the conditions and impact of colonialism in the formation of the contemporary subcontinent. In doing so, the course e...

HISTORY298

Major Topics in Modern Chinese History: Cultural and Intellectual History

China has experienced profound changes over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In the span of less than two hundred years, the country has witnessed colonial incursions by multiple Western powers, the demise of an imperial system o...

HISTORY298C

Race, Gender, & Sexuality in Chinese History

This course examines the diverse ways in which identities--particularly race, ethnicity, gender and sexuality have been understood and experienced in Chinese societies, broadly defined, from the imperial period to the present day. Topics include cha...

HISTORY298E

Chinese Pop Culture: A History

This discussion course examines the evolution of popular culture in the Chinese-speaking world and diaspora from the late imperial era to the present. Analyzing myth, literature, medicine, music, art, film, fashion, and internet culture will help stu...

HISTORY298F

Social Movements and State Power in China, 1644-Present

This discussion course investigates the ideological, political and environmental conditions that have shaped social movements, uprisings and governance in China from the late imperial period to the present. It considers differences between the exper...

HISTORY299A

Senior Research I

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HISTORY299B

Senior Research II

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HISTORY299C

Senior Research III

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HISTORY299CAP2

Crafting Digital Stories

Historians tell stories. Using digital methods, we can tell these stories in creative and innovative ways. This digital humanities course is a hands-on experience of working with different methods of digital storytelling. This course is best suited f...

HISTORY299F

Curricular Practical Training

Following internship work, students complete a research report outlining work activity, problems investigated, key results and follow-up projects. Meets the requirements for curricular practical training for students on F-1 visas. Student is responsi...

HISTORY299H

Junior Honors Colloquium

Required of junior History majors planning to write a History honors thesis during senior year. Meets four times during the quarter.

HISTORY299M

Undergraduate Directed Research: Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute

May be repeated for credit.

HISTORY299P

Mastering Uncertainty: The Power of Archival Thinking

When confronted with chaos and uncertainty, do you know how to stay calm, ask the right questions, and find the answers? Archival researchers do. Do you realize that less than 1 percent of primary sources have been digitized, and that 99 percent stil...

HISTORY299S

Undergraduate Directed Research and Writing

May be repeated for credit.

HISTORY29SC

River and Region: The Columbia River and the Shaping of the Pacific Northwest

This seminar will explore the crucial role of the Columbia River in the past, present, and future of the Pacific Northwest. Topics will include the lives and legacies of the indigenous peoples that Lewis and Clark encountered more than two centuries...

HISTORY301A

The Global Drug Wars

Explores the global story of the struggle over drugs from the nineteenth century to the present. Topics include the history of the opium wars in China, controversies over wine and tobacco in Iran, narco-trafficking and civil war in Lebanon, the Afgha...

HISTORY301P

History and Policy

Can historical thinking produce more humane forms of governance? This course exposes students to the discipline of history as an instrument of policy critique and formulation. Students will pursue their own research projects with the option of creati...

HISTORY302

Technopolitics: Materiality, Power, Theory

This graduate readings seminar provides a lively introduction to some of the major themes and issues in the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS). How do technologies and material assemblages perform power? How are their designs and uses shap...

HISTORY302B

Coffee, Sugar, and Chocolate: Commodities and Consumption in World History, 1200-1800

Many of the basic commodities that we consider staples of everyday life became part of an increasingly interconnected world of trade, goods, and consumption between 1200 and 1800. This seminar offers an introduction to the material culture of the lat...

HISTORY302D

Power in the Anthropocene: Pasts, Presents, Futures

The Anthropocene designates the present geological epoch, in which humans have irreversibly changed planet Earth, with impacts discernible in the atmosphere, biosphere, and more. The term has also become a "charismatic mega-category" in the humanitie...

HISTORY302F

Surveillance States and Societies

The course analyzes the evolution, functions, structures and consequences of surveillance in the modern era. Among issues discussed are the rise of the modern state and population politics, information gathering and its uses in domestic and national...

HISTORY302G

Peoples, Armies and Governments of the Second World War

Clausewitz conceptualized war as always consisting of a trinity of passion, chance, and reason, mirrored, respectively, in the people, army and government. Following Clausewitz, this course examines the peoples, armies, and governments that shaped Wo...

HISTORY303

Premodern Economic Cultures

Modern economists have made a science of studying the aggregate effects of individual choices. This science is based on the realities of personal freedom and individual choice. Prior to the modern era, however, different realities comprised very diff...

HISTORY303C

History of Ignorance

Scholars pay a lot of attention to knowledge--how it arises and impacts society--but much less attention has been given to ignorance, even though its impacts are equally profound. Here we explore the political history of ignorance, through case studi...

HISTORY303E

Infrastructure & Power in the Global South

In the last decade, the field of infrastructure studies has entered into conversation with area studies, post/colonial studies, and other scholarship on the "Global South." These intersections have produced dramatic new understandings of what "infras...

HISTORY303F

Words and Things in the History of Classical Scholarship

How have scholars used ancient texts and objects since the revival of the classical tradition? How did antiquarians study and depict objects and relate them to texts and reconstructions of the past? What changed and what stayed the same as humanist s...

HISTORY304

Approaches to History

For first-year History and Classics Ph.D. students. This course explores ideas and debates that have animated historical discourse and shaped historiographical practice over the past half-century or so. The works we will be discussing raise fundamen...

HISTORY304A

Reimagining History: A Workshop

This class explores, through analysis and practice, the ways in which history can be told and experienced through means other than traditional scholarly narratives. Approaches include literary fiction and non-fiction, digital media, graphic arts, map...

HISTORY304D

Advanced Topics in Agnotology

Advanced research into the history of ignorance. Our goal will be to explore how ignorance is created, maintained and destroyed, using case studies from topics such as tobacco denialism, global climate denialism, and other forms of resistance to kno...

HISTORY304G

War and Society

(History 204G is an undergraduate course offered for 5 units; History 304G is a graduate course offered for 4-5 units.) How Western societies and cultures have responded to modern warfare. The relationship between its destructive capacity and effects...

HISTORY304M

Historiography

For History and Classics MA and coterm students. This course explores how historians have explored the past, and the strengths and limits of the methods they have employed. Beginning with a survey of non-western historiography, we then investigate th...

HISTORY305

Graduate Pedagogy Workshop

Required of first-year History Ph.D. students. Perspectives on pedagogy for historians: course design, lecturing, leading discussion, evaluation of student learning, use of technology in teaching lectures and seminars. Addressing today's classroom:...

HISTORY305D

Global Urban History

This graduate readings course considers the work of historians working at the crossroads of urban history and global history, with particular attention to the role of the urban setting as both product and producer of social and spatial relations of p...

HISTORY305E

Comparative Historical Development of Latin America and East Asia

(Graduate students must enroll for 5 units.) Students will analyze, in historical perspective, the similarities and differences between the development of Latin America and East Asia from early modern times to the present. Focusing primarily on Brazi...

HISTORY305K

The Age of Revolution: America, France, and Haiti

(History 205K is an undergraduate course offered for 5 units; History 305K is a graduate course offered for 4-5 units.) This course examines the "Age of Revolution," spanning the 18th and 19th centuries. Primarily, this course will focus on the Ameri...

HISTORY305L

Prostitution & Sex Trafficking: Regulating Morality and the Status of Women

Examines governmental policies toward prostitution from the late 19th century to the present. Focuses on the underlying attitudes, assumptions, strategies, and consequences of various historical and current legal frameworks regulating prostitution,...

HISTORY305M

Silicon Valley in 10 Objects

Have you ever wanted to curate a museum exhibition, or explore alternative ways of studying history, beyond the term paper or article? In this hands-on class, we will research and design a real museum exhibition, to be staged at the Silicon Valley Ar...

HISTORY306

Beyond Borders: Approaches to Transnational History

This core colloquium for the Transnational, International, and Global (TIG) field will introduce students to the major historiographical trends, methodological challenges, and theoretical approaches to studying and writing transnational histories.

HISTORY306D

World History: Graduate Colloquium

How do historians engage the global scale in the classroom as well as in research? The world history canon including Toynbee, McNeill, Braudel, Wolf, and Wallerstein; contrasting approaches, recent research, and resources for teaching. Recommended: c...

HISTORY306K

World History Pedagogy Workshop

Students draft a syllabus and create a curriculum module for use in a world history lecture course. Corequisite: HISTORY 306D, recommended.

HISTORY307A

Legal History Workshop

(Same as LAW 3516.) The Legal History Workshop is designed as a forum in which faculty and students from the Law School, the History Department, and elsewhere in the university can discuss some of the best work now being done in the field of legal h...

HISTORY307B

The Irish and the World

"When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious." The writer Edna O'Brien's portrait of Irish life encapsulates a history shaped by colonialism, famine, forced migration,...

HISTORY307C

The Global Early Modern

In what sense can we speak of "globalization" before modernity? What are the characteristics and origins of the economic system we know as "capitalism"? When and why did European economies begin to diverge from those of other Eurasian societies? With...

HISTORY307D

Transhistory Colloquium

Colloquium on the history of transgender practices and identities. Readings will include scholarly texts from the emerging historical field of transhistory as well as adjacent fields within gender history. Colloquium will investigate avenues for deep...

HISTORY307E

Totalitarianism

This course analyzes the evolution and nature of revolutionary and totalitarian polities through the reading of monographs on the Puritan Reformation, French Revolutionary, turn of the 20th Century, interwar, and Second World War eras. Among topics e...

HISTORY308

Biography and History

Designed along the lines of the PBS series, "In the Actor's Workshop," students will meet weekly with some of the leading literary biographers writing today. Included this spring will be "New Yorker" staff writer Judith Thurman -- whose biography of...

HISTORY308D

Pre-Modern Warfare

This course examines the evolving nature of warfare and its impact on society across the Eurasian continent up to the Gunpowder Revolution and rise of the nation-state. Beginning with an attempt to define war, it will trace the evolution of military...

HISTORY309F

Maps in the Early Modern World

The significance of cartographic enterprise across the early modern world. Political, economic, and epistemological imperatives that drove the proliferation of nautical charts, domain surveys, city plans, atlases, and globes; the types of work such a...

HISTORY30SC

SoCo Humanities Research Intensive

Join two Stanford professors for a week of immersive, expert introduction to humanities research. This intensive, one-week course introduces rising sophomores to the excitement and wonder of humanities research, along the way preparing you for indepe...

HISTORY310

The History of Occupation, 1914-2010

(History 210 is an undergraduate course offered for 5 units; History 310 is a graduate course offered for 4-5 units.) Examines the major cases of occupation in the twentieth century, from the first World War until the present, and issues of similarit...

HISTORY310J

Fascism and Authoritarianism

This course introduces students to the history of fascist and authoritarian movements in modern Europe, from their origins through the post-WWII era. Germany and Italy will serve as central case studies, though the course will consider other examples...

HISTORY311

Out of Eden: Deportation, Exile, and Expulsion from Antiquity to the Renaissance

This course examines the long pedigree of modern deportations and mass expulsions, from the forced resettlements of the ancient world to the expulsion of Jews from Spain in 1492, and from the outlawry of Saga-era Iceland to the culture of civic exile...

HISTORY313

Core Colloquium: Graduate Readings in Medieval History

This course serves as a graduate-level introduction to major themes, problems, methods, and historiographical traditions in medieval European history.

HISTORY313F

Medieval Germany, 900-1250

(Undergraduates may sign up for German 213 or History 213F, graduate students should sign up for German 313 or History 313F. This course may be taken for variable units. Check the individual course numbers for unit spreads.) This course will provide...

HISTORY315B

Race and Ethnicity in Premodern Europe

How do historians, art historians, and literary historians of premodern Europe shape their research and their teaching around questions of race? How do current debates on race theory shape our perception of the past and deepen historical inquiry? Thi...

HISTORY317

Introduction to the Sources of Medieval History

This seminar is intended as a hands-on introduction to several major genres of source materials for the history of Western Europe from ca. 700-ca. 1400. Each week's meeting will consist of a mix of faculty-led bibliographical overviews, student prese...

HISTORY317D

Love, Death and the Afterlife in the Medieval West

Romantic love, it is often claimed, is an invention of the High Middle Ages. The vocabulary of sexual desire that is still current in the twenty-first century was authored in the twelfth and thirteenth, by troubadours, court poets, writers like Dante...

HISTORY318

The Holy Dead: Saints and Spiritual Power in Medieval Europe

Examines the cult of saints in medieval religious thought and life. Topics include martyrs, shrines, pilgrimage, healing, relics, and saints' legends.

HISTORY318C

Peace and War in Medieval Islam: From the Arab Conquests to the Crusades

This course interrogates the theory and reality of war-making and peacemaking across the first millennium of Islamic history (c.600-c.1600 CE). We will examine major historical events (e.g. the struggle of the early community of Muslims against the p...

HISTORY31Q

Resistance and Collaboration in Hitler's Europe

What is resistance and what did it entail in Nazi-occupied Europe? What prompted some to resist, while others accommodated or actively collaborated with the occupiers? How have postwar societies remembered their resistance movements and collaboration...

HISTORY321B

The 'Woman Question' in Modern Russia

(History 221B is an undergraduate course offered for 5 units; History 321B is a graduate course offered for 4-5 units.) Russian radicals believed that the status of women provided the measure of freedom in a society and argued for the extension of ri...

HISTORY322A

Crime and Punishment in Early Modern Europe and Russia

Explores criminal law in early modern Europe and Russia, ca 1500-1800, in law and in practice. Engages debates about use of exemplary public executions as tactic of governance, and about gradual decline in "violence" in Europe over this time. Explore...

HISTORY322E

Topics in Early Modern Russia and Ukraine

Explores and contrasts Ukraine and Russia ca 1450-1800, when most of Ukraine had not yet been conquered by Russia: governmental structures, religion and culture, ideology, social organization, agrarian economy.

HISTORY323E

Cities of Empire: An Urban Journey through Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean

This course explores the cities of the Habsburg, Ottoman and Russian empires in the dynamic and turbulent period of their greatest transformation from the 19th century through the Two World Wars. Through the reading of urban biographies of Venice an...

HISTORY324C

Genocide and Humanitarian Intervention

Open to medical students, graduate students, and undergraduate students. Traces the history of genocide in the 20th century and the question of humanitarian intervention to stop it, a topic that has been especially controversial since the end of the...

HISTORY325E

From Vladimir to Putin: Key Themes in Russian History

Formative issues in Russian history from Muscovy to the present: autocracy and totalitarianism; tsars, emperors, and party secretaries; multi-ethnicity and nationalism; serfdom, peasantry; rebellions and revolutions, dissent and opposition; law and l...

HISTORY326A

Modern Europe: Society and Politics

The goal of this course is to introduce graduate students to major works of history and literature in the field of nineteenth and early-twentieth century history. A colloquia will be given in tandem with a research seminar.

HISTORY326D

The Holocaust: Insights from New Research

Overview of the history of the Holocaust, the genocide of European Jews. Explores its causes, course, consequences, and memory. Addresses the events themselves, as well as the roles of perpetrators and bystanders, dilemmas faced by victims, collab...

HISTORY326E

Famine in the Modern World

Open to medical students, graduate students, and undergraduate students. Examines the major famines of modern history, the controversies surrounding them, and the reasons that famine persists in our increasingly globalized world. Focus is on the re...

HISTORY327

East European Women and War in the 20th and 21st Centuries

Thematic chronological approach through conflicts in the region: Balkan Wars, WWI, WWII, and Yugoslav wars. Ways women in E. Europe involved in and affected by wars; comparison with women in W. Europe in the two world wars. Examines women's involveme...

HISTORY327B

The Business of Socialism: Economic Life in Cold War Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union

(Graduate students, enroll in 327B. Undergraduate students, enroll in 227B.) This colloquium investigates the processes of buying, making, and selling goods and services in Cold War Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. We will familiarize ourselves w...

HISTORY327D

All Quiet on the Eastern Front? East Europe and Russia in the First World War

Until recently history has been comparatively quiet about the experience of World War I in the east. Far from being a peripheral theater of war, however, the experiences of war on the Eastern Front were central to shaping the 20th century. Not only w...

HISTORY327K

Marx and Marxism: History and Social Change

This course examines the life and work of Karl Marx, his social and intellectual milieu, and the evolution of Marxism and historical materialism in theory and practice to the present. Basic concepts of Marxism will be discussed along with debates abo...

HISTORY328

Circles of Hell: Poland in World War II

Looks at the experience and representation of Poland's wartime history from the Nazi-Soviet Pact (1939) to the aftermath of Yalta (1945). Examines Nazi and Soviet ideology and practice in Poland, as well as the ways Poles responded, resisted, and sur...

HISTORY328C

Politics and Society in Early Soviet Russia: View from the Hoover Library & Archives

The course offers an examination of early Soviet history (1917-1924) based on the archival collections, digital records, and rare books and periodicals in the Hoover Library & Archives, with a focus on the papers of the American Relief Administration...

HISTORY32S

Utopian Dreams, Dystopian Nightmares: Visions of the Ideal Society in Early Modern Britain

Visions of the ideal society are a mainstay in the European imagination, from Plato¿s Republic to Charles Fourier¿s phalanstère. Yet utopianism has always been maligned as idealistic, impracticable, or naïve, while its proponents accused variously of...

HISTORY330A

Early Modern Colloquium

Historiographical survey from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment. Topics include Renaissance, Reformation, European expansion, state and nation building, printing, military, and scientific revolutions, origins of Enlightenment. Designed to prepare...

HISTORY331

Leonardo's World: Science, Technology, and Art

Leonardo da Vinci is emblematic of creativity and innovation. His art is iconic, his inventions legendary. His understanding of nature, the human body, and machines made him a scientist and engineer as well as an artist. His fascination with drawing...

HISTORY331B

Core Colloquium on Modern Europe: The 19th Century

The major historical events and historiographical debates of the long 19th century from the French Revolution to WW I.

HISTORY331C

Modern European Core: The Twentieth Century

The historiography of 20th-century Europe. Topics include WW I, the Russian Revolution, National Socialism, and the EU.

HISTORY331G

European Reformations

How do new approaches to the reforms of religious belief, practice, and community open new avenues for exploring the transformed religious landscape of early modern Europe? This advanced colloquium explores key theological and social aspects of the s...

HISTORY332B

Heretics, Prostitutes and Merchants: The Venetian Empire

Between 1200-1600, Venice created a powerful empire at the boundary between East and West that controlled much of the Mediterranean, with a merchant society that allowed social groups, religions, and ethnicities to coexist. Topics include the feature...

HISTORY332G

Early Modern Cities

Colloquium on the history of early modern European cities, covering urbanization, street life, neighborhoods, fortifications, guilds and confraternities, charity, vagrancy, and begging, public health, city-countryside relationship, urban constitution...

HISTORY333

Reformation to Civil War: England under the Tudors and Stuarts

English political and religious culture from the end of the Wars of the Roses to the Civil War of the 1640s. Themes include the growth of the size and power of the state, Reformation, creation of a Protestant regime, transformation of the political c...

HISTORY333C

Two British Revolutions

Current scholarship on Britain,1640-1700, focusing on political and religious history. Topics include: causes and consequences of the English civil war and revolution; rise and fall of revolutionary Puritanism; the Restoration; popular politics in th...

HISTORY333F

Political Thought in Early Modern Britain

1500 to 1700. Theorists include Hobbes, Locke, Harrington, the Levellers, and lesser known writers and schools. Foundational ideas and problems underlying modern British and American political thought and life.

HISTORY334P

The Age of Plague: Medicine and Society, 1300-1750

(Graduates, enroll in 334P. Undergraduates, enroll in 234P.) The arrival of plague in Eurasia in 1347-51 affected many late medieval and early modern societies. It transformed their understanding of disease, raised questions about the efficacy of me...

HISTORY334R

Risk and Credit Before Modern Finance

In today's world, credit scores are nearly as important as citizenship. Creditworthiness is measured in numbers, but is also bound up with moral qualities. To lack credit is to be on the margins of society, and vice versa. How did we get here? How di...

HISTORY335D

When Worlds Collide: The Trial of Galileo

In 1633, the Italian mathematician Galileo was tried and condemned for advocating that the sun, not the earth, was the center of the cosmos. The Catholic Church did not formally admit that Galileo was right until 1992. Examines the many factors that...

HISTORY335J

The Meaning of Life: Modern European Encounters with Consequential Questions

(History 235J is an undergraduate course offered for 5 units; History 335J is a graduate course offered for 4-5 units.) Across two centuries of social, political, and religious upheaval and transformation, modern Europeans confronted a series of inte...

HISTORY335L

Alien Imaginations: Extraterrestrial Speculations in Modern European History

(History 235L is an undergraduate course offered for 5 units; History 335L is a graduate course offered for 4-5 units.) This course will examine the historical basis and evolution of modern European beliefs concerning the existence and nature of alie...

HISTORY336J

A Tour of Dangerous Ideas: Radical Thinkers in Modern Europe

In this course we will examine ideas radical to their context in modern European thought, paying close attention to what it has meant to explain features of society, government, and politics in terms of power. What is power? What is human nature, and...

HISTORY337B

Michelangelo: Gateway to Early Modern Italy

Revered as one of the greatest artists in history, Michelangelo Buonarroti's extraordinarily long and prodigious existence (1475-1564) spanned the Renaissance and the Reformation in Italy. The celebrity artist left behind not only sculptures, paintin...

HISTORY337C

Street History: Learning the Past in School and Out

Interdisciplinary. Since Herodotus, history and memory have competed to shape minds: history cultivates doubt and demands interpretation; memory seeks certainty and detests that which thwarts its aims. History and memory collide in modern society, of...

HISTORY337D

The French Revolution and the Birth of Modern Politics

(Students who have taken HISTORY 134 should not enroll in this course.) This course will focus on the birth of modern politics in the French Revolution. The goal will be to understand the structural contradictions of the French monarchy in the pre-r...

HISTORY338A

Graduate Colloquium in Modern British History, Part I

Influential approaches to problems in British, European, and imperial history. The 19th-century British experience and its relationship to Europe and empire. National identity, the industrial revolution, class formation, gender, liberalism, and state...

HISTORY338B

MODERN BRITISH HISTORY PART II

Themes include empire and racism, the crisis of liberalism, the rise of the welfare state, national identity, the experience of total war, the politics of decline, and modernity and British culture.

HISTORY338J

The European Scramble for Africa: Origins and Debates

Why and how did Europeans claim control of 70% of African in the late nineteenth century? Students will engage with historiographical debates ranging from the national (e.g. British) to the topical (e.g. international law). Students will interrogate...

HISTORY339J

Work and Leisure in Nineteenth Century Britain

This course charts the changes wrought by the Industrial Revolution, empire, and social factors in Britons' lives at work and at home in the nineteenth century. Readings will explore trade unionism and Chartism, urban migration, consumer culture, pri...

HISTORY339T

What is Time?

At a basic level, history is the study of change over time. But the modern discipline of history, as it was formed during the Enlightenment, radically changed conceptions of time itself: from something at times understood as cyclical or directionless...

HISTORY33A

Blood and Roses: The Age of the Tudors

(Same as HISTORY 133A. 33A is for 3 units; 133A is for 5 units.) English society and state from the Wars of the Roses to the death of Elizabeth. Political, social, and cultural upheavals of the Tudor period and the changes wrought by the Reformation....

HISTORY33B

Revolutionary England: The Stuart Age

(Same as HISTORY 133B. History majors and others taking 5 units, register for 133B.) From the accession of King James I in 1603 to the death of Queen Anne in 1714: a brutal civil war, the execution of one anointed king, and the deposition of another...

HISTORY340

The History of Evolution

This course examines the history of evolutionary biology from its emergence around the middle of the eighteenth century. We will consider the continual engagement of evolutionary theories of life with a larger, transforming context: philosophical, p...

HISTORY341C

Histories of Attention and Mind Control

This course follows the history of attention from the Enlightenment and the rise of capitalism to Cold War controversies over mind control and recent debates on the attention economy and the ethics of technology. Attention is the cognitive process of...

HISTORY342G

Spaces and Practices of Natural History

Gentleman scientists once practiced natural history by studying specimens collected from around the world, stored in cabinets of curiosity. From the 17th to 19th centuries, natural history moved out of the cabinet and into the field; these environmen...

HISTORY342J

London Low Life in the Nineteenth Century

(History 242J is an undergraduate course offered for 5 units; History 342J is a graduate course offered for 4-5 units.) London began the nineteenth century as a city of one million, but was home to over six million people by the century's end. How d...

HISTORY343C

People, Plants, and Medicine: Colonial Science and Medicine

Explores the global exchange of knowledge, technologies, plants, peoples, disease, and medicines. Considers primarily Africans, Amerindians, and Europeans in the eighteenth-century Atlantic World but also takes examples from other knowledge tradition...

HISTORY343D

Emerging Diseases, Past and Present

This course will use our current experience with the COVID-19 pandemic as a lens to study the processes by which infectious diseases emerge. Because of recent developments in the "historicist sciences" (bioarchaeology and palaeogenetics), it is possi...

HISTORY343G

Tobacco and Health in World History: How Big Nic created the template for global science denial

Cigarettes are the world's leading cause of death--but how did we come into this world, where 6 trillion cigarettes are smoked every year? Here we explore the political, cultural, and technological origins of the cigarette and cigarette epidemic, us...

HISTORY344F

Innovations in Inclusive Design in Tech

This d-school class prototypes concepts and methods for inclusive design and considers intersecting social factors in designing new technologies. Examples of products (including objects, services, and systems) gone awry will serve as prompts for desi...

HISTORY345A

Africa in the Era of the Slave Trade

The slave trade, including the trans-Saharan, Indian Ocean, and trans-Atlantic trades, constituted nearly a millennium of interaction with the wider world and set in motion transformations in African societies, polities, and cultures. Topics include...

HISTORY345B

African Encounters with Colonialism

This colloquium is a broad sweep of some of the main themes in the history of the colonial period for Africa. A course of this nature can not help but be a selective sample of the field. For example, topics on the end of slavery in Africa, on the s...

HISTORY346F

Women and Autobiography in African History

This graduate colloquium focuses on the place of women in modern African history. We focus specifically on the literary techniques that African women have used to represent themselves to the outside world. In the course of ten in-depth seminars, we w...

HISTORY346G

Participatory Research in African History

Historical research in Africa is liable to issues of authenticity and relevance to local communities, as well as power disparities between researcher and subject. Can we turn this weakness into a strength by developing theory and practice of partici...

HISTORY348

Religion, Radicalization and Media in Africa since 1945

What are the paths to religious radicalization, and what role have media- new and old- played in these conversion journeys? We examine how Pentecostal Christians and Reformist Muslims in countries such as South Africa, Nigeria, Sudan, and Ethiopia ha...

HISTORY349

Bodies, Technologies, and Natures in Africa

This interdisciplinary course explores how modern African histories, bodies, and natures have been entangled with technological activities. Viewing Africans as experts and innovators, we consider how technologies have mediated, represented, or perfor...

HISTORY349A

The Mamluks: Slave-Soldiers and Sultans of Medieval Egypt

Known as ghulam or mamluk in Arabic, the slave-soldier was a ubiquitous phenomenon in the world of medieval Islam. Usually pagan steppe nomads, mamluks were purchased in adolescence, converted to Islam, taught Arabic, and trained to lead armies. Some...

HISTORY34A

European Witch Hunts

(Same as HISTORY 134A. History majors and others taking 5 units, register for 134A.) After the Reformation, in the midst of state building and scientific discovery, Europeans conducted a series of deadly witch hunts, violating their own laws and proc...

HISTORY35

Sustainability and Civilization

Our civilization faces multiple sustainability challenges. Climate change often dominates public conversation, but in fact, a whole range of environmental, economic, political, and cultural trends threaten the structures that sustain the societies we...

HISTORY351A

Core in American History, Part I

May be repeated for credit.

HISTORY351B

Core in American History, Part II

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HISTORY351C

Core in American History, Part III

HISTORY351D

Core in American History, Part IV

May be repeated once for credit.

HISTORY351E

Core in American History, Part V

Required of all first-year United States History Ph.D. students. Topics in Twentieth Century United States History.

HISTORY351F

Core in American History, Part VI

Required of all first-year Ph.D. students in U.S. History. This course is designed to provide graduate students with an intensive introduction to twentieth-century U.S. social, political, transnational, and cultural history and historiography. We wil...

HISTORY351J

American Slavery and Its Afterlives

How did the institution of American slavery come to an end? The story is more complex than most people know. This course examines the rival forces that fostered slavery's simultaneous contraction in the North and expansion in the South between 1776 a...

HISTORY352

Originalism and the American Constitution: History and Interpretation

Except for the Bible no text has been the subject of as much modern interpretive scrutiny as the United States Constitution. This course explores both the historical dimensions of its creation as well as the meaning such knowledge should bring to bea...

HISTORY352B

History of American Law

(Formerly Law 318. Now Law 3504.) This course examines the growth and development of American legal institutions with particular attention to crime and punishment, slavery and race relations, the role of law in developing the economy, and the place...

HISTORY353C

Histories of Racial Capitalism

This colloquium takes as its starting point the insistence that the movement, settlement, and hierarchical arrangements of indigenous communities and people of African descent is inseparable from regimes of capital accumulation. It builds on the conc...

HISTORY353F

Thinking the American Revolution

No period in American history has generated as much creative political thinking as the era of the American Revolution. This course explores the origins and development of that thought from the onset of the dispute between Great Britain and its Americ...

HISTORY354B

Animism, Gaia, and Alternative Approaches to the Environment

Indigenous knowledges have been traditionally treated as a field of research for anthropologists and as mistaken epistemologies, i.e., un-scientific and irrational folklore. However, within the framework of environmental humanities, current interest...

HISTORY354E

The Rise of American Democracy

(History 254E is an undergraduate course offered for 5 units; History 354E is a graduate course offered for 4-5 units.) Where did American democracy come from? Prior to and during the American Revolution, few who lived in what became the United State...

HISTORY354F

Law and Empire in U.S. History

(Same as LAW 3506. Instructor consent required for History 354F.) This course will examine the interrelationship between legal norms and empire in the history of the United States. Topics in this part will include the Constitution as an imperial do...

HISTORY354G

The News Media and American Democracy

The role of the news media in a democracy has been a source of controversy throughout American history. This colloquium will examine how technology, capitalism, law, and politics have reshaped the press over time and how the press, in turn, has impac...

HISTORY355D

Racial Identity in the American Imagination

From Sally Hemings to Barack Obama, this course explores the ways that racial identity has been experienced, represented, and contested throughout American history. Engaging historical, legal, and literary texts and films, this course examines major...

HISTORY355F

The Civil War and Reconstruction Era

(Undergraduates, enroll in 255F; Graduates, enroll in 355F.) This course examines the critical period between 1860, when the first states seceded in defense of enslavement, and 1896, when the Supreme Court's Plessy v. Ferguson decision affirmed the c...

HISTORY355G

Planning Suburban America

In 2021 Governor Galvin Newsom singed a law ending single-family zoning in the state of California, a remarkable departure for the state of California, which had pioneered automobile-centric suburban development. This course aims to contextualize con...

HISTORY356E

The American Civil War: The Lived Experience

What was it like to live in the United States during the Civil War? This course uses the lenses of racial/ethnic identity, gender, class, and geography (among others) to explore the breadth of human experience during this singular moment in American...

HISTORY356G

Constructing Race and Religion in America

This seminar focuses on the interrelationships between social constructions of race and social interpretations of religion in America. How have assumptions about race shaped religious worldviews? How have religious beliefs shaped racial attitudes? Ho...

HISTORY357E

History of Conservatism

What is conservatism in America? Where did it come from, and where might it be going? Looking at conservatism as a political, social, and intellectual movement, we will consider these questions by reading primary and secondary sources and archival m...

HISTORY358A

Back to the Future: Media, Art, and Politics in the 1980s

(COMM 128 is offered for 5 units, COMM 228 is offered for 4 units. COMM 328 is offered for 3-5 units.)This seminar covers the intersection of politics, media and art in the U.S. from the end of the Vietnam War in 1975 to the fall of the Berlin Wall i...

HISTORY358G

The Origins of American Liberalism

In the 1870s, liberalism in America was associated with freedom of contract, small government, and, quite often, restrictions on suffrage. Today, liberalism means nearly the opposite of that. This class examines how factors like war, industrializatio...

HISTORY359C

The Civil Rights Movement in American History and Memory

This course examines the origins, conduct, and complex legacy of the Civil Rights Movement, as well as the continuing struggle over how the movement should be remembered and represented. Topics examined include: the NAACP legal campaign against se...

HISTORY359E

American Interventions, 1898-Present

This class seeks to examine the modern American experience with limited wars, beginning with distant and yet pertinent cases, and culminating in the war in Iraq. Although this class will examine war as a consequence of foreign policy, it will not fo...

HISTORY360P

American Protest Movements, Past and Present

(History 260P is an undergraduate course offered for 5 units; History 360P is a graduate course offered for 4-5 units.) Societal change comes only when individuals and groups speak out, perseverantly, against prevailing norms. This course examines th...

HISTORY361D

History of Civil Rights Law

(Same as LAW 7838.) This is a seminar that will examine canonical civil rights law using history. We will investigate the historical context behind the enactment of particular laws and judicial decisions. We will also discuss the meaning and implicat...

HISTORY364

History of Prisons and Immigration Detention

This course will explore the history of the growing prison and immigration detention systems in the United States. They will pay particular attention to how they developed and how they affect different populations.

HISTORY369F

Modern American History: From Civil Rights to Human Rights

(History 269F is an undergraduate course offered for 5 units; History 369F is a graduate course offered for 4-5 units.) This focuses on American social justice movements during the years since the passage of landmark civil rights legislation during t...

HISTORY36N

Gay Autobiography

Preference to freshmen. Gender, identity, and solidarity as represented in nine autobiographies: Isherwood, Ackerley, Duberman, Monette, Louganis, Barbin, Cammermeyer, Gingrich, and Lorde. To what degree do these writers view sexual orientation as a...

HISTORY371

Graduate Colloquium: Explorations in Latin American History and Historiography

Introduction to modern Latin American history and historiography, including how to read and use primary sources for independent research.

HISTORY371B

Latinx History

This course provides students with an introduction to Latinx history and places it within a broader cultural context. Along these lines it considers the legacies of colonialism, the transnational migration, race and racialization, and the histories...

HISTORY371C

Iberian Expansion Through the Looking Glass: One World or Many?

The conquerors, missionaries, and historians who reflected on Iberian overseas expansion during the early modern period often asked themselves a crucial question: was there only one world or many? Were the Americas a 'New World,' unknown to the ancie...

HISTORY372B

Colonial Mexico: Images and Power

How did images maintain, construct, or transform political power during the conquest and colonization of Mexico? The creation and destruction of visual materials in this period had a complicated relationship with power. The pictographic codices that...

HISTORY373

Mexican Immigration to the United States

This course is an introduction to the history of Mexican migration to the United States. Barraged with anti-immigrant rhetoric and calls for bigger walls and more restrictive laws, few people in the United States truly understand the historical trend...

HISTORY374C

Mexican American History

This course will explore the history of Mexican migrants and Mexican Americans from 1848 to the present.

HISTORY377

Refugees and Asylum

This course explores the histories of refugees and asylum seekers to the United States and helps students learn how people seek asylum by working on the legal cases of current asylum seekers.

HISTORY378

The Historical Ecology of Latin America

This seminar explores the ways in which access to natural resources has translated into political and economic power in Latin America and the Caribbean, from the colonial period to the present. We will examine how state-building projects (colonialism...

HISTORY37D

Germany's Wars and the World, 1848-2010

(History 37D is 3 units; History 137D is 5 units.)This course examines a series of explosive encounters between Germans, Europe, and the world. Starting with the overlooked revolutions of 1848 and ending with the reunification of West Germany and Eas...

HISTORY380B

The Birth of Islam: Authority, Community, and Resistance

This course explores the historical problem of how authority and community (in both the political and religious sense) were defined and challenged in the early Islamic period. Chronological topics covered include: the political, cultural, and religi...

HISTORY380C

Archives, Documents, and Manuscripts: Sources of Ottoman History

The seminar focuses on Ottoman-Turkish texts in various genres - political and moral treatises, histories, legal canons and court records, imperial decrees and fiscal documents, travelogues, private letters and novellas - gathered from archival sourc...

HISTORY381D

Introduction to Islamic Law

What is Islamic law? What kinds of sources do we use to access Islamic law, and how has Islamic legal thinking and practice changed historically? This course introduces students to topics in Islamic law while addressing questions of continuity and...

HISTORY381E

Oil, Maps, Data: Technology in the Middle East

This course introduces students to a wide range of humanities and social science concepts pertaining to the global study of technology with an emphasis on the Middle East in the 19th, 20th and 21st-centuries. The main body of the course focuses on th...

HISTORY382J

Disasters in Middle Eastern History

(History 282J is an undergraduate course offered for 5 units; History 382J is a graduate course offered for 4-5 units.) This course explores the history of disasters in the Middle East from the early modern period to the mid-20th-century. We will tra...

HISTORY383B

The Ottoman Empire and Iran: An Intertwined History of Islamic Eurasia

A history of the Ottoman Empire and Iran (under the Timurid, Safavid, Afsharid and Qajar dynasties) from the 14th to the early 20th century. The course invites students to think the Ottoman and Iranian experiences as a connected history, bridging se...

HISTORY383B

The Ottoman Empire and Iran: An Intertwined History of Islamic Eurasia

A history of the Ottoman Empire and Iran (under the Timurid, Safavid, Afsharid and Qajar dynasties) from the 14th to the early 20th century. The course invites students to think the Ottoman and Iranian experiences as a connected history, bridging se...

HISTORY383C

The Medieval Middle East: Crusaders, Turks, and Mongols

This course surveys the history of the Middle East from c.950 A.D. to c.1517 A.D., placing particular emphasis on the following questions: What were the social, cultural, and political contexts for conversion to Islam in the Middle Ages? How did the...

HISTORY383F

Capital and Crisis in the Middle East and the World

How are crises imagined, named, and categorized? How do economic crises intersect with pandemics, violence and environmental disaster to redefine the workings of capital? This course approaches these questions through critical reading in the historie...

HISTORY383J

Global Islam

(Undergraduates, enroll in 283J; Graduates, enroll in 383J.) Explores the history and politics of Islam in Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the Americas --- and of the novel connections that have linked Muslim communities across the globe in...

HISTORY384

The Ottoman Empire: Conquest, Coexistence, and Coffee

(History 284 is an undergraduate course offered for 5 units; History 384 is a graduate course offered for 4-5 units.) The Ottoman Empire ruled the Middle East, North Africa and Eastern Europe from the 15th to the early 20th centuries. How did the Ott...

HISTORY384E

Contemporary Muslim Political Thought

This course aims to provide an intellectual history of contemporary Muslim political thought. It presents post-nineteenth century Muslim contributions to political thought. It is designed as a survey of some major thinkers from the Arab world to Iran...

HISTORY384F

Empires, Markets and Networks: Early Modern Islamic World Between Europe and China, 1400-1900

Focuses on political regimes, transregional connections, economic interactions and sociocultural formations in the early modern Islamic Afro-Eurasia. Topics include complex political-economic systems of the Ottoman, Safavid and Mughal empires and exp...

HISTORY385A

Graduate Colloquium in Early Modern Jewish History

Core colloquium in Jewish History, 17th to 19th centuries.

HISTORY385B

Graduate Colloquium in Jewish History, 19th-20th Centuries

Instructor consent required.

HISTORY38S

All That Glitters is not Gold: The Country House in Modern Britain

The country house is more than just the setting for period dramas starring Maggie Smith; its story, from construction to demolition, is also that of modern Britain. This class is a biography of the country house, told each week as a chapter of histor...

HISTORY39

Modern Britain and the Empire, 1688-2016

(History 39 is offered for 3 units; History 139 is offered for 5 units.) From American Independence to the latest war in Iraq. Topics include: the rise of the modern British state and economy; imperial expansion and contraction; the formation of clas...

HISTORY390

North Korea in a Historical and Cultural Perspective

North Korea has been dubbed secretive, its leaders unhinged, its people mindless dupes. Such descriptions are partly a result of the control that the DPRK exerts over texts and bodies that come through its borders. Filtered through foreign media, Nor...

HISTORY391B

The City in Imperial China

The evolution of cities in the early imperial, medieval, and early modern periods. Topics include physical structure, social order, cultural forms, economic roles, relations to rural hinterlands, and the contrast between imperial capitals and other c...

HISTORY391E

Maps, Borders, and Conflict in East Asia

(Students enroll for 3 OR 5 units.)The nature of borders and border conflicts in N.E. Asia from the 17th to the early 20th century. Focus is on contact zones between China, Russia, Korea, and Japan. The geopolitical imperatives that drove states to...

HISTORY391G

Pre-Modern Chinese Warfare

This course examines the evolution of warfare in China, and its impact on the evolving political and social orders, from the earliest states through the Mongol conquest. It will study how changing military technology was inextricably linked to change...

HISTORY391K

Korean History and Culture before 1900

This course serves as an introduction to Korean culture, society, and history before the modern period. It begins with a discussion of early Korea and controversies over Korean origins; the bulk of the course will be devoted to the Chos'n period (139...

HISTORY392A

Gender in Modern South Asia

Gender is crucial to understanding the political, cultural, and economic trajectories of communities in colonial and postcolonial South Asia. Throughout this course, we will ask a series of questions: How does gender structure conceptions of home, co...

HISTORY392B

Law and Society in Late Imperial China

Connections between legal and social history. Ideology and practice, center and periphery, and state-society tensions and interactions. Readings introduce the work of major historians on concepts and problems in Ming-Qing history.

HISTORY392D

Japan in Asia, Asia in Japan

(History 292D is an undergraduate course offered for 5 units; History 392D is a graduate course offered for 4-5 units.) How Japan and Asia mutually shaped each other in the late 19th and 20th centuries. Focus is on Japanese imperialism in Asia and it...

HISTORY392F

Culture and Religions in Korean History

This colloquium explores the major themes of Korean history before 1800 and the role of culture and religions in shaping the everyday life of Chosôn-dynasty Koreans. Themes include the aristocracy and military in the Koryô dynasty, Buddhism and Confu...

HISTORY392G

Modern Korea

Examines seminal works and major historical debates in the study of modern Korea. Topics include the state and society in the Choson dynasty, reform and rebellion in the nineteenth century, colonization, gender and colonial modernity, national identi...

HISTORY393

Frontier Expansion and Ethnic Statecraft in the Qing Empire

The legacy of the Qing dynasty in the territorial boundaries claimed by the People's Republic of China including the frontier zones that lie outside China proper. How the Qing acquired and ruled its frontier territories. Growth and migration of the H...

HISTORY393A

State, Society, and Economy in Qing Dynasty China

Historical scholarship on China during the Qing period, including the gentry, civil examinations, and the debate about social mobility; merchants, cities, and the debate about civil society/public sphere; taxation, local security, and famine relief;...

HISTORY393B

Living in Ancient China: A Material Culture History

(Undergraduates, enroll in 293B; Master's students, enroll in 393B.) This course explores the embodied means and meanings of "living" in ancient China, roughly from 1200 BCE to 220 CE, as a way of understanding the sociocultural history of the period...

HISTORY393E

Female Divinities in China

This course examines the fundamental role of powerful goddesses in Chinese religion. It covers the entire range of imperial history and down to the present. It will look at, among other questions, what roles goddesses played in the spirit world, how...

HISTORY393F

Chinese Politics and Society

(Doctoral students register for 317B.) This seminar examines scholarship on major political developments in the People's Republic of China during its first four decades. The topics to be explored in depth this year include the incorporation of Tibet...

HISTORY394E

The Past in Ancient China

Introduction to the most important sources in the early Chinese historiographical tradition (broadly conceived), examining how the past was mobilized across a range of textual genres including poetry, speeches, philosophy, narrative, and rhetoric. Pr...

HISTORY394K

Chinese Migrations

(This section is for MA students. Please contact Kai Dowding for the permission number at kdowding@stanford.edu.) This seminar will explore global patterns of Chinese migration, and consider both continuities and change within these movements. We wil...

HISTORY395B

Readings in Early Modern Japanese History

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HISTORY395J

Gender and Sexuality in Chinese History

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HISTORY396D

Historiography of Modern Japan

Introduces students to the major historical problems and historiographic trends in the study of modern Japan from the Meiji period to the present. Themes include approaches to late Meiji culture and politics, the formation of imperial subjects and c...

HISTORY396E

Japan's Long Nineteenth Century

Graduate historiography colloquium on Japan's early modern / modern transition

HISTORY396F

Science and Society in Modern South Asia

(Graduates, enroll in 396F. Undergraduates, enroll in 296F.) Modern science, technology and medicine are global phenomena, and yet scientific knowledge, as the product of human activity, reflects the social, political, economic and cultural contexts...

HISTORY396L

The Worlds of Labor in Modern India

This colloquium will introduce students to the exciting and expanding field of Indian labor history and provide them a comprehensive historiographical foundation in this area of historical research. Seminars will engage with one key monograph in the...

HISTORY397

Core Colloquium in South Asian History

This graduate colloquium is a foundational and intensive introduction to the field of South Asian history. It will engage with some of the major areas of research on South Asia (especially the modern period), the major conceptual frameworks deployed...

HISTORY398

Major Topics in Modern Chinese History: Cultural and Intellectual History

China has experienced profound changes over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In the span of less than two hundred years, the country has witnessed colonial incursions by multiple Western powers, the demise of an imperial system o...

HISTORY398C

Race, Gender, & Sexuality in Chinese History

This course examines the diverse ways in which identities--particularly race, ethnicity, gender and sexuality have been understood and experienced in Chinese societies, broadly defined, from the imperial period to the present day. Topics include cha...

HISTORY398E

Chinese Pop Culture: A History

This discussion course examines the evolution of popular culture in the Chinese-speaking world and diaspora from the late imperial era to the present. Analyzing myth, literature, medicine, music, art, film, fashion, and internet culture will help stu...

HISTORY398F

Social Movements and State Power in China, 1644-Present

(This section is for MA students; to enroll, please contact Kai Dowding kdowding@stanford.edu for the permission number.) This discussion course investigates the ideological, political and environmental conditions that have shaped social movements,...

HISTORY399P

Mastering Uncertainty: The Power of Archival Thinking

When confronted with chaos and uncertainty, do you know how to stay calm, ask the right questions, and find the answers? Archival researchers do. Do you realize that less than 1 percent of primary sources have been digitized, and that 99 percent stil...

HISTORY399W

Graduate Directed Reading

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HISTORY39Q

Were They Really "Hard Times"? Mid-Victorian Social Movements and Charles Dickens

"It was a town of red brick, or of brick that would have been red if the smoke and ashes had allowed it." So begins Charles Dickens description of Coketown in Hard Times. And it only seems to get more grim from there. But the world that Dickens sough...

HISTORY3D

Dangerous Ideas

Ideas matter. Concepts such as equality, tradition, and Hell have inspired social movements, shaped political systems, and dramatically influenced the lives of individuals. Others, like race and urban renewal, play an important role in contemporary d...

HISTORY3F

The Changing Face of War: Introduction to Military History

(HISTORY 3F is 3 units; 103F is 5 units.) Introduces students to the rich history of military affairs and, at the same time, examines the ways in which we think of change and continuity in military history. How did war evolve from ancient times, both...

HISTORY3J

Human Trafficking: Historical, Legal, and Medical Perspectives

Interdisciplinary approach to understanding the extent and complexity of the global phenomenon of human trafficking, especially for forced prostitution, labor exploitation, and organ trade, focusing on human rights violations and remedies. Provides a...

HISTORY3N

Terrorism

Why do we categorize some acts of violence as terrorism? How do the practitioners of such violence legitimize their actions? What are the effects of terror on culture, society, and politics? This course explores these questions around the globe from...

HISTORY3S

A Global History of the Apocalypse: Millenarian Movements in the Modern World

This course will examine the rise, fall, and legacy of modern millenarian movements-- movements that claim that our corrupt world is about to be swept away, to be replaced with a particular version of paradise-- in a global perspective. Drawing on a...

HISTORY40

World History of Science: From Prehistory through the Scientific Revolution

(History 40 is 3 units; History 140 is 5 units.) The earliest developments in science, the prehistoric roots of technology, the scientific revolution, and global voyaging. Theories of human origins and the oldest known tools and symbols. Achievements...

HISTORY401A

Spatial History: Concepts, Methods, Problems

What can digital mapping and spatial analysis bring to history? How have historians written spatial history in the past? How do scholars in other disciplines deal with space and what can we learn from them? The course provides students with conceptua...

HISTORY401B

Spatial History, Part II

Prerequisite: 401A.

HISTORY402B

Coffee, Sugar, and Chocolate: Commodities and Consumption in World History, 1200-1800

Many of the basic commodities that we consider staples of everyday life became part of an increasingly interconnected world of trade, goods, and consumption between 1200 and 1800. This seminar offers an introduction to the material culture of the lat...

HISTORY402D

The History of Genocide

This course will explore the history, politics, and character of genocide from the beginning of world history to the present. It will also consider the ways that the international system has developed to prevent and punish genocide.

HISTORY403A

Materialities of Power, Part I

How is power made material? And how do material things--objects, commodities, technologies, and infrastructures --reflect, change, consolidate, or distribute power? This research seminar is aimed at PhD students in history, anthropology, and STS who...

HISTORY403B

Materialities of Power, Part II

How is power made material? And how do material things --objects, commodities, technologies, and infrastructures--reflect, change, consolidate, or distribute power? This research seminar is aimed at PhD students in history, anthropology, and STS who...

HISTORY40A

The Scientific Revolution

(Same as History 140A. 40A is 3 units; 140A is 5 units.) What do people know and how do they know it? What counts as scientific knowledge? In the 16th and 17th centuries, understanding the nature of knowledge engaged the attention of individuals an...

HISTORY41S

The Spirit in Motion: Desire in Early Modern Europe

How did people experience and express desire -- for objects, for ideas, or for each other -- in the early modern period? From lusting after a beautiful woman to frantically seeking gold in the farthest corners of the earth, early modern individuals a...

HISTORY424A

The Soviet Civilization

(History 224A is an undergraduate course offered for 5 units; History 424A is a graduate course offered for 4-5 units.) Socialist visions and practices of the organization of society and messianic politics; Soviet mass state violence; culture, living...

HISTORY424B

The Soviet Civilization, Part 2

Prerequisite: HISTORY 224A/424A

HISTORY425A

Graduate Research Seminar: Russia and East Europe

Graduate research seminar.

HISTORY425B

Graduate Research Seminar: Russia and East Europe

Prerequisite: HISTORY 425A.

HISTORY42N

The Missing Link

This course explores the history of evolutionary science, focusing upon debates surrounding the evolutionary place of human beings in the natural world, by examining the history of the idea of a "missing link," an intermediate form between humans and...

HISTORY42Q

Animal Archives: History Beyond the Human

There's a great big world out there. We humans are just one of a million or more animate beings on this planet. Nonhuman animals have their own histories that influence, intersect with, and stand apart from our own. This IntroSem takes animals seriou...

HISTORY42S

Cannibalism in Early Modern Europe: The Ultimate Taboo in Historical Context

Cannibalism (or anthropophagy) may be one of many societies' greatest taboos, but how have ideas about the act changed over time? Taking a historical perspective on cannibalism, this course explores its meanings in Europe during the early modern peri...

HISTORY430

Graduate Research Seminar: Early Modern Europe

Prerequisite: HISTORY 402B. Students may research any aspect of late medieval, Renaissance, and early modern history, ca. 1300-1800. Students wishing to take this seminar must enroll in HISTORY 402B (Coffee, Sugar, and Chocolate: Commodities and Cons...

HISTORY433A

Research Seminar in Modern Europe

Students will complete an article-length research paper based on primary sources.

HISTORY433B

Research Seminar in Modern Europe

Prerequisite: HISTORY 433A.

HISTORY438

European History Workshop

All European history graduate students in residence register for this weekly workshop, at which dissertation chapters and prospectuses, papers, and grant proposals by students and faculty are read and discussed.

HISTORY44

Gendered Innovations in Science, Medicine, Engineering, and Environment

(HISTORY 44 is offered for 3 units; HISTORY 144 is offered for 5 units.) Explores "Gendered Innovations" or how sex, gender, and intersectional analysis in research spark discovery and innovation. This course focuses on sex and gender, and considers...

HISTORY440B

The History of Evolution, Part II

Second half of Graduate Research Seminar sequence. Prerequisite: HISTORY 440A.

HISTORY445A

Research Seminar in African History

This is a two quarter research seminar in which students will conduct research using primary sources with the goal of producing an original work of history.

HISTORY445B

Research Seminar in African History

Prerequisite: HISTORY 445A. This is the second half of a two quarter research seminar in which students conduct research using primary sources with the goal of producing an original work of history.

HISTORY448A

Colonial States and African Societies, Part I

(History 248S is an undergraduate course offered for 5 units; History 448A is a graduate course offered for 4-5 units.) Colonialism set in motion profound transformations of African societies. These transformations did not occur immediately followin...

HISTORY448B

Colonial States and African Societies, Part II

Second part of the research seminar offered in the Winter. Students continue their research and present their penultimate drafts in week 8.

HISTORY44Q

Gendered Innovations in Science, Medicine, Engineering, and Environment

Explores "Gendered Innovations" or how sex and gender analysis in research spark discovery and innovation. This course focuses on sex and gender, and considers factors intersecting with sex and gender, including age, race, ethnicity, socioeconomic st...

HISTORY452A

Graduate Research Seminar: American Cultural and Intellectual History

Major methods and issues. Goal is to produce a research paper based on primary sources suitable for inclusion in a doctoral dissertation or submission to a peer-reviewed scholarly journal. Topics include: compiling primary and secondary source biblio...

HISTORY452B

Graduate Research Seminar: American Cultural and Intellectual History, Part 2

Prerequisite: HISTORY 452A

HISTORY45B

Africa in the 20th Century

(Same as HISTORY 145B. 45B is 3 units; 145B is 5 units) CREATIVITY. AGENCY. RESILIENCE. This is the African history with which this course will engage. African scholars and knowledge production of Africa that explicitly engages with theories of race...

HISTORY45N

Power, Prestige and Politics in African Societies

This seminar infuses a human dimension into the study of politics in Africa. Considering the 1800s to the present day, the seminar prompts students to creatively connect the political with the personal. We will examine how gender, intimate and roman...

HISTORY460

Research Seminar in America in the World

Ways to place American history in an international context. Comparative, transnational, diplomatic, and world systems are approaches to complete a research paper based on research into primary materials. Historical methodologies, research strategies,...

HISTORY468A

Graduate Research Seminar: U.S. History in the 20th Century

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HISTORY468B

Graduate Research Seminar: U.S. History in the 20th Century Part II

Prerequisite: History 468A.

HISTORY46N

Show and Tell: Creating Provenance Histories of African Art

Provenance refers to the chain of custody of a particular art object during its lifetime. Put another way, provenance refers to all the individuals, communities, and institutions who have owned (both legally and illegally), kept, stored, exhibited, d...

HISTORY46S

Cape to Cairo: Decolonization and African Urban Life 1940s-1960s

Decolonization across Africa was complicated, messy and sometimes violent. It was also an important moment for (re) imagining and (re)structuring society resulting in fascinating historical encounters among different groups. This course explores deco...

HISTORY47

History of South Africa

(Same as HISTORY 147. HISTORY 47 is for 3 units; HISTORY 147 is for 5 units.) Introduction, focusing particularly on the modern era. Topics include: precolonial African societies; European colonization; the impact of the mineral revolution; the evol...

HISTORY47S

Black Earth Rising: Law and Society in Postcolonial Africa

Is the International Criminal Court a neocolonial institution? Should African art in Western museums be returned? Why have anti-homosexuality laws emerged in many African countries? This course engages these questions, and more, to explore how Africa...

HISTORY48

The Egyptians

This course traces the emergence and development of the distinctive cultural world of the ancient Egyptians over nearly 4,000 years. Through archaeological and textual evidence, we will investigate the social structures, religious beliefs, and expre...

HISTORY481

Graduate Research Seminar in Ottoman and Middle East History

Student-selected research topics. May be repeated for credit

HISTORY486A

Graduate Research Seminar in Jewish History

HISTORY486B

Graduate Research Seminar in Jewish History

Prerequisite: HISTORY 486A.

HISTORY48Q

South Africa: Contested Transitions

Preference to sophomores. The inauguration of Nelson Mandela as president in May 1994 marked the end of an era and a way of life for South Africa. The changes have been dramatic, yet the legacies of racism and inequality persist. Focus: overlapping a...

HISTORY48S

African Voices: Literature and Arts in 20th Century South Africa

How did South African Black intellectuals and artists utilize literature and other artistic forms to articulate their increasingly precarious position in the country's political landscape in the 20th century? What hopes and visions were capt...

HISTORY491A

Modern Korea Research Seminar

This graduate seminar prepares students to undertake research using Korean-language sources on a variety of themes in modern Korea. Students will identify characteristics of major online and offline archives in Korean studies, learn essential skills...

HISTORY491B

Modern Korea Research Seminar

This graduate seminar prepares students to undertake research using Korean-language sources on a variety of themes in modern Korea. Students will identify characteristics of major online and offline archives in Korean studies, learn essential skills...

HISTORY495A

Qing Legal Documents

(Same as LAW 5037.) How to use Qing legal documents for research. Winter: sample documents that introduce the main genres including: the Qing code and commentaries; magistrates' handbooks and published case collections; and case records from Chinese...

HISTORY495B

Qing Legal Documents

How to use Qing legal documents for research. Winter: sample documents that introduce the main genres including: the Qing code and commentaries; magistrates' handbooks and published case collections; and case records from Chinese archives. Spring: cl...

HISTORY496A

Research Seminar in Chinese History

First part of a two part sequence. Primary sources and research methods to be used in the study of modern Chinese history.

HISTORY496B

Research Seminar in Chinese History

Second part of a two part sequence. Primary sources and research methods to be used in the study of modern Chinese history. Prerequisite: HISTORY 496A.

HISTORY498C

Japanese Imperial Archives, Part 1

First part of a two-quarter research graduate seminar on Japanese imperialism in Asia. Students explore different types of archives, from national and research libraries to online databases; learn various methods of research including oral history; a...

HISTORY498D

Japanese Imperial Archives, Part 2

Second part of a two-quarter research graduate seminar on Japanese imperialism in Asia. Students complete research papers based on research conducted for History 498C; the class meets occasionally to report on progress and discuss working drafts. Pre...

HISTORY499X

Graduate Research

Units by arrangement. May be repeated for credit.

HISTORY49S

African Futures: Nationalism, Pan-Africanism, and Beyond

This course examines decolonization and its aftermath in sub-Saharan Africa. With a "wind of change" sweeping the continent, how did Africans imagine their futures together? From W.E.B. Du Bois to Black Panther, this course will engage in historical...

HISTORY4N

What is Nature? Discovering the History of Nature at Stanford

Nature is everywhere. It pops up in advertisements, in news stories, and popular culture. We talk about nature all the time, sometimes without even realizing it: conserving nature, loving nature, and being in nature. But what actually is nature? Are...

HISTORY50A

Colonial and Revolutionary America

(Same as HISTORY 150A. 50A is 3 units; 150A is 5 units.) Survey of the origins of American society and polity in the 17th and 18th centuries. Topics: the migration of Europeans and Africans and the impact on native populations; the emergence of racia...

HISTORY50B

Nineteenth Century America

(Same as HISTORY 150B. HISTORY 50B is 3 units; HISTORY 150B is 5 units.) Territorial expansion, social change, and economic transformation. The causes and consequences of the Civil War. Topics include: urbanization and the market revolution; slavery...

HISTORY50C

The United States in the Twentieth Century

(Same as HISTORY 150C. 50C is for 3 units; 150C is for 5 units.) 100 years ago, women and most African-Americans couldn't vote; automobiles were rare and computers didn't exist; and the U.S. was a minor power in a world dominated by European empires....

HISTORY51B

The End of American Slavery, 1776-1865

How did the institution of American slavery come to an end? The story is more complex than most people know. This course examines the rival forces that fostered slavery's simultaneous contraction in the North and expansion in the South between 1776 a...

HISTORY52Q

Democracy in Crisis: Learning from the Past

This January, an armed insurrection assaulted the U.S. Capital, trying to block the Electoral College affirmation of President Biden's election. For the past four years, American democracy has been in continual crisis. Bitter and differing views of w...

HISTORY53S

Black San Francisco

For over a century African-Americans have shaped the contours of San Francisco, a globally recognized metropolis, but their histories remain hidden. While endangered, Black San Francisco is still very much alive, and its history is an inextricable pi...

HISTORY54

The History of Ideas in America, Part I (to 1900)

(Same as HISTORY 154. 54 is 3 units; 154 is 5 units.) How Americans considered problems such as slavery, imperialism, and sectionalism. Topics include: the political legacies of revolution; biological ideas of race; the Second Great Awakening; scienc...

HISTORY54B

The History of Ideas in America, Part II

This course explores intellectual life and culture in the United States during the twentieth century, examining the work and lives of social critics, essayists, artists, scientists, journalists, novelists, and sundry other thinkers. We will look at...

HISTORY54N

African American Women's Lives

This course encourages students to think critically about historical sources and to use creative and rigorous historical methods to recover African American women's experiences, which often have been placed on the periphery of American history and Am...

HISTORY54S

From Stanford to Stone Mountain: U.S. History, Memory, and Monuments

The future of America's memorial landscape is a subject of intense debate. How do societies remember? Who built the nation's monuments and memorials, and to what ends? Can the meaning of a memorial change over time? In this course, we will survey the...

HISTORY55F

The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1830 to 1877

(History 55F is 3 units; History 155F is 5 units.)This course explores the causes, course, and consequences of the American Civil War. The Civil War profoundly impacted American life at national, sectional, and constitutional levels, and radically ch...

HISTORY58E

Stanford and Its Worlds: 1885-present

The past and future of Stanford University examined through the development of four critical "worlds," including the Western region of the United States, the US nation-state, the global academy, and the complex phenomena summarized by the name Silico...

HISTORY58EL

Stanford Archive Lab

Work together with a team of University Archivists, student archive assistants, and classmates on a public exhibition about a rotating theme. Learn what to search for in an archive, how to employ methods from history and sociology to understand and s...

HISTORY5C

Human Trafficking: Historical, Legal, and Medical Perspectives

(Same as History 105C. 5C is 3 units; 105C is 5 units.) Interdisciplinary approach to understanding the extent and complexity of the global phenomenon of human trafficking, especially for forced prostitution, labor exploitation, and organ trade, focu...

HISTORY5N

The Global Refugee Crisis

Worldwide there are more refugees and displaced people today than in any other period of human history. More than 90 million people across the planet have been forcibly displaced from their homes in recent years. How do we account for this crisis? An...

HISTORY5Q

The History of Information: From Movable Type to Machine Learning

Information has a history-- and it's not the one you've been told by Silicon Valley. In a series of propulsive, empirically rich, and provocative lectures and discussions, this course deep-dives into the history of information and IT, including movea...

HISTORY5S

Comparative Partitions: Religion, Identity, and the Nation-State

This course looks at demands for representation made by religious minority communities, specifically by Indian Muslim and European Jewish intellectuals, in the twentieth century. We will explore what national belonging means from the perspective of m...

HISTORY61

The Politics of Sex: Gender, Race, and Sex in Modern America

This course explores the ways that individuals and movements for social and economic equality have redefined and contested gender and sexuality in the modern United States. Using a combination of primary and secondary sources, we will explore the int...

HISTORY61N

The Worlds of Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson assumed many roles during his life-- Founding Father, revolutionary, and author of the Declaration of Independence; natural scientist, inventor, and political theorist; slaveholder, founder of a major political party, and President o...

HISTORY62E

Extremism in America, from the Ku Klux Klan to January 6

(62E is 3 units; 262E is 5 units.)This course is a historical analysis of extremism in the United States from Reconstruction through the present day, looking at such figures and movements and the KKK, the First Red Scare, Father Coughlin and the Chri...

HISTORY62S

From Runaway Wives to Dancing Girls: Urban Women in the Long Nineteenth Century

This course explores the ways in which women - white and black, immigrant and native born, free and enslaved - lived and labored in American cities during the long nineteenth century. Together we will examine a variety of primary sources including di...

HISTORY63N

The Feminist Critique: The History and Politics of Gender Equality

This course explores the long history of ideas about gender and equality. Each week we read, dissect, compare, and critique a set of primary historical documents (political and literary) from around the world, moving from the 15th century to the pres...

HISTORY64S

The Religious Right and Its Critics in America from 1920 to Today

In 2016, Donald Trump won 81% of white evangelical voters. Evangelical and conservative Catholic voters, members of the so-called Religious Right, have formed an essential pillar of the Republican Party for the entire lifetime of most Stanford underg...

HISTORY67S

The Vietnam War/The American War

This course explores the conflict called "the Vietnam War" in the United States and "the American War" in Vietnam - one of the longest and most violent wars of the twentieth century - from the perspectives of those who experienced it. Engaging divers...

HISTORY68D

American Prophet: The Inner Life and Global Vision of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Martin Luther King, Jr., was the 20th-century's best-known African-American leader, but the religious roots of his charismatic leadership are far less widely known. The documents assembled and published by Stanford's King Research and Education Inst...

HISTORY69Q

American Road Trips

"Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road." --Jack Kerouac, On the Road, 1957. From Jack Kerouac's On the Road to Cheryl Strayed's Wild, this course explores epic road trips of the twentieth century. Travel is a fundamenta...

HISTORY6S

An Environmental Problem: Energy, Pollution, Catastrophe

This course looks at pollution in the modern period through the lens of energy and resource use, focusing on four major categories of resources: coal, oil, nuclear power and metals. Key themes and topics, including colonialism, exploitation, disposab...

HISTORY6W

Community-Engaged Learning Workshop on Human Trafficking - Part I

Considers purpose, practice, and ethics of service learning. Provides training for students' work in community. Examines current scope of human trafficking in Bay Area, pressing concerns, capacity and obstacles to effectively address them. Student...

HISTORY70S

The Mexican-American War

Frequently overshadowed by the Louisiana Purchase and the Civil War, the Mexican-American War was central to antebellum conflicts over territorial expansion, the expansion of slavery, and debates about race, ethnicity, and citizenship. This course ex...

HISTORY73

Mexican Migration to the United States

(History 73 is 3 units; History 173 is 5 units.) This course is an introduction to the history of Mexican migration to the United States. Barraged with anti-immigrant rhetoric and calls for bigger walls and more restrictive laws, few people in the Un...

HISTORY74

Mexico Since 1876: The Road to Ayotzinapa

(History 74 is for 3 units; History 174 is for 5 units.) In September of 2014, 43 students from a Mexican teacher's college in Ayotzinapa, Guerrero were abducted and disappeared via the actions of police and organized crime. This shocking human right...

HISTORY77S

Independence or Death! The Transformation of Latin America in the Age of Revolution (1808-1831)

The first half of the nineteenth century saw a cascade of Revolutions transform Latin America from a collection of colonies into independent and sovereign countries struggling for their own national identity. The invasion of the Iberian Peninsula by...

HISTORY78

History of Latin American Revolutions

This course will examine the causes and consequences of Latin American Revolutions of the 20th century. It will focus on Mexico, Cuba, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Chile, and Bolivia. We will bring these revolutions and experiments in social change under an...

HISTORY78S

The Haitian Revolution: Slavery, Freedom, and the Atlantic World

How did the French colony of Saint-Domingue become Haiti, the world's first Black-led republic? What did Haiti symbolize for the African diaspora and the Americas at large? What sources and methods do scholars use to understand this history? To answe...

HISTORY79C

The Ethical Challenges of the Climate Catastrophe

(History 79C is 3 units; History 179C is 5 units.) This course explores the ethical challenges of the climate catastrophe from historical, social, economic, political, cultural and scientific perspectives. These include the discovery of global warmin...

HISTORY7W

Community-Engaged Learning Workshop on Human Trafficking - Part II

Prerequisite: HISTORY6W (FEMGEN 6W). Continuation of HISTORY 6W (FEMGEN 6W). Students will continue working on their projects with their community partners. Several class meetings and small group consultations throughout the quarter. (Cardinal Co...

HISTORY802

TGR Dissertation

Units by arrangement.

HISTORY81B

Making the Modern Middle East

(Same as HISTORY 181B. 81B is 3 units; 181B is 5 units) This course aims to introduce students to major themes in the modern history of the region linking the Mediterranean and Indian Ocean worlds. No prerequisites or prior knowledge of the Middle Ea...

HISTORY82G

Making Palestine Visible

Israel-Palestine is one of the most difficult subjects to talk about, in large part because we in the United States do not have much exposure to Palestinian history, culture, and politics in their own terms. This course aims to humanize Palestinians...

HISTORY82S

Enemies Within: Hostile Minorities in Israel and Iraq in the 20th Century

This course explores the nation state in the Middle East through the perspectives of minority groups in Israel and Iraq. The class examines the origins of these two states since WWI, and considers the integral role that minority groups have played in...

HISTORY83A

Enlightenment and Genocide: Modern Europe and the Ottoman Empire

(HISTORY 83A is 3 units; HISTORY 183A is 5 units.) In the early eighteenth century, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, wife of the British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, introduced Ottoman smallpox inoculation to western medicine. But over the next two ce...

HISTORY83S

Refugees, Routes, and Risks: How People and Things Moved in the Early Modern Period

How did people move, before the inventions of the train and steamship? How did they cross borders before the passport, or get news before the internet, the telephone, the telegraph? We often imagine people, things, and ideas in the early modern perio...

HISTORY85B

Jews in the Contemporary World: Culture, Pop Culture, and Representation

(HISTORY 85B is 3 units; HISTORY 185B is 5 units.) From Barbra Streisand to Volodymyr Zelenskyy, from The Dybbuk to Broad City, and from Moscow to LA, this course applies a multicultural perspective on different experiences of Jewishness in the 20th...

HISTORY85Q

Humanities Core: Middle East II -- Classic

How should we live? This course explores two ethical pathways: mysticism and rationality. They seem to be opposites, but as we'll see, some important historical figures managed to follow both at once. We will read works by successful judges, bureau...

HISTORY86Q

Blood and Money: The Origins of Antisemitism

For over two millennia, Jews and Judaism have been the object of sustained anxieties, fears, and fantasies, which have in turn underpinned repeated outbreaks of violence and persecution. This course will explore the development and impact of antisemi...

HISTORY87

The Islamic Republics: Politics and Society in Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan

(Same as HISTORY 187. History majors and other taking 5 units, register for 187.) Explores the contested politics of these societies in modern times. Topics include controversies surrounding the meaning of revolution, state building, war, geopolitics...

HISTORY89S

Chinese Diaspora and the Making of the Pacific World, 1750-1911

What do the city of Singapore, ICE, the abolition of the slave trade, and the latex condom have in common? All are entangled with the merchant princes, people-smugglers, indentured laborers, and rubber planters that made up the Chinese diaspora in th...

HISTORY8S

Whales, Bombs, & the Race to the Bottom: Oceanic Histories of Law, Environmentalism, & Human Rights

Oceans cover two thirds of the world's surface and play a vital role in global carbon storage, biodiversity, and food stocks. But who owns the oceans and their resources? And what rights and duties do countries, corporations, and individuals have at...

HISTORY90

Early Chinese Thought

This lecture course examines the emergence of critical thought in early China. After a brief study of the social and political changes that made this emergence possible, it looks at the nature and roles of the thinkers, and finally their ideas about...

HISTORY91B

The City in Imperial China

(Same as HISTORY 191B. 91B is for 3 units; 191B is for 5 units.) The evolution of cities in the early imperial, medieval, and early modern periods. Topics include physical structure, social order, cultural forms, economic roles, relations to rural hi...

HISTORY91S

Before Footbinding: Women, Gender, and Sexuality in Early and Medieval China

This course discusses women, gender, and sexuality from ancient China to the Tang Dynasty (618-907 AD). During this period, gender norms and practices changed with the political system, state ideology, and family structure, as well as religions and l...

HISTORY93

The Chinese Empire from the Mongol Invasion to the Boxer Uprising

(Same as HISTORY 193. 93 is 3 units; 193 is 5 units.) A survey of Chinese history from the 11th century to the collapse of the imperial state in 1911. Topics include absolutism, gentry society, popular culture, gender and sexuality, steppe nomads, th...

HISTORY93S

Beyond the Modern Girl: Gender, Sexuality, and Empire in Japan and Korea, 1900-1955

In the 1920s and 1930s, the fashionable and iconoclastic "modern girl" appeared in media in Tokyo, Seoul, and beyond. Yet what, if anything, did she have to do with empire? And what other gendered experiences, identities, and movements emerged alongs...

HISTORY94B

Japan in the Age of the Samurai

(Same as HISTORY 194B. 94B is 3 units; 194B is 5 units.) From the Warring States Period to the Meiji Restoration. Topics include the three great unifiers, Tokugawa hegemony, the samurai class, Neoconfucian ideologies, suppression of Christianity, str...

HISTORY94S

Savoring Japan: Food and Society in Global Perspective

Sushi, Sukiyaki, and Ramen--why are they considered "Japanese?" This course provides insight into this question by exploring the transformations that the Japanese diet underwent in the early 20th century. While the course centers on modern Japan, we...

HISTORY95

Modern Korean History

(Same as HISTORY 195. 95 is for 3 units; 195 is for 5 units.) This lecture course provides a general introduction to the history of modern Korea. Themes include the characteristics of the Chosôn dynasty, reforms and rebellions in the nineteenth cent...

HISTORY95C

Modern Japanese History: From Samurai to Pokemon

(95C is 3 units; 195C is 5 units.) Japan's modern transformation from the late 19th century to the present. Topics include: the Meiji revolution; industrialization and social dislocation; the rise of democracy and empire; total war and US occupation;...

HISTORY95E

Trenches, Guerrillas, and Bombs: Modern Warfare in East Asian History

(95E is 3 units; 295E is 5 units.) This course is an introduction to the field of military history. But rather than centering on the typical Western perspectives, it focuses on studying the East Asian modern warfare during the early 20th century. Stu...

HISTORY95N

Maps in the Modern World

Preference to freshmen. Through critical essays, maps, and atlases focusing on California, this seminar explores four principal themes: the roots of modern mapping in the rise of the state; maps as commodities; cartographies of race; and counter-mapp...

HISTORY96C

Resisting Empire: Anti-colonial Nationalism, Popular Politics & Decolonization in Modern South Asia

(HISTORY 96C is 3 units; 196C is 5 units.) How did subjects of British India respond to colonial rule? When and how did anti-colonial nationalism emerge in South Asia? How did leading thinkers of the region conceptualize the nature of colonialism and...

HISTORY96N

World War II in Asia

This course will explore the history of World War II in Asia. Moving beyond a narrow focus on the war as a U.S.-Japanese conflict, we will take a trans-Asian approach to study social, cultural, military, and political aspects of the war and its conse...

HISTORY96S

The World the Mongols Made: Nomads, Empire, Legacy

The Mongols created global history. Their enterprise was the largest land-based empire in world history, and it lasted longer than most of the competition. This course will examine the world that the Mongols left behind, a world whose ways the Mongo...

HISTORY97

Southeast Asia: From Antiquity to the Modern Era

The history of S.E. Asia, comprising Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Burma, Cambodia, and Laos, from antiquity to the present. The spread of Indian cultural influences, the rise of indigenous states, and the emerge...

HISTORY97C

The Structure of Colonial Power: South Asia since the Eighteenth Century

How did the colonial encounter shape the making of modern South Asia? Was colonial rule a radical rupture from the pre-modern past or did it embody historical continuities? Did colonial rule cause the economic underdevelopment of the region or were r...

HISTORY98

The History of Modern China

(Same as HISTORY 198. 98 is 3 units; 198 is 5 units.) This course charts major historical transformations in modern China, and will be of interest to those concerned with Chinese politics, culture, society, ethnicity, economy, gender, international r...

HISTORY98S

Crime and Punishment in Late Imperial China: Law, State Formation, and Society

How did crime and punishment in late imperial China compare to other parts of the world? What place did the law have in the imperial Chinese state's strategies of governance and in resolving social grievances? How did certain groups and behaviors com...

HISTORY9N

How to Start Your Own Country: Sovereignty and State-Formation in Modern History

What does it mean to start a country, or to acquire and possess sovereignty over a territory? This course will examine the historical evolution of fundamental concepts in our international system: state formation, statehood, and sovereignty. Each wee...

HISTORY9R

Humanities Research Intensive

Everyone knows that scientists do research, but how do you do research in the humanities? This seven-day course, taught over spring break, will introduce you to the excitement of humanities research, while preparing you to develop an independent summ...

JAPAN195C

Modern Japanese History: From Samurai to Pokemon

(95C is 3 units; 195C is 5 units.) Japan's modern transformation from the late 19th century to the present. Topics include: the Meiji revolution; industrialization and social dislocation; the rise of democracy and empire; total war and US occupation;...

JAPAN392D

Japan in Asia, Asia in Japan

(History 292D is an undergraduate course offered for 5 units; History 392D is a graduate course offered for 4-5 units.) How Japan and Asia mutually shaped each other in the late 19th and 20th centuries. Focus is on Japanese imperialism in Asia and it...

JAPAN396D

Historiography of Modern Japan

Introduces students to the major historical problems and historiographic trends in the study of modern Japan from the Meiji period to the present. Themes include approaches to late Meiji culture and politics, the formation of imperial subjects and c...

Department: History