American Classics

Students read, discuss, and write about critical works in American history from the 17th through the 20th centuries. Includes writings by early Puritan writers, Franklin, Paine, Jefferson, and Madison; Lewis and Clark; Frederick Douglass; Harriet Beecher Stowe; the Lincoln-Douglas debates; U. S. Grant, W. E. B. Dubois, Andrew Carnegie, Horatio Alger, F. D. Roosevelt, Betty Friedan, and Martin Luther King, Jr. May also include music, recorded speeches, television programs, visual images, or films. Enrollment limited.

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Offered Fall 2021

Catalog	Subject	Faculty	Level	HASS	Category
21H.001	How to Stage a Revolution Lecture: TR 1-2, 5-234 Recitation 1: R 2-3, 1-273 Recitation 2: R 2-3, 1-277 Recitation 3: R 3-4, 1-273	Pouya Alimagham Malick W. Ghachem Caley Horan	Introductory	HASS-H	CI-H
21H.108 WGS.110	Sexual and Gender Identities T EVE 7-10, 66-160	Caley Horan	Introductory	HASS-H
21H.143 21G.056	The “Making” of Modern Europe: 1789 – Present MW 1-2:30, 4-261	Alexandra Steinlight	Introductory	HASS-H
21H.226 11.015	Riots, Strikes, and Conspiracies in American History T EVE 7-10, 56-162	Andrew Pope	Intermediate	HASS-H	CI-H
21H.263 WGS.220	Women and Gender in the Middle East and North Africa R 12:30-3:30, 2-103	Lerna Ekmekçioğlu	Seminar	HASS-H
21H.266	South Africa and Apartheid T 1-4, 4-146	Kenda Mutongi	Intermediate	HASS-H
21H.281	MIT and Slavery: Research Lecture: M 3-5, 14N-112 Recitation: W 3-4, 14N-112	Craig Steven Wilder	Intermediate	HASS-H	CI-H
21H.381 WGS.222	Women and War T 12:30-3:30, 2-103	Lerna Ekmekçioğlu	Seminar	HASS-S

Not Offered This Term

Catalog	Subject	Faculty	Level	HASS	Category
21H.009	World History and Its Fault Lines Since 1800	Sana Aiyar Hiromu Nagahara	Introductory	HASS-H	CI-H
21H.061	The History of American Presidential Elections	Christopher Capozzola	Intermediate		Half term subject
21H.101	American History to 1865	Staff	Introductory	HASS-H
21H.102	American History since 1865	Caley Horan	Introductory	HASS-H	CI-H
21H.106 24.912 21L.008 21W.741 CMS.150 WGS.190	Black Matters: Introduction to Black Studies	Michel DeGraff Fox Harrell Danielle Wood	Introductory	HASS-H HASS-A	CI-H
21H.107 21G.043	Introduction to Asian American Studies: Historical and Contemporary Issues	Emma Teng	Introductory	HASS-H
21H.141	Renaissance to Revolution: Europe, 1300-1800		Introductory	HASS-H	CI-H
21H.144 21G.087	Introduction to Russian Studies	Elizabeth A. Wood Maria Khotimsky	Introductory	HASS-H
21H.145 21G.049 4.674	French Photography	Catherine Clark	Introductory	HASS-A	CI-H
21H.156 21G.045	Global Chinese Food: A Historical Overview NEW SUBJECT!	Emma Teng	Introductory	HASS-H
21H.157	Modern South Asia	Sana Aiyar	Introductory	HASS-S
21H.165	A Survey of Modern African History	Kenda Mutongi	Introductory	HASS-H
21H.170 17.55 21A.130 21G.084	Introduction to Latin American Studies	Tanalís Padilla	Introductory	HASS-S	CI-H
21H.172 21G.078	Latin America Through Film	Tanalís Padilla	Introductory	HASS-H
21H.173	Socialism in Latin America, from Che Guevara to Hugo Chavez	Tanalís Padilla	Introductory	HASS-H
21H.181 17.035	Libertarianism in History	Malick W. Ghachem	Introductory	HASS-H
21H.187	US Environmental Governance: from National Parks to the Green New Deal	Megan A. Black	Introductory	HASS-H
21H.201	The American Revolution	Staff	Intermediate
21H.203	The History of American Presidential Elections		Intermediate	HASS-S
21H.205 STS.427	The Civil War and the Emergence of Modern America: 1861-1890	Merritt Roe Smith	Intermediate	HASS-H
21H.211	The United States in the Nuclear Age	Caley Horan	Intermediate	HASS-H
21H.213 17.28	The War at Home: American Politics and Society in Wartime	Christopher Capozzola Adam Berinsky	Intermediate	HASS-S
21H.214	War and American Society	Christopher Capozzola	Intermediate	HASS-H
21H.217 11.013	American Urban History	Staff	Seminar	HASS-H	CI-H
21H.218	History of the Built Environment in the US	Staff	Intermediate	HASS-H	CI-H
21H.220 11.150	Metropolis: A Comparative History of New York City	Craig Steven Wilder	Seminar	HASS-H
21H.227	Constitutional Law in US History	Christopher Capozzola	Intermediate	HASS-S
21H.229	The Black Radical Tradition in America	Craig Steven Wilder	Intermediate	HASS-H
21H.241 21G.054	France: Enlightenment and Revolution	Jeffrey S. Ravel	Intermediate	HASS-H
21H.242 21G.322	Frenchness in and Era of Globalization	Catherine Clark	Intermediate	HASS-H
21H.245 21G.086 17.57	Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society: 1917 to the Present	Elizabeth A. Wood	Intermediate	HASS-S	CI-H
21H.253 21G.075	The Global Chinese: Chinese Migration, 1567- Present	Emma Teng	Intermediate	HASS-H
21H.260	Cities in the Middle East: History, Politics and Society	Staff	Intermediate	HASS-S
21H.262	Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict	Pouya Alimagham	Intermediate	HASS-H
21H.282	MIT and Slavery: Publication	Craig Steven Wilder	Intermediate	HASS-H
21H.283	The Indigenous History of MIT	Craig Steven Wilder	Intermediate	HASS-H
21H.285 STS.025	Making the Modern World: The Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective	Merritt Roe Smith	Intermediate	HASS-H
21H.315	American Consumer Culture	Caley Horan	Seminar	HASS-H
21H.319	Race, Crime, and Citizenship in American Law	Malick W. Ghachem	Seminar	HASS-S
21H.320	Gender and the Law in US History	Christopher Capozzola	Seminar	HASS-H
21H.321 11.026	Downtown	Staff	Seminar	HASS-H
21H.322	Christianity in America	Craig Steven Wilder	Seminar	HASS-H
21H.358 U 21H.958 G	Colonialism in South Asia and Africa: Race, Gender, Resistance	Sana Aiyar	Graduate Seminar	HASS-H
21H.385 11.152	The Ghetto: From Venice to Harlem	Craig Steven Wilder	Seminar	HASS-S
21H.388 U 21H.988 G	Global Commodities, American Dreams	Megan A. Black	Graduate Seminar	HASS-H
21H.902	Reading Seminar in American History: 1877 to Present	Staff	Graduate
21H.984 STS.414	Risk, Fortune, and Futurity	Caley Horan Will Deringer	Graduate