All Courses
For the most up-to-date listing of our courses, with descriptions, please see our section of the College Catalog.
First Year Seminars | Survey Courses | Upper Division Courses | Honors Seminars
Click number (e.g. 001G) for a course description; click course title (e.g. 1st Year Seminar: Human Rights as History: From Haiti to Nuremberg) for a syllabus; or click a professor's name (e.g. Azfar) for a profile of the professor.
NOTE: All courses numbered 011-099 have prerequisites: you must have taken an introductory history course here at Swarthmore (#001-010) .
| Course # | Title | Taught By |
|---|---|---|
| 001b | 1st Year Seminar: Human Rights as History: From Haiti to Nuremberg | Azfar |
| 001c | 1st Year Seminar: Why College? The Past and Future of Liberal Arts | Burke |
| 001e | 1st Year Seminar: Global History of Science | Chen |
| 001f | 1st Year Seminar: The Golden Age of Piracy | Azfar |
| 001r | 1st Year Seminar: Remembering History [pdf] | B.Dorsey |
| 001u | 1st Year Seminar: Defining an "Us": Nationalism, Culture and Identity in Modern Europe | Brown |
| 001v | First Year Seminar: History in the Making: Autocrats, Activists, and Artists in a Changing Middle East | Shokr |
| Course # | Title | Taught By |
|---|---|---|
| 002b | Early Modern Europe | Azfar |
| 002b | Early Modern Europe: Rethinking the Scientific Revolution | Azfar |
| 002x | British History, 1066-1688: from Normandy to the South Sea Bubble | Azfar |
| 003a | Modern Europe, 1789 to 1918: Revolutionaries, Citizens, and Subjects in Europe's Long 19th Century | Brown |
| 003a | Modern Europe, 1789-1918: The Age of Revolution and Counterrevolution [pdf] | Weinberg |
| 003b | Modern Europe, 1918 to the Present: Hot Wars, Cold Wars, Culture Wars | Brown |
| 004 | Latin American History [pdf] | Armus |
| 005a | Early American History [pdf] | B. Dorsey |
| 005b | Modern American History [pdf] | Murphy |
| 006b | The Modern Middle East | Shokr |
| 007a | African American History, 1619 to 1865 | A.Dorsey |
| 007b | African American History, 1865 to the Present | A.Dorsey |
| 008a | West Africa in the Era of the Slave Trade, 1500 to 1850 [pdf] | Burke |
| 008b | Mfecane, Mines, and Mandela: Southern Africa from 1650 to the Present [pdf] | Burke |
| 008c | History of East Africa | Burke |
| 009a | Premodern China | Chen |
| 009b | Modern China | Chen |
| Course # | Title | Taught By |
|---|---|---|
| 020 | The Global Enlightenment: Cosmopolitanism between Theory and Practice | Azfar |
| 021 | London Beyond Control | Azfar |
| 022 | Reparations and the Laws of Slavery | Azfar |
| 024 | Witchcraft, Heresy, and Demonic Possession in Seventeenth Century Europe | Azfar |
| 025 | Colonialism and Nationalism in the Middle East | Shokr |
| 026 | Histories of Capitalism in the Middle East | Shokr |
| 027 | Living with Total War: Europe, 1914-1919 [pdf] | Weinberg |
| 028 | Aux Armes! History and Historiography of the French Revolution | Brown |
| 030 | Glory Days? Western Europe's Postwar 1945-1975 | Brown |
| 031 | France in Algeria, France and Algerians, 1830-present | Brown |
| 032 | Holidays in the Empire | Brown |
| 033 | Environmental History of the Soviet Union | Weinberg |
| 034 | Zionism and the Varieties of Jewish Nationalism | Weinberg |
| 035 | The Modern Jewish Experience [pdf] | Weinberg |
| 034 | Fascinating Fascism | Weinberg |
| 037 | The Holocaust: History, Representation, and Culture [pdf] | Weinberg |
| 038 | Angels of Death: Life under Lenin and Stalin [pdf] | Weinberg |
| 039 | Picking up the Pieces: Rebuilding Russia after the Collapse of Communism [pdf] | Weinberg |
| 042 | The American Revolution | B.Dorsey |
| 043 | Antislavery in America [pdf] | B.Dorsey |
| 044 | American Popular Culture | B.Dorsey |
| 046 | The American Civil War [pdf] | B. Dorsey |
| 051 | Black Reconstruction | A.Dorsey |
| 052 | History of Manhood in America [pdf] | B. Dorsey |
| 053 | Black Women in the Civil Rights Movement | A.Dorsey |
| 057 | History v. Hollywood | A.Dorsey |
| 057b | History v. Hollywood: Black Edition | A.Dorsey |
| 060 | The East India Company, 1600-1857 | Azfar |
| 061 | Histories of Water | Azfar |
| 066 | Making Sense of Being Sick: the Social Construction of Diseases in the Modern World [pdf] | Armus |
| 067 | Digging Through the National Security Archive: South American "Dirty Wars" and the United States' Involvement [pdf] | Armus |
| 067t | Digging Through the Big American Tobacco Archives: Public Health, Corporate Deception, and Cigarette Smoking in Modern Latin America | Armus |
| 073 | Writing China, Picturing Chineseness | Chen |
| 075 | Craft and Technology in China | Chen |
| 077 | Fashion: Theory and History | Chen |
| 078 | China, Capitalism, and Their Critics | Chen |
| 080 | History of the Body | Azfar |
| 080b | Biopower vs Necropolitics: Empires of Life and Death, 1609-2003 | Azfar |
| 084 | Gender, Science, and Technology | Chen |
| 089 | The Environmental History of Africa [pdf] | Burke |
| 090e | On the Other Side of the Tracks: Black Urban Community | A.Dorsey |
| 090p | Creatively Adapting the Past | Burke |
| 90r | Memory and History in the United States | Azfar |
| 090s | Surveillance, Privacy, and Transparency: A History, A Debate, Some Futures [pdf] | Burke |
| 090x | Divided America: History of the Culture Wars | B. Dorsey |
| 091 | Senior Research Seminar [pdf] | Azfar & Weinberg |
| Course # | Title | Taught By |
|---|---|---|
| 116 | European Intellectual History | Azfar |
| 126 | Internationalism and Supranationalism in Modern Europe | Brown |
| 128 | Russia in the 19th & 20th Centuries | Weinberg |
| 130 | Early America in the Atlantic World | B. Dorsey |
| 131 | Gender & Sexuality in America | B. Dorsey |
| 140 | The Colonial Encounter in Africa | Burke |
| 143 | Political Economy of the Middle East: Theory & History | Shokr |
| 145 | Women and Gender in Chinese History | Chen |
| 149 | Reforms and Revolutions in Modern Latin America | Armus |
| Course # | Title | Taught By |
|---|---|---|
| 001a | 1st Year Seminar: The Barbarian North [pdf] | Bensch |
| 001b | 1st Year Seminar: Radicals and Reformers in America | B. Dorsey |
| 001b | 1st Year Seminar: Human Rights as History | Azfar |
| 001c | 1st Year Seminar: Sex & Gender in Western Tradition | Judson |
| 001d | 1st Year Seminar: Religion and Social Change in the U.S. | Lee |
| 001e | 1st Year Seminar: Past & Present in Latin America: Problems & Researching Tools | Armus |
| 001f | 1st Year Seminar: "Foreigners" in the Middle East | Minkin |
| 001g | 1st Year Seminar: China and the World: A History of Collecting | Chen |
| 001g | 1st Year Seminar: The Golden Age of Portability: The Silk Road | Chen |
| 001h | 1st Year Seminar: The Modern Jewish Experience [pdf] | Weinberg |
| 001j | 1st Year Seminar: A New History of the Cold War Era [pdf] | Murphy |
| 001k | 1st Year Seminar: Engendering Culture [pdf] | Murphy |
| 001l | 1st Year Seminar: The History of Leisure and Play | Burke |
| 001m | 1st Year Seminar: History of Food in America [pdf] | A.Dorsey |
| 001n | 1st Year Seminar: Oil and Empire | Bsheer |
| 001p | 1st Year Seminar: Latin America and Latinos through the Lens: Photography, History, and the Present | Armus |
| 001q | 1st Year Seminar: Angels of Death: Russia Under Lenin and Stalin [pdf] | Weinberg |
| 001s | 1st Year Seminar: The American West | A.Dorsey |
| 001t | 1st Year Seminar: Cross & Crescent: Muslim-Christian Relations in Historical Perspective [pdf] | Bensch |
| 001u | 1st Year Seminar: The Making of the Atlantic World [pdf] | DuPlessis |
| 001v | 1st Year Seminar: Witches, Witchcraft, and Witchhunts [pdf] | DuPlessis |
| 001x | 1st Year Seminar: Crime and Punishment in America | Murphy |
| 001y | 1st Year Seminar: The History of the Future | Burke |
| 001z | 1st Year Seminar: The European Metropolis: Topics in Urban History | Bisno |
| 002a | Medieval Europe | Bensch |
| 002b | Early Modern Europe [pdf] | DuPlessis |
| 003a | Modern Europe, 1789 to 1918: The Age of Revolution and Counterrevolution [pdf] | Bisno |
| 003a | Modern Europe, 1789 to 1918: The Age of Revolution and Counterrevolution [pdf] | Hazanov |
| 003b | Modern Europe, 1890 to the Present: The Age of Democracy and Dictatorship | Bisno |
| 004 | Latin American History | Machuca-Gálvez |
| 004b | History of Latinos/as in the United States [pdf] | Echeverría |
| 006a | The Formation of the Islamic Near East [pdf] | Bensch |
| 006b | The Modern Middle East [pdf] | Minkin |
| 006b | The Modern Middle East | Bsheer |
| 008c | From Leopold to Kabila: Central Africa's Bad 20th Century | Burke |
| 009a | Chinese Civilization | Li |
| 009b | Modern China | Altan |
| 009b | Modern China | Li |
| 009c | The Silk Road: China, Central Asia, India, and Iran | Li & Dale |
| 012 | Chivalric Society: Knights, Ladies, and Peasants [pdf] | Bensch |
| 013 | "Foreigners" in the Middle East | Minkin |
| 014 | Friars, Heretics, and Female Mystics: Religious Turmoil in the Middle Ages [pdf] | Bensch |
| 015 | Classical Rome to Renaissance Florence: The Making of Urban Europe [pdf] | Bensch |
| 016 | Sex, Sin and Kin in Early Europe [pdf] | Bensch |
| 017 | Social Movements in the Arab World | Bsheer |
| 017 | A Cultural History of the Modern Middle East | Minkin |
| 018 | Cities of the Middle East | Minkin |
| 019 | Italian Renaissance [pdf] | DuPlessis |
| 020 | The History of Current Events in the Middle East | Minkin |
| 024 | Transitions to Capitalism [pdf] | DuPlessis |
| 025 | Colonialism and Nationalism in the Arab Middle East | Minkin |
| 026 | History of Modern Egypt | Minkin |
| 027 | Living with Total War: Europe, 1912-1923 [pdf] | Judson |
| 028 | Nations and Nationalism in Eastern Europe, 1848 to 1998 [pdf] | Judson |
| 029 | Sexuality and Society in Europe [pdf] | Judson |
| 031 | Revolutionary Iconoclasm: Tearing Down the Old, Building the New [pdf] | Weinberg |
| 033 | Post Stalinist Russia | Weinberg |
| 034 | Antisemitism Through the Ages [pdf] | Weinberg |
| 036 | Modern Germany [pdf] | Judson |
| 039 | The Russian City as a Site of Tradition and Modernity | Weinberg |
| 040 | Native American History [pdf] | DuPlessis |
| 041 | The American Colonies | B.Dorsey |
| 044 | American Popular Culture [pdf] | Mackintosh |
| 045 | The United States Since 1945 [pdf] | Murphy |
| 047 | The Politics of Education: Class and Race in Urban America, 1954-1996 [pdf] | Murphy |
| 048 | Murder in a Mill Town: A Window on Social Change During the Early Republic [pdf] | B. Dorsey |
| 049 | Race and Foreign Affairs [pdf] | Murphy |
| 050 | The Making of the American Working Class [pdf] | Murphy |
| 054 | Women, Society, and Politics | Murphy |
| 055 | Social Movements in the 20th Century | Murphy |
| 056 | The Modern American West, 1850 to the Present | A.Dorsey |
| 058 | Africa in America: Gullah/Geechee Life and Culture | A.Dorsey |
| 058b | An Extended Stay in Gullah/Geechee Low Country | A.Dorsey |
| 059 | The Black Freedom Struggle: Civil Rights to Hip Hop | A.Dorsey |
| 061 | Histories of Water [pdf] | Azfar & Cho |
| 061 | The Production of History | Burke |
| 061b | Strange Flows: The Indus and the Ganges | Azfar |
| 062 | History of Reading | Burke |
| 063 | Voices of the Past: Between Oral History and Memory [pdf] | Armus |
| 063s | Swarthmore Between Oral History and Memory | Armus |
| 064 | Migrants and Migrations: Europeans and Asians in Latin America and Latinos in the United States [pdf] | Armus |
| 065 | Cities of (Im)migrants: Buenos Aires, Lima, Miami, New York [pdf] | Armus |
| 065 | Past and Present in the Andean World | Armus |
| 067 | Peripheral Modernities: Latin American Cities in the 20th Century | Armus |
| 068 | The Self-Image of Latin America: Past, Present, and Future | Armus |
| 070 | History of the Caribbean [pdf] | DuPlessis |
| 074 | The Consuming Passions: Visual and Material Cultures of East Asia | Chen |
| 075 | Modern Japan | Li |
| 076 | Women's Work in Premodern China | Chen |
| 077 | Orientalism East and West | Li |
| 078 | Beijing and Shanghai: Tale of Two Cities | Li |
| 079 | Women, Family, and the State in China | Li |
| 080 | The Whole Enchilada: Debates in World History | Burke |
| 081 | The History of Food in the Modern Era | A.Dorsey |
| 081b | Creating Ourselves: Black Women’s History through Food and Literature | A.Dorsey |
| 082 | Cultural Histories of Digital Media [pdf] | Burke |
| 083 | What Ifs and Might-Have-Beens: Counterfactual Histories [pdf] | Burke |
| 084 | Modern Addiction: Cigarette Smoking in the 20th Century [pdf] | Armus |
| 086 | The Image of Africa | Burke |
| 087 | Development and Modern Africa: Historical Perspectives | Burke |
| 088 | The Social History of Consumption | Burke |
| 090a | Image and Identity: U.S. Latinos/as in Film and Fiction | Echeverría |
| 090b | Irish History [pdf] | Murphy |
| 090c | Women in Late Imperial and Republican China | Altan |
| 090c | Bad Research & Information Heresies | Burke & Buurma |
| 090d | A Global History of Chinese Labor | Altan |
| 090f | Fascism: History and Interpretation | Bisno |
| 090g | Black Liberation 1969 | A.Dorsey |
| 090h | Africans Explore/Africa Explored | Burke |
| 090i | Technologies of the Cold War in Africa | Burke |
| 090j | INTP Capstone: Rituals of Violence | Blanchard & Burke |
| 090j | INTP Capstone: Discipline + Culture (Cross-listed as ENGL 086 and INTP 091) | Azfar & Buurma |
| 090k | Consumer Culture in Modern European History | Bisno |
| 090n | Minor Characters and Ordinary People: New Methods in History and Literature | Burke |
| 090y | From the Frontier to Freedom: Topics in the Study of the South African Past | Essop Sheik |
| 090z | Engendering Difference: Sex, Gender, Race, and the Making of Modern South Africa | Essop Sheik |
| 111 | Muslims, Christians, and Jews in The Medieval Mediterranean | Bensch |
| 116 | Italian Renaissance | DuPlessis |
| 117 | State and Society in Early Modern Europe | DuPlessis |
| 125 | Fascist Europe [pdf] | Judson |
| 134 | U.S. Political and Diplomatic History II: The Rise of Globalism | Murphy |
| 135 | Labor and Urban History [pdf] | Murphy |
| 137 | Slavery, 1550 to 1865 | A.Dorsey |
| 138 | Black Communities in the United States, 1800 to 2000 | A.Dorsey |
| 144 | State and Society in China, 1750-2000 | Li |
| 148 | Issues and Debates in Modern Latin America | Armus |
