Courses
NOTE: All courses numbered 011-099 have prerequisites: you must have taken an introductory history course here at Swarthmore (#001-010) OR have proof of an AP score of 4 or 5 or an IB score of 6 or 7 in history.
Spring 2019
- HIST 001C. First-Year Seminar: Why College? The Past and Future of Liberal Arts
- Burke, Buurma.
- HIST 001F. First-Year Seminar: The Golden Age of Piracy
- Azfar.
- HIST 001V. First-Year Seminar: History in the Making: Autocrats, Activists, and Artists in a Changing Middle East
- Shokr.
- HIST 001W. First-Year Seminar: Promised Lands: European Settler Colonies 1830-1962
- Brown.
- HIST 002A. Medieval Europe
- Bensch.
- HIST 004. Latin American History
- Armus.
- HIST 006B. The Modern Middle East
- Shokr.
- HIST 027. Living with Total War: Europe, 1914-1919
- Weinberg.
- HIST 032. Holidays in the Empire
- Brown.
- HIST 039. Picking up the Pieces: Rebuilding Russia after the Collapse of Communism
- Weinberg.
- HIST 046. The American Civil War
- B. Dorsey.
- HIST 051. Black Reconstruction
- A. Dorsey.
- HIST 053. Black Women in the Civil Rights Movement
- A. Dorsey.
- HIST 061. The Histories of Water
- Azfar.
- HIST 073. Perils & Phobias: The Case of Yellow
- Chen.
- HIST 090B. Irish History
- Murphy.
- HIST 090X. Divided America: History of the Culture Wars
- B. Dorsey.
- HIST 090Y. From the Frontier to Freedom: Topics in the Study of the South African Past
- Sheik.
- HIST 145. Women and Gender in Chinese History
- Chen.
- HIST 149. Reform and Revolutions in Modern Latin America
- Armus.
Fall 2019
- HIST 001M. First-Year Seminar: History of Food in North America
- A. Dorsey.
- HIST 001U. First-Year Seminar: Defining an "Us": Nationalism, Culture and Identity in Modern Europe
- Brown.
- HIST 001V. First-Year Seminar: History in the Making: Autocrats, Activists, and Artists in a Changing Middle East
- Shokr.
- HIST 005A. Early American History
- B. Dorsey.
- HIST 007B. African American History, 1865 to Present
- A. Dorsey.
- HIST 009B. Modern China: Reformers, Revolutionaries, and Rebels
- Chen.
- HIST 036. Fascinating Fascism
- Weinberg.
- HIST 075. Craft and Technology in China
- Chen.
- HIST 090N. Minor Characters and Ordinary People: New Methods in History and Literature
- Burke, Buurma.
- HIST 091. Senior Research Seminar
- Brown, B. Dorsey.
- HIST 128. Russia in the 19th and 20th Centuries
- Weinberg.
- HIST 143. Political Economy of the Middle East
- Shokr.
Spring 2020
- HIST 001E. First-Year Seminar: Global History of Science
- Chen.
- HIST 003A. Modern Europe, 1789 to 1918: Revolutionaries, Citizens, and Subjects in Europe's Long 19th Century
- Weinberg.
- HIST 006B. The Modern Middle East
- Shokr.
- HIST 008A. West Africa in the Era of the Slave Trade, 1500 to 1850
- Burke.
- HIST 030. Glory Days? Western Europe's Postwar 1945-1975
- Brown.
- HIST 038. Russia in the 20th Century
- Weinberg.
- HIST 044. American Popular Culture
- B. Dorsey.
- HIST 077. Fashion: Theory and History
- Chen.
- HIST 090J. INTP Capstone
- Patnaik, Shokr.
- HIST 090P. Creatively Adapting the Past
- Burke.
- HIST 126. Supranational Institutions and Modern Europe
- Brown.
- HIST 131. Gender and Sexuality in America
- B. Dorsey.
- HIST 180. Honors Thesis
- STAFF.
Fall 2020
- HIST 001E. First-Year Seminar: Global History of Science
- Chen.
- HIST 002F. Rethinking the Scientific Revolution
- Azfar.
- HIST 007A. African American History, 1619 to 1865
- A. Dorsey.
- HIST 033. Environmental History of the Soviet Union
- Weinberg.
- HIST 060. The East India Company, 1600- 1857
- Azfar.
- HIST 067. Digging Through the National Security Archive: South American "Dirty Wars" and the United States' Involvement
- Armus.
- HIST 078. China, Capitalism, and Their Critics
- Chen.
- HIST 091. Senior Research Seminar
- Weinberg.
- HIST 137. Slavery, 1550 to 1865
- A. Dorsey.
- HIST 149. Reform and Revolutions in Modern Latin America
- Armus.
Spring 2021
- HIST 001G. First-Year Seminar: Deviant Histories
- Azfar.
- HIST 003B. Modern Europe, 1918 to the Present: Hot Wars, Cold Wars, Culture Wars
- Weinberg.
- HIST 004. Latin American History
- Armus.
- HIST 009A. Premodern China
- Chen.
- HIST 021. London Beyond Control
- Azfar.
- HIST 046. The American Civil War
- B. Dorsey.
- HIST 058B. An Extended Stay in Gullah/Geechee Low Country
- A. Dorsey.
- HIST 066. Making Sense of Being Sick: the Social Construction of Diseases in the Modern World
- Armus.
- HIST 081B. Creating ourselves: Black Women's history through food and literature
- A. Dorsey.
- HIST 085. Chemistry of Color
- Chen.
- HIST 128. Russia in the 19th and 20th Centuries
- Weinberg.
- HIST 131. Gender and Sexuality in America
- B. Dorsey.
