In order to fulfill the degree requirements for the History major, students must take at least one course in each of the following geographical areas: American History, European History, and World/Regional History. In addition, at least one course of the required 12 must focus on Premodern History. Please use the below table to check which area(s) any given course in our inventory will fulfill for your major.
*If a student believes a course fulfills an area other than what’s listed below, they may submit a petition. This applies in particular to our Topics in History courses, which include HI 290, 400, 450, and 500.
| Course | Area(s) | Premodern? | |
| CL 321: Greek History (formerly CL 221) | European | X | |
| CL 322: Roman History (formerly CL 222) | European | X | |
| HI 100: Freshman History Seminar | none | ||
| HI 101: The Dawn of Europe: Antiquity to the Renaissance | European | X | |
| HI 102: The Emergence of Modern Europe: Renaissance to the Present | European | ||
| HI 112: Black Power | American | ||
| HI 150: History Writing and Research Seminar | none | ||
| HI 151: The Emerging United States to 1865 | American | ||
| HI 152: The United States Since 1865 | American | ||
| HI 175: World History to 1500 | World/Regional | X | |
| HI 176: World History 1500-Present | World/Regional | ||
| HI 190: History of Boston: Community and Conflict | American | ||
| HI 191: What is Europe? | European | X | |
| HI 200: The Historian’s Craft | none | ||
| HI 201: History of Medieval Europe | European | X | |
| HI 202: Medieval Intellectual History | European | X | |
| HI 203: Magic, Science, and Religion | European | X | |
| HI 204: History of the Crusades | European | X | |
| HI 205: Millenarian Expectations in Western History, Year 1-2000 | European | ||
| HI 206: Heresy and Persecution in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries | European | X | |
| HI 207: Honor-Shame: Middle Ages, Modern World | European | X | |
| HI 208: Renaissance Europe | European | X | |
| HI 209: The Reformation: Religious Conflict in Early Modern Europe | European | X | |
| HI 210: Europe between Renaissance & Revolution | European | X | |
| HI 211: The Age of Discoveries | European | X | |
| HI 212: Early Modern Europe, 1715-90 | European | X | |
| HI 213: Sacred and Secular Power in Christianity and Islam | European or World/Regional | X | |
| HI 214: History of Piracy | World/Regional | X | |
| HI 215: The European Enlightenment | European | ||
| HI 216: The Second Sex in European History | European | ||
| HI 217: History of Europe, 1815-1914 | European | ||
| HI 218: Power and Authority in Europe since World War I | European | ||
| HI 219: Jews in the Modern World | European | ||
| HI 220: The Culture of World War I | European | ||
| HI 221: Catastrophe & Memory | American or European | ||
| HI 222: Science and Technology in World History | European or World/Regional | ||
| HI 223: 19th Century European Intellectual History | European | ||
| HI 224: 20th Century European Intellectual History | European | ||
| HI 225: Communications Revolutions from Language to Cyberspace | American or European | ||
| HI 226: Cities and Cultures | World/Regional | ||
| HI 227: Living in the City | World/Regional | ||
| HI 228: History of Modern Diplomacy: Institutions, Practices, and Principles, 1400-1919 | European | X | |
| HI 229: The Great Powers and the Eastern Mediterranean | European | ||
| HI 230: Special Topics in the History of Media | * | ||
| HI 231: Media and Politics in Modern America | American | ||
| HI 234: Introduction to India and South Asia | World/Regional | ||
| HI 237: Reconstructing the African Past | World/Regional | X | |
| HI 243: Britain and the European Question: The Confluence of History and Politics | European | ||
| HI 244: England in the Middle Ages | European | X | |
| HI 245: Tudor England, 1485-1603 | European | X | |
| HI 246: London: Imperial City to World City | European | ||
| HI 247: Making of Modern Britain | European | ||
| HI 248: Modern Britain, 1867 to Present | European | ||
| HI 249: London Women’s Social History from Aphra Behn to The Blitz | European | ||
| HI 250: British Youth Culture from 1950 to the Present | European | ||
| HI 251: Cultural Capital: The History of Popular Culture in London | European | ||
| HI 252: Class, Power, and the Making of British Identity | European | ||
| HI 253: London at War: From the Home Front to the Frontline | European | ||
| HI 254: The History of Ireland | European | X | |
| HI 255: History of Spain, 711-1898 | European | X | |
| HI 256: History of Spain, 711-1898 | European | X | |
| HI 257: Early Medieval Spain | European | X | |
| HI 258: Reform and Reaction in Modern Spain | European | ||
| HI 259: Italian Emigration and Immigration | European | ||
| HI 260: The Venetian Republic | European | X | |
| HI 261: The Venetian Republic: 697-1797 | European | X | |
| HI 262: Modern Italian History | European | ||
| HI 263: Modern Italian History | European | ||
| HI 264: French Feudal Society, 496-1339 | European | X | |
| HI 265: Early Modern France | European | X | |
| HI 266: French Revolution and Napoleon | European | ||
| HI 267: Nineteenth-Century France | European | ||
| HI 268: Postcolonial Paris | European | ||
| HI 270: Twentieth-Century Germany | European | ||
| HI 271: The Nazis | European | ||
| HI 272: The History of Imperial Russia | European | ||
| HI 273: The History of Soviet Union | European | ||
| HI 274: Topics in Modern Russian and Soviet History, 1861-1956 | European | ||
| HI 275: History of the Jews in Russia and Eastern Europe | European | ||
| HI 276: Jewish Culture | European | ||
| HI 277: War: Myths and Realities | European | ||
| HI 278: Central Europe | European | ||
| HI 279: Experiencing Total War | European | ||
| HI 280: Special Topics in American History | American | ||
| HI 281: American Governance: Foreign Affairs, Politics, and Presidents in the Twentieth Century | American | ||
| HI 282: The Modern American Consumer | American | ||
| HI 283: The Twentieth-Century American Presidency | American | ||
| HI 284: History of War | American or European | ||
| HI 285: The Navy and American History | American | ||
| HI 286: The American Military Experience | American | ||
| HI 287: History of American Foreign Relations Since 1898 | American | ||
| HI 288: American Foreign Policy Since 1945 | American | ||
| HI 290: Topics in History | None* | ||
| HI 291: Politics of the American Environment | American | ||
| HI 292: Capitalism in America: Economic History of the United States | American | ||
| HI 293: History of Economic Ideas | American or European | ||
| HI 294: American Evangelicalism | American | ||
| HI 295: Religious Controversies and the Law | European | ||
| HI 297: African American Women’s History | American | ||
| HI 298: African American History | American | ||
| HI 299: History of the Civil Rights Movement | American | ||
| HI 300: American Popular Culture | American | ||
| HI 301: Women and Gender in US History | American | ||
| HI 302: Science and American Culture | American | ||
| HI 303: Sex, Love, Family: Relationships in Recent American History and Pop Culture | American | ||
| HI 304: Science and Religion: Dialogue and Debate | American or European | ||
| HI 305: American Thought and Culture, 1776-1900 | American | ||
| HI 306: American Thought and Culture, 1900 to the Present | American | ||
| HI 307: Education in American History | American | ||
| HI 308: Religious Thought in America | American | ||
| HI 309: Americans in the World: The United States in Transnational Perspective | American | ||
| HI 310: Becoming American: The Immigrant Experience | American | ||
| HI 311: The South in History and Literature | American | ||
| HI 312: Modernism and Modernity: History and Literature of the United States between the World Wars | American | ||
| HI 313: Internships in Public History | American | ||
| HI 315: The American West | American | ||
| HI 316: American Urban History | American | ||
| HI 317: Nineteenth-Century European Thought and Culture | European | ||
| HI 320: Understanding Revolution: France and Algeria | European or World/Regional | ||
| HI 321: The American Revolution, 1750-1800 | American | ||
| HI 322: The Rise and Fall of the First British Empire | American | ||
| HI 323: British History Since 1900 I | European | ||
| HI 325: History of Ireland | European | X | |
| HI 326: Historical Roots of the British Genius | European | ||
| HI 327: The Modern US Senate: From Collaboration to Confrontation | American | ||
| HI 328: The Civil War Era | American | ||
| HI 329: The Gilded Age, 1877-1914 | American | ||
| HI 330: Modern Italian History | European | ||
| HI 331: Drugs and Security in the Americas | World/Regional | ||
| HI 332: History of International Relations, 1900-45 | American or European | ||
| HI 334: History of International Relations since 1945 | American or European | ||
| HI 335: Nuclear Governance | World/Regional | ||
| HI 336: World War I | American or European | ||
| HI 337: America in Depression and War, 1890 to 1945 | American | ||
| HI 338: Cold War America, 1945-68 | American | ||
| HI 339: A History of the Present: The United States since 1968 | American | ||
| HI 340: History of Modern Diplomacy: Institutions, Practices, and Principles, 1400-1919 | European | ||
| HI 341: Political and Cultural Revolution | European or World/Regional | ||
| HI 342: Imperialism and Independence | World/Regional | ||
| HI 343: Taste, Culture, and Power: The Global History of Food | World/Regional | ||
| HI 344: Greece in the Modern World System: From Independence to Eurozone Membership | European | ||
| HI 345: Greece and the Greeks: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern | European | X | |
| HI 346: History of International Human Rights | European or World/Regional | ||
| HI 347: Bodies, Drugs, and Healing: A Global History of Medicine | World/Regional | ||
| HI 348: Colonialism in Africa: Impact and Aftermath | World/Regional | ||
| HI 349: History of Religion in Precolonial Africa | World/Regional | X | |
| HI 350: Atlantic History | American or World/Regional | X | |
| HI 351: Environmental History of Africa | World/Regional | ||
| HI 352: Power, Leadership, and Governance in Africa and the Caribbean | World/Regional | ||
| HI 353: Atlantic Africa and the Slave Trade | World/Regional | X | |
| HI 354: History, Islam, and Politics in the MENA | World/Regional | ||
| HI 357: Politics and Culture in Britain, 1660-1759 | European | ||
| HI 358: Twentieth-Century European Thought and Culture | European | ||
| HI 360: European Dimensions of the Black Diaspora | European or World/Regional | ||
| HI 361: Black Radical Thought | World/Regional | ||
| HI 363: Early Chinese History | World/Regional | X | |
| HI 364: Modern Chinese History | World/Regional | ||
| HI 365: Shanghai: The Key to Modern China? | World/Regional | ||
| HI 367: The Odd Couple–China and the USA, 1776 to the present | World/Regional | ||
| HI 369: Introduction to Modern Japanese History | World/Regional | ||
| HI 370: The Samurai in Myth and History | World/Regional | ||
| HI 372: Asian American History | American | ||
| HI 377: The Sword, the Cross, and the Crescent: Byzantium and the Near East | European or World/Regional | X | |
| HI 378: Armenia from Antiquity to Middle Ages | World/Regional | X | |
| HI 379: Modern Armenian History and Literature | World/Regional | ||
| HI 380: The Armenian Genocide | World/Regional | ||
| HI 381: History of Modern Iran, 1900-Present | World/Regional | ||
| HI 382: Turko-Persia in the Twentieth Century | World/Regional | ||
| HI 383: Modern History and Geopolitics of the Caucasus | World/Regional | ||
| HI 384: History of Genocide | European or World/Regional | ||
| HI 385: History of Premodern Iran | World/Regional | X | |
| HI 387: Introduction to the Middle East | World/Regional | X | |
| HI 388: Foundations of Jewish Politics | European or World/Regional | X | |
| HI 389: Americans and the Middle East | American or World/Regional | ||
| HI 390: Mecca to Dubai: Cities in the Middle East | World/Regional | X | |
| HI 392: Israel: History, Politics, Culture, Identity | World/Regional | ||
| HI 393: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict | World/Regional | ||
| HI 394: U.S. – Mexican Borders | American or World/Regional | ||
| HI 395: Experiencing Cuba: History, Culture, and Politics | World/Regional | ||
| HI 396: Introduction to Latin American History | World/Regional | ||
| HI 397: Modern Latin America | World/Regional | ||
| HI 398: Protest, Revolution, and Human Rights in Latin America | World/Regional | ||
| HI 399: Introduction to Latin American Politics and International Relations | World/Regional | ||
| HI 400: Topics in History | None* | ||
| HI 401: Senior Honors Seminar 1 | None | ||
| HI 402: Senior Honors Seminar 2 | None | ||
| HI 406: Monks, Friars, and Saints | European | X | |
| HI 407: Topics in Medieval Religious Culture | European | X | |
| HI 408: War in Film and Literature | European or World/Regional | ||
| HI 409: Medieval Science and Technology | European | X | |
| HI 410: Religion, Community, and Culture in Medieval Spain | European | X | |
| HI 412: Popular Culture in Medieval & Early Modern Europe | European | X | |
| HI 413: Gender in Medieval Christian Mysticism | European | ||
| HI 414: Society and Culture in Early Modern Europe | European | X | |
| HI 417: England from Reformation to Revolution | European | X | |
| HI 423: European Unification, 1945-Present | European | ||
| HI 424: Communism, 1789-1989 | European | ||
| HI 425: Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe | European | X | |
| HI 426: Music and Ideas from Mozart to Jazz Age | European | ||
| HI 428: Postwar European Culture | European | ||
| HI 429: British History Since 1900 II | European | ||
| HI 430: Comparative European Fascism | European | ||
| HI 432: Research Seminar and Tutorial in English History | European | ||
| HI 433: History of Ireland and Northern Ireland Since 1916 | European | ||
| HI 434: Monarchy in Modern Britain | European | ||
| HI 435: Histories of Human Rights | European | ||
| HI 436: The Great War and the Fragile Peace | American or European | ||
| HI 440: Refugee Hollywood (1933-1950) | American or European | ||
| HI 443: Jews and Germans | European | ||
| HI 446: Revolutionary Russia | European | ||
| HI 448: Science and Modern Culture: Darwin, Freud, and Einstein | European | ||
| HI 449: The History of Soviet Terror | European | ||
| HI 450: Topics in the History of Popular Culture | None* | ||
| HI 451: Fashion as History | American or European | ||
| HI 453: Three Revolutions | American or European | ||
| HI 454: War and American Society, 1607-2001 | American | ||
| HI 455: The Transformation of Early New England: Witches, Whalers and Warfare, 1630-1860 | American | ||
| HI 456: Religion and American Culture | American | ||
| HI 457: Alternative America | American | ||
| HI 461: The Civil War in American Memory | American | ||
| HI 462: History of the American South | American | ||
| HI 464: America and the Interwar Period, 1919-41 | American | ||
| HI 465: The United States and the Cold War | American | ||
| HI 467: Postwar America: Issue in Political, Cultural, and Social History, 1945-69 | American | ||
| HI 468: American Society Since 1970: Issues in Domestic Political, Cultural, and Social History | American | ||
| HI 472: Wars of Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries | American | ||
| HI 475: American Consumer History | American | ||
| HI 476: Technology in American Society | American | ||
| HI 478: Women on Trial | American | ||
| HI 479: Impact of Darwin | American or European | ||
| HI 480: The Theater of History | World/Regional | ||
| HI 481: Looking East, Looking West: Mutual (Mis)Representations of Japan and the West | World/Regional | ||
| HI 482: Merchants, Pirates, Missionaries, and the State in Maritime Asia, 600-2000 | World/Regional | ||
| HI 484: Revolutionary Change in North Africa and the Middle East | World/Regional | ||
| HI 485: Selected Problems in Modern Middle East | World/Regional | ||
| HI 486: Islamic History | World/Regional | ||
| HI 487: The Making of Modern China, 1600 to the Present | World/Regional | ||
| HI 488: Interwar Japan and the Pacific War | World/Regional | ||
| HI 489: The African Diaspora in the Americas | American or World/Regional | ||
| HI 490: Blacks and Asians: Encounters Through Time and Space | World/Regional | ||
| HI 491: Directed Study | None | ||
| HI 492: Directed Study | None | ||
| HI 493: History of Science | American | ||
| HI 494: Histories for the New South Africa | World/Regional | ||
| HI 496: Ideology and Conflict in World History | World/Regional | ||
| Hi 497: Oxford Tutorial in History | None | ||
| HI 500: Topics in History | None* | ||
| HI 502: Drafts of History: Journalism and Historical Revisionism | American | ||
| HI 503: Psychohistory | European | ||
| HI 504: The Civil War | American | ||
| HI 505: The American South in History, Literature, and Film | American | ||
| HI 506: The Transformation of Early New England: Witches, Whalers and Warfare | American | ||
| HI 507: Three Revolutions | American or European | ||
| HI 510: Topics in Legal History | European or World/Regional | ||
| HI 514: Enlightenment and Its Critics | European | ||
| HI 523: U.S.-Latin American Relations | American or World/Regional | ||
| HI 524: The Cold War in Latin America | World/Regional | ||
| HI 525: Development in Historical Perspective | World/Regional | ||
| HI 526: Poverty and Democracy: Modern India and the United States in Comparative Perspective | American or World/Regional | ||
| HI 533: Empire and Power: British Foreign Policy, 1782-Present | European | ||
| HI 537: World War II: Causes, Course, Consequences | American or European | ||
| HI 538: France, Europe, and the World: The History of French Foreign Relations in Modern Times | European | ||
| HI 539: Nazis on Film | European | ||
| HI 541: Comrades & Competitors: US and Soviet Cultural Exchange | American or European | ||
| HI 543: The Prevention of Genocide | World/Regional | ||
| HI 545: Issues in Modern Terrorism | European | ||
| HI 546: Places of Memory: Historic Preservation Theory and Practice | American | ||
| HI 549: Nationalism in Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries | European | ||
| HI 550: Jews in Modern Culture | European | ||
| HI 552: Topics in Jewish History | European | ||
| HI 555: Black Community and Social Change | American | ||
| HI 559: Wars, Peace, and Diplomacy | American* | ||
| HI 560: The American Transcendentalists | American | ||
| HI 566: Ideas and American Foreign Policy | American | ||
| HI 568: The Modern Metropolis: Approaches to Urban History | American | ||
| HI 569: Boston Architectural and Community History Workshop | American | ||
| HI 575: The Birth of Modern America, 1896-1929 | American | ||
| HI 579: Race and the South: Questions of Interpretation in History and Literature | American | ||
| HI 580: The History of Racial Thought | World/Regional | ||
| HI 582: Protest and Resistance in the Americas | World/Regional | ||
| HI 584: Labor, Sexuality, and Resistance in the Afro-Atlantic World | World/Regional | ||
| HI 586: African Americans Abroad | American or European | ||
| HI 587: U.S.-Mexican Borders | American or World/Regional | ||
| HI 588: Women, Power, and Culture in Africa | World/Regional | X | |
| HI 589: Nature’s Past: Histories of Environment and Society | World/Regional | ||
| HI 590: The World and the West | American or European or World/Regional | ||
| HI 591: The Making of the Modern Middle East | World/Regional | ||
| HI 592: The Birth of a State: Israel 1945-1955 | World/Regional | ||
| HI 593: Youth on the Agenda: Roles and Images of Young People in the Jewish Nation | World/Regional | ||
| HI 594: The Armenian Genocide | World/Regional | ||
| HI 595: Morocco: History on the Cusp of Three Continents | World/Regional | ||
| HI 596: Muslim Societies: An Interdisciplinary History | World/Regional | X | |
| HI 597: Diasporas and Identity | European or World/Regional | ||
| HI 606: Heresy & Persecution in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries | European | ||
| HI 608: Renaissance Europe | European | ||
| HI 609: Christendom Divided: Reformation and Religious Conflict in Early Modern Europe | European | ||
| HI 625: Communications Revolutions from Language to Cyberspace | American or European | ||
| HI 649: The Making of Modern Britain | European | ||
| HI 650: Twentieth Century Britain | European | ||
| HI 664: French Feudal Society, 496-1339 | European | ||
| HI 666: French Revolution and Napoleon | European | ||
| HI 670: Germany, 1914 to the Present | European | ||
| HI 672: History of Russia, 1689-1917 | European | ||
| HI 673: History of the Soviet Union and Post-Communist Russia, 1917-Present | European | ||
| HI 674: Topics in Modern Russian and Soviet History, 1861-1956 | European | ||
| HI 689: History of International Relations, 1900-45 | American or European | ||
| HI 690: History of International Relations since 1945 | American or European | ||
| HI 698: African American History | American |