New courses in History from MIT OpenCourseWare, provider of free and open MIT course materials. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/history 2022-02-11T17:22:12+05:00 MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu en-US Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This course examines the definition of gender in scientific, societal, and historical contexts. It explores how gender influences state formation and the work of the state, what role gender plays in imperialism and in the welfare state, the ever-present relationship between gender and war, and different states' regulation of the body in gendered ways at different times. It also investigates new directions in the study of gender as historians, anthropologists and others have taken on this fascinating set of problems. Students taking the graduate version complete additional assignments. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/history/21h-983j-gender-historical-perspectives-fall-2020 Fall 2020 Ekmekcioglu, Lerna Wood, Elizabeth A. 2021-05-10T15:32:00+05:00 21H.983J 21H.109J WGS.310J WGS.303J en-US gender Susan B. Anthony suffrage activism Ida B. Wells feminism Rochester Fifteen sister wives voting Alice Stone Blackwell race climate change MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This course introduces students to the spatial, legal, economic, social and political structures that created apartheid in South Africa, and to the factors that led to the collapse of the racist order. We will examine the many forms of Black oppression and, also, the various forms of resistance to apartheid. Some of the themes we will explore include industrialization and the formation of the Black working classes; the constructions of race, ethnicities, and sexualities; land alienation and rural struggles; township poverty and violence; Black education; the African National Congress; and the Black Consciousness Movement.  https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/history/21h-266-apartheid-and-south-africa-spring-2020 Spring 2020 Mutongi, Kenda 2021-05-06T18:40:00+05:00 21H.266 en-US South Africa apartheid African National Congress race racial identity Sophiatown mining compounds domestic workers township Black Consciousness Movement Steve Biko MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This course analyzes Russia's social, cultural, and political heritage in the 18th and 19th centuries, up to and including the Russian Revolution of 1917. It compares reforming and revolutionary impulses in the context of serfdom, the rise of the intelligentsia, and debates over capitalism, while focusing on historical and literary texts, especially the intersections between the two. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/history/21h-244j-imperial-and-revolutionary-russia-culture-and-politics-1700-1917-fall-2019 Fall 2019 Wood, Elizabeth A. 2020-12-10T14:30:21+05:00 21H.244J 21G.085J en-US Russia Peter the Great the Russian Revolution empire Solvetsky Transfiguration Monastery Muscovy Ivan the Terrible Petrine Reform Legislation Catherine the Great Pugachev Nicholas I Alexander II the Great Reforms anti-semitism pogrom February Revolution October Revolution MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This course surveys the history of 19th- and 20th-century Africa. It focuses on the European conquest of Africa and the dynamics of colonial rule, especially its socioeconomic and cultural consequences. It looks at how the rising tide of African nationalism, in the form of labor strikes and guerrilla wars, ushered out colonialism. It also examines the postcolonial states, focusing on the politics of development, recent civil wars in countries like Rwanda and Liberia, the AIDS epidemic, and the history of apartheid in South Africa up to 1994. Finally, it surveys the entrepreneurship in the post-colonial period and China's recent involvement in Africa. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/history/21h-165-modern-african-history-spring-2019 Spring 2019 Mutongi, Kenda 2020-06-12T10:47:07+05:00 21H.165 en-US Sub-Saharan Africa colonial rule African nationalism labor strikes guerilla warfare politics civil war Rwanda Liberia AIDS China forced labor taxation capitalism segregation South Africa gender decolonization Mau Mau apartheid MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This course provides a global history of South Asians and introduces students to the cultural, social, economic, and political experiences of immigrants who traveled across the world. It studies how and why South Asians, who have migrated to America, Europe, Africa, the Caribbean and the Middle East, are considered a model minority in some countries and unwanted strangers in others. Through literature, memoirs, films, music, and historical writing, it follows South Asian migrants as they discovered the world beyond India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/history/21h-357-south-asian-migrations-spring-2018 Spring 2018 Aiyar, Sana 2019-02-13T18:05:04+05:00 21H.357 en-US South Asians migration America Europe Middle East the Caribbean India Indian migrants labor middle passage Kenya Dubai politics colonialism race multiculturalism religion MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This course covers the history of Rome from its humble beginnings to the 5th century A.D. The first half covers Kingship to Republican form; the conquest of Italy; Roman expansion: Pyrrhus, Punic Wars and provinces; classes, courts, and the Roman revolution; Augustus and the formation of empire. The second half covers Virgil to the Vandals; major social, economic, political and religious trends at Rome and in the provinces. There is an emphasis on the use of primary sources in translation. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/history/21h-132-the-ancient-world-rome-spring-2017 Spring 2017 Broadhead, William 2018-09-18T15:30:21+05:00 21H.132 en-US Rome the Republic Social Conflict Punic Wars Roman Constitution Hannibal Scipio Africanus Plutarch Marius Sulla Pompey Caesar Augustus the Elites the Plebs Julio-Claudians Flavians Severans Roman Army Nero Constantine Byzantium Christianity MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This course examines the social, cultural, political, and economic history of the United States, from the Civil War to the present. It uses secondary analysis and primary documents, such as court cases, personal accounts, photographs, and films, to examine some of the key issues in the shaping of modern America, including industrialization and urbanization, immigration, the rise of a mass consumer society, the emergence of the US as a global power, and the development of civil rights activism and other major social movements. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/history/21h-102-american-history-since-1865-spring-2018 Spring 2018 Horan, Caley 2018-08-15T19:29:08+05:00 21H.102 en-US immigration industrialization Cold War Civil Rights Movement Civil War Reconstruction Gilded Age Frontier West World Power Progressive reform Great Depression New Deal World War II race Vietnam Digital Age MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This course surveys Japanese history from the establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate in 1603 to the present and explores the local and global nature of modernity in Japan. It highlights key themes, including the emergence of a modern nation-state, the rise and fall of the Japanese Empire, the development of mass consumer culture and the middle class, and the continued importance of historical memory in Japan today. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/history/21h-155-modern-japan-1868-to-present-spring-2017 Spring 2017 Nagahara, Hiromu 2018-01-05T20:18:25+05:00 21H.155 en-US Japan Government Samurai Order Samurai Disorder Tokugawa Shogunate Pax Tokugawa Civilization Democracy Revolution Meiji Imperialism Imperial Democracy Jazz Age World War II MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This course examines the definition of gender in scientific, societal, and historical contexts. It explores how gender influences state formation and the work of the state, what role gender plays in imperialism and in the welfare state, the ever-present relationship between gender and war, and different states' regulation of the body in gendered ways at different times. It investigates new directions in the study of gender as historians, anthropologists and others have taken on this fascinating set of problems. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/history/21h-983-gender-spring-2017 Spring 2017 Ekmekcioglu, Lerna Wood, Elizabeth A. 2017-12-18T21:07:33+05:00 21H.983 en-US gender sexuality race imperialism welfare state war feminism politics masculinity manhood genocide rape sexual violence MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This course explores the political, social, and economic factors commonly offered to explain the fall of the Roman Republic: growth of the territorial empire, increased intensity of aristocratic competition, transformation of the Italian economy, growth of the city of Rome and dependence of the urban plebs, changes in military recruitment and dependence of soldiers on their generals. There is an emphasis on the reading of ancient sources in translation, including Cicero, Sallust, Caesar, Augustus, Appian, Plutarch, and Suetonius. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/history/21h-331-julius-caesar-and-the-fall-of-the-roman-republic-spring-2016 Spring 2016 Broadhead, William 2017-07-14T18:21:44+05:00 21H.331 en-US Julius Caesar Rome Roman Republic Cicero Plutarch Sallust Appian Cassius Dio Polybius Suetonius Cato Brutus Crassus Catiline war Jugurthine War Tiberius Gaius Gracchus The Gracchi Marius Social War unification Italy Sulla Roman Revolution Pompey Gaul urban plebs Publius Clodius Marcellus Ides of March Marc Antony Octavian Augustan Principate MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This seminar examines the global history of the last millennium, including technological change, commodity exchange, systems of production, and economic growth. Students engage with economic history, medieval and early modern origins of modern systems of production, consumption and global exchange. Topics include the long pre-history of modern economic development; medieval world systems; the age of discovery; the global crisis of the 17th century; demographic systems; global population movements; the industrial revolution; the rise of the modern consumer; colonialism and empire building; patterns of inequality, within and across states; the curse of natural resources fate of Africa; and the threat of climate change to modern economic systems. Students taking the graduate version complete additional assignments. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/history/21h-383-technology-and-the-global-economy-1000-2000-fall-2016 Fall 2016 McCants, Anne 2017-04-19T18:30:58+05:00 21H.383 21H.982 en-US technology global economy medieval world systems colonialism empire building patterns of inequality climate change economic growth Middle Ages medieval technology Malthus population homeostasis industrial revolution industrious revolution bourgeois virtues British Imperialism slavery resource curse Great Divergence MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This course explores the political and historical evolution of the Soviet state and society from the 1917 Revolution to the present. It covers the creation of a revolutionary regime, causes and nature of the Stalin revolution, post-Stalinist efforts to achieve political and social reform, and causes of the Soviet collapse. It also examines current developments in Russia in light of Soviet history. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/history/21h-245j-soviet-and-post-soviet-politics-and-society-1917-to-the-present-spring-2016 Spring 2016 Wood, Elizabeth A. 2017-01-04T21:10:13+05:00 21H.245J 17.57J 21G.086J en-US 21H.245J 21H.245 17.57J 17.57 21G.086J 21G.086 Soviet Union politics society Vladimir Putin Imperial Russia Russian Revolution New Economic Policy Gorbachev Yeltsin Lenin Pobedonostsev Marxism October Manifesto World War I February Revolution Romanov dynasty Lenin Bolsheviks Trotsky October Revolution Civil War Red Army Communism Stalin collectivization industrialization Gulag Molotov-Ribbentrop pact World War II Novikov telegram Khrushchev Brezhnev Gorbachev Alena Ledeneva Putin Kremlin Medvedev Ukraine MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm The decades leading up to the Atlantic revolutions of the late eighteenth century were formative moments in the rise of capitalism. The novel instruments of credit, debt, and investment fashioned during this period proved to be enduring sources of financial innovation, but they also generated a great deal of political conflict, particularly during the revolutionary era itself.  This seminar examines the debates surrounding large-scale financial and trading corporations and considers the eighteenth century as a period of recurring financial crisis in which corporate power came into sustained and direct contact with emerging republican norms. The seminar ends with a look at the relationship between slavery and the rise of “modern” or “industrial” capitalism in the nineteenth century, as well as some of the critiques of capitalism that emerged out of that experience.  https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/history/21h-382-capitalism-in-the-age-of-revolution-fall-2016 Fall 2016 Ghachem, Malick 2017-01-03T21:52:29+05:00 21H.382 en-US capitalism revolution monopoly trading stock market financial crisis Mississippi Bubble John Law slave trade South Sea Bubble French public finance France Persian Letters Cato's letters Dutch East India Company Sovereignty East Indies French India Company American Revolution 1764 Currency Act Boston Tea Party Compagnie des Indes French revolution Paris bourse Sciotomanie Global Financial Origins of 1789 Maxmilien Robespierre MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This seminar examines women's experiences during and after war, revolution, and genocide. The focus of the course is mostly on the 20th century and on North America, Europe and the Middle East. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/history/21h-381j-women-and-war-in-the-20th-century-fall-2015 Fall 2015 Ekmekcioglu, Lerna 2016-11-01T19:59:17+05:00 21H.381J WGS.222J en-US 21H.381 21H.381J WGS.222 WGS.222J women war revolution genocide September 11 rape Sierra Leone Civil War military combat peace activisim human rights Vietnam Vietnamese Women's Union Women's Union of Liberation antiwar feminism sterilization reproduction transmission Palestinian-Israel conflict Palestine Israel Persepolis Ravished Armenia gender MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This subject examines the unique culture that developed in the United States after World War II. The dawn of the nuclear age and the ensuing Cold War fundamentally altered American politics and social life. It also led to a flowering of technological experimentation and rapid innovation in the sciences. Over the course of the term, students will explore how Americans responded to these changes, and how those responses continue to shape life in the US today. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/history/21h-211-the-united-states-in-the-nuclear-age-spring-2016 Spring 2016 Horan, Caley 2016-09-29T20:47:06+05:00 21H.211 en-US nuclear age Cold War America atom bomb bomb atomic age nuclear energy civil defense domestic containment New Deal McCarthysim Red Scare sex gender lavender scare homosexual technology MIT security space race suburbanization white flight urban crisis China's Cold War Cold War civil rights youth culture mass culture student movement New Left anti-nuclear movement security democracy nuclear weapon MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This course explores the impact of new technology on the recording and distribution of words and images at three different times: The invention of the printing press ca. 1450; the adaptation of electricity to communication technology in the 19th century (telegraph, telephone, phonograph); and the emergence of digital media today. Assignments include essays and online projects. Students also participate in the design and construction of a hand-set printing press. This course is also part of the Concourse program at MIT. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/history/21h-343j-making-books-the-renaissance-and-today-spring-2016 Spring 2016 McCants, Anne Ravel, Jeffrey S. Stone, Ken 2016-09-09T07:42:41+05:00 21H.343J CC.120J en-US Gutenberg Bible French Revolution printing press books Renaissance period Early Modern period Gill and Edes paper-making Book of Hours Nuremburg Chronicle Decrees of Gregory IX English Book of Martyrs King James Bible Lutheran Bible religion Hart Nautical Collection polyglot Bible engraving Ambroise Pare Gessner Galileo Tycho Brahe Spheres of Sacrobosco De Re Metallica Mathematical Recreations The Cheese and the Worms Menocchio Domenico Scandella MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This course surveys the history of the Middle East, from the end of the 19th century to the present. It examines major political, social, intellectual and cultural issues and practices. It also focuses on important events, movements, and ideas that prevailed during the last century and affect its current realities. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/history/21h-161-the-middle-east-in-the-20th-century-fall-2015 Fall 2015 Jacobson, Abigail 2016-04-26T20:54:26+05:00 21H.161 en-US Middle East history Ottoman period imperialism nation-state Turkey Egypt Israeli-Palestinian conflict Islam Iranian Revolution democracy Orientalism Western Imperialism World War I Great War Nationalism Israel Palestine Islamic radicalism Hamas Arab Spring Isis Iraq Yezidis MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This course investigates the relationship between urban architecture and political, social, and cultural history of Athens in the 5th and 4th centuries BC. It surveys and analyzes archeological and literary evidence, including the sanctuary of Athena on the Acropolis, the Agora, Greek houses, the histories of Herodotus and Thucydides, plays of Sophocles and Aristophanes, and the panhellenic sanctuaries of Delphi and Olympia. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/history/21h-237-the-city-of-athens-in-the-age-of-pericles-fall-2014 Fall 2014 Broadhead, William 2016-04-21T21:22:14+05:00 21H.237 en-US Pericles Athens Greece Acropolis Agora Plutarch Herodotus Thucydies Peloponnesian War democracy Panathenaea festival of Athena Festival of Dionysus gymnasia Sophocles Aristophanes Plato Symposium Delphi Pythian Apollo Delphic Oracle Olympia MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This course provides an introduction to major political, social, cultural and intellectual changes in Europe from the beginnings of the Renaissance in Italy around 1300 to the outbreak of the French Revolution at the end of the 1700s. It focuses on the porous boundaries between categories of theology, magic and science, as well as print. It examines how developments in these areas altered European political institutions, social structures, and cultural practices. It also studies men and women, nobles and commoners, as well as Europeans and some non-Europeans with whom they came into contact. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/history/21h-141-renaissance-to-revolution-europe-1300-1800-spring-2015 Spring 2015 Ravel, Jeffrey S. 2016-01-13T20:34:49+05:00 21H.141 en-US renaissance revolution Europe Italy French Revolution theology magic science England censorship Rene Descartes Italian humanism Copernicus Constantine printing rare books paper-making Erasmus of Rotterdam The Paraclesis free will Luther German Peasants War The Cheese and the Worms Protestant revolution Catholic renewal radical reform movements religion Menocchio skepticism the occult Michel de Montaigne astrology Cardano Cartesian Method Discourse on Method English Civil War interregnum, Putney debates Wallington's World The Mad Hatter Isaac Newton Newtonianism Principia The Encyclopedie Diderot d'Alembert metric system MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This course explores the history of the ideal of personal freedom with an eye towards contemporary debates over the pros and cons of the regulatory state. The first part of the course surveys the sociological and theological sources of the concepts of freedom and civil society, and introduces liberty's leading relatives or competitors: property, equality, community, and republicanism. The second part consists of a series of case studies in the rise of modern liberty and libertarianism: the abolition of slavery, the struggle for religious freedom, and the twentieth-century American civil liberties movement. In the last part of the course, we take up debates over the role of libertarianism vs. the regulatory state in a variety of contexts: counter-terrorism, health care, the financial markets, and the Internet.  https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/history/21h-181-libertarianism-in-history-spring-2014 Spring 2014 Ghachem, Malick 2015-10-30T21:15:49+05:00 21H.181 en-US libertarianism history politics state regulatory state freedom property equality community republicanism liberty slavery religious freedom civil liberties counter-terrorism health care financial market the internet Rawls Nozick Obamacare Rand Paul John Stuart Mill de Toqueville economic good Martin Luther King capitalism freedom John Locke distributive justice communitarianism civil republicanism chattel Freedom Principle antislavery First Amendment free exercise religious accomodation phone surveillance private regulation Aaron Swartz Guerilla Open Access Manifesto MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm