Professor Alejandro de la Fuente - Students in this seminar cross listed in History will work with the editor of Transition to design, edit, and produce the journal. Housed at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research (http://hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu/transition), Transition is the longest running Pan African cultural magazine in history. Founded in Uganda in 1961, the journal quickly became Africa's leading intellectual forum. It was later edited by Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka in Ghana before arriving at Harvard in 1991, with...

Professor: Tamar Herzog - Legal history has become a popular pursuit in recent decades, but what does it mean to do legal history? Do lawyers, who routinely review precedent or study the evolution of specific pieces of legislation, do legal history? Do judges, when they reconstruct past events in order to apply the law? Do historians, who use legal documentation? And how is legal history differently done in Europe and in the USA? This section will consider these questions (...

Professor: Tamar Herzog - This is a survey course of the history of European law from the fall of the Roman Empire (5th century) to the establishment of the European Union and debates on Human Rights (20th century). Organized chronologically, it engages with the sources and nature of law, the organization of legal systems and the relationship between law and society, law and law-maker, law and the legal professions. During the quarter we will discuss both Continental and...

Professor: Tamar Herzog - This course examines how our image of Latin American past(s) had changed in last decades in order to introduce students to some of the major debates and recent developments in history and the art of history-making. Among other things, we will examines issues of periodization, comparative and Atlantic history, the nature of primary sources and their difficult interpretation, the use of organizing concepts such “crisis,” “decline,” and “corruption,” the way historians reconstruct the object they seek...