A History of the Present

Harvard FAS

The past isn’t over; it’s everywhere. And history isn’t something dead—a body of evidence locked in a box. It’s a living thing—an ongoing investigation. This team-taught course will raise your historical consciousness by excavating the origins of key and contested concepts in the world today–like rights, memory, belonging, sovereignty–using a wide range of cases and kinds of evidence. Lectures will be interactive, modeling debate and…