Author Archives: Hist & Lit

Tomorrow is the deadline to apply for an HL90 seminar this spring! Read more about Thomas Dichter’s returning class, “Prison Abolition”: Tell us about your class! This Mindich Engaged Scholarship course will give students an opportunity to apply historical and literary methods to studying the prison abolitionist movement, while also getting hands-on experience working withContinue reading “HL90 ES: Prison Abolition”

There’s still time to apply for one of our spring HL90s! Balraj Gill told us about her new course, “Carceral Empire,” which meets Thursday, 9:45-11:45. What inspired you to teach this class?Mass criminalization is one of the most pressing problems in the United States, but rarely is it considered from the perspective of Indigenous peoplesContinue reading “HL90 FW: Carceral Empire”

There are more great HL90s to take this spring! Steve Biel and Lauren Kaminsky shared more with us about their new course, “Culture Wars,” which meets Monday, 12:45-2:45 this spring. What inspired you to teach this class? You don’t need to look further than the latest news story about a purge of books from aContinue reading “HL90 FY: Culture Wars”

Looking for a class this spring? We’ve got some new HL90s to explore! Patrick Sylvain teaches “Piracy, Empire, and Race” this spring, Monday, 9:45-11:45. What inspired you to teach this class? As a person who was born in the Caribbean, my very existence (indirectly speaking) is the result of piracy. The island of Hispaniola (Ayiti)Continue reading “HL90 FV: Piracy, Empire, and Race”

We still have more spring HL90s to explore! Rebecca Hogue chatted with us about the history and culture of nuclearism and settled the Godzilla vs. Mothra question! Tell us about your class! What do you think its relevance to the present is? These days, when nuclear issues are in the news, we think of “nuclearContinue reading “HL90 EQ: Nuclear Imperialisms”

We have new HL90s this semester! Tommy Conners is teaching “Latinx, 1492 to 2022” this spring, Tuesday 9:45-11:45. What ideas do you want the class to dig into? Is latinidad cancelled? In 2018, Afroindigenous poet and artist Alán Peláez López declared it was, calling out the concept’s attachments to whiteness at the expense of BlacknessContinue reading “HL90 FR: Latinx, 1492 to 2022”

One of our most popular HL90 seminars returns! Drew Faust talks to us about what she learned from being the President of Harvard and how it impacted her class, American Speeches. Tell us about your class! American Speeches will explore speeches across the sweep of American history both as windows into their historical moment andContinue reading “HL90 DR: American Speeches”

We’ve got lots of great HL90s to check out this spring, including Sean Gilsdorf’s “God Save the Queen! Ruling Women from Rome to the Renaissance”! Tell us about your class! Like the title suggests, this is a class about women who wielded power many centuries ago, and the complicated ways that their gender complicated butContinue reading “HL90 AN: God Save the Queen! Ruling Women from Rome to the Renaissance”

The HL90 preview event is today at 2pm! We hope to see you there, but you can also read more about Lilly Havstad’s new class “A Luta Continua: Legacies of Portuguese Empire” now! What inspired you to teach this class? I’ll begin answering this question by sharing that my father, who passed away last winter,Continue reading “HL90 FT: A Luta Continua: Legacies of Portuguese Empire”

Remember, tomorrow is the priority deadline for submitting an HL90 application! Still looking? Check out Morgan Ridgway’s class, “Indigenous in the City,” which meets Monday, 3-5. Read more about it below! What inspired you to teach this class? The majority of Indigenous peoples in what is the United States live in and around urban spacesContinue reading “HL90 FL: Indigenous in the City”