teaching
Undergraduate lectures
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History in the Headlines
Each week another member of the department situates some current event in its historical context. syllabus
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Modern Europe
Introducing students from any year, school, or major to the contest between conservatism, liberalism, socialism, and nationalism since the Enlightenment. syllabus
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Multinational Britain
Social difference in the British Isles during the 10,000 years before Brexit. syllabus
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Early Modern Britain
How did a provincial Catholic monarchy become imperial, Protestant, and parliamentary? syllabus
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Britain & the British Empire
British history between the founding of the United Kingdom (1707) and its demise (pending). syllabus
Graduate seminars
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Europe: Now and Then
A team-taught introduction to European historiography, pairing thematically related early modern and modern works alongside one another. syllabus
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Twentieth-Century Britain
With special attention to some of the metanarratives that attempt to account for the period as a whole. syllabus
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Approaches to History
A triple orientation for new graduate students, introducing the department, the profession, and the discipline. syllabus
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"Class" and the Historian
Reading histories of social class since the 1960s, in order to shed light on broader developments in the humanities. syllabus
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Britain 1680-1880
One of my various courses on British historiography, each of which aims to help students arrive somewhere between field literacy and field mastery. syllabus
Undergraduate seminars
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Urban Modernism
Getting inside controversial urban development projects, concluding with a tour on “NYU Modernism.” syllabus
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The Darwinian Revolution
On the origins and reverberations of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species (1859). Note: this syllabus links to an earlier version of this course.
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Writing British History
For majors who have completed the workshop. Several alumni have published their final papers, and one won a national essay prize. syllabus