# Teaching **FREE ONLINE : HarvardX Module in "The Book" :** [**Print and Manuscript in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East (1450-1650)**](https://www.edx.org/course/book-print-manuscript-western-europe-harvardx-hum1-3x) **CURRENT COURSES (2023-24)** **FALL 2023: GenEd 1034: Texts in Transition (co-taught with Prof. Leah Whittington, English Dept)--** [site for fall 2023](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/122377) [Canvas site for Fall 2019](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/61336) **/** [canvas site for Fall 2020](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/75306) / [canvas site for Fall 2021](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/91540) For a video about the course taped in conjunction with the Harvard Art Museum see **FALL 2023: History/History of Science 2120: Histories of Material objects (co-taught with Hannah Marcus, History of Science Dept)** [canvas site](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/122016) **(Fall 2023, first iteration)** **SPRING 2024: History 97b: What is Intellectual History?** [canvas site for spring 2024](/%20https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/127503) [Canvas site for Spring 2021](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/82221) / [canvas site for Spring 2022](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/96028) **ALL YEAR: History 3010**: reading group for graduate students preparing field exams in Early Modern intellectual/cultural, Early modern French history, and/or Book History: [canvas site 2023-24](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/121580) [canvas site for 2021-22](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/91242) / [canvas site for abridged 3010 in Book History in 2022-23](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/105207) **COURSES TO BE OFFERED AGAIN SOON:** **Hist 1155: Early Modern Europe --** [Canvas site for Spring 2020](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/63736) / [Canvas site (Spring 2018](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/35307)) the course was also taught in Harvard Extension School as Hist E-1156 using the same syllabus **RETIRED COURSES** **History 1318**: History of the Book and of Reading; syllabus from 2017 [Canvas site (Fall 2017) / ](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/30537)[Canvas site (Spring 2018](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/35307)) also taught in Extension school as [Hist E-1151](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/33462) [Course isite (Fall 2013)](http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/7410%20) \[broken link\] [Course website ](http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~hist1318)(2006-07 academic year) \[broken link\] **History 1151**: Early modern France, 1500-1715 (formerly History 1450) Includes an optional extra discussion section in French. [Canvas site (unedited)](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/26372/assignments/syllabus) **Culture and Belief 20: Reason and Faith in the West** (formerly Historical Studies A-27) [syllabus from Fall 2016](/file_url/134) [Course website ](http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/8149)\[broken link\] **History 97c**: What is the History of History? Sophomore Tutorial [Course website](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/19190) **Graduate Seminars:** History 2321/English 259 (with Leah Price, English Dept): Methods in History of the Book [syllbus from fall 2015](/file_url/135) [Course website](http://my.harvard.edu/course/colgsas-5169) \[broken link\] History 2121: Cultural History of Early Modern Europe [syllabus from Fall 2009](/file_url/136) [Course website](http://isites.harvard.edu/course/colgsas-60428) \[broken link\] **Graduate Reading Lists:** [Early Modern France and Early Modern European Cultural and Intellectual History](/file_url/101) [History of the Book](/file_url/100) **Past Conference Courses and Seminars:** History 81a (formerly History 1309): History in Early Modern Europe [syllabus](/file_url/103) History 73b: Introduction to Intellectual History [syllabus](/file_url/104) History 90b: Sophomore Tutorial in Early Modern European History [syllabus](/file_url/137) History 98: Junior Tutorial on the History of Harvard [syllabus](http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~history/facdata/other/blair_98.pdf) History 90d: Sophomore Tutorial in Intellectual History [syllabus](http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~history/facdata/other/blair_90d.pdf) History and Literature 97: Sophomore tutorial in Early Modern Europe (full year 2000-01) [Fall syllabus ](http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~amblair/HISTLITS.htm) [Spring syllabus](http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~amblair/HLSYLL2.htm) The Two Cultures: the Sciences and the Humanities in Historical Perspective (Freshman Seminar, Spring 2000) [syllabus](/file_url/102) Educational ideals and practices, from ancient Rome to the Enlightenment (conference course, Spring 1997) [Hist 1167 syllabus](http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~amblair/1167WEB.html) Multicultural Switzerland (Freshman Seminar, Fall 1997) [syllabus](http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~amblair/SWISWEB.W51.htm) Crisis in European Consciousness, 1680-1715 (conference course, Fall 1997) [Hist 1452 syllabus](http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~amblair/1452WEB.htm) Graduate seminar in early modern French intellectual and cultural history [Hist 2320 syllabus](http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~history/facdata/other/blair_2320.pdf) ## **Office Hours Sign-up:** [Regular Faculty Office Hours](https://calendar.app.google/9i4uQ2xP2PivbTvZ6)--*Wednesdays 3-4:40pm. please sign up* [here](https://calendar.app.google/9i4uQ2xP2PivbTvZ6) --- Attachments- [ picture\_as\_pdf 1318\_2017\_syllabus.pdf ](/sites/g/files/omnuum10476/files/ablair/files/1318_2017_syllabus.pdf) ---