History 102: History Now!
“A Century of Revolutions, 2017-1917:
From Black Lives Matter to the Russian Revolution.”
Tuesdays and Thursdays 2:00-3:20
Prof. Mark Steinberg (Department of History, [email protected])
Prof. Jessica Greenberg (Anthropology, [email protected])
CRN 67798
This course will explore how people in diverse settings have challenged the way societies treat and value human lives through a century of crises and revolutionary movements. Beginning with Black Lives Matter and the crisis this movement is responding to, the course will work back in time through comparable movements such as the “Arab Spring” and other upheavals in 2011, the anti-communist revolutions of 1989, the Iranian revolution, the global youth movements of the 1960s, the Black Panthers, Hungary 1956, anti-colonial revolutions in Africa and Latin America, the Cuban revolution, the Chinese Revolution, the Spanish Civil War, uprisings in Europe after WWI, and the revolutions in the Russian empire 1917-1921. While history itself moves forward in time, “History” as interpretation is inevitably read in reverse from the perspective of the present. We will follow this logic and think retrospectively, even as we consider the experience of time (past, present, and future) as a key part of the revolutionary project. In so doing, we encourage students to critically examine how we use history to understand the present and our present viewpoint to think about the past.
Prof. Mark Steinberg (Department of History, [email protected])
Prof. Jessica Greenberg (Anthropology, [email protected])
CRN 67798
This course will explore how people in diverse settings have challenged the way societies treat and value human lives through a century of crises and revolutionary movements. Beginning with Black Lives Matter and the crisis this movement is responding to, the course will work back in time through comparable movements such as the “Arab Spring” and other upheavals in 2011, the anti-communist revolutions of 1989, the Iranian revolution, the global youth movements of the 1960s, the Black Panthers, Hungary 1956, anti-colonial revolutions in Africa and Latin America, the Cuban revolution, the Chinese Revolution, the Spanish Civil War, uprisings in Europe after WWI, and the revolutions in the Russian empire 1917-1921. While history itself moves forward in time, “History” as interpretation is inevitably read in reverse from the perspective of the present. We will follow this logic and think retrospectively, even as we consider the experience of time (past, present, and future) as a key part of the revolutionary project. In so doing, we encourage students to critically examine how we use history to understand the present and our present viewpoint to think about the past.