# LAIRD BOSWELL — Courses & Reviews | UW–Madison [View on UW Courses](https://uwcourses.com/instructors/LAIRD_BOSWELL--instructor_74307104ba53dee1d24edb9c) ## Dataset ### revision e243353dcb7d79b7247ced91d69443ef4c2a6349 ### repository twangodev/uwcourses ### schema version 6 ### importer version 7 ### projection id 85abe9ff8837c2c5a134368dcc4cfc85eb723524b21ddeb3d2e953887d2f0c8f ### observed at 2026-09-07T15:55:43.033547+00:00 ### built at 2026-09-11T07:45:51.576183+00:00 ### courses 8951 ### current instructors 5754 ### limited false ### terms * 1272 * 1264 * 1262 * 1254 * 1252 * 1244 * 1242 * 1234 * 1232 * 1224 * 1222 * 1212 * 1204 * 1202 * 1194 * 1192 * 1184 * 1182 * 1174 * 1172 * 1164 * 1162 * 1154 * 1152 * 1144 * 1142 * 1134 * 1132 * 1124 * 1122 * 1114 * 1112 * 1104 * 1102 * 1094 * 1092 * 1084 * 1082 * 1074 * 1072 ### term 1272 ### departments | subject | count | | --------- | ----- | | AAE | 90 | | ABT | 20 | | ACCTIS | 36 | | ACTSCI | 14 | | AFAERO | 10 | | AFRICAN | 87 | | 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Definitely history heavy, so if you don't really enjoying learning about history, I would skip out on this course. But as a history major, Professor Boswell was a really fantastic instructor. Readings can get dense throughout the semester, but other than that, the workload is quite light for this course. Highly recommend! ", "source_url": "https://www.ratemyprofessors.com/professor/819267", "quality_rating": 5, "difficulty_rating": 3 }, { "observed_at": "2026-09-07 16:24:24.890843+00:00", "run_id": "20260907T155543-ce3781c4", "source_review_id": "UmF0aW5nLTM5Mjk4MDE0", "source_instructor_id": "rmp:819267", "instructor_name": "Laird Boswell", "course_label": "HIS120", "course_id": null, "course_uid": null, "review_date": "2024-05-03 16:03:43 +0000 UTC", "comment": "Prof. Bowsell is amazing lecturer and he makes history extremely engaging. He also is very funny and often would tell us personal accounts of the historical topics we are going over in class which is super cool. This class has 2 major papers but other than that it isnt a burden and I often just had to read interesting books.", "source_url": "https://www.ratemyprofessors.com/professor/819267", "quality_rating": 5, "difficulty_rating": 3 }, { "observed_at": "2026-09-07 16:24:24.890843+00:00", "run_id": "20260907T155543-ce3781c4", "source_review_id": "UmF0aW5nLTM5MTg5NzM1", "source_instructor_id": "rmp:819267", "instructor_name": "Laird Boswell", "course_label": "HIS120", "course_id": null, "course_uid": null, "review_date": "2024-04-17 04:30:07 +0000 UTC", "comment": "Great lecturer. Manages to keep things engaging and can be kind of funny, but you definitely have to somewhat like history to enjoy the class. LOTS of reading (like a book a week, but you can sparknotes a bunch of them) and frequent papers. TA is much more responsible for your grade than Boswell is ", "source_url": "https://www.ratemyprofessors.com/professor/819267", "quality_rating": 5, "difficulty_rating": 3 }, { "observed_at": "2026-09-07 16:24:24.890843+00:00", "run_id": "20260907T155543-ce3781c4", "source_review_id": "UmF0aW5nLTM4NTAwODc3", "source_instructor_id": "rmp:819267", "instructor_name": "Laird Boswell", "course_label": "HIS359", "course_id": null, "course_uid": null, "review_date": "2023-12-04 02:28:29 +0000 UTC", "comment": "I can't speak to his assignments or grading since I was just auditing the course, but he is a terrific lecturer! I thoroughly enjoyed this course.", "source_url": "https://www.ratemyprofessors.com/professor/819267", "quality_rating": 5, "difficulty_rating": 3 }, { "observed_at": "2026-09-07 16:24:24.890843+00:00", "run_id": "20260907T155543-ce3781c4", "source_review_id": "UmF0aW5nLTM4MTkyNzI4", "source_instructor_id": "rmp:819267", "instructor_name": "Laird Boswell", "course_label": "HIS120", "course_id": null, "course_uid": null, "review_date": "2023-08-28 21:04:55 +0000 UTC", "comment": "One of the best lecturers I've ever seen - he makes the content very interesting to listen to. 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