Avoid this class if you care about your sanity & your GPA. Too many readings and papers. Expectations to succeed on lengthy research papers were unclear, lectures were unorganized (yet mandatory), grading was tougher than other Econ electives, & the amount of reading is absolutely absurd. 50% of your grade is attendance but only counts against you.

Professor Ebenstein is very disorganized and openly admits to being right-leaning in his lectures, going on tangents about things that have nothing to do with the subject matter. He makes it difficult to discern what will get you a good grade, and he stresses attendance despite his lectures detailing nothing actually relevant to the class. ew.

He assigns 70 pages of reading before each lecture and then assigns an in class quiz on the reading. I usually dont have a problem with reading but when its 70 pages for every lecture i think it starts to get out of hand. Its also a little annoying that you have no way to meet with TA who grades your papers. Besides these problems the prof is nice.

Professor Ebenstein is a charming instructor. People interested in history (and hating math) will surely find their interest in his lectures. However, the homework grading by TAs is remarkably slow. They don't give you any reasons for getting a low score. Please give this extraordinary professor more TAs.

40 pages of writing thru quarter, so f you aren't good at writing, don't take. Lectures are incoherent, rambling, tangential, and he jumps around between time periods so you're left confused ( no slides, just him talking to the camera). Also, some things he lectures aren't even historically accurate. Easy class but extremely boring.

Took 113B in person with him last quarter, it was pretty interesting and an easy-ish A. If classes are still via zoom DO NOT TAKE HIM unless you like to write. He replaced his attendance grade with a weekly paper. Not a super hard class, but not interesting at all and lots of busy work. There are much better econ classes, especially online.