Topic & reading/assignment schedule:

(Note: Assignments should be completed before the class dates which they are listed)

 

Thurs., 1/21/99 - Introductions, discussion of history as a concept, its applications & relevancy

 

Mon., 1/25/99 - 18th-century European economy – Industrial Revolution, city life

reading: ch.16: 561-575- primary source, p.572: Choose 1 excerpt (1-3 sentences) from the primary source which you believe to be especially interesting, informative or significant.

 

Thurs.., 1/28/99 – 18th-Century colonialism: Trans-Atlantic slave trade, plantation system, and 18th-century European wars

reading, ch.17, 580-594

http://www.northpark.edu/acad/history/Classes/Sources/Equiano.html

Consider the following: "African enslavement has had a significant legacy for the modern world." Do you agree or disagree? Explain.

 

Mon. 2/1/99 – 18th-Century Enlightenment

reading, ch.18, 609-627, primary sources, 616, 620, 627

 

Thurs. 2/4/99 – American Revolution - reading, ch. 17, 594-602, 604-605 (prepare for discussion of this essay on Enlightenment & Revolution- what are key points?)

coursepack: WWW readings on American Revolution (Dec. of Ind. & Charles Inglis):

1. http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/1776-1800/libertydebate/inglis.htm

2. http://www.nara.gov/exhall/charters/declaration/declaration.html

Mon. 2/8/99 – The French Revolution, part 1: ch.19, 641-664

& WWW:

1. http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/rightsof.htm

2. http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1791degouge1.html

3. http://history.hanover.edu/TEXTS/natcon.HTM

 

Thurs. 2/11/99 – The French Revolution

reading: ch. 19, 664-679

WWW:

1. http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1793burke.html

2. http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/robespierre-terror.html

 

Mon. 2/15/99 - Test 1 - 18th Century Europe

 

Thurs. 2/18/99 – Napoleonic Europe

reading, ch. 20, 683-693 - source excerpts, p.687, 693

 

Mon. 2/22/99 - Napoleonic zenith, decline & post-Napoleonic Europe

reading: ch. 20, 694-705, primary sources-p. 695

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1815napoleon100days.html

Consider: "Napoleon Bonaparte was a great, positive western in the early 19th century." Do you agree or disagree? Explain.

 

Thurs. 2/25/99 – The global abolition movement

reading: ch 21, p.754-759

WWW: http://www.civnet.org/resoures/teach/basic/part4/18.htm

 

Mon. 3/1/99 – Economic, social & political currents in Europe, 1830-1850

reading: ch. 22, 761-780, primary sources, p.769, 771

WWW: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1786machines.html

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1791machines.html

http://www.cre.canon.co.uk/~davide/kbsm/boulton-watt.html

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1842womenminers.html

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/robinson-lowell.html

 

Thurs. 3/4/99 - Revolutions of 1848

reading: ch. 22, 780-792, primary sources: 783, 785, 789

 

Mon. 3/8/99 – Nationalism triumphant in Germany & Italy

reading: ch. 23, 803-812-

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1852mazzini.html

 

Thurs. 3/11/99 – Test 2

 

SPRING BREAK

 

Mon. 3/22/99 - Russia, Great Britain & France in the late 19th century

reading: ch.23, 812—832, primary sources, 813, 831

 

Thurs. 3/25/99 – European social life & the experiences of women in the late 19th century

reading: ch. 24, 835-859, primary sources, 839, 844, 853

WWW: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1914Pankhurst.html

 

Mon. 3/29/99 – Western Intellectual and Scientific currents, 1860-1929

reading, ch. 25: 877-907, primary sources, 881, 883, 900

 

Thurs. 4/1/99: No reading assignment: research project update - discussion on various topics?

 

Mon. 4/5/99 – Late 19th-Century Imperialism

reading, ch. 26, 911-921, primary source. p.914,

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1903blackburden.html

http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/96sep/congo/stanley.htm

 

Thurs. 4/8/99 - Colonial competition, the alliance system & beginning of WWI

reading, ch. 26, 921-933, primary source, 931,

http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/1914m/blk-cons.html

 

Mon. 4/12/99 – World War I & peace settlement

reading, ch. 26, 932-939, 944-955,

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1914warpoets.html

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1916proc.jpg

http://h-net2.msu.edu/~habsweb/sourcetexts/kreis1.htm

http://www.worldwar1.com/posters.htm#eng (look at each set)

WWI (optional) - Check out the remarkable pictures here:

http://www.amug.org/~avishai/WWI.html

 

Thurs. 4/15/99 – Test 3

 

Mon. 4/19/99 – the Russian Revolution & early Soviet Union

reading – ch. 24-865-873, ch. 26, 939-944, primary sources, p.869, 940-941, 943

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/3610/propgand.html (early USSR)

 

Thurs. 4/22/99 - Depression & dictatorship in the 1930's

reading, ch.28, primary sources: 1010-1011, 1014-1015

WWW: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1928stalin.html

http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/archives/k2grain.html

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/mussolini-fascism.html

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/horstwessel.html

http://history.hanover.edu/courses/excerpts/111hit1.html

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/3610/propgand.html (Nazi Germany)

 

Mon. 4/26/99 – World War II

reading, ch. 29, primary sources, p.1041,

WWW:

http://www.historyplace.com/pointsofview/goldhagen.htm

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1946hoess.html

http://www.remember.org/image/ (examine various images in this collection)

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/3610/propgand.html (WWII)

 

Thurs. 4/29/99 – the Cold War: western and global consequences

reading, ch.30, 1071-1102, 1110-1113, primary sources: 1074, 1078, 1093

Paper due!!

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/3610/propgand.html (Cold War era)

 

Mon. 5/3/99 – Western Civilization in the late 20th-century & where do we go from here?

reading: ch.30, 1107-1110, ch.31, 1123-1131, 1140-1164, primary sources: 1152, 1162-1163

 

Finals Week: 5/5/99-5/13/99: TEST 4 (date: To Be Announced) 

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