Scheduled Readings and Lecture Materials = WC2-Hybrid (Spring 2017)

Schedule------------------------------------------
Readings
Week 1 =  Introduction / Baseline

Week 2 = 
Laying the Groundwork of the Modern era:  Reformation,
Renaissance, & Exploration

Watch Lecture Videos by clicking on the links below:
-Reformation

-Textbook= Ch. 14 & 15

=Read Online Primary Documents:
-Luther, The Ninety-Five Theses (1517)
=http://www.luther.de/en/95thesen.html
-Vasco da Gama, Round Africa to India (1497-1498)
=http://legacy.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1497degama.asp

Week 3 = 
Absolutism v Constitutional Monarchy          1600-1789

Watch Lecture Videos by clicking on the links below:
-Absolutism
-Constitutional Monarchy

-Textbook= Ch. 14 & 15

-Read = Candide (Read the entire book)



Week 4 =  
 The Scientific Revolution &Enlightenment    1600-1800



Watch Lecture Videos by clicking on the links below:
-Sci. Rev.
-Enlightenment


-Textbook= Ch. 16, & 17=Read Online Primary Documents:

READ:
-Kant: What is and Enlightenment
-Montesquieu: Persian Letters, 19
-Rousseau: The Social Contract
-The Crime of Galileo: Indictment and Abjuration of 1633
-Louis letter to his son

Week 5 = 

French Revolution                                                                     1789-1815

Watch Videos by clicking on the links below:
-Political Enlightenment
-1789 French Revolution

  -Textbook= Ch. 18   

=Read Online Primary Documents:
-A Vindication of the Rights of Woman  
 http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/d/579/
-Curious Proposal of the Women of the Maubert Marketplace (1785) 
 http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/d/264/
"Letter to Fréron: Émigrés Return" by Thérèse Bouisson   
http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/d/452/

Week 6 = 

Industrial Revolution                                                                   1789-1815

 

Watch Videos by clicking on the links below:
-Liberty, Equality, Stability = French Revolution

-Textbook= Ch. 19

=Read Online Primary Documents:
-Leeds Woollen Workers Petition, 1786       
 http://legacy.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/1786machines.asp
-Letter from Leeds Cloth Merchants, 1791    
http://legacy.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/1791machines.asp
 --Child Labour in Cotton Factories, 1807      
http://www.historyhome.co.uk/peel/factmine/southey.htm

Midterm Exam

Week 8 = 
Liberalism and the Expansion of Revolution
        19th Century

Watch Lecture Videos by clicking on the links below:
-Age of Revolutions

 -Textbook= Ch.20

=Read Online Primary Documents:
-"The Philosophy of History"
http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/d/566/
-John Stuart Mill: Liberalism Evaluated, 1873
 http://legacy.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/1873jsmill.asp
-The British Reformation Act of 1832
http://www.emersonkent.com/historic_documents/reform_act_1832_transcript.htm

           Spring Break

Week 9 = 
      19th Century Social Change

-Book  "Things Fall Apart"

Week 10 = 
Reactions: Romanticism, Socialism, Communism, and Darwinism 19th Cent.

Watch Lecture Videos by clicking on the links below:
-Socialist Reactions

 -Textbook= Ch. 23

=Read Online Primary Documents:

-Frederick Engels 1847- Communist Confession of Faith
-Frederick Engels 1847=The Principles of Communism
-Communist Manifesto

Week 11= 
  Imperialism, and Nationalism: Europe squares off     =19th Cent.


Watch Lecture Videos by clicking on the links below:
-Imperialism
-New Left -vs- New Right = Age of "isms"

- Textbook= Ch. 21 & 22

=Read Online Primary Documents:

-Excerpts from Bismarck’s "Blood and Iron Speech (1862)  
-
White Man’s Burden: 
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5478/
-John Stuart Mill: On Colonies and Colonization, 1848:
http://legacy.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/1849jsmill-colonies.asp

Week 12 = 
WWI & the Russian Rev.   1914-1920  

Watch Lecture Videos by clicking on the links below:
-Russian Revolution=
-The Great War (begins) =

- Textbook= Ch. 24

- =Read Primary Documents:  Life in the Soviet Regime
-http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/archives/k2grain.html
-http://www.sfponline.org/departments/socialstudies/worksheets/ch28wkps.pdf
-http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/archives/trans-d2presid.html

Week 13 = 
  The Interwar Upheaval         1918- 1942   


- Textbook= Ch. 25

- Read = All Quiet on the Western Front (Read the entire book) 

Week 14 = 
WWII    1938-1945


Watch Lecture Videos by clicking on the links below:
-Vichy France
-Cold War Origins

-Textbook= Ch. 26

=Read Online Primary Documents:

-Postdam Declaration.
-President Truman's Press Release on the bombs.
-General Farrell's Survey of the destruction in Hiroshima

Week 15 = 
 The Cold War     1945-1993


Watch Lecture Videos by clicking on the links below:
-Globalism
-Post Cold War America

   -Textbook= Ch. 27 & 28

=Read Online Primary Documents: 

Race for Space docs:
-Johnson to presendent Kennedy "(1961)
-Wernher vo Braun 1961
-http://history.nasa.gov/Apollomon/apollo3.pdf
Final Exam