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Internet Modern History Sourcebook Editor: Paul Halsall [This is an example of how an online syllabus circa 1998 looked] | Modern History Sourcebook | Term Paper | Stylesheet| Paul Halsall Fordham Rose Hill/ HSRU 1000 /Spring 1998 The West: Enlightenment to Present Class Hours: Keating214 Tue, 2:30-3:45pm, Fri, 1-2:15pm CONTENTS Course description Textbook and Readings Class Requirements Class Handouts, Projects and Guides COURSE OUTLINE - with links to online lecture notes and primary sources Class Schedule - in Table Form The Course This course is an introduction to the events, ideas, and developments that have created modernity since the 17th century. In world historical terms this has been the period of the achievement and collapse of European political and cultural hegemony. Although we shall look at other areas, our concentration will be on the changes that took place in the European World in the 18th and 19th centuries, the rise of European powers to world domination, the crises of politics and culture in the late 19th and early 20th century, and the emergence of a bipolar world after 1945. Political and economic elites in America and Russia, the successor powers to European empires, have long been involved with, and contributed to, European developments. Accordingly we shall not ignore how developments in those countries have contributed to the modern world. Textbook The textbook (in a new edition for this semester - do not buy older editions!) for the course is: Donald Kagan, et al., The Western Heritage, Volume II: Since 1648, 6th Edition, (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1998) It must be emphasized that your main reading is to consist of the primary source texts indicated in the course outline. Sources and Other Readings on the World Wide Web Students are required to do a varying amount of assigned reading outside class. By the end of the course you should be able to evaluate for yourself the varied interpretations given to the past. To this end a significant proportion of class time will be given to discussion of the readings. Disagreement with the instructor is strongly encouraged. All the primary source readings for each class are on the World Wide Web. If you are reading the online version of this syllabus all you need do is to select [often by "clicking"] the texts in question, which are listed under each class. You can then read on screen, or print out the document. [For the computer-phobic copies may be made available in the library reserve room.] This option puts you, as Fordham students, on the cutting edge of technology. The Internet is now a valuable research tool for students. Accordingly I shall also make this syllabus, course outline, and other class handouts available on the Web. You must acquire a CIMS account for this semester. You can access this account from any VAX terminal at Fordham, from the new net terminals, from terminals in the library, and from home if you have a modem. The World Wide Web browser available at Fordham on the older VAX terminals is called LYNX. To invoke the "pages" for this course simple sign on and type lynx http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/HS1000.html LYNX will only let you see the texts in a plain text mode. If you access the page from home, and have a web browser such as Netscape or the one that comes with AOL, you will find a much more attractive graphical presentation. Those with graphical browsers should just use the URL [web address] http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/HS1000.html Students are strongly recommended to provide themselves with the following reference works:- Webster's Tenth New Collegiate Dictionary, (Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1993) Kate L. Turabian, A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, 6th ed., (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago P., 199?) A good atlas. There is an immense variety available. Recent political changes have made older editions available cheaply. Class Requirements All class requirements must be met in order to earn a final grade. Term paper/Annotated bibliography- 40% of total grade - topic due Feb 6 , Annotated Bibliography due Mar 6, Outline and Thesis due Mar 20  , Paper due Apr 3 . Participation in class discussion, quizzes - 20% of total grade [every class!] Midterm - 15% of total grade - Feb 24 Final exam - 25% of total grade [TBA] The Term Paper (6-8 pages) will be a serious attempt (i.e. an essay) to deal with a historical problem chosen by each student. I will offer suggestions. On Oct 28 you must hand in brief statement of your topic. By Nov. 11 you must hand in a developed thesis statement, outline, and an annotated bibliography of at six-eight items. The paper must be handed in on time, Dec 2. It must conform to a standard term paper style, preferably Turabian since this is a history class, but I will accept MLA style. Papers with D and F grades may be resubmitted if submitted on time. Class Policies ATTENDANCE: Class participation is an essential component of the course. Any significant pattern of absences will be considered in determining final grades. Five or more absences will make it very difficult to obtain a passing grade. EXAMS: Make up exams will only be given for certified medical reasons. HONOR: Cheating will result in an F for any paper or exam in which it is detected. Students are encouraged meet the instructor to discuss papers and/or issues raised in class. Class Handouts, Projects and Guides Map Exercise [This is a Microsoft Word document, it will not display on some browsers] Term Paper Stylesheet How to Write a Paper How Papers Are Graded How to use the World Wide Web COURSE OUTLINE Introduction I: The Ancien Regime II: Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment III: American and French Revolutions IV: The Industrial Revolution V: The Century of Ideology and Power VI: The End of European Hegemony VII: World Since 1945 Introduction: lecture 1: Introduction Why Study History Through Primary Sources lecture 2: Roots of Western Civilization Section I: The Ancien Regime Structures of Politics - Absolutism lecture 3: Everyday Life during the Ancien Regime Kagan, 545-61, 570-75 lecture 4: The Rise of Absolutism Kagan, 449-51, 463-76, [513-36] Cardinal Richelieu: Political Testament, 1624, [At Hanover] Bishop Jacques Bossuet: Political Treatise on Kingship, [At Hanover] Reading Guide Duc de Saint-Simon: The Court of Louis XIV, from Memoires The Duchess of Orleans: Versailles Etiquette, 1704 Jean Baptiste Colbert: Memoirs - On French Finances, [At Hanover] Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679): Leviathan, 1651, extracts England, Holland, and America - Alternative Polities and Economies lecture 5: Another Way: England, Holland and America Kagan, 451-63, 504-09 Petition of Right, 1628, [At The American Revolution Site] Statement of the Levellers, 1649, [At WSU] Radical Women During the English Revolution John Eveleyn: Diary, 1666-1689 Declaration of Right, February 1689, [At Hanover] English Bill of Rights, 1689 John Locke (1632-1704): Second Treatise on Government, [At Hanover] Reading Guide William Temple: Observations upon the United Provinces of the Netherlands The Early Modern World System Immanuel Wallerstein's World System Theory [Modern summary] Back to Index Section II:The Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment The Scientific Revolution lecture 6: Origins of the Scientific Revolution lecture 7: The Scientific Revolution in the Seventeenth Century Kagan, 481-93, 498-504 Nicholas Copernicus: Dedication of The Revolutions of the Heavenly Bodies, 1543, [At Clinch Valley College] Johannes Kepler: Laws of Planetary Motion, [At Hawaii] A web page illustrating the laws in diagrams Galileo Galilei (1564-1642): Letter to the Duchess Christina of Tuscany, 1615 Reading Guide   Réne Descartes: Discourse on Method, 1637, extracts, [At WSU] Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727): Mathematical Principles of Natural Philopsophy On the rules of reasoning in philosophy. Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790): Experiments with Balloons, 1783 Thomas S. Kuhn: Structure of Scientific Revolutions, 1962, [At BGSU] Summary of theories of an important modern theorist of the idea of scientific revolution. The Enlightenment lecture 8: The Rebirth of Philosophy lecture 9: The French Enlightenment Crib Sheet: Rebirth of Philosophy: Empiricism and Rationalism Crib Sheet: Enlightenment Political Thought Kagan, 609-29 Adam Smith (1723-90): Wealth of Nations, 1776, chapter 1, [At WSU] On the division of labor. Jean La Rond D'Alembert: Preliminary Discourse to the Encyclopedia of Diderot, [At WSU] Voltaire (1694-1778): A Treatise on Toleration, 1763, [At WSU] Voltaire (1694-1778): Selections from the Philosophical Dictionary, [At Hanover] Charles Louis de Secondat Montesquieu (1689-1755): Persian Letters, No. 13, 1721 Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755): The Spirit of the Laws, 1748 Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-78): Second Discourse on the Origins of Inequality, 1755 Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-78): The Social Contract, 1763, extracts Condorcet (1743-94): On the Future Progress of the Human Mind, 1794 Reading Guide Cesare Beccaria: An Essay on Crimes and Punishments Paris Salons in the 18th Century On Enlightenment society hostesses. David Hume (1711-1776): On Miracles from Human Understanding Enlightened Despotism Kagan, 627-38 Catherine the Great of Russia: Various Documents on Enlightenment and Government Frederick II of Prussia (1740-1786): Essay on Forms of Government Back to Index Section III: American and French Revolutions American Independence lecture 10a: The American Revolution Kagan, 579-602 J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur (1735-1813): Letters From An American Farmer: Letter 3: What is an American, 1782, [At UVA] Edmund Burke: On conciliation with America, March 22, 1775, [At The American Revolution Site] Declaration of Independence, 1776, [At Yale] United States Constitution, 1787, [At Yale] James Madison:Speech proposing the Bill of Rights, June 8, 1789, [At The American Revolution Site] Bill of Rights and the Amendments to The Constitution, [At The American Revolution Site] Alexis De Tocqueville: Democracy in America, Book II: Chapter 8: Book III, Chapters 3, 4 Chief Black Hawk (1767-1838): Autobiography Smallpox, Indians, and Blankets Slavery Gottlieb Mittelberger, On the Misfortune indentured Servants, [At The American Revolution Site] Oladuah Equiano: The Life of Gustavus Vassa Liberal and Radical Revolution in France lecture 10: The French Revolution: Origins Crib Sheet: The French Revolution Kagan, 641-44 Cahier of the Third Estate of Dourdan, March 29, 1789, [At Clinch Valley College] lecture 11: The Liberal Revolution Kagan, 644-59 Abbé Sieyes: What is the Third Estate? Reading Guide - Early French Revolution The Tennis Court Oath, June 20, 1789, [At Clinch Valley College][With facsimiles of the Document] Declaration of the Rights of Man, 26 August, 1789, [At Yale] Decree Abolishing Feudalism, 1789, [At Hanover] Civil Constitution of the Clergy, 1790, [At Hanover] lecture 12: The Radical Revolution Kagan, 659-75 Proclamation of the Duke of Brunswick, 1792, [At Hanover] The threat that lead to the onset of the French Revolutionary wars. The Marseillaise Maximilian Robespierre (1758-94): On the Festival of the Supreme Being,, 1794 Maximilian Robespierre (1758-94): Terror and Virtue, 1794 Reading Guide Responses to Revolution Olympe de Gouges: Declaration of the Rights of Women, 1791 Edmund Burke (1729-1797): Reflections on the Revolution in France, 1791, extended excerpts Reaction, Napoleon, and Romanticism lecture 13: Reaction and the Rise of Napoleon   Kagan, 675-79 Napoleon Bonaparte: Account of the Situation of the Empire, 1804, [At Hanover] lecture 14: Napoleon and Romanticism Kagan, 683-93, 694-99, 705-17 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faust, 1808, [At Clinch Valley College] William Wordsworth (1770-1850): Tintern Abbey Beethoven [played in class] Back to Index Section IV: The Industrial Revolution Events lecture 15: Causes of the Industrial Revolution   Kagan, 561-70 The Agricultural Revolution of the 17th-18th Centuries lecture 16: The Industrial Revolution: Technology and Social Effects   Kagan, 761-72 The Revolution in the Manufacture of Textiles Leeds Woolen Workers' Petition, 1786 Attacking the effects of machinery. Leeds Cloth Merchants' Letter, 1791 Defending machinery. The Revolution in Power The Steam Engine [At Toronto] A short modern account of how a steam engine works, and what was improved in the 18th century. Thomas Newcomen: The Newcomen Engine, [At exeter.ac.uk] [Sketch picture] James Watt (1736-1819): The Steam Engine, c. 1769, [At Museon.nl] [Picture] James Watt (1736-1819) and Matthew Boulton: An Industrial Steam Engine [witha 64 inch bore!], 1820, [At Kew Bridge Steam Museum] [Picture] Richard Guest: Compendious History of the Cotton Manufacture, 1823 On the application of steam power to cotton looms and the social effects. William Radcliffe: Origin of...Power Loom Weaving, 1828 On the application of steam power to cotton looms. Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806-1859): The S.S. Great Britain, 1839, [At Digiweb][Picture+text] or Another Picture [At wlihe.ac.uk] The first ocean-going steam propeller ship. Curt Anderson: The Two Countries That Invented the Industrial Revolution, [At Darex.com][Modern Article] An explanation of the different functions of invention in Briatin and the United States.   The Lives of Workers Observations on the Loss of Woollen Spinning, 1794 Life of 19th Century Workers In England [At Alderson-Broaddus College] Edwin Chadwick (1803-1890): Report on Sanitary Conditions, 1842, [At Brown] Texts on the Physical Effects of Factory Work, [At Brown] Harret Robinson: Lowell Mill Girls, 1834-1848 Urban Life: New Social Classes Friedrich Engels: Industrial Manchester, 1844 From The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844. Andrew Ure (1778-1857): The Philosophy of the Manufacturers, 1835 Social Reformism Florence Nightingale (1820-1910): Rural Hygiene Life on the farm was not that much of an improvement over a factory. But, eventually, the social activists turned their eyes on the countryside as well. Literary Response William Blake: Preface to 'Milton', 1804, [At Clinch Valley College] William Wordsworth (1770-1850): The Excursion, 1814 Charles Dickens: Hard Times, Chapter 2, [At Mt Holyoke] Elizabeth Gaskell: North and South, 1855, [At Clinch Valley College] Emile Zola: Germinal, 1885, extracts, [At WSU] Andrew Carnegie (1835­1919): The Gospel of Wealth, 1889 Back to Index Section V: The Century of Ideology and Power The Congress of Vienna System and Challenges lecture 17: The Congress of Vienna System and Challenges Kagan, 699-705, 721-34 Prince Klemens Von Metternich (1773-1859): Political Confession of Faith, 1820 The Carlsbad Decrees, 1819, [At Hanover] Joseph De Maistre: The Divine Origins of Constitutions, 1810 Conservative political thinking. lecture 18: 1848: The Course of Events and 19th-Century Liberalism Kagan, 742-51, 775-76, 780-93 1848: Europe in Revolt Documents of the Revolution of 1848 in France, 1848, [At Hanover] Hapsburg Documents, [At HNet] [Mostly Documents of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848-49] Liberalism Thomas R. Malthus (1766-1834): First Essay on Population, 1798 David Ricardo (1772-1823): The Iron Law of Wages, 1817 John Stuart Mill (1806-73): On Liberty, extracts, [At WSU] 19th-Century Feminism Kagan, 854-57 Seneca Falls Declaration, 1848 Sojourner Truth (1797-1883): 'An't I a Woman?', 1851 A rough-hewn account. Susan B. Anthony: On Women's Right to Vote, 1873 Maria Eugenia Echenique: The Emancipation of Women, 1876, [At WSU] - An Argentinian femnist. Margaret Sanger (1883-1966): Autobiography On why she became a crusader for birth control. lecture 19: Nationalism and the Decline of Cosmopolitanism Kagan, 734-42, 801-22, [828-32], 857-58 Ideologies of Nation Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762­1814):, Addresses to the German Nation, 1806 Political nationalism as a response to Napoleon. Giuseppe Mazzini: On Nationality as a Key to Social Development, 1852 Daniel O'Connell (1775-1847): Justice for Ireland, Speech to House of Commons, Feb 4, 1836 Theodor Herzl (1860-1904): On the Jewish State, 1896 Nationalism and Music The Rise of Germany Unification of Germany and Italy in Maps, 1850-1873, [At Clinch Valley College] Otto von Bismarck: Memoirs, [At Hanover] Otto von Bismarck: Speech on the Polish Question, to the Lower House of the Prussian Parliament, January 28, 1886, [At HNet]

Power and Ideology in the US: North vs. South Kagan, 754-59 Monroe Doctrine, 1823¸ [At Yale] John L. O'Sullivan: On Manifest Destiny, 1839, [At Mt. Holyoke] The Conflict over Slavery James Stirling: The Life of Plantation Field Hands, 1857 The opinions of the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott case, [At The American Revolution Site] Abraham Lincoln: Emancipation Proclamation, 1862, [At Yale] Walt Whitman: Song of Myself, 1855

Responses to Economic Growth: S
Socialism and Marxism, Trade Unionism

lecture 20: Socialism, Marxism, and Trade Unionism

	Crib Sheet: Socialism, Marxism, Trade Unionism
	Kagan, 776-87, 859-65
	Early Socialism Chartism: The People's Petition, 1838 Louis Blanc (1811­1882): The Organization of Labour, 1840
	Marxism Karl Marx (1818-83) and Frederich Engels: Communist Manifesto, 1848, extracts, [At WSU]
	Versions of Socialism Edouard Bernstein (1850-1932): Evolutionary Socialism William Morris (1834-1896): Why I Am a Socialist, 1884
	Socialist Culture Anne Maier: Autobiography, 1912 The Internationale
	Trade Unionism

Responses to Economic Growth:
Imperialism

	Kagan, 911-21
	Analyses John A. Hobson (1858-1940): Imperialism, 1902 Extent of European Colonialism in Statistical Terms, [At Mt. Holyoke]
	China and the West Qian Long [Ch'ien Lung]: Letter to George III, 1793 Kaiser Wilhelm II: German Interests in China, 1900, [At HNet]
	India Under the British Raja Rammohan Roy: A Second Conference Between an Advocate for, and An Opponent of the Practice of Burning Widows Alive, 1820, [At WSU] Sir William Bentinck: On Ritual Murder in India , 1829
	Africa Stephen Wooten: The French in West Africa, [At Wisconsin] [A modern account]
	American Imperialism Albert Beveridge (1862-1927): The March of the Flag, September 16, 1898 The Platt Amendment, 1903, [At Mt. Holyoke]
	Celebrations and Objections Rudyard Kipling: The White Man's Burden, 1899 Edward Morel: The Black Man's Burden, 1903, Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness, 1902, extracts, [At WSU] The American Anti Imperialist League Platform, 1899 George Orwell: Shooting an Elephant, [At BNL][Full Text]
	The Japanese Exception Theodore Roosevelt: The Threat of Japan, 1889, [At Mt. Holyoke]

The Second Industrial Revolution and Advanced Capitalism

lecture 21: Spread and Social Results of Industrialization

	Kagan, 835-54
	The Process of Industrialization Tables Illustrating the Spread of Industrialization Spread of Railways in Europe

	George Friedrich List (1789-1846): National System of Political Economy
	Robert Franz: The German Banking System, 1910
	The Chemical Industry
	Electricity
	Automation and the Assembly Line
	The Modern Corporation

Contradictions of the Enlightenment:
Darwin, Freud, Einstein and Modern Art

lecture 22: Modernism: Late 19th/Early 20th Century Cultural Conflicts

	Crib Sheet: Late 19th Century Science and Culture
	Kagan, 877-907, 958-63
	Biology: Red in Tooth and Claw Charles Darwin: Origin of the Species, 1859, extracts, [At WSU] Charles Darwin (1809-1882): The Descent of Man, 1871 Herbert Spencer: Progess: Its Law and Causes, 1857 Social Darwinism by its founder.
	Physics: The End of the Classical Synthesis Bertrand Russell: Philosophical consequences of relativity, written for 13th ed of Encyclopedia Britannica, [At HK]
	Psychology: The Obscurity of the Mind Sigmund Freud: The Interpretation of Dreams, 1900, extracts, [At WSU]
	Philosophical Reflections: The End of Reason? Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900): Parable of the Madman Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900): The Geneology of Morals, extracts, [At WSU]
	Literature: Humanity's Heart of Darkness? Mathew Arnold (1822-88): Dover Beach, c. 1851, [At Auburn]
	Visual Arts: What to Do After Photography? A Surrealist Manifesto: The Declaration of January 27, 1925

Religion in the Face of Modernity Catholicism: Reaction and Radicalism Pope Pius IX: Syllabus of Errors, 8 Dec 1864, [At American] Pope Leo XIII: On the Condition of the Working Classes (Rerum Novarum), 15 May 1891, [At American] Dorothy Day: Aims and Purposes, 1940 [At Catholic Worker] This page has many more texts by Dorothy Day and other Catholic Worker writers. Mary: Lourdes and Fatima Missionary Expansion Protestantism: Activism, Rationalism, and Fideism Walter Rauschenbusch: The Social Gospel, 1908

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VI: The End of European Hegemony

World War I

	Kagan, 921-39, 944-45
	The War
	Literary Responser World War I Poetry, Poems by Siegfried Sasson, Wilfred Owen, Herbert Read, and others
	The Aftermath Woodrow Wilson: The Fourteen Points, Jan 8,1918 The Versailles Treaty, 1919

The Russian Revolution

	Crib Sheet: The Russian Revolution
	Kagan, 536-41, 823-28, 865-72, 839-44, 965-74, 1018-25
	The Tsarist State
	The Development of the Opposition Maria Sukloff: The Story of An Assassination, extracts, [At WSU]
	Lenin Vladimir Illyich Lenin (1870-1924): What is to Be Done?, 1902, extended excerpts Vladimir Illyich Lenin (1870-1924): The State and Revolution, 1918, extended excerpts, Vladimir Illyich Lenin (1870-1924): Excerpts from Lenin's Testament, 1922
	1917 Vladmir Illyich Lenin (1870-1924): Call to Power, Oct 24, 1917 Alexandra Kollontai: The Workers' Opposition, 1921, [At Marx.Org]
	Stalinism Hymn to Stalin, The cult of personality. The Soviet Purges: Official Explanation, 1936

An Age of Anxiety?

	Paul Valéry: On European Civilization and the European Mind, c. 1919, 1922
	T.S. Eliot: The Hollow Men, [At Cambridge]
	Bertrand Russell: Icarus, or, the Future of Science, 1924, [At Wisconsin]

Economic Problems and the Depression

	Kagan, 979-89, 997-1006
	John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946): The Economic Consequences of the Peace, 1920

Nazism and World War II

	Inter-War International Relations Kagan, 945-51 League of Nations Covenant, 1924, [At Yale]
	Italy Kagan, 975-79, 1017-18 Benito Mussolini (1883-1945): What is Fascism?, 1932
	Spain
	National Socialism Kagan, 989-94, 1006-16, 1033-50, 1050-56, 1058-64 The 25 Points, 1920 An early Nazi program.
	Lead Up to War Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, Aug 29, 1939 Neville Chamberlain: Peace in Our Time, 1938
	War In Europe Vyacheslav Molotov (1889-1986): Broadcast Speech on the Invasion of The Soviet Union, June 22, 1941
	War In Asia The Nanking Massacre, The New York Times, December 18, 1937 Hiroshima Survivor's Accounts,[At OBI]
	The Home Front Winston S. Churchill, "Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat" Speech, 1940

The Holocaust

	Kagan, 1050
	Anti-Semitism Religious Anti-Semitism Martin Luther (1483-1546): The Jews and Their Lies 1543 [At Medieval Sourcebook] Racist Anti-Semitism Adolf Hitler: First Antisemitic Writing, September 16, 1919, [At HNet] Adolf Hitler: On Antisemitism in Vienna, 1925, [At HNet][From Mein Kampf]
	The "Final Solution" The Nazi Marking/Idenification System [At HistoryPlace] Heinrich Himmler: Speech to SS Group Leaders at Posen, October 4 1943 , [At HistoryPlace] Hermann Friedrich Graebe: Account of Holocaust Mass Shooting,, 1942 Rudolf Hoess, Commandant of Auschwitz: Testimony, 1946 Daniel J. Goldhagen: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust, [At HistoryPlace] [Modern Opinion Piece]
	The Handicapped Adolf Hitler: Order Authorizing Involuntary Euthanasia in Germany, October 1939, [At Hnet]
	Gypsies Gypsies in the Holocaust
	Homosexuals - Heinrich Himmler: On Homosexuals, [At PWH] Para. 175,[At PWH] The Nazi laws on homosexual activity. Hans Heger [pseud.]: Daily Life in a Camp, from The Men with the Pink Triangles, [At CMU] (Note: Heger is the name of the journalist who wrote the book. The "hero" of the book remains anonymous). Pierre Seel: The Death of His Lover [At PWH]
	Post-Holocaust Genocides UN Resolution 260- On Genocide, 1948 François Ponchaud, Cambodia: Year Zero, 1978

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VII: The World Since 1945

A Bipolar World

	The United Nations Kagan, 1064-68 United Nations Charter, 1945, [At Yale]
	Human Rights: Universal Ideals or a Western Impositions? Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948
	The Cold War Kagan, 1071-81, 1082-84 Winston S. Churchill: "Iron Curtain" Speech, 1946 Joseph Stalin: Response to Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech, 1946 The Truman Doctrine, 1947 President John F. Kennedy: Inaugural Address, 1961
	The Vietnam War Kagan, 1095-1102 Vietnamese Declaration of Independence, 1945

Europe, Yalta to Malta

	Kagan, 1087-88, 1105-10, 1123-36
	The Division of Europe
	European Union
	The Welfare State
	Britain Margaret Thatcher: Christianity and Wealth, Speech made to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, May 21, 1988
	Germany
	France
	The Soviet Union/Russia Kagan, 1084-87, 1110-13 Nikita Krushchev: Secret Speech, 1956 The Brezhnev Doctrine, November, 1968 Sam Marcy: The Collapse of the USSR and the Destiny of Socialism, [At CMU]
	Other Eastern European Countries Kagan, 1088-94
	1989: What Happened and Why? Kagan, 1143-64

Decolonization

	Kagan, 1094-97
	India Mohandas K. Gandhi : Indian Home Rule, 1909, [At WSU] Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964): Marxism, Capitalism and Non-Alignment, 1941, 1956
	China Mao Zedong: In Commemoration of the 28th Anniversary of the Communist Party of China, June 30, 1949
	Africa Kwame Nkrumah (1909-1972): I Speak of Freedom, 1961 A.L. Geyer: The Case for Apartheid, 1953 Bishop Demond Tutu (1931-): The Question of South Africa, 1984 Nelson Mandela : Speech on Release From Jail, 1990 Nelson Mandela : Inaugural Address, May 10, 1994, [At WSU]
	Israel and Palestine Kagan, 1081-82, 1102-04 The Balfour Declaration, 1917 Israeli Declaration of Independence, 1948, [At Yale] The Palestinian National Charter, 1968, [At Yale]

Social Movements

	Kagan, 1116-21, 1136-40
	Feminism
	Black Power Brown v. Board of Education, 1954 Martin Luther King: "I have a dream" speech - August 28, 1963, [At The American Revolution Site] George Wallace: The Civil Rights Movement: Fraud Sham and Hoax,, July 5, 1964 Robert F. Kennedy: Speech on the Death of Martin Luther King,, April 4, 1968
	Lesbian and Gay Rights Homosexuals in Government, 1950. [At UPenn] Jerry Lisker, Homo Nest Raided: Queen Bees are Stinging. Daily News (New York), July 6, 1969 [At CMU], Gay Liberation Front (London): Manifesto, 1971 (rev. 1979), [At PWH] Manifesto of First Chinese Tongzhi Conference, 1996, [At HKGAY]

Post-World War II Religious Thought

	Kagan, 1140-43
	Roman Catholic
	Protestant Paul Tillich: The Courage to Be, 1952
	Eastern Orthodox
	Jewish
	Muslim Malcolm X: On His Pilgrimmage to Mecca, [At Unn.UK]

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Class Schedule

	Tuesday	Friday
Week 1	1/13 First Class	1/16
Week 2	1/19 MLK - No Class	1/23
Week 3	1/26	1/30
Week 4	2/3	2/6 Paper topic due
Week 5	2/10	2/13
Week 6	2/17 Monday Schedule - No Class	2/20
Week 7	2/24 Midterm Exam	2/27
Week 8	3/3	3/6 Annotated Bibliography due
Week 9	3/10	3/13
Week 10	3/17	3/20 Paper Thesis and Outline due
Week 11	3/24	3/27
Week 12	3/31	4/3 Paper Due
Week14	4/7	4/10 Good Friday - No Class
Week 15	4/14 Easter Monday - No Class	4/17
Week 16	4/21	4/24
Week 17	4/28 Last Class	4/29-30 Reading Days
Week 18	May 1-8 Finals Week

 

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