Week 1 Jan. 12

Greece

Week 2 Jan. 19

Rome

Plutarch, “Julius Caesar”

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0BzAci7fVUapaelV4cTJ6VXVNWW8&usp=sharing

Week 3  Jan. 26

Medieval I

The Nicene Creed; The Burgundian Code (selections); 

The Nicene Creed:

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Nicene_and_Post-Nicene_Fathers:_Series_II/Volume_XIV/The_First_Ecumenical_Council/The_Nicene_Creed

The Burgundian code:

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0BzAci7fVUapaelV4cTJ6VXVNWW8&usp=sharing

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Week 4 Feb. 9.

Test 1 & Medieval II

Boccaccio, The Decameron, selections

http://legacy.fordham.edu/Halsall/source/boccacio2.asp

http://legacy.fordham.edu/Halsall/source/nicenecreed.asp

Week 5 Feb. 16.

Renaissance and Reformation

Machiavelli, The Prince, selections; Luther, “95 Theses”; Tridentine Creed; St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre eyewitness descriptions.

The Prince: https://legacy.fordham.edu/halsall/source/prince-excerp.asp

Tridentine Creed: http://www.traditionalcatholic.net/Tradition/Prayer/Tridentine_Creed.html

Eyewitness: http://legacy.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1572stbarts.asp

Ninty-five Theses: http://www.luther.de/en/95thesen.html

Week 6 Feb. 23

Science and The Crisis of the Seventeenth Century

John Locke, Second Treatise of Government, Selections; The Poliitcal Testament of Cardinal Richelieu, selections

John Locke: http://legacy.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1690locke-sel.asp

Richelieu: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0BzAci7fVUapaelV4cTJ6VXVNWW8&usp=sharing

Week 7  Mar. 2

American Revolution

The Declaration of Independence; The Federalist Papers, selections; Abigail Adams, ‘Remember the Ladies’

Declaration of Independence: http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/declare.asp

Abigail Adams, Remember the Ladies:

http://history.hanover.edu/courses/excerpts/165adams-rtl.html

Federalist Papers (just read Paper #1): http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/fed01.asp

Week 8  Mar. 9

French Revolution and Napoleon

The Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen; Robespierre, Principles of Political Morality, selections; Napoleonic code (selections)

Declaration of the Rights of Man: http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/rightsof.asp

Robespierre on Political Morality: https://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/d/413/

Napoleonic Code: http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/d/509/

Week 9  Mar. 16.

Test 2

Week 10  Mar. 23.

Industrialization

Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England (selections); Harriet Robinson, “Lowell Mill Girls” (selections)

Engels: http://legacy.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/1844engels.asp

Lowell Girls: http://legacy.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/robinson-lowell.asp

Week 11  Mar. 30

The Nineteenth Century Europe

Baudelaire, The Flowers of Evil, selections; Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto;

Baudelaire:  

http://fleursdumal.org/poem/156

http://fleursdumal.org/poem/215

http://fleursdumal.org/poem/202

http://fleursdumal.org/poem/321

The Communist Manifesto:

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/ch01.htm#007

Week 12  Apr. 6.

The Nineteenth Century America

The Declaration of Sentiments; Douglass, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July”

The Declaration of Sentiments:

http://legacy.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/senecafalls.asp

“What to the Slave is the Fourth of July”:

http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/what-to-the-slave-is-the-fourth-of-july/

Week 13 Apr. 13

Colonization and The Road to World War I

Kipling, The White Man’s Burden; Orwell, “Shooting an Elephant”

Kipling: http://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poems_burden.htm

Orwell: http://www.online-literature.com/orwell/887/

Week 14 Apr. 20

Test 3

Requirements/assignments percent of grade (100%)

Tutorial 20%
Test 1 (week 4) 10%
Test 2 (week 9) 20%
Test 3 (week 14) 25%
Primary source assignment 25%

TBC

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