Reading Assignments
Topic 1 - The Birth of Western Civilization: The Ancient World and Greece
The Odyssey
Summary of Aristophanes’ Lysistrata
Athens: The Threshold of Democracy
Topic 2 - From Republic to Empire: The Roman World
Crisis of Rome - Historical Context
Topic 3 - China
Confucius and the Analects: Key Themes of His Philosophy
Topic 8 - Old World Economies and New World Ideals: The Atlantic System and the Enlightenment
John Newton and the Transatlantic Slave Trade.pdf
Jonathan Swift, Modest Proposal.pdf
What Was the Enlightenment (Summary)
Adam Smith - Wealth of Nations.pdf
Topic 9 - Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité: The French Revolution and Napoleonic Era
France Before the Revolution of 1789.pdf
Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen.pdf
French Revolution National Assembly Debate.pdf
Napoleon-Child or Betrayer of the Revolution.pdf
Topic 10 - The Age of Industrialization, Conservative Restoration -- and Its Discontents
P&S Reader - Industrial Revolution
The Rise of New Ideologies in the Nineteenth Century
WHP - Responses to Industrialization
Steves & Oppenshaw - Art in the Age of Nationalism.pdf
The Revolutions of 1848 (Euro Spark Notes Summary)
Romantic Poets - Wordsworth & Blake
Topic 11 - Industries and Empires: The Age of New Imperialism
Top 10 Weird Things Victorians Did for Fun
Steves & Oppenshaw-Modern European Art.pdf
Topic 12 - Storm of Steel: The Great War and Its Aftermath
The Battle for the Mind - WWI Propaganda.pdf
Voices from World War I (Poetry).pdf
Goldston-The Russian Revolution.pdf
Topic 13 - The 20th Century Crises: Great Depression, Totalitarianism and World War II
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah (link to Amazon)
Carr-Stalin Reaches for World Power.pdf
Goldhagen - Eliminationist Antisemitism.pdf
Answering the Fuhrer's Call to Genocidal Action.pdf
Topic 14 - The Cold War and Making of the Modern World