Calendar of Readings and Assignments

• Week I Introductions
  • W 9/5 Welcome to the course
  • F 9/7 Europe before 1500

The Sixteenth Century

• Week II Reformation and Wars of Religion
  • M 9/10 The Reformation and Wars of Religion
    • Reading: Textbook, 547-565 and 573-596.
  • W 9/12 The Reformation and Wars of Religion
    • Reading: Sourcebook, Chapter 15, Sources 1,4 and 5. Chapter 16, Source 1.
  • F 9/14 Popular Fears - Witches and Heretics
    • Reading: Sourcebook, TBA
    • Online Readings - Print all out!:
      • Jean Bodin, De la demonomanie des sorciers (1580) excerpts (Hanover Historical Texts Project)
      • Witch Persecutions at Bonn (Hanover Historical Texts Project)
      • Witch Persecutions at Bamberg (Hanover Historical Texts Project)
      • Witch Persecutions at Wurzburg (Hanover Historical Texts Project) (Hanover Historical Texts Project)
• Week III Discovery and Trade
  • M 9/17 Comparative Exercise - China and Zheng He
  • W 9/19 The Age of Exploration - Discussion
    • Reading: Christopher Columbus' Journal
  • F 9/21 The Age of Exploration - Lecture
    • Reading: Vasco da Gama and Magellan
    • Primary Source Analysis 1 Due
• Week IV The Turk
  • M 9/24 Lecture - History of the Ottomans
    • Reading: Marko and the Turks, The Tribute of Children
  • W 9/26 Lecture - War against the Ottomans
    • Reading: Article (Hand-out)
  • F 9/28 Discussion - Europeans in Istanbul
    • Reading: Turkish Letters (Hand-out)
    • Discussion Questions

Politics, Science, New Worlds (17th/18th centuries)

• Week V Absolutism
  • M 10/1 Exercise - Absolutism
    • Reading: Wiesner, Chapter 2
  • W 10/3 Lecture - Absolutism and State-building in Europe
    • Reading: Textbook, 621-644
    F 10/5 Lecture/Discussion - Constitutionalism
    • Reading Textbook, 645-663. Bring Sourcebook to class for discussion!
    • Primary Source Analysis 2 Due
• Week VI The Enlightenment and Unenlightened activity
  • M 10/8 Exercise - Disaster, Science, and Religion
    • Reading: Wiesner, Chapter 3
    W 10/10 Lecture - Enlightenment
    • Reading: Textbook, 708-721. Sourcebook, 19:1 and 3.
    F 10/12 NO CLASS
  Week VII The New Global Economy
  • M 10/15 The Atlantic World
    • Reading: Textbook, 665-694. Sourcebook, 18:1. Study for the test!
  • W 10/17 Test #1
    • Paper assignment handed out.
  • F 10/19 - NO CLASS

Uprisings (18th/19th centuries)

• Week VIII - Rebellion and Unrest
  • M 10/22 Exercise - Rebellions
    • Reading: Wiesner, Chapter 1
  • W 10/24 Lecture - Class and Rebellion
    • Reading: Textbook, 722-751
    F 10/26 Exercise - The French Revolution
    • Reading: Wiesner, Chapter 5
• Week IX The French Revolution
  • M 10/29 Lecture: The French Revolution
    • Reading: Textbook, 752-776; Sourcebook, 20: 1, 3, 4.
    W 10/31 Continued discussion of the Revolution and its meaning
    • Reading: Work on your novel
    • BRING YOUR NOVEL TO CLASS. YOU MUST HAVE IT BY NOW.
  • F 11/2 No class. Work on your novel
    • Work on your paper!

The Nineteenth Century

• Week X Napoleon
  • M 11/5 Lecture - Napoleon
    • Reading: Textbook, 787-809
  • W 11/7 Source Discussion - Napoleon
    • Reading: Civil Codes
  • F 11/9 Lecture - New Europe
    • Reading: Textbook, 810-825; Sourcebook, 21:3,4
• Week XI The New Nation States
  • M 11/12 Test #2
  • W 11/14 Exercise - Industrial Revolution
    • Reading: Wiesner, Chapter 6
  • F 11/16 Lecture - Industrialization and the "isms."
    • Reading: Textbook, 849-869 and Wiesner, 193-205
• WEEK XII The Novel
  • M 11/19 - Continuing "ism" discussion.
    • Paper Due.
  • W 11/21 - NO CLASS
  • F 11/23 - NO CLASS
• WEEK XIII Imperialism
  • M 11/26 Lecture - Late 19th Century Turmoil
    • Reading: Textbook, 875-890. Sourcebook: 23:2,4.
  • W 11/28 Lecture/Discussion - Expansion of Europe
    • Reading: Textbook, 906-911, 924-932 and Sourcebook 24:2.
  • F 11/30 Exercise - The New Imperialism
    • Reading: Wiesner, Chapter 9.

The Twentieth Century

• WEEK XIV The First World War and Aftermath
  • M 12/3 Lecture - The Great War
    • Reading: Textbook, 1003-1028. Sourcebook, 186 and Wilfred Owen War Poem - #1 and #12
    • One useful website
    • Site on the Armenian Genocide
  • W 12/5 Exercise - World War I
    • Reading: Wiesner, Chapter 11
  • F 12/7 Exercise - Totalitarianism
    • Reading: Wiesner, Chapter 12
• WEEK XV World War II and Modern Europe
  • M 12/10 Lecture - World War II
    • Reading: Textbook, 1069-1091 and Sourcebook, 27: 1,2,4.
    • Websites
      • WW2.Net - every day's events!
      • BBC's site
      • WW2 - Documents
      • Maps
  • W 12/12 Lecture/Discussion - The Cold War
    • Reading: Textbook, 1098-1117 and 1166-1177.
  • F 12/14 Lecture/Discussion - The Modern Moment
    • Reading: Nothing.

Final Exam - Monday,December 17 in the classroom, 9:30-11:30. Study Guide.