History 143 Fall Semester 2023 History 143 Fall
Semester
2023 History
143
Class Schedule
For a
given day, the readings listed should be read in full by
the class time. All readings are potentially the
subject of reading quizzes, but the quizzes for the
outside readings (such as Martin
Guerre) are worth three regular reading quizzes.
Unit One: Europe from 1500 to 1800
Aug 23--Introduction
In class and for review: short
film by Ollie Bye on the expansion and decline of the House
of Habsburg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tlWHDYKej0
Aug 25--Long Ago and Far Away: The World
of 1500
Read the Wikipedia
entry of "The House of Tudor," but only down through the
sub-heading "Rebellions Against the Tudors"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Tudor
Also, read an interesting modern medical history of Henry
VIII
https://cvhf.org.uk/history-hub/mad-bad-and-dangerous-to-know-henry-viiis-medical-history-2/
Aug 28--The State Emerges:
France, England, and more
Read Chapter XVII
from Nicolo Machiavelli's The
Prince (published 1532)
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1232/1232-h/1232-h.htm#link2HCH0017
Read the Wikipedia entry on Russian History, but only
the first THREE paragraphs of the Intro.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Russia
And
watch (first five minutes only) of this super-quick
history of Ireland
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvU-NKzhIVI
AND
A
Habsburg Primer, short essay by Hunt Tooley!
Aug 30--Material Life
in Europe in the 1500s: Food, Work, Disease,
Crisis, Witches!
For
background to Copernicus's own writings,
read:
the introduction to
the Copernicus entry in
Wikipedia, and just skim through
the rest of the article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolaus_Copernicus
Then read the Intro to Nicolas
Copernicus's great work at http://www.bartleby.com/39/12.html
(Read carefully:
Copernicus was not Galileo. Whom does he
thank?)
Also, here is the class powerpoint
on the Witch Craze for reference. You don't need to
look at this before class.
Witches!
Sep 1--Technology, Economy, State,
Discovery, and the Columbian Exchange
Wealth
and the new states:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Debasement
Read
the Commission to Columbus by Ferdinand and Isabella
of Spain:
https://avalon.law.yale.edu/15th_century/colum.asp
On
Jakob Fugger (!) From
"History Bites":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=og-yA0Vd8Kc&t=13s
and on the Columbian Exchange, Wikipedia article only down to
and not including the subheading "Silver"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbian_exchange
And watch this video by John Green of Crash Courses on the
Spanish Empire and more:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjhIzemLdos
Sep 4--Religion
and State.
Read the History.com
short history of the Protestant Reformation
http://www.k-state.edu/english/baker/english233/Luther-Diet_of_Worms.htm
And watch an excerpt from the superb 2003 film,
Luther: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5P7QkHCfaI
Sep 6--Music and Art from 1500 to 1700
no readings
Sep 8--The Reformation
(Cont.) and the Thirty Years War
Read this short biography of John Calvin:
https://www.notablebiographies.com/Ca-Ch/Calvin-John.html
and
Read Wikipedia on "Counter-Reformation," Intro
only
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counter-Reformation
and
Wikipedia on the Thirty Years War: INTRO to the
article only (in other words, only up to but not
including "Contents")
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty_Years%27_War
and
and read carefully this very brief primary
account of the Siege of Magdeburg during the
Thirty Years War and the little intro
http://ghdi.ghi-dc.org/sub_document.cfm?document_id=4396
And read:
Set of primary accounts of the war:
http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/pdf/eng/Doc.7-ENG-Heberle_en.pdf
Sep 11--Class discussion of The
Return of Martin Guerre. For
class, a quadruple-value reading quiz on the book, with
special emphasis on: the SOURCES of the Martin Guerre
episode in particular (meaning, what kinds of evidence does
Davis use in reconstructing the story or narrative).
Sep 13--Absolutism.
Read the Wikipedia entry on Bossuet (Intro of the
article only): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques-B%C3%A9nigne_Bossuet
and the Wikipedia entry on Colbertism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colbertism
(in the Colbertism article, read only to, and not
including, "Industry Reforms"
Bossuet on kingship:
https://history.hanover.edu/texts/bossuet.html
accounts of Louis XIV:
http://history.hanover.edu/texts/louisxiv.html
Sep 15--Responses to Absolutism: Tax
Revolt and Other Rebellions
Read Etienne de la Boëtie, Discourse
of Voluntary Servitude. This is the whole
book in pdf form: http://mises.org/rothbard/boetie.pdf.
You need read only pp. 7-12 of Rothbard's intro and
pp. 39-45 of the text itself.
John Locke, Second Treatise:
Of Civil Government. Sections related to
rebellion and tyranny, from paragraph 220 to the
end:
http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/v1ch3s2.html
Peasant and regional
protest:
The seventeenth-century
"croquants" in southern France: http://mises.org/daily/4572
Sep 18--The Age of Reason: The Scientific
Revolution
Read the Wikipedia entries on Andreas Vesalius and William
Harvey
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas_Vesalius
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Harvey
and an essay by Michel de Montaigne TBA
Sep 20--The Enlightenment
Watch the CrashCourse video on the Enlightenment (16 min.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnoFj2cMRLY
And Read:
From Lady Wortley Montagu's letters, 1717: http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/montagu-smallpox.asp
From the Italian philosophe Cesare Beccaria, on crime an
punishment: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/18beccaria.asp
Voltaire on Sir Isaac Newton, etc., 1778: http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/1778voltaire-newton.asp
Wikipedia on the Scottish Enlightenment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Enlightenment
(read down to, and not including, the subsection
"Significance."
Sep 22--The Enlightenment and Enlightened
Monarchies. Map Quiz 1 at the beginning of class.
From Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations (1776): http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/1776asmith-mercsys.asp
a selection of passages pertaining to the great French "salons"
of the Enlightenment: http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/18salons.asp
Wikipedia on Thomas Jefferson and religion: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson_and_religion
Wikipedia on Enlightened Absolutists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enlightened_absolutism
Sep 25--The Origins
of the French Revolution.
--Short "lecture" on the origins of the FR: youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5Z4SZ6ESM
And read:
--Tooley Info sheet: http://artemis.austincollege.edu/acad/history/htooley/Hist143FrenchRevHdt.html
--Cahier de doléances from Carcasonne: http://history.hanover.edu/texts/cahier.html
Sep 27--The French Revolution from Outbreak to
Napoleon
Listen to a short lecture piece which
might help set the stage:
Presentation with sound: Rousseau and the
Late Enlightenment
CHECK for sound etc.
(to play the
sound and automatic timing, go to the
TAB Slideshow and then bit the button
"Play from Start")
https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/1793levee.asp
-- Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
on the execution of Marie
Antoinette: https://www.historyplace.com/speeches/burke.htm
Read all of the Wikipedia entry
Napoleon Bonaparte: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon
(From the Napoleon entry, read the Intro
(down to table of contents) and then skip
down to read the section called "Reforms"
and also read the section call "Memory and
Evaluation")
Sep 29--More on the
Revolution and Napoleon.
Look at a powerpoint--TBA
Oct 2--Romanticism and
Post-revolutionary Europe.
Short
powerpoint, no sound, mostly
informational.
See also the Info Sheet
THE
SHORT NINETEENTH CENTURY:
LIBERALISM. REFORM, and
NATIONALISM
And read the lyrics of
Schiller's/Beethoven's "Ode to Joy"
http://classicalmusic.about.com/od/romanticperiodsymphonies/qt/Beethovenjoytxt.htm
and William Wordsworth's poem "We Are
Seven"
http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww124.html
Oct 4--Industrial
Revolution:
Wikipedia on the Industrial Revolution: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Revolution
(on this one, just read the INTRO and then skip down
to "The Factory System" and "Standards of Living"
Also read the first section of Karl Marx’s Communist
Manifesto, just the section including the short
preface and "Preamble" and the first “chapter” called
“Bourgeoises and Proletarians” https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/
Watch and Listen: Short ppt on the Marx and
Historical Materialism: Hist143MarxistDialectic
Also, watch John Green of Crash Courses on the
Industrial Revolution
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhL5DCizj5c
Oct 6--Fall
Break Day
Oct 9--Read all of Dickens, Hard
Times. And please read carefully. The
reading quiz for this will count as four regular reading
quizzes.
Oct 11--Midterm Exam
Oct 13--Liberal
Europe: Economics and Culture
about classical liberals, foreign policy, John Bright,
John Stewart Mill, the Gold Standard, the standard of
living, anti-imperialism
Read the first chapter of British liberal John Stuart
Mill's 1859 book, On Liberty:
https://www.econlib.org/library/Mill/mlLbty.html
Oct 16--Nations, Peoples, and Nationalisms, 1815-1900.
Read Tooley Info sheet: http://artemis.austincollege.edu/acad/history/htooley/Hist143NatHdt.html
Arndt, "Where is the German Fatherland?": http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/arndt-vaterland.asp
Proclamation of the Irish Republic, Easter 1916: http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/1916proc.jpg
Read the Gilbert and Sullivan song lyrics:
http://www.lyricsbook.net/Gilbert%20And%20Sullivan-For%20He%20Is%20an%20Englishman-46384.html
Oct 18-- The New Imperialism--At Home and Abroad
Listen to this CrashCourse lecture by John Green on "the New
Imperialism." (about 13 min.)
Read through this Tooley Info sheet:
http://artemis.austincollege.edu/acad/history/htooley/NewImperialismHadt%20%281%29.pdf
If this link doesn't work, the lecture is also here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alJaltUmrGo
AND
Also read two brief letters from
British missionary folks, urging extension of empire. http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/1883hebrides.asp
Oct 20--The
Origins of the Great War
Tooley, The
Great War (read chapter one on
the origins of the war)
Oct 23--World War I.
Read parts of the Wikipedia entry on World War I: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I
Read the intro. Then skip down to "Progress of the War" and
read down to but not including section 5 "Aftermath."
This is the equivalent of about 20 pages in a book or
journal, so be sure to allot plenty of time.
Oct 25--The Great War.
Beginning of class,
Map Quiz 2
Oct 27--The Bolshevik Revolution
Watch and listen to a powerpoint of mine,
about 15 min. long.
Powerpoint on the Two Russian
Revolutions of 1917
(this is with sound--just play from the beginning. I just
realized that close to the beginning of the recording, I
called the powers of Britain/France/Russia etc. as the
Central Powers. Just a slip of the tongue. These were the
Allied or Entente powers. The Germans/Aust-Hung/Ottomans
etc. were the Central Powers.)
And read a very short chapter from Bryan
Caplan's "Online Museum of Communism" at George Mason
University:
http://econfaculty.gmu.edu/bcaplan/museum/his1g.htm
Oct 30--The Paris Peace, 1919-1920
Read these entries from a blog I wrote a few years back:
http://parispeace1919.blogspot.com/2009/06/framework-of-events-mayjune-at-paris.html
http://parispeace1919.blogspot.com/2009/06/diktat-i.html
http://parispeace1919.blogspot.com/2009/07/diktat-ii.html
http://parispeace1919.blogspot.com/2009/09/when-i-left-off-speaking-of-diktat-i.html
Nov 1--The Rise of Hitler
Read John Simkin's fine short bio of Hitler:
https://spartacus-educational.com/GERhitler.htm
AND--give these time to download. It might take a minute or
two.
Comparative Totalitarians. 11 min
The Depression and the Nazis. 6 min
If the sound doesn't work, you can still read through them,
I hope. They should help make sense of the twenties and
thirties
Nov 3--The Interwar Period: Stalin, the
Spanish Civil War, and the Coming of World War II
Read:
https://spartacus-educational.com/RUSstalin.htm
Nov 6--War...
Reading:
look carefully at Tooley Info sheet:
InfoTotalitarians
and the info sheet on WWII:
WORLD WAR II:
CHRONOLOGY AND PHASES
Nov 8--... and Holocaust: ALL of Dry
Tears (triple reading quiz) AND
Read Himmler’s “Posen speech”
You should read the carefully documented Nizkor page on how
this recording came about:
http://www.nizkor.com/hweb/people/h/himmler-heinrich/posen/oct-04-43/index.html
The translation of the short, particularly gruesome part of
the part of the speech that you need to
read is in a link that is a little
hard to find. It is:
http://www.nizkor.com/hweb/people/h/himmler-heinrich/posen/oct-04-43/ausrottung-transl-nizkor.html
AND you might try listening to some of the audio linked on
both pages (one of the files should work for you). The tone of
Himmler's voice alone is worth listening to as he discusses
the in-progress Holocaust
Be ready for a 4X value reading quiz on Dry
Tears.
Nov 10--Origins
of the Cold War
Read the Wikipedia entry on the Cold War, but ONLY the
"intro" (down to "Contents")
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_War
Also, Tooley Info sheet: http://artemis.austincollege.edu/acad/history/htooley/ChronEurPost45.html
Watch this pretty good, and brief, documentary on the Berlin
Airlift. Only 11 minutes, it is pretty accurate for
the big picture. The background material is good, too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDSsJDvfUXs
And watch the little TedEx documentary on
the Berlin Wall, written by historian Konrad Jarausch (6.5
minutes). It is quite accurate. The
Wall went up in 1961.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9fQPzZ1-hg
This one is written by historian Konrad Jarausch, an
outstanding American historian of Germany at the University
of North Carolina.
Nov 13--Decolonization
Map Quiz 3 at the beginning of class.
Read the US State Department's short history of this vast
subject:
https://history.state.gov/milestones/1945-1952/asia-and-africa
Nov 10--The West: Migration: Gastarbeiter,
Asylum, and More
AN INFORMAL
CHRONOLOGY OF EUROPE SINCE 1945
Nov 15--Eastern Europe: The Soviet Empire in the
Seventies and Eighties
Read this CIA intelligence report from Dec. 1982 (two months
after the death of Brezhnev and the beginning of Andropov's
short tenure as head of the USSR). The report is aimed at
informing officials in the Reagan administration. Think
carefully about the conditions it describes and the policy
options it lays out.
https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1981-88v03/d251
Nov17--Gorbachev and the Fall of Communism
Read the US State Department history page on
the fall of Communism in Europe, 1989/90:
https://history.state.gov/milestones/1989-1992/fall-of-communism
Also read Wikipedia entry on
Gorbachev, the intro only.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorbachev
Listen to these two speeches.
The first is Mikhail Gorbachev extending season's greetings to
the US on Dec. 31, 1987
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TORzXd5QHXo
The second is Ronald Reagan's famous "Tear Down this Wall"
speech. It took place right by the Berlin Wall on Dec. 6,
1987. Please listen at the very least up to 12:10.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MDFX-dNtsM
and watch this short film: Tank Man at
Tiananmen Square:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrQqDqOx3KY
Thanksgiving Break Nov 20 to 24
Nov 27--Recent Europe
Powerpoint without sound
Please read this powerpoint carefully.
No Class on Nov 29 or Nov 31