Aug 26--Introduction
theory and practice of the course
talking through the first assignment--Tooley: The Great War (identified
below as Tooley)
some useful tips
Aug 28--Some Deep
Background on Origins
Read
Tooley Chapter 1, pages 1-12 only.
Extra: Irish Issues
Aug 31--Other Interpretations: The Schlieffen Plan and Other Plans
Read Tooley, Great
War, from page 12 to 35.
Read Tooley, pp. 35 to
end of chapter I.
and the testimony of one of Prinzip's friends:
https://wwi.lib.byu.edu/index.php/The_Assassination_of_Archduke_Franz_Ferdinand
(remember that this is
an eyewitness who was involved in the incident, to be sure, but
one who had incomplete knowledge of all the actual events, since
he was busy doing his own part in the plot)
We will read this one in class, so no need to read it
beforehand:
Austro-Hungarian Ultimatum to Serbia
https://wwi.lib.byu.edu/index.php/The_Austro-Hungarian_Ultimatum_to_Serbia_(English_Translation)
Read Tooley, Chapter 2, pp. 41-66
We start the reading
of Norman Stone's book, The Eastern Front, 1914-1917. We will
begin with the Introduction and chapter two. These amount to
about eleven pages.
This book is available at the AC Bookstore.
Readings:
Tooley, 66-71 (end of
Chapter II)
and
Edmund Blunden, excerpt from Undertones
of War, pp. 15 to 41 (that is, chapters 1, 2, and 3.
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.55923/page/n11/mode/2up
Sep 11--Allied
Diplomacy: Italy, the Ottoman Empire, Romania, and More
https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/warfare_1914-1918_jap21
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Empire_during_World_War_I#Entry_into_World_War
Sep 14--Atrocities: From Belgium to Russia to
Turkey
In the Encyclopedia of The First World War, read Alan Kramer's
article "Atrocities." But only down to the subheading "Poison
Gas."
https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/atrocities-1-1/
Sep 16--Writing your papers.
Sep 18--The
Blockade and Unlimited Submarine Warfare
Tooley, Chapter 3
Sep 21-Mobilizing the Home Fronts: An Overview
No readings for today.
Sep 23--Empires
and the War I
Read:
Stone, Eastern Front, Chapter 5, whole chapter.
Eric Manela entry:
https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/empire
Rustin Gates entry:
Sep
25--More Empires and the War
read:
Yücel Yanıkdağ entry:
https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/ottoman_empiremiddle_east
and
https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/responses_to_the_war_india
In class, a look at Menin Gate.
Capture of Przemysl
https://wwi.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Capture_of_Przemysl
Ypres II
Read the Wikipedia entry
on the Second Battle of Ypres, but only the first part, down to
the subheading, "Battle of Frezenbert (8-13 May)"
Gallipoli,
from the New Zealand government site. Please read page 2
(the link below) and read through page 7 (each is roughly three
book pages long)
https://nzhistory.govt.nz/war/the-gallipoli-campaign/gallipoli-in-brief
Short
one-page appreciation of Hoover in WWI by the Hoover Institute at
Stanford:
https://hoover.archives.gov/exhibits/years-compassion-1914-1923
Randolph Bourne essay, "War is the Health of the State," 1918
https://www.panarchy.org/bourne/state.1918.html
Oct 2--Related Issues from this week.
We will go through this ppt. in class: PropagandaWWI.pptx
Oct 7--NO CLASS--First Paper Due at 11:59pm via Turnitin on
Wednesday, Oct. 7
Oct 12--War
Art
Please look carefully at these sites and try to write down a few
names of the most striking art for you. We will read some poetry
in class.
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/nevinson-la-mitrailleuse-n03177
https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/art
Oct 14--War
Poetry
We will be reading a good bit of poetry in class. Don't worry, it
will be fun!
Oct 16--MIDTERM
EXAM
Oct 19--Interning
Enemy Aliens and Others
https://catalog.archives.gov/id/31477795
https://catalog.archives.gov/id/31481569
Short
ppt lecture (with sound) Please
look/listen as a part of today's material.
Oct 21--Women At War:
Factories, Government Work, and More
https://spartacus-educational.com/Wfirst.htm
and
https://catalog.archives.gov/id/55174180
farm labor, US
And bit on brothels
https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/prostitution/?format=pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bordel_militaire_de_campagne
https://www.thevintagenews.com/2022/07/12/comfort-western-front/
Oct 23--NURSES & International Aid Workers
Wikipedia on Vera
Brittain:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Brittain
And from Mary Borden's
fine book The Forbidden Zone, please read
the chapter called "Enfant de Malheur"
http://www.ourstory.info/library/2-ww1/Borden2/fz.html
Oct 26--The War Deepens: Breakthrough: The Somme Campaign
Class Discussion of
Fussell: The Great War and Modern Memory, no reading, just talk
through
Before or after class of Apr 8, ppt with
sound: "Verdun
and the Somme"
(it is just under 30MB, so give it a minute or two to load)
read Tooley,
Chapter 5, only pages 143 to 167.
Oct 28--Breakthrough: Brusilov and Jutland
read Tooley, Chapter 5, pp. 167 to end of Chapter.
Oct 30--The
United States Enters the War--I
Years ago for my blog on WWI, I wrote a series of essays about the
US entry to the war. Please read four parts of the series for this
class and two for the next. They appear in reverse order, so start
here to read the first one:
https://twentiethcenturyviolence.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2017-02-05T11:09:00-08:00&max-results=7&start=4&by-date=false
and then navigate to newer posts and read them in order. The
titles are numbered and include the overarching title: "These
Deeply Momentous Things," which is phrased used by Woodrow Wilson
You can also just navigate from this page:
https://twentiethcenturyviolence.blogspot.com/2016/12/
AND
Please also read this article on
Randolph Bourne and his famous wartime essay, "The State," which
included the phrase "War is the health of the state"
https://mises.org/library/bourne-war
Second
Paper due on Sunday, Nov. 1, at 11:59pm via
Turnitin
Nov 2--The Other and the War: The Irish in the British
War Effort; African Americans in the US War; India and the
Empire's War
Watch this testimony of
a veteran Irish soldier.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCU_AHwaEK4
Watch this video by the Imperial War Museum in London, on the
Indian role in the First World War
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAETtC_ToEE&t=82s
Watch this short video by the History Channel on the Haarlem
Hellfighters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEuoAl1elLU
Nov 4--Passchendaele,
the Italian Fronts and Other Fronts
Also some comments on loans and bankers and war finance
Read Tooley, "Merchants of Death Revisited: Armaments, Bankers,
and the First World War," 2005
https://cdn.mises.org/19_1_4.pdf
replace with my lecture on Weapons and Bankers??????????
Nov 6--The
Bolshevik Revolution--I
Tooley, pp. 179-202.
Powerpoint
from Apr. 20 class. This one is without sound. Please
go through it for the text, but we will also go through it in
class.
Nov
9--The Bolshevik Revolution--II
Tooley Chapter 6, 202 to
end of Chapter.
Nov
11--War in the Middle East, 1916 to 1918: the Ottomans
and their enemies
https://wwi.lib.byu.edu/index.php/The_Balfour_Declaration
https://wwi.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Sykes-Picot_Agreement
Nov 13--No Class. The Inauguration of President Cantor takes
place at 11am. I recommend you attend this
Third Paper due on Nov. 16, 5:00pm via Turnitin
Nov 16--The United States and the Allies: "LaFayette: We are
Here!"
Either before or after class, please read the Wikipedia entry on
the American Expeditionary Forces: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Expeditionary_Forces
AND see this short documentary. It is a bit bombastic in spots, but the overview is pretty accurate for brief video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Rg3a4EAfJQ
Nov 18--The Kaiser's
Offensive and the Allied Hundred Days Offensives
Tooley, Chapter 7
Nov 20--Armistice
Read two somewhat longer
entries from my more recent blog: "Diktat 1919" and "On the
Morning of November 11, 1918." (maybe read the Nov. 11 piece first
https://twentiethcenturyviolence.blogspot.com/
tentative--revision TBA
THANKSGIVING
BREAK
Nov 30--Peacemaking
at Versailles
Please read the first
SEVEN entries in my old blog, Design of a Violent Century.
The entries are each only 2 or 3 pages long. The first was posted
on Jan. 39, 2009.
http://parispeace1919.blogspot.com/2009/01/
Dec 4-The Costs of War: A Violent Century
(Ethnic Cleansing, concentration camps)
Tentative: Tooley on
ethnic cleansing and WWI