Name of Source

Week 1

Introductions / Global Village / History quotations (handout: link active on 4/4/08)

Week 2

On Paradigms, Revolutions, and History (a conceptual model and some theory)

• Th. Kuhn, Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962), 1-3,10-13,52-7,66-9,92-5,111f,160-73 [Kuhn on eRes]
• Friedrich Nietzsche, "On the Use and Abuse of History for Life," 1874
  on-line version (read I to first 7 paragraphs of IV)

Week 3

On Thesis Statements, Arguments, and Evidence (preparing for paper 1)

• Equiano and Rampolla (bring books; read Rampolla)
  (B. Carey's resources; Where was E. born?)

Week 4

On Biography and Autobiography (try writing your own)

• K. Wolf, "Eva Perón and Golda Meir," in: Personalities & Problems (1994), 113-126

Week 5

Review for midterm

• Bring textbook and your questions

Week 6

Japan from Isolation to Aggression (primary sources; Karuta game)

• Tokugawa Nariaki (1800-1860), Japan, Reject the Westerners, 1853 (Sherman)(Brittanica bio)
• Okawa Shumei and Hashimoto Kingoro, Justification for War, 1936 (Tsunoda, 1964)(Brittanica Shumei bio; HK text @ UCLA)

Week 7

Discussion of Thesis Statements (for paper 2)

• Bring your event description and thesis statement, and the Rampolla book

Week 8

Calling for Change (motivating and justifying action)

• Simon Bolivar, Jamaican Letter, 1815 (Welborn) (wiki bio; full text online @ Emory)
• Aletta Jacobs, “A Call to the Women of All Nations,” & Resolutions, 1915 (DiCaprio/Wiesner)
• Mohandas Gandhi, “Satyagraha” [Non-Violence], 1921 (Welborn)
• Sun Yat-sen, Fundamentals of National Reconstruction, 1923 (Kishlansky)
  (wsu bio)(this text+intro)
• Ho Chi Minh, Declaration of Independence, 1945; Appeal to Nation, 1968 (Kishlansky) (text)

Week 9

Restoring National Pride (ideology vs. economics)

• Adolf Hitler, excerpt from Mein Kampf, 1925
• Benito Mussolini, "Fascism," 1932 (Sherman) (wiki bio;excerpt;longer excerpt)
• Josef Stalin, Speech about the first five year plan, 1933 (Welborn)
  (full text) (wiki bio; documents at casahistoria-see 3c; 1930s articles)

Week 10

Restoring Human Dignity (where do we go from here?)

• Vaclav Havel, "Living in Truth," 1986 (Kishlansky) (official bio; wiki bio; 1986 book)
• Mikhail Gorbachev, Perestroika, 1987 (Welborn)(1988 article; wiki def)
• Vaclav Havel, "The Failure of Communism," 1990 (Perry) (full text)
• Ali Mazrui and Michael Tidy, Reviving African Culture, 1984 (Sherman)
  (2000 Mazrui lecture)