Name of Source

Week 1

What is History?

• Friedrich Nietzsche, "On the Use and Abuse of History for Life," 1874
  on-line version (read from section I through first 7 paragraphs of section 4
  [note 9/30/09: with my browser print settings, this is about to p. 23 of 70 total pages]
• Mary Lynn Rampolla, Pocket Guide to Writing in History, chap. 1 (book, or pdf)

Week 2

Equiano; Conventions for writing in history

• Equiano, The Interesting Narrative …(1789) (book)
  (B. Carey's resources; Where was E. born?)
• Rampolla chaps. 2, 4, 6, 7 (bring books to section)

Week 3

Latin American Leaders; preparing for first paper

• Simon Bolivar, Jamaican Letter, 1815 (Welborn)(wiki bio; full text online @ Emory)
• K. Wolf, "Eva Perón and Golda Meir," in: Personalities & Problems (1994), 113-126 (read to 119)

Week 4

China from Leader to Led; Japan from Isolation to Aggression

• Lord McCartney's Observations (1792); Emperor Qianlong to George III (1793) (Pearson)
• Lin Zexu, Letter to Queen Victoria (1839); Treaty of Nanjing (1842)
• 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 5

India; Review for midterm

• I Rammohun Roy on Hindu Women and Education, early 19th c. (Pearson)
• C.C. Hazewell, "The Indian Revolt," Atlantic Monthly, 1857 (Pearson)
• Dadabhai Naoroji, "The Benefits of British Rule in India," 1871 (Pearson)

Week 6

Calls to Action in the Early 20th Century; discuss Family History Assignment

• 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)
• Nelson Mandela, Speech to the Court, Apr. 20, 1964 (Welborn)

Week 7

Ideologies before and after World War II

• Benito Mussolini, "Fascism," 1932 (Sherman) (wiki bio;excerpt;longer excerpt)
• Adolf Hitler, excerpt from Mein Kampf, 1925
• Heinrich Himmler, Speech to the SS, 1943 (Reilly)
• Josef Stalin, Speech about the first five year plan, 1933 (Welborn)
  (full text) (wiki bio; documents at casahistoria-see 3c; 1930s articles)
• Vaclav Havel, "The Failure of Communism," 1990 (Perry) (full text; official bio; wiki bio; 1986 book)

Week 8

Creating States in the 20th Century; discuss Family History prospectuses

• Ho Chi Minh, Declaration of Independence, 1945; Appeal to Nation, 1968 (Kishlansky) (text)
• Francisco García Calderón, "Latin America: Its Rise and Progress," 1912 (Andrea/Overfeld)
• Lazáro Cárdenas, Speech to the Nation, 1938 (Andrea/Overfeld)
• Volta Project Editorial (1965) and Interview Abena Animwaa (2005) (Prof. Miescher)

Week 9

Non-Classroom Instructional Week (Thanksgiving)

• Balfour Declaration (1917); UN Resolution 242 (1967); PLO National Charter (1968)
• United Nations Declaration against Colonialism, 1961 (all Sherman, World)
• K. Wolf, "… and Golda Meir" (see above, week 3), read pp. 119-124 [above, 15-18

Week 10

Economic Development and Environmental Degradation

• Nnamdi Azikiwe, Speech on Imperialism,1949 (Pearson)
• Kwame Nkrumah, "I Speak of Freedom," 1961 (Riley/Gerome,…)
• Ali Mazrui & Michael Tidy, Reviving African Culture, 1984 (Sherman) (2000 Mazrui lecture)
• Mikhail Gorbachev, Perestroika, 1987 (Welborn) (1988 article; wiki def)
• John Roach, "By 2050 Warming to Doom Million Species," 2004 (Reilly)
• Andrew Revkin, "Climate Data Hint at Irreversible Rise in Seas," 2006 (Reilly)