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WEB SOURCES AND WRITTEN ASSIGNMENTS DIRECTORY

Assignments marked with an asterisk (*) contain written work, which should be E-Mailed to the instructor by the following Monday. The numbers below correspond to the lecture topics.
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ASSIGNMENT #1:

The Roots of Western Civilization (Outline) [At Paul Halsall]

Halsall's Source Book: Why Study History Through Primary Sources [At Fordham University]


WEB ASSIGNMENT #2: *

BISHOP JACQUES BOSSUET Political Treatise On Kingship [At Hanover College]

The Path to Royal Absolutism: an exhibit by the Library of Congress and the Bibliotheque Nationale

The Rise and Fall of the Absolute MonarchyLiabrary of Congress & Bibliotheque Nationale

Cardinal Richelieu, Political Testament[Hanover College] Observation of Louis XIV [Hanover College]

Web Museum, Paris Paris Explore this museum site for examples of 17th and 18th century art.[Hanover College]


WEB ASSIGNMENT #3:

Declaration of Rights, February 1689 [At Hanover]

English Bill of Rights,1689[At Halsall,Internet Reader,Fordham]

John Locke(1632-1704): Second Treatise on Government[At Hanover]

William Temple: Observations upon the United Provinces of the Netherlands[At Halsall,Internet Reader,Fordham]

Magna Carta [At Brooklyn College]

Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan[Halsall, Internet Reader, Fordham]


WEB ASSIGNMENT #4:

Charles Louis de Secondat Montesquieu(1689-1755):Persian Letters,No.13,1721[Halsall,Fordham]

Cesare Beccaria:An Essay on Crime and Punishments[Halsall,Fordham]

Paris Salons in the 18th Century[Halsall,Fordham]

David Hume(1711-1776):On Miracles from Human Understanding[Halsall,Fordham]

Catherine the Great of Russia:Various Documents of Enlightenment and government[Halsall,Fordham]

Frederic II of Prussia(1740-1786)Essay on Forms of Government[Halsall,Fordham]


WEB ASSIGNMENT #5*

Practice Quiz

George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)[Alexandre H. Hohmann]

ArchitectureResources on Renaissance and Barogue Styles,University of Virginia Library

Web Museum, ParisExplore this museum site for examples of 17th and 18th century art.

BoucherFlight into Egypt

Voltare Foundation A site at Oxford University with useful materials and links

French Deism,from the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

The Age of Enlightenment,Art from French museums [includes historical background].


WEB ASSIGNMENT #6:

Catherine the Great of Russia:Various Documents on Enlightenment and Government [excerpts At Hallsal's]

Luise Gottsched:Description of the Empress Maria Theresa, 1749 [At Hallsal's]

Frederick II of Prussia(1740-1786): Essay on Forms of Government [At Hallsal's]

Frederick II of Prussia (1740-1786): Political Testament, excerpts [At North Park University]

The Ideal of Joseph II of Austria [At CCNY]

The Decline of the Holy Roman Empire and the Rise of Prussia, 1700-1786 [At Hallsal's]
Contains:

The Division of Poland, 1772, 1793, 1795 [At Hallsal's]


WEB ASSIGNMENT #7:

Declaration of rights of Man, 26 August,1789 (At Yale)

Decree Abolishing Feudalism, 1789,(At Hanover)

Civil constitution of the Clergy, 1790, (At Hanover)

Chronology of the French Revolution [At University of Warwick, UK]

Estates General, Image

The Rights of Man,1792 by Thomas Paine [At Yale Avalon Project]


WEB ASSIGNMENT #8*

Proclamation of Duke of Brunswick, 1792,(At Hanover)

The Marseillaise

Maximilian Robespierre(1758-94):On the Festival of the Supreme Being, 1794

Maximilian Robespierre(1758-94):Terror and Virtue, 1794

Olympe de Gouges:Declaration of te Rights of Women, 1791

Edmund Burke(1729-1797):Reflections on the Revolution in France, 1791

The Guillotinea look at the instrument and symbol of the Terror


WEB ASSIGNMENT #9:

Napoleon Bonaparte:Account of the Situation of the Empire, 1804, (At Hanover)

Napoleon Bonaparte - April 20, 1814 Farewell to The Old Guard

Practice Quiz

Practice Quiz


WEB ASSIGNMENT #10:

Life of 19th Century Workers in England(At Alderson-Broaddus College)

Friedrich Engels Industrial Manchester,1844

Florence Nightingale (1820-1910)Rural Hygiene[At Halsall]

Letter from Leeds Cloth Merchants, 1791[At Halsall].Defends the use of machinery.

Richard Guest: On Power Looms, 1828 [At Halsall]

Practice Quiz


WEB ASSIGNMENT #11:*

Joseph DeMaistre: Political Confession of Faith, 1820[Excerpt At Halsall's Modern Internet Reader]


WEB ASSIGNMENT #12*

John Stuart Mill(1806-1873)On Liberty, extracts,(At WSU)

Daniel O'Connell:Justice for Ireland, Feb 4, 1836[At Halsall]

Joseph Mazzini [Hanover College Historical Texts Project]


WEB ASSIGNMENT #13 *

Chartism:The People's Petition, 1838

Louis Blanc(1811-1882): The Organisation of Labour, 1840

Karl Marx (1818-1883) and Friederich Engels:Communist Manifesto, 1848,extracts (at WSU) Eduard Bernstein (1850-1932):Evolutionary Socialism

Documents of the Revolution of 1848 in France[At Hanover College]

Documents of the Revolution of 1848 in France[At Hanover College]


WEB ASSIGNMENT #14*

Otto von Bismarck, Memoirs [At Hanover Historical Texts Project]

Prince Otto Furst von Bismarck-Schonhausen[At www.worldwar1.com]

Pre-War Documents[At www.worldwar1.com]

German Chancellor 1862-1890:Otto von Bismarck [At SSA History Archives]

Otto von Bismarck:Memoirs,(At Hanover)


WEB ASSIGNMENT#15:

ARTS:
Collection of Friedrich Paintings

Cross on the Mountain,Caspar Friedrich

Constable & Romanticism

Delacroix & Romanticism

The Crystal Palace, or The Great Exhibition of 1851

The Pre-Raphaelite Movement

The Pre-Raphaelite Movement

The Arts & Crafts Movement: People: William Morris

The First Impressionist Exhibition, 1874

ModernismIndex of Sites

Aubrey Beardsley and the Decadents


WEB ASSIGNMENT#16:

Charles Darwin:The Origin of Species (1859),extracts (at WSU)

Charles Darwin (1809-1882):The Descent of Man, 1871

Herbert Spencer:Social Darwinism, 1857

Darwin Site

Works of Charles Darwin

The Freud Net

Sigmund Freud and the Freud Archives

Einstein Revealed, PBS Nova Site

Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein Online

Quantum & Relativity Theories

Map of Chinese Territory lost to the West


WEB ASSIGNMENT#17:

MIDTERM EXAM *


WEB ASSIGNMENT#18:

The Declaration of Sentiments, Seneca Falls Conference, 1848 [At Paul Halsall's]

Susan B. Anthony:Women's Right to Vote, 1873 [At Paul Halsall's]

Maria Eugenia Echenique: The Emancipation of Women (1876) Argentine feminist. [At Paul Halsall's]


WEB ASSIGNMENT#19: *

Pope Pius IXSyllabus of Pius IX [At Paul Halsall's]

Pope Leo XIIIOn the Condition of the Working Classes [At Paul Halsall's]


WEB ASSIGNMENT#20:

Sigmund Freud: The Interpretation of Dreams (1900) [At Washington State University]

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900):The Geneology of Morals, (extracts, at WSU)

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900):Parable of the Madman [At Paul Halsall's]


WEB ASSIGNMENT#21:

Extent of Colonialism in Statistical Terms [At Mt.Holyoke]

Kaiser Wilhelm II and German Interests in China, 1900 [At HNet]

South African War Virtual Library (University of Queensland)


WEB ASSIGNMENT#22: *


WEB ASSIGNMENT#23:

World War I Poetry

Woodrow Wilson: Speech on the Fourteen Points Jan 8, 1918 [At Paul Halsall's]

Treaty of Versailles, Jun 28, 1919 [At Paul Halsall's]

World war I, November 11,1918[At History Place]

Versailles, France. June, 1919[At History Place]

The Great War and The Shaping of the 20th Century, [from PBS site for People's Century]

The Great War: 80 years on [BBC NEWS]

Cartoons of WWI

Art of WWI

An Internet History of The Great War

The Versailles Treaty June 28, 1919 (Full text,with many accompanying maps and cartoons)


WEB ASSIGNMENT #24:

Marie Sukloff: The Story of an Assassination (1914)

Vladimir Illyich Lenin: What is to be Done, 1902

The Red Flag,Russian Revolution Program in the People's Century Series

The Russian Revolution

Paul halsall's Crib Sheet on the Russian Revolution

Vladimir Illyich Lenin(1870-1924)[Full text with index at Hanover College]

Lenin Internet Archive

Lenin Museum


WEB ASSIGNMENT #25: *


WEB ASSIGNMENT#26:

League of nations Covenant,1924 (at Yale)

John Maynard Keynes: The Economic Consequences of the Peace, 1920

The Beer Hall Putsch(At History Place)

In May,1939 - The St. Louis, a ship crowded with 930 Jewish refugees, is turned away by Cuba, the United States and other countries and returns to Europe.(At History Place)


WEB ASSIGNMENT #27:

Hymn to Stalin

Stalin's Purges, 1935


WEB ASSIGNMENT #28:

Benito Mussolini: What is Fascism, 1932


WEB ASSIGNMENT#29:*

Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany.(At History Place)

Feb 27/1933 - The Reichstag burns. (At History Place)

March 12,1933- First Nazis Concentration Camp(At History Place)

April 1/1933 - Nazi boycott of Jewish owned shops. (At History Place)

May 10/1933 - Nazis burn books in Germany. (At History Place)

In June/1933 - Nazis open Dachau concentration camp.(At History Place)

The Night of the Long Knives (At History Place)

The Nuremberg Race Laws(At History Place)

March 12/13/1938 - Germany announces 'Anschluss' (union) with Austria.(At History Place)

Oct 15/1938 - German troops occupy the Sudetenland; Czech government resigns. (At History Place)

Nov 9/10/1938 - Kristallnacht - The Night of Broken Glass. (At History Place)

Aug 1, 1936 - Olympic games begin in Berlin.(At History Place)

"The Eternal Jew" exhibition in Munich, Nov. 8, 1937. (At History Place)


WEB ASSIGNMENT #30:

Paul Valéry: On European Civilization and the European Mind, c.1919, 1922


WEB ASSIGNMENT#31:

The 25 Points 1920: An Early Nazi Program

The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, 1939

Neville Chamberlain:"Peace in Our Time", 1938


WEB ASSIGNMENT#32:

Molotov: Reaction to German Invasion of 1941

Winston Churchill: "Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat", May 13, 1940

Time Line of Events 1941-1945 (The History Place)

Sept 27, 1939 - Warsaw surrenders; Heydrich becomes leader of RSHA.(The History Place)


WEB ASSIGNMENT #33:

Adolf Hitler The Discovery of Antisemitism in Vienna

Heinrich Himmler:Speech to SS Group Leaders at Posen, October 4,1943,(At History Place)

Adolf Hitler's First Antisemitic Writing September 16, 1919

Hermann Friedrich GraebeAccount of Holocaust Mass Shooting, 1942

Rudolf Hoess, Commandant of Auschwitz:Testimony at Nuremburg, 1946

Hitler Signs an Order Authorizing Involuntary Euthanasia in Germany, October 1939(at HNet)

Gypsies in the Holocaust

Heinrich Himmler: On Homosexuals

The Rise of Adolf Hitler(At History Place)

Mauthausen concentration camp(At History Place)

Jan 30, 1939 - Hitler threatens Jews during Reichstag speech.(At History Place)

In Sept,1939 - Quote from Nazi newspaper: Der Stürmer(At History Place)

Oct.1939 - Nazis begin euthanasia on sick and disabled in Germany.(At History Place)

Dec - Adolf Eichmann(At History Place)

The Krakow Ghetto 1940 - 1943(At History Place)

Simon Wiesenthal Center Site on the Holocaust, Nazism, and World War II

Simon Wiesenthal Center Site on the Holocaust multimedia learning center

Frequently Asked Questions about the HolocaustSimon Wiesenthal Center


WEB ASSIGNMENT #34:

UN Resolution 260, 1948 - On Genocide

Universal Declaration of Human Rights,1948


WEB ASSIGNMENT #35:


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