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emergence of modern France, social economic and political transformation of France, impact of France's revolutionary heritage of industrialization and of the dislocation wrought by two world wars, political response of the Left and the Right to changing French society

ideas and history, Skinker-DeBaliviere, memory and society, background and approaches, Methodology and Interviewing: project, readings

survey of history of ancient Greek philosophy from the Milesians through Aristotle: Thales, Anaximander, Anaximenes, Heraclitus, Ship of Theseus, Parmenides, Zeno, Empedocles, Anaxagoras, Atomism, Socratic Definitions, Meno's Paradox, Plato's Phaedo, forms, "one over many", allegory of the cave, criticism of forms, Plato's cosmology, Aristotle's categories, Aristotle on change, four causes, texts & essays, search engines, links, news, just for fun

medieval Japanese society and culture from the twelfth to the nineteenth centuries when political power rested largely in the hands of feudal warriors, religion (especially Zen Buddhism), changing concepts of "the way of the warrior", women under feudalism, popular culture, protest and rebellion: readings, study materials

explores last 500 years of world history, focus on four related themes (truggles between Europeans and colonized peoples, global formation of capitalist economies and industrialization, emergence of modern states, development of the tastes and disciplines of bourgeois society): readings, study materials, handouts

variety of approaches to the past used by historians writing in the twentieth century, how (historians conceive of their object of study, use primary sources as a basis for their accounts, structure the narrative and analytic discussion of their topic), advantages and drawbacks of various approaches: readings
 

Debate on German Peculiarities, Previous History, Road to National Unification, Second Empire until 1914, First World War, 1914-1918, Weimar Republic, Third Reich, Aftermath Of the War

collections of public domain & copy-permitted historical texts for educational use: ancient, Medieval, modern, African, East Asian, Indian, Islamic, Jewish, women's, global, science, Byzantium, Medieval (Web, NYC, Music, Saints' Lives, Ancient Law, Medieval Law), Film (Ancient, Medieval, Modern, Saints)

development of methods and techniques of wooden shipbuilding from the Solar Ship of the Pharoh Cheops (2600 BC) to the late 16th century AD (Problems, Sources, Terminology, Types, Definition, method, influences on boat & ship design, hydrodynamics, design, performance, mechanical stress, sources for study, Mediterranean, Ships (Egyptian, Minoan, Phoenician, Iron Age Greek), Hellenistic War Galley, Roman Navy, Classical Round Ship, Roman Ships in Northern Waters, Northern Europe, Bronze Age to Celtic, Vikings, Middle Ages, 15th & 16th Centuries), Trieres, Kyrenia and Dyflin Replicas

establishment of the ideas and institutions of modern physics, tracking the evolution of the discipline over the last two centuries, dramatic developments, both intellectual and structural, social, cultural & political context: Reading assignments, Reader contents, useful references, Roadmaps