History 4330, Modern German History

Paper Assignment 2

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Study Guide 2

 

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Schedule

Reading: Frederick the Great

Reading: The German General Staff System

Paper Assignment: Buddenbrooks

Goethe: The Sorrows of Young Werther

Marx and Engels, The Communist Manifesto

Documents of German Unification, 1848-1871

A War Correspondent in the Franco-Prussian War, 1870

Otto von Bismarck, Memoirs

Maurice Leudet: A Day with Kaiser Wilhelm II, 1898

von Clausewitz, On War, Book One, Chapter One

von Clausewitz, On War, Book One, Chapter Seven

The Army Intervenes in the Crisis: von Moltke to von Bethmann Hollweg

Bulletins from the Front I (1914)

Bulletins from the Front II (1918)

Unrestricted Submarine Warfare (December 22, 1916)

“We Germans Fear God and Nothing Else in the World!”

Erich Ludendorff Admits Defeat

Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf

Hunger: Ernst Gläser, Born in 1902 (1928)

The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

The Treaty of Versailles

Reich Concordat between the Holy See and the German Reich

Declaration of the Second Confessing Synod of the German Protestant Church

Papal Encyclical on the Situation of the Catholic Church in the German Reich

Excerpt from Bishop von Galen’s Sermon

Heinrich Himmler on Christianity and Religion

Heinrich Boell

History 1112

Syllabus for History 1112-02

Syllabus for History 1112-03

Syllabus for History 1112-05

Schedule for Monday/Wednesday section

Schedule for Tuesday/Thursday sections

Study Guide 1

Study Guide 2

Study Guide 3

 

History 2111

Study Guide 3

Study Guide 2

Study Guide 1

Syllabus for 2111-01 (Monday and Wednesday, 11:00 AM-12:15 PM

Syllabus for 2111-02 (Monday and Wednesday, 3:30-4:45 PM

Class schedule

 

History 2112

Study Guide 1

Study Guide 2

Syllabus

Class schedule

Course outline

Textbook: Outline of U.S. History (edited)

Textbook: Wikibooks, U.S. History (edited)

Online optional textbook: The American Yawp 

 

A Basic Chart of American Constitutional Government

Secession, War, and Reconstruction over time (gif)

The Constitution of the United States

 Constitution with Links

Bill of Rights

Eleventh and Later Amendments

The Amendment Process

Pullman sleeping car

Pullman dining car

The Gilded Age: Railroad Growth, 1860-1900

The Transcontinental Railroad

Andrew Carnegie

John D. Rockefeller

John D. Rockefeller

Individualism versus Collectivism: A Chart

The Great Railroad Strike of 1877: Pittsburgh trains burning

The Haymarket Riot, 1886

William Graham Sumner

Protectionism versus Free Trade: A Chart

Continental Powers versus Maritime Powers: A General Comparison

Nationalism versus Internationalism: A Chart

American Expansion into the Pacific Rim

American Expansion into the Pacific Rim (color version)

An eighteenth century ship of the line

a mid-nineteenth century ship of the line

The modern steel navy after the coming of Mahan: The cruiser Atlanta in 1891

The battleship Maine in early 1898

The battleship Maine later in 1898

The Spanish-American War: The Battle of Manila Bay

The Spanish-American War: The Caribbean

The Spanish-American War: Santiago

The Spanish-American War: Santiago 2

The Spanish-American War: Santiago 3

 

Nationalism versus Internationalism: A Chart

The United States in the Caribbean, 1898-1941 (Map)

Theodore Roosevelt's Big Stick: The U.S. Navy

The Great White Fleet

The Amendment Process

World War I

World War I poetry

 World War I: Trench Warfare (diagram)

Aerial photograph of trench networks on the Western Front

Maps, World War I

The U-boat

The U-boat in action

The Lusitania: The German warning

The Zimmermann telegram's proposal to Mexico

Woodrow Wilson--Messiah?

The Roaring '20s

Flappers in the '20s

Al Jolson, The Jazz Singer

Gatsby

George Gershwin: "Summertime," perf. by Kathleen Battle

Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue (unofficial anthem of NYC)

Art Deco

Eugenics 1

Eugenics 2

The New Klan: 1

The New Klan: 2

The New Deal

FDR, First Inaugural Address

FDR's first fireside chat

Chart of major New Deal acts/programs/agencies

TVA map

FDR and the Court-packing plan

World War II

The Dictators:

Lenin

Stalin

Mussolini

Hitler

The perfect Aryan male

The perfect Aryan female

Nazi expansion in the 1930s: Hitler's bloodless conquests

The Maginot Line

Main map, World War II Europe

Main map, World War II, Pacific

Battle maps, World War II, Europe

Battle maps, World War II, Pacific

The Pearl Harbor Raid

The Pearl Harbor Raid: FDR speaks to Congress

The Doolittle Raid, April 1942

The Atomic Bomb

Trumans' Announcement of the Atomic Bomb

The Japanese Surrender, 2 September 1945

The surrender in color

The U.S. at War

American industrial might: "Murderers' Row"

Rosie the Riveter

A Real-life "Rosie"

Another Real-life "Rosie"

The American Century in Music: Glenn Miller, "In the Mood"

The American Century in Music: Oklahoma! clip 1

The American Century in Music: Oklahoma! clip 2

The American Century in Music: Oklahoma! clip 3 (begin 2:52)

The Diplomacy of World War II

Churchill and Roosevelt at Casablanca, 1943

The Big Three at Tehran, 1943

The Big Three at Yalta, 1945

The Big Three at Potsdam, 1945

Yalta and Potsdam: The Alied occupation zones of Germany

The Cold War

Map: The Cold War

The Day After (1983) (37:00 to 59:00)

Cold War culture: Conelrad.com

The Berlin Airlift

Pacific map

The Korean Conflict

Truman and MacArthur Meet at Wake Island

Nuclear weapon yield comparison tool

John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address

The Cuban Missile Crisis

U-2 photograph

Map

Kennedy's television address

The Cold Warrior: Reagan and the Wall

The Great Communicator: Reagan and Gorbachev 1

Reagan and Gorbachev 2

Reagan and Gorbachev 3

Postwar American Society

Levittown

Levittown Advertisement

Television and America's view of itself

Nice, safe domestic life 1: Father Knows Best

Nice, safe domestic life 2: Leave it to Beaver

The Western: America as the Rugged Frontier Individualist

Television and Politics, Act I: The Kennedy-Nixon debates

Commentary on the debates

Rosa Parks 

Television and politics, Act II: The New Left

Vietnam

Pacific map

Map

Vietnam slideshow

Ngô Đình Diệm

Thích Quảng Đức 

Diem in 1963

1968

Tet: The Eddie Adams photo

Raw footage of execution of Nguyễn Văn Lém

Execution commentary (video)

My Lai

King

The assassination of Robert F. Kennedy (video)

The 1968 Democratic National Convention (video)

Photos, Vietnam: The final years

Kent State

Kent State (video) (Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young, Ohio)

Jane Fonda

The Fall of Saigon 1

The Fall of Saigon 2

Watergate

Photo, Watergate

Nixon: "I am not a crook" (video)

Rose Mary Woods and the "Rose Mary stretch"

Rose Mary Woods--another angle

Watergate: A retrospective (video)

 

 

History 2112

 

 

History 3480, Nineteenth Century Europe 

Study Guide 1

Study Guide 2

Syllabus

Class schedule

Paper instructions

Paper assignment on Dickens's Hard Times

 

 

History 3050, The Mediterranean World (Not offered Fall 2013)

 

Syllabus

Class schedule

Instructions for first paper

The Internet Ancient History Sourcebook

The Code of Hammurabi

The Code of Hammurabi (alternate site)

The Book of the Dead: The Negative Confession

Gilgamesh

Instructions for second paper

Instructions for third paper

Lecture on the Persians

Instructions for fourth paper

Midterm Exam Study Guide

Instructions for fifth paper

Instructions for sixth paper

Instructions for seventh paper

Instructions for eighth paper

Documents to read for ninth paper

Instructions for ninth paper

Study guide for final exam

Instructions for tenth paper

 

 

History 3490, 20th Century Europe

Syllabus

Class schedule

Vera Brittain paper assignment

Mid-term exam study guide

Diet Eman paper assignment

Final study guide

 

History 4290, Modern Russian History

Syllabus

Class schedule

Paper instructions

Study Guide 1

Study Guide 2

Study Guide 3

 

 

 

 

 

History 399B2, World War I in Film and Literature (Not offered Fall 2012)

 

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Schedule

Study Guide 1

Study Guide 2

Daily assignments

Paper instructions

firstworldwar.com

Rudyard Kipling (select link "Some Poems")

Rupert Brooke: Poems from 1914

Topic for first paper

Topic for second paper

Poems by Wilfred Owen

Poems by Siegfried Sassoon

"Does it Matter?"

"Dreamers"

Poem by Alan Seeger

History 3750, Civil War and Reconstruction

Syllabus

Schedule

Paper assignment

Mid-term Exam Study Guide

Final Exam Study Guide

Tips for Proper English

The Background

A chart of American constitutional government

The Civil War Constitution

A chart of basic Civil War army organization

Animated battle maps

Topographical map of Eastern Seaboard

A legal view of slavery: State v. Mann, 1829

The Southern reaction to the Compromise of 1850: The Georgia Platform

John Brown's last speech

A comparison of the Dred Scott case and Roe v. Wade

The presidential election of 1860

Military Overview and Opening Phases

First Manassas/Bull Run, July 1861--animated map

The Anaconda Plan

Map of Eastern Theater

Map of Western Theater

The Mississippi Valley: The western rivers

Grant's 1862 Campaign--invading the Confederate heartland

 

The Confederate Captains

Quotations on Robert E. Lee

Lee's views on slavery (Compare his opinion on the "painful discipline" of slavery with that of Judge Ruffin in State v. Mann. Which is the more accurate view?)

"The Answer He was Born to Make"--a chapter from Douglas Southall Freeman's biography of Robert E. Lee

Wikipedia article on Stonewall Jackson

Quotations of Stonewall Jackson

 

The Peninsula Campaign, 1862

The Eastern Theater, 1862

Antietam-Sharpsburg, September 1862

 

The Union Captains

Ulysses S. Grant biography

Descriptions of Grant:

by his adjutant

by General Simon Bolivar Buckner, CSA, who surrendered to him at Fort Donelson

by General James Longstreet, CSA, one of Lee's corps commanders

William T. Sherman biography

"Grant stood by me when I was crazy and I stood by him when he was drunk and now we stand by each other always."--William T. Sherman

The Vicksburg Campaign, 1863

The Gettysburg Address

 

William T. Sherman's letter to the Mayor and City Council of Atlanta

Appomattox

Freeman's account of the surrender

Grant's account of the surrender

Porter's account of the surrender

Lee's farewell address to the Army of Northern Virginia

Two views on Reconstruction and the end of the war

Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address, March 1865

Edmund Ruffin's final diary entry, June 1865

 

 

History 399B6, World War II (Not offered Fall 2012)

Mid-Term Study Guide

Final Exam Study Guide

Oral presentation schedule

Conference schedule

Paper Topic

Syllabus

Schedule

European Theater Quiz Map--Use this map to prepare for your map quiz. The features surrounded by heavy black squares will be the ones you are tested on. Before printing a hard copy, switch to landscape mode.

Pacific Theater Quiz Map--Use this map to prepare for your map quiz. The features surrounded by heavy black squares will be the ones you are tested on. Before printing a hard copy, switch to landscape mode.

European Theater Complete Map--for general reference.

Pacific Theater Complete Map--for general reference.

Animated Battle Maps:

Europe

The Pacific

War Plan Orange, Island Hopping, and Amphibious Warfare

Japanese strategy and objectives in the Pacific, 1941

Brief Outline of the United States in World War II

The Pacific Theater: Allied Command Structure

Geostrategy: The Heartland and Rimland Theories

Heartland Theory Map (included in previous link; for classroom display here)

The Battle of the Atlantic, 1939-1945

Allied Shipping Losses, December 1941-July 1942--Note that most losses are near the American coastlines.

Allied Shipping Losses, August 1942-May 1943--Note that most losses have shifted back to the mid-Atlantic.

 

 

History 399B8, Nazi Germany (Not offered Spring 2012)

Study Guide 2

Syllabus

Schedule

First Paper Assignment

Study Guide 1

Second Paper Assignment

 

History 1111

Syllabus for History 1111-03

Schedule for Monday/Wednesday section

Study Guide 1

Study Guide 2

Study Guide 3

 

History 3000

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Schedule

 

Paper Instructions

History 1006

Perspectives on America at War

Syllabus

Schedule

Critical thinking assignment

Critical thinking rubric

Speech evaluation rubric

Oral History Project Instructions

Interview release forms

World War II

The Dictators:

Lenin

Stalin

Mussolini

Hitler

The perfect Aryan male

The perfect Aryan female

Nazi expansion in the 1930s: Hitler's bloodless conquests

The Maginot Line

Main map, World War II Europe

Main map, World War II, Pacific

Battle maps, World War II, Europe

Battle maps, World War II, Pacific

The Pearl Harbor Raid

The Pearl Harbor Raid: FDR speaks to Congress

The Doolittle Raid, April 1942

The Atomic Bomb

Trumans' Announcement of the Atomic Bomb

The Japanese Surrender, 2 September 1945

The surrender in color

The U.S. at War

American industrial might: "Murderers' Row"

Rosie the Riveter

A Real-life "Rosie"

Another Real-life "Rosie"

The Diplomacy of World War II

Churchill and Roosevelt at Casablanca, 1943

The Big Three at Tehran, 1943

The Big Three at Yalta, 1945

The Big Three at Potsdam, 1945

Yalta and Potsdam: The Alied occupation zones of Germany