Monday: History
Week 1
TITLE: The Alphabet
BIBLIOGRAPHY: *http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/egyptians/decipherment_01.shtml
*http://www.peak.org/~jeremy/dictionary/chapters/alphabet.php
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_alphabet
*http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/faq/aboutspelling/ye
RECOMMENDED READING: *Andrew Robinson. The Story of Writing. Thames and Hudson, 1999.
Week 2
TITLE: Hammurabi’s Code of Laws
BIBLIOGRAPHY: *Van De Mieroop, Marc. “King Hammurabi Of Babylon: A Biography." Blackwell Publishers, 2004.
*http://eawc.evansville.edu/anthology/hammurabi.htm
*http://www.louvre.fr/llv/oeuvres/detail_notice.jsp?CONTENT%3C%3Ecnt_id=10134198673226487&CURRENT_LLV
_NOTICE%3C%3Ecnt_id=10134198673226487&FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=9852723696500800&fromDept=false&
baseIndex=54&bmUID=1130264425015&bmLocale=en
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuneiform_script
RECOMMENDED READING: *Van De Mieroop, Marc. “King Hammurabi Of Babylon: A Biography." Blackwell Publishers, 2004.
Week 3
TITLE: Sparta vs. Athens: the Battle for the Ancient World
BIBLIOGRAPHY: *Plutarch. “Lycurgus: The Father of Sparta.” From Plutarch’s “Lives.” http://www.e-classics.com/lycurgus.htm
*http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/laconic
*http://www.culture.gr/2/21/211/21101a/e211aa01.html
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Sparta (derived from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica)
RECOMMENDED READING: *Hanson, Victor Davis. “A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War.” Random House, 2005.
*Thucydides. “History of the Peloponnesian War.”
Week 4
TITLE: Alexander the Great
BIBLIOGRAPHY: *http://www.mpt.org/programsinterests/mpt/alexander/overview/king.html
*http://www.mpt.org/programsinterests/mpt/alexander/overview/index.html
*Plutarch, “Lives.” http://www.e-classics.com/ALEXANDER.htm
*http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/greeks/alexander_the_great_04.shtml
Week 5
TITLE: Julius Caesar
FURTHER READING:
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
Week 6
TITLE: Rosetta Stone
BIBLIOGRAPHY: *http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pharaohs
*http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/compass/ixbin/hixclient.exe?_IXDB_=compass&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_
=1&_IXSPFX_=graphical/full/&$+with+all_unique_id_index+is+$=OBJ67&submit-button=summary
*http://www.carnegiemuseums.org/cmnh/exhibits/egypt/mummification.htm
*http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/B/bodies/cases/case18.html
Week 7
TITLE: Emperor Constantine
BIBLIOGRAPHY: *http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_1/tacitus.html
*http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_1/tacitus.html
*http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/religion/maps/primary/pliny.html
*http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/religion/why/legitimization.html
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladiator
Week 8
TITLE: The Spread of Islam
BIBLIOGRAPHY: *http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_conquests
*http://www.oldamascus.com/home.htm
*Gibbon, Edward. “Decline and Fall.” Vol 5, pg 392
*Frazier, Ian. “Invaders: Destroying Baghdad.” The New Yorker. 25 April 2005.
*http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/med/wiet.html
Week 9
TITLE: Charlemagne
BIBLIOGRAPHY: *http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/prem/200205/olson
*http://www.myarmoury.com/feature_charlemagne.html
*http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/santiago/histchrl.html
*http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/roland-ext.html
Week 10
TITLE: Magna Carta
FURTHER READING: *1215: The Year of Magna Carta by Danny Danziger and John Gillingham
Week 11
TITLE: Genghis Khan
BIBLIOGRAPHY: *http://www.royalalbertamuseum.ca/vexhibit/genghis/intro.htm
*http://www.royalalbertamuseum.ca/vexhibit/genghis/biog.htm
*http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/country_profiles/1235560.stm
*http://www.ualberta.ca/~chor/mongolin.htm
*http://www.coldsiberia.org/monbow.htm
RECOMMENDED READING: *Weatherford, Jack. Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World. Crown, 2004.
Week 12
TITLE: The Black Plague
BIBLIOGRAPHY:*http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/dweb/plague/perspectives/de_mussi.shtml
*http://www.nationalreview.com/interrogatory/kelly200509140843.asp
*http://www.historyguide.org/ancient/flagellant.html
*http://www.insecta-inspecta.com/fleas/bdeath/Europe.html
*http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/case_plague/
RECOMMENDED READING: *Kelly, John. The Great Mortality, An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time. New York:
HarperCollins Publisher Inc., 2005.
*Boccaccio, Giovanni. The Decameron. Penguin Classics, 2003.
Week 13
TITLE: Joan of Arc
BIBLIOGRAPHY: *http://www.smu.edu/ijas/1431trial.html
*http://perso.wanadoo.fr/musee.jeannedarc/indexanglais.htm
*http://archive.joan-of-arc.org/joanofarc_letter_May_5_1429.html
*http://archive.joan-of-arc.org/joanofarc_letter_Mar1429.html
*http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0898702682/qid=1134020326/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/002-2494419-6935260?n=507846&s=books&v=glance
RECOMMENDED READING: Twain, Mark. Joan of Arc. Ignatius Press, 1989.
Week 14
TITLE: The Italian Renaissance
BIBLIOGRAPHY: *http://www.pbs.org/empires/medici/
*http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/tl/it-ren/
*http://www.sparknotes.com/history/european/renaissance1/section1.html
*http://www.airfrance.fr/cgi-bin/AF/US/en/local/guidevoyageur/destination/guidevoyage_flr_decouvrir.htm
*http://www.mega.it/eng/egui/monu/buq.htm
RECOMMENDED READING: *Christopher Hibbert. The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall. Harper Perennial, 1999.
Week 15
TITLE: The Reconquista
BIBLIOGRAPHY: *http://www.sispain.org/english/history/reconque.html
*http://www.sispain.org/english/history/
*http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook1p.html
*http://www.pbs.org/empires/islam/
*http://www.medieval-life.net/medieval_history_spain.htm
*http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/islam/history/spain/spain2.shtml
RECOMMENDED READING: *Raymond Carr. Spain: A History. Oxford University Press, 2002.
Week 16
TITLE: The Inquisition
BIBLIOGRAPHY: *http://www.answers.com/topic/auto-de-fe
*http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=992&letter=S
*http://www.salemweb.com/memorial/
RECOMMENDED READING: *Joseph Perez. The Spanish Inquisition: A History. Yale University Press, 2005.
Week 17
TITLE: Martin Luther
BIBLIOGRAPHY: *http://www.pbs.org/empires/martinluther/
*http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/text/wittenberg/luther/web/ninetyfive.html
*http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/state/church_reformation/reformation_overview_02.shtml
*http://www.pbs.org/empires/martinluther/about_relu.html
*http://www.luther.de/en/wartburg.html
RECOMMENDED READING: *The Bible. Thanks to Luther, it is now available at bookstores near you in a language you can understand!
Week 18
TITLE: Spain in the New World
BIBLIOGRAPHY: *http://opwest.org/Archive/2003/200303_OriqueThesis/200303_03_OriqueThesis.htm
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Mexico#Wars_of_independence
*http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/pe.html
*http://www.who.int/entity/csr/disease/smallpox/en/
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syphilis
*http://www.chss.montclair.edu/~landwebj/105/1sepulve.htm, Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda, “On the Reasons for the Just War among the Indians”)
*http://www.ci.st-augustine.fl.us/visitors/specialplace.html
RECOMMENDED READING: *Charles Mann. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus. Knopf, 2005.
Week 19
TITLE: British Settlement in North America
BIBLIOGRAPHY: *http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/winthrop.htm
*http://www.lawbuzz.com/justice/mary/mary.htm
*http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/vc006524.jpg
*http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/vc006523.jpg
RECOMMENDED READING: *David A. Price. Love and Hate in Jamestown : John Smith, Pocahontas, and the Start of a New Nation.
Vintage, 2005.
*Sacvan Bercovitch. The Puritan Origins of the American Self. Yale University Press, 1977.
Week 20
TITLE: The Treaty of Westphalia
BIBLIOGRAPHY: *http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_westphalia
*http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ls.html
Week 21
TITLE: Louis XIV of France
BIBLIOGRAPHY: *http://www.chateauversailles.fr/en/210_Louis_XIV_the_Sun_King.php
*http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/sunking.htm
*http://www.louis-xiv.de/louisold/louisxiv.html
RECOMMENDED READING: *Nancy Mitford. The Sun King. Penguin, 1995.
Week 22
TITLE: Peter the Great
BIBLIOGRAPHY: *http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/peter_the_great.htm
*http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/petergreat.html
*http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/rutoc.html
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermitage_Museum
RECOMMENDED READING: Robert K. Massie. Peter the Great. Ballantine, 1981. (won a Pulitzer prize)
Week 23
TITLE: Benjamin Franklin
BIBLIOGRAPHY: *http://www.pbs.org/benfranklin/
*http://www.arts4all.com/newsletter/issue4/nicolella.html
*http://www.crummy.com/articles/the_late_benjamin_franklin.shtml
*http://www.usps.com/postalhistory/postal_service_begins.htm
*ttp://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~wrader/slang/b.html
RECOMMENDED READING: *Benjamin Franklin. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. Touchstone, 2003.
*Walter Isaacson. Benjamin Franklin: An American Life. Simon & Schuster, 2003.
Week 24
TITLE: George Washington
BIBLIOGRAPHY: *http://www.pbs.org/georgewashington/
*http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/gw1.html
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_washington
*http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Washington
*http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/presiden/washpap.htm
*http://www.libraryreference.org/washington.html
*http://www.genealogy.com/famousfolks/georgew/
RECOMMENDED READING: Joseph J. Ellis. His Excellency: George Washington. Knopf, 2004.
Week 25
TITLE: Thomas Paine
BIBLIOGRAPHY: *http://www.thomaspaine.org/
*http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/society_culture/protest_reform/paine_01.shtml
*http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext94/comsn10.txt
*http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_Paine#Quotes_of_others_about_Paine
*(source: http://libertyonline.hypermall.com/Paine/Default.htm)
RECOMMENDED READING: *Thomas Paine. Collected Writings. Library of America, 1995.
Week 26
TITLE: The French Revolution
BIBLIOGRAPHY: *http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/chap11a.html
*http://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/france/14juillet/gb/marseillaise.html
*http://www.metaphor.dk/guillotine/Pages/Guillot.html
*http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/louis.htm
*http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook13.html
*http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1793burke.html
*http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/robespierre-terror.html
*http://art-bin.com/art/oreffra1.html
RECOMMENDED READING: *Thomas Carlyle. The French Revolution: A History. Modern Library, 2002.
*William Doyle. The Oxford History of the French Revolution. Oxford University Press, 2003.
Week 27
TITLE: Thomas Jefferson
BIBLIOGRAPHY: *(letter to to John Cartwright, 1824. ME 16:43 ))
*http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/tj3.html
*http://www.pbs.org/jefferson/
*http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/jefferson_papers/
*http://etext.virginia.edu/jefferson/quotations/
*http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/jefferson.htm
RECOMMENDED READING: *R.B. Bernstein. Thomas Jefferson. Oxford, 2005.
Week 28
TITLE: Napoleon Bonaparte
BIBLIOGRAPHY: *http://www.pbs.org/empires/napoleon/n_politic/people/page_1.html
*http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/waterloo.htm
*http://www.pbs.org/empires/napoleon/
*http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/war/trafalgar_waterloo/
*http://www.napoleon.org/en/home.asp
*http://www.louisianapurchase2003.com/history/overview/index.htm
*http://ask.yahoo.com/20030724.html
RECOMMENDED READING: *Steven Englund. Napoleon: A Political Life. Scribner, 2004.
Week 29
TITLE: Irish Potato Famine
BIBLIOGRAPHY: *http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Potato_Famine_%281845-1849%29
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potato
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_nothing_party
*http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/facts_for_features_special_editions/003581.html
RECOMMENDED READING: *Cecil Woodham-Smith. The Great Hunger : Ireland: 1845-1849. Penguin, 1992.
Week 30
TITLE: Colonialism
BIBLIOGRAPHY: *Adam Hochschild. King Leopold’s Ghost. Mariner Books, 1999.
*http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/5157
RECOMMENDED READING: Adam Hochschild. King Leopold’s Ghost. Mariner Books, 1999.
*Joseph Conrad. Heart of Darkness. Hesperus Press, 2002.
Week 31
TITLE: Andrew Jackson
BIBLIOGRAPHY: *http://www.quotedb.com/quotes/3387
*http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/aj7.html
*http://www.americanpresident.org/history/andrewjackson/
*http://www.americanpresident.org/history/andrewjackson/biography/resources/Articles/KunhardtJacksonBio.article.shtml
RECOMMENDED READING: *Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. Age of Jackson. Back Bay Books, 1988. (Pulitzer prize winner).
Week 32
TITLE: Commodore Matthew Perry and Japan
BIBLIOGRAPHY: *http://www.pbs.org/empires/japan/
*http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/jptoc.html
*http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=1907601
*http://www.newporthistorical.org/perry.htm
Week 33
TITLE: John Brown
BIBLIOGRAPHY: *http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p1550.html
*http://www.nps.gov/wori/gsmith.htm
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Brown_(abolitionist)
RECOMMENDED READING: *David S. Reynolds. John Brown, Abolitionist :
The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights. Knopf, 2005.
*W.E.B. DuBois. John Brown. Modern Library, 2001.
Week 34
TITLE: Abraham Lincoln
BIBLIOGRAPHY: *http://www.nps.gov/linc/
*http://www.nps.gov/linc/lincoln/lincoln.htm
*http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/al16.html
*http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4367/4367-pdf/4367-pdf.pdf, p 485 and p. 478.
*http://www.nps.gov/foth/booth.htm
*Laura Peek, “Heritage of secrets and lies – murder, too,” The Times, 22 May 2000.
Recommended Reading: David Herbert Donald, “Lincoln,” Simon & Schuster, 1996.
Week 35
TITLE: Appomattox Courthouse -- Ulysses S. Grant & Robert E. Lee
BIBLIOGRAPHY: *http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/4367.html.utf8.gz
*http://www.nps.gov/apco/surrend.htm
*http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/People/Robert_E_Lee/FREREL/home.html
*http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/appomatx.htm
*http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/civilwarends.htm
RECOMMENDED READING: *Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs. Modern Library, 1999.
*Emory M. Thomas. Robert E. Lee: a Biography. W.W. Norton, 1997.
Week 36
TITLE: Transcontinental Railroad
BIBLIOGRAPHY: *http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/tcrr/peopleevents/p_cprr.html
*http://www.nps.gov/gosp/history/GSNHS_hist.html
*http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/tcrr/peopleevents/p_cprr.html
*http://www.uprr.com/aboutup/history/index.shtml
*http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist1/rail.html
RECOMMENDED READING: *David Haward Bain. Empire Express: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad. Penguin, 2000.
Week 37
TITLE: Native Americans
BIBLIOGRAPHY: *http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/native_voices/voices_display.cfm?id=101
*http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/native_voices/voices_display.cfm?id=105
*http://www.npg.si.edu/col/native/geronimo.htm
RECOMMENDED READING: *Dee Brown. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. Owl Books, 2001.
*Merrill D. Beal. “I Will Fight No More Forever”: Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce War. University of Washington Press, 1966.
Week 38
TITLE: Otto von Bismarck
BIBLIOGRAPHY: *http://www.germanembassy-india.org/news/98july/gn07.htm
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_von_Bismarck
*Erich Eyck. Bismarck and the German Empire. W. W. Norton & Company, 1964. P. 120, p. 209.
RECOMMENDED READING: *Erich Eyck. Bismarck and the German Empire. W. W. Norton & Company, 1964.
Week 39
TITLE: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Suffrage Movement
BIBLIOGRAPHY: *http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Declaration_of_Sentiments
*http://ecssba.rutgers.edu/project.html
*http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/ww/people_stanton.html
*http://www.nps.gov/wori/ecs.htm
*http://www.historychannel.com/exhibits/woman/main.html
*http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Susan_B._Anthony
*http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/nineteentham.htm
*http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/stanton/years/years-XXVII.html
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_suffrage#Countries_without_women.27s_suffrage
RECOMMENDED READING: *ed. Ellen Carol Dubois. The Elizabeth Cady Stanton-Susan B. Anthony Reader: Correspondence, Writings, Speeches.
Northeastern University Press, 1992.
Week 40
TITLE: Andrew Carnegie
BIBLIOGRAPHY: *http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa/industry/carnegie/phil_1
*http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/carnegie/
*http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa/carnegie
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Carnegie
*http://www.carnegiemnh.org/carnegiesdinosaurs/dippy/Page_8.html
*http://www.carnegiemuseums.org/cmag/bk_issue/1996/janfeb/editorial.html
*http://www.hotelreviewscotland.com/hotel.asp?id=149
RECOMMENDED READING: *Joseph Frazier Wall. Andrew Carnegie. University of Pittsburgh Press, 1989.
*Ron Chernow. Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. Vintage, 2004.
Week 41
TITLE: VladimirLenin
BIBLIOGRAPHY: *http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenin
*http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=617&pt=Vladimir%20Lenin
RECOMMENDED READING: *John Reed. Ten Days That Shook the World. Penguin Classics, 1980.
*Arthur Koestler. Darkness at Noon. Bantam, 1984.
*Stephane Courtois. The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression. Harvard University Press, 1999.
Week 42
TITLE: Treaty of Versailles
BIBLIOGRAPHY: *http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/war/wwone/
RECOMMENDED READING: *Margaret Macmillan. Paris 1919 : Six Months That Changed the World. Random House, 2003.
Week 43
TITLE: Winston Churchill
BIBLIOGRAPHY: *No. 10 bio: http://www.number-10.gov.uk/output/Page134.asp
*http://www.winstonchurchill.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=1
*http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/war/wwtwo/churchill_defender_01.shtml
*http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/churchill_winston.shtml
*http://www.time.com/time/time100/leaders/profile/churchill.html
*http://www.grolier.com/wwii/wwii_churchill.html
*nobel citation: http://nobelprize.org/literature/laureates/1953/churchill-bio.html
*http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/reference/three_column_table/HonoraryCitizens_US.htm
*http://www.winstonchurchill.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=316
RECOMMENDED READING: *Winston Churchill. The Second World War. 6 vols. Mariner Books, 1986.
Week 44
TITLE: The Spanish Civil War
BIBLIOGRAPHY: *http://www.sispain.org/english/history/civil.html
*http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/jul17.html
RECOMMENDED READING: Hugh Thomas. The Spanish Civil War. Modern Library, 2001.
*George Orwell. Homage to Catalonia. Harvest Book, 1969.
Week 45
TITLE: Adolf Hitler
BIBLIOGRAPHY: *(http://www.adl.org/Braun/dim_13_2_ford.asp)
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler
*Speer, Albert, Inside the Third Reich, Simon & Schuster, 1997.
RECOMMENDED READING: *William L. Shirer. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. Simon & Schuster, 1990.
Week 46
TITLE: Holocaust
BIBLIOGRAPHY: *http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/index.php?ModuleId=10006161
*http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/war/genocide/
*http://www.pbs.org/auschwitz/
*http://www.pbs.org/daringtoresist/
*http://www.humanitas-international.org/archive/dachau-liberation/
*http://www.pbs.org/auschwitz/learning/guides/episode_6.html
RECOMMENDED READING: *Anne Frank. The Diary of a Young Girl. Bantam, 1993.
Week 47
TITLE: The Battle of Midway
BIBLIOGRAPHY: *http://www.nationalgeographic.com/midway/
*http://www.fws.gov/midway/past/chronol.html
*http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq81-1.htm
*http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq81-12..htm
RECOMMENDED READING: Jonathan B. Parshall and Anthony Tully. Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway. Potomac Books, 2005
Week 48
TITLE: D-Day
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
*(source: http://www.dday.org/html/d-day_history.html)
*(http://www.dday.org/html/d-day_history.html)
*http://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/Dl/DDay/ddaypage.html
*http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/dday/sfeature/sf_voices_07.html
*http://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/dl/dday/orderofthedayaudio.html
*http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/war/wwtwo/
*http://www.dday.org/
*http://www.ddaymuseum.co.uk/
*http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/dday/
*http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0206/feature1/
*“For each American I see fall, there came ten hundred other ones!” *http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/dday/sfeature/sf_voices_07.html
*Told historian Ronald J. Drez
*“we played it just like a football game, charging hard and low.”
*Leonard Lomell
*http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/dday/sfeature/sf_voices_06.html
*Told historian Ronald J. Drez.
*http://london.iwm.org.uk/upload/package/4/dday/index.htm
*http://www.americandday.org/
RECOMMENDED READING: Stephen Ambrose. D-Day: June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II. Simon & Schuster, 1995.
Week 49
TITLE: Manhattan Project
BIBLIOGRAPHY: *http://www.cfo.doe.gov/me70/manhattan/events.htm
*http://www.cfo.doe.gov/me70/manhattan/debate.htm
*http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/m12/missouri-iv.htm
RECOMMENDED READING: Richard Rhodes. The Making of the Atomic Bomb. Simon & Schuster, 1995.
Week 50
TITLE: Chairman Mao
BIBLIOGRAPHY: *http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/1999/china.50/inside.china/profiles/mao.tsetung/
*http://www.martinrothonline.com/MRCC23.htm
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiang_Qing
RECOMMENDED READING: *Jung Chang and Jon Halliday. Mao: the Untold Story. Knopf, 2005.
Week 51
TITLE: Brown vs. Board of Education
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
PICTURES:*http://www.law.harvard.edu/library/collections/special/exhibitions/portrait_exhibit/Earl_Warren.php
*http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/brown/images/br0020_4s.jpg (school for
blacks in Virgina)
*http://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/9802/aao.html (black student being
escorted by soldiers to Little Rock high school in 1957)
BOOKS:
*James T. Patterson, "Brown v. Board of Education: A Civil Rights
Milestone and its Troubled Legacy," Oxford University Press, 2002.
*C. Vann Woodward, "The Strange Career of Jim Crow," Oxford University
Press, 2001.
*http://www.nps.gov/brvb/pages/decision54.htm
*http://brownvboard.org/index.htm
*http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories_events_truman.html
*http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/brown/brown-segregation.html
*http://rs6.loc.gov/learn/features/timeline/depwwii/race/evidence.html
Week 52
TITLE: Nelson Mandela
BIBLIOGRAPHY: *http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/history/rivonia.html
*http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/mandela/prison/darkyears.html
*http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/18/newsid_3547000/3547872.stm
*http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/25/newsid_3551000/3551540.stm
*http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/mandela/etc/insights.html
RECOMMENDED READING: *Nelson Mandela. Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela. Back Bay Books, 1995.
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