TRADITIONS AND ENCOUNTERS

Our primary textbook Traditions and Encounters has a fabulous website complete with chapter outlines, amazing interactive maps, and links to other great articles and supplemental information on the areas of world history you find most compelling. I suggest visiting here often.

LINKS: FROM COLONIALISM TO CAPITALISM ~ FROM INDEPENDENCE TO ISOLATIONISM~ FROM IMPERIALISM TO GLOBALIZATION

The web is a wonderful resource for enhancing your understanding of many topics in this course. Just as with the rest of the historical record, be wary of your sources, and conscious of their motives for posting their own versions of history, but do not be afraid to search outside of these links and feel free to contact me if you need some guidance. Remember, websites must be cited like any other source, according to MLA Style Guidelines.

PART I: FROM COLONIALISM TO CAPITALISM

The first six weeks of class introduce us to many richly complex historical institutions, events, processes, and ideological movements including expansionism, colonialism, empire, the transatlantic slave trade, the scientific revolution, enlightenment, and the rise of capitalism and industrialization just to name a few. Below is a chart of the supplemental exhibits, performances, events, books, websites, and films you may choose from for your first Critique/Position paper.

Books and Other Print Media	Films	Events, Exhibits, Performances
Uncle Tom's Cabin (Harriet Beecher Stowe) Romance of the Three Kingdoms The Art of War (Sun Tzu) The Seven Books of the Art of War (Machiavelli) 1001 Arabian Nights Grimm's Household Tales The Great Cat Massacre (Robert Darnton)	Film Series: January 30th, February 6th, February 13th Amistad (Stephen Spielberg) The Patriot (Mel Gibson) Gangs of New York (Leonardo DiCaprio)	HBO Series Premeire and Panel "Unchained Memories: Readings from Slave Narratives" Monday, February 10th, 7:00pm African American Museum, 1418 Governor Nicholls, Treme D-Day Museum's Declartion of Independence Exhibit 945 Magazine Street

PART II: FROM INDEPENDENCE TO ISOLATIONISM
The second six weeks of class continue themes from the first but add wars of independence, nationalism, World War I and II, fascism, global depression, the rise of European dictatorships, the search for National identity. Below is a chart of the supplemental exhibits, performances, events, books, websites, and films you may choose from for your first Critique/Position paper.

Books and Other Print Media	Films	Events, Exhibits, Performances
The Jungle (Upton Sinclair) The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck) 1984 (George Orwell) (Karl Marx) Dr Seuss Goes to War (Theodore Geisel) Maus (Art Spiegelman)	Film Series: February 20th, February 27th, March 6th, March 20th Kundun Ghandi Schindler's List	D-Day Museum 945 Magazine Street

PART III: FROM IMPERIALISM TO GLOBALIZATION

The final weeks of class bring us to a new type of imperialism, through the Cold War, 20th Century Latin American and African Dictators, civil rights for women and Afrian Americans, and the beginning of a global corporate society never seen before. As when major changes happen in the past, there are those that long for institutions of the past and we see them out in force as well. Below is a chart of the supplemental exhibits, performances, events, books, websites, and films you may choose from for your first Critique/Position paper.

Books and Other Print Media	Films	Events, Exhibits, Performances
1984 (George Orwell) How to Read Donald Duck: Imperialist Ideology in the Disney Comic (Ariel Dorffman) The Third Wave (Alvin Toffler) Jihad vs. McWorld Stupid White Men (Michael Moore) Oral Histories about the Civil Rights Movement On-Line (site1, site2)	Film Series: April 3rd, April 10th, April 17th Malcolm X Lumumba	Super Sunday World Culture Fair Martin Luther King Day Exhibit "A Knock at Midnight" January 20th, African American Museum, 1418 Governor Nicholls, Treme