January 16 Course introduction; Why Study History? What is the West?
January 18 Absolutism and the Origins of the Modern State
    Read Chapter 15

January 23 The European Reconnaissance
January 25 The Atlantic Slave Trade and its Effects
    Read Chapter 16

January 30  The Galileo Affair
February 1 Mary Wollstonecraft and the Origins of Modern Feminism  
    Read Chapter 17

February 6 Family Life in the Early Modern Era
February 8 The Plight of Peasants
    Read Chapter 18

February 13 The American Revolution
February 15 The End of Colonial Slavery
    Read Chapter 19

February 20 no class;  University on Monday class schedule
February 22 The French Revolution
    Read Chapter 20

February 27 Napoleonic Europe
March  1 Napoleon cont.  
    Read Chapter 21

March 6 The First Industrial Revolution
March 8 Midterm examination

March 12-18 spring break

March 20 Romanticism, Nationalism, and Liberalism
March 22 Marxism and Welfarism
    Read Chapter 22

March 27 The New Theorists: Darwin, Nietzche, Freud
March 29 The White Man's Burden
    Read Chapter 23

April 3 Carnage and Revolution
April 5 The Russian Revolution and Civil War
    Read Chapter 24

April 10 The Great Depression: Capitalism has a Stroke
April 12 The Rise of Totalitarianism
    Read Chapter 25

April 17 Appeasement and the Origins of World War II
April 19 The Final Solution
    Read Chapter 26

April 24 The Global War becomes a Cold War
April 26 The European Lazarus
    Read Chapter 27

May 1 The End of Empire
May 3 Review day
    Read Chapter 28