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The links provided below will help launch further research on course-related subjects and themes. Students who use internet web sites, online documents, and visual and other materials in research papers should be as careful that citations are accurate and consistent in usage. Please consult the following guide:

"A Brief Citation Guide for Internet Sources in History and the Humanities" (1996), by Melvin E. Page.


ON CONTEMPORARY ACADEMIC LIFE, THOUGHT, AND CULTURE:

Arts and Letters Daily
arts, ideas, debate

Courses:


HIST 3100
Modern Intellectual History

Great Books Index
Malaspina Great Books
The Victorian Web
Internet Modern History Sourcebook





HIST 3100 Thinklinks

Fall Term:

Sept.
"Cambridge at the Time of Newton"

Sept.
Voltaire, "On Descartes and Newton"

Sept.
"The European Enlightenment / The Philosophes"

Sept.
Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations - "An Epitome"

Sept.
Michel Foucault, "What is Enlightenment?"

Sept.
Napoleon and the French Revolution

Sept.
Gertrude Himmelfarb, "The Idea of Compassion"

Sept.
An Introduction to Romanticism

Oct.
Alfred Kazin, "An Introduction to William Blake"

Oct.
David Hsiu Hun Lee, "The Variations of Dr. Faustus"
AND
Friedrich Wilhelm Murneau's silent film, "Faust" (1926)

Oct.
Resources for the Study of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Oct.
Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, and Utilitarianism

Oct.
Liberalism

Oct.
Richard Cobden
AND
Harvey Cox, "The Market as God"


Oct.
Charles Darwin (1809-1882) gentleman naturalist

Oct.
Charles Darwin and the Victorian Crisis of Faith

Oct.
Herbert Spencer, "Progress: Its Law and Causes"

Nov.
Utopians and Socialists
AND
Saint-Simon and Saint-Simonism

Nov.
Friedrich Engels, "Speech at the Grave of Karl Marx"

Nov.
Mary Wollstonecraft

Nov.
The Mighty Handful

Nov.
Impressionism
AND
Manet's "Olympia"

Nov.
Realism and the Nineteenth-Century Novel--The Camera and the Realist Movement
AND
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, "In Search of Marcel Proust"

Nov.
Friedrich Nietzsche
AND
The Perspectives of Nietzsche

Nov.
Fin de Siècle / Decadence / Symbolism Bibliography

Dec.
End of Term Bonus !!!
Caroline G. Heilbrun, "Men Were the Only Models I Had"


Winter Term

Jan.
Sigmund Freud and the Freud Archives

Jan.
John Dewey, "The Influence of Darwin on Philosophy"

13 Jan.
William James

Jan.
The Durkheim Pages

Jan.
Steve Hoenisch, "Max Weber's View of Objectivity in Social Science"

Jan.
Expressionism

Jan.
Gustav Mahler 1860-1911

Jan.
Selections from Private Donald Fraser's My Daily Journal, 1915-1916

Feb.
Literary Responses to the Great War

Feb.
Eliot's Prufrock

Feb.
Breton's Surrealism


Feb.
The Russian Revolution of 1917

WINTER BREAK

Feb.
Lenin & Stalin

Feb.
Fascism in Italy

Mar.
F.R. Leavis

Mar.
Hitler Youth

Mar.
Mapping the Holocaust

Mar.
Albert Camus

Mar.
Siva Vaidhyanathan, "A-Bombs, Bebop and C-Rations"
AND
.
Seymour Martin Lipset, "American Exceptionalism - A Double Edged Sword"

Mar.
David Pears, "Wittgenstein"

Mar.
The Frankfurt School

Mar.
Mitchell Stephens, "The Theologian of Talk"

Mar.
Benjamin Barber, "Jihad V. McWorld"

Apr.
Theory Trading Cards
AND
Jay Parini, "By Their Clothes Ye Shall Know Them"

 

HIST 3808
Historical Theory and Method

History and Theory
Cromohs: Cyber Review of Modern Historiography
World Historiography

 

HIST 4308
History of Popular Culture


Cultural Studies Central
Popular Culture Online Resources

HIST 5310
Canada: Culture and Ideas

National Library of Canada: "Knowledge within Reach"
Canadian Institute for Historical Microforms
The Canadian Encyclopedia Online