300 - History and International Studies

Summer 2010

F306 - The Ghost Map
Bob Bohall [PDF] 2.44MB

F307 - Aotearoa: New Zealand, the Land of the Long White Cloud
Kathleen Burns - Course Schedule [Word] [PDF]

Spring 2010

F301 - America between the World Wars - William Reader
    Week 1 - Impacts of World War I [PPT] [PDF]
Week 2 - Prohibition [PPT] [PDF]
        Week 3 - The Automobile [PPT] [PDF]
        Week 4 - Tabloids, Movies [PPT] [PDF]
        Week 5 - Movies, Electricity, Radio [PPT] [PDF]
        Week 6 - Radio, Depression [PPT] [PDF]
        Week 7 - New Deal, Pre-WW II [PPT] [PDF]

L312 - U.S. Constitution
       Brig. Gen. John H. Johns, U.S. Army (Ret.) [Web site]
       The Constitution of the United States [PDF]

L315 - Confederate Invasions: The Union in Peril - Jim Anderson
       Bibliography [Word] [PDF] Handouts List [Word] [PDF]
       Lecture 1 – Civil War Background [Word] [PDF]
       Lecture 2 – Maryland Campaign Background [Word] [PDF]
       Lecture 3 – Battle of Antietam [Word] [PDF]
       Lecture 4 – A Tale of Two Rivers [Word] [PDF]
       Lecture 5 – Gettysburg Campaign [Word] [PDF]
       Lecture 6 – Battle of Gettysburg Day Two [Word] [PDF]
       Lecture 7 – Battle of Gettysburg Day Three [Word] [PDF]

Winter 2010

F301 - History Potpourri
       Week 1 - Chinese History - Dr. Michael Chang [Web site]
          Useful Web sites - China Digital Times
      The China Beat     Global Voices - China
       Week 4 - History of the Gulag - Dr. Steven Barnes [E-mail]
        Web site - gulaghistory.org

F304 - Cousins at War: Athens vs. Sparta - Tely Psitos
       Lecture 1 [PDF]1.8MB Lecture 2 [PDF]1.2MB Lecture 3 [PDF]3.3MB

Fall 2009

F301 - Charles Darwin and His Big Idea - Richard Deringer
Presentation - [PDF 3.5MB] higher quality [PDF 0.8MB] faster download

F303 - Confederate Invasions - Jim Anderson
   The Union in Peril (Handouts - PDFs)
   Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4
   Week 5 Week 6 Week 7

F306 - One, Two, Many New Deals - Jim Hubbard
       Week 1 [PPT] [PDF] Week 2 [PPT] [PDF]
       Week 3 [PPT] [PDF] Week 4 [PPT] [PDF]
       Week 5 [PPT] [PDF] Week 6 [PPT] [PDF]
       Week 7 [PPT] [PDF] Week 8 [PPT] [PDF]
       Leftovers [PPT] [PDF]
       (Some files are large and will take time to download)

F308 - History of Media - Bill Reader
       Week 1 - Definitions, Literacy [PPT] [PDF slides] [PDF notes]
       Week 2 - Printing, Newspapers [PPT] [PDF slides] [PDF notes]
       Week 3 - Newspapers, Telegraph [PPT] [PDF slides] [PDF notes]
       Week 4 - Telephone, Photography [PPT] [PDF slides] [PDF notes]
       Week 5 - Movies, Hollywood [PPT] [PDF slides] [PDF notes]
       Week 6 - Radio, Phonograph [PPT] [PDF slides] [PDF notes]
       Week 7 - Television [PPT] [PDF slides] [PDF notes]
       Week 8 - Computers, Internet [PPT] [PDF slides] [PDF notes]

F309 - Aspects of Australia, the "Sunburnt Country" - Kathleen Burns
       Australian Art [PDF] F310 - Gutenberg and Luther - Ivan Dietrich - Jul 30
       The Explosion and Dissemination of Ideas [PPT]1.9MB [PDF]0.7MB

L314 - Twilight of the Royals: Europe, 1850–1914
Dr. Douglas Foard - Course notes (PDF files):

           “Twilight of the Royals”
           "Victoria & the Victorians"
           “The Nationalist Civil Wars”
           “The Age of Bismarck”
           “Socialism”
           “Imperialism”
           “The Not-so ‘Belle Epoch’”
           “The Lights go Out in Europe”

Spring 2009

F301 - Fairfax History Potpourri
       Week 1 - Historic Sites in Fairfax County - Elizabeth Crowell
      - Confederate Fortifications [PDF]
      - Civil War Site Inventory [PDF]
       Week 2 - Fairfax Cemeteries - Mary Lipsey www.honorfairfaxcemeteries.org
        - Keeping Respect Alive [PDF] 4MB
       Week 5 - Tourist Courts & Diners - Randy Lytton [PPT ]2.8MB [PDF]1.3MB
        - Randolph H. Lytton Historical Postcards Web site
       Week 6 - Burke, Ravensworth - Mary Lipsey [PDF]3.8MB
      - Braddock Heights Historical Society: www.braddockhistory.org

F302 - American Social and Cultural History: 1865 - Present
       Week 1 - Civil War Aftermath; Wild West [PPT] [PDF slides] [PDF notes]
       Week 2 - Railroads, Telegraph, Telephone [PPT] [PDF slides] [PDF notes]
       Week 3 - Electricity, Automobile [PPT] [PDF slides] [PDF notes]
       Week 4 - Autos, Trucks; Movies [PPT] [PDF slides] [PDF notes]

F303 - Local Railroads during the Civil War
       Week 1 - Taking the Cars [PPT]11.6MB [PDF]4.7MB

R308 - History of Media
       Week 1 - Definitions; Literacy [PPT] [PDF slides] [PDF notes]
       Week 2 - Manuscript Cultures; Printing [PPT] [PDF slides] [PDF notes]
       Week 3 - Printing, Telegraph [PPT] [PDF slides] [PDF notes]
       Week 4 - Telephone, Photography [PPT] [PDF slides] [PDF notes]
       Week 5 - Photography, Movies [PPT] [PDF slides] [PDF notes]
       Week 6 - Movies, Radio [PPT] [PDF slides] [PDF notes]
       Week 7 - Radio, Phonograph, TV [PPT] [PDF slides] [PDF notes]
       Week 8 - TV, Copiers, Computers, Internet [PPT] [PDF slides][PDF notes]

Winter 2009

F302 - American Social and Cultural History to 1865
       Week 1 - Four Founding Cultures [PowerPoint] [PDF]
       Week 2 - More on Cultures; Revolution [PowerPoint] [PDF]
       Week 3 - Frontier, Revolution, Civil War [PowerPoint] [PDF]
       Week 4 - Two Sections: North and South [PowerPoint] [PDF]

F304 - National Park Ranger Potpourri
       Week 3 - White House renovation photos [Truman Library]

F305 - Famous Trials
       Week 2 - The Lindbergh Kidnapping [PowerPoint] 10MB [PDF] 1MB
       -- YouTube videos [First] [Second] [Third]
       Week 3 - On the Laps of Gods [PowerPoint] [PDF]
       Week 4 - The Innocent Man [PowerPoint] 5MB [PDF] 1MB

Fall 2008

305 - “…the Union is perpetual”: Abraham Lincoln
A Select Bibliography [MS Word] [PDF]

307 - Russia Study Group Suggested Readings

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