Tentative Schedule, Spring 2009 (See the online schedule for links to online reading assignments. EReserves password is rights)
Week 1 (Jan 6-8) -- Political and Social Tensions in the 18th Century 
  • Assignment for Tuesday: Introduction to Studying History in Upper Level College Courses
  • Assignment for Thursday: 
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    Week 2 (Jan 13-15) -- Social Tensions in the 18th Century 
  • Assignment for Tuesday: "The Revolutionary Origins of Human Rights" in The French Revolution and Human Rights
  • No new Assignment for Thursday
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    Week 3 (Jan 20-22) -- Cultural Tensions in the 18th Century
  • Assignment for Tuesday: (online) John Locke, Second Treatise on Government, Chapter 7 and “Defining Rights before 1789” (documents #2 and #5) in The French Revolution and Human Rights
  • Assignment for Thursday: (online) Rousseau, The Social Contract (excerpts);
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    Week 4 (Jan 27-29) -- Preconditions of the American Revolution
  • Assignment for Tuesday: “Defining Rights before 1789” (document #1) in The French Revolution and Human Rights; and (online) (online) Cesare Beccaria, On Crimes and Punishments (chapter 16: Of Torture)
  • Assignment for Thursday: (online) "Blacks in the Gordon Riots" (note: discussion of (online) "The Bill of Rights"  has been cancelled. Students may find this article useful when writing their midterm essays, however.)
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    Week 5 (Feb 3-5) -- Preconditions of the American Revolution, continued
  • Assignment for Tuesday: (Roesch Library e-Reserve) "The Preconditions of the American Revolution"
  • Assignment for Thursday: Declaring Rights, "Part One: Rights in Revolution"
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    Week 6 (Feb 10-12) -- Revolutionary Crisis 
  • Assignment for Tuesday: Declaring Rights, "Part Two: The Constitution and Rights"
  • Assignment for Thursday: (Roesch Library e-Reserve) “The ‘Great War’ and the American Revolution” from America’s Place in World History by Thomas Bender
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    Week 7 (Feb 17-19) -- Revolution Spreads Back to Europe
  • Assignment for Tuesday: to be announced
  • Assignment for Thursday: “Defining Rights before 1789” (document #10) in The French Revolution and Human Rights
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    Week 8 (Feb 24-26) – Debates over Citizenship and Rights in the French Revolution
  • Assignment for Tuesday: “The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen” (document #14 AND choose 2 of documents #11, 12 and 13) in The French Revolution and Human Rights
  • Assignment for Thursday: "Debates over Citizenship and Rights during the Revolution: The Poor and the Propertied" (documents #15, 16, and 17) in The French Revolution and Human Rights 
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    Week 9 (Mar 3-5) – The Radical Revolution 
    Week 10 (Mar 10-12) -- Bonaparte and Human Rights
    Week 11 (Mar 17-19)  -- The Revolution Spreads Further
    Week 12 (Mar 24-26) -- The Revolution in the Western Hemisphere
    Week 13 (Mar 31-Apr 2) -- The Revolutions in Ibero-America
    Apr 7-9 No Class
    Week 14 (Apr 14-16) – The Legacy of the Revolutionary Age
    Week 15 (Apr 21-23) -- The Legacy of the Revolutionary Age, continued
    • Assignment for Tuesday: David Brion Davis, The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823, pages 39-65 in Google Books
    • Assignment for Thursday: to be announced
    Final Exam Schedule is Online