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Italy, Florence and Tuscany, The Medici Family, Copernican System, Ptolemaic System, Johannes Kepler, Galileo's Telescope

prehistory to the late middle ages: resources (ancient European and Mediterranean studies, museums, maps)

establishment of the ideas and institutions of modern physics, tracking the evolution of the discipline over the last two centuries, dramatic developments, both intellectual and structural, social, cultural & political context: Reading assignments, Reader contents, useful references, Roadmaps

ideas and history, Skinker-DeBaliviere, memory and society, background and approaches, Methodology and Interviewing: project, readings

science of nonviolence mainly as seen through the life and work of Mahatma Gandhi, Historical overview of nonviolence East and the West up to the American Civil Rights movement and Martin Luther King, Jr., emphasis on ideal of principled nonviolence and reality of mixed or strategic nonviolence in practice, especially as applied to problems of social justice and defense

survey of history of ancient Greek philosophy from the Milesians through Aristotle: Thales, Anaximander, Anaximenes, Heraclitus, Ship of Theseus, Parmenides, Zeno, Empedocles, Anaxagoras, Atomism, Socratic Definitions, Meno's Paradox, Plato's Phaedo, forms, "one over many", allegory of the cave, criticism of forms, Plato's cosmology, Aristotle's categories, Aristotle on change, four causes, texts & essays, search engines, links, news, just for fun

medieval Japanese society and culture from the twelfth to the nineteenth centuries when political power rested largely in the hands of feudal warriors, religion (especially Zen Buddhism), changing concepts of "the way of the warrior", women under feudalism, popular culture, protest and rebellion: readings, study materials, course downloads

struggles between Europeans and colonized peoples, global formation of capitalist economies and industrialization, emergence of modern states, development of the tastes and disciplines of bourgeois society: Readings, Study Materials, Course Download

variety of approaches to the past used by historians writing in the twentieth century, how (historians conceive of their object of study, use primary sources as a basis for their accounts, structure the narrative and analytic discussion of their topic), advantages and drawbacks of various approaches:student work, readings, course download

Debate on German Peculiarities, Previous History, Road to National Unification, Second Empire until 1914, First World War, 1914-1918, Weimar Republic, Third Reich, Aftermath Of the War