HIS 1005 - Historical Perspectives
Primary Sources Collection
Week 01
Week 01 - C.S. Lewis - On The Reading of Old Books
| week_01_less_01_cs_lewis_godinthedock.pdf |
Ancient Sumer, Babylon, Egypt, Israel
Week 01 - Hammurabi's Code (1755-1750 BC)
| week_01_less_02_hammurabi_code.pdf |
Week 01 - Epic of Gilgamesh (approx 2150 BC)
| week_01_less_02_epic_of_gilgamesh.pdf |
Week 02
Week 02 - Hymn to Ra (2108-2159 BC)
| week_02_less_03_hymn_to_ra_-_internet-history-sourcebooks-project-ancient-history.pdf |
Week 02 - Egyptian Negative Confessions (1570-1609 BC)
| week_02_less_03_negative_confessions.pdf |
Week 02 - The Bible
- Genesis 1-3, 17
- 1 Samuel 8-17
- Psalm 1, 19, 23, 51, 100
- Isaiah 52-56, 60-61
| week_02_less_04_israel-demands-a-king-when-samuel-bible-gateway.pdf |
Week 03
Ancient Greece
Week 03 - Herodotus on Marathon (440 BC)
| week_03_less_05_herodotus_marathon.pdf |
Week 03 - Herodotus on Thermopylae (480 BC)
| week_03_less_05_herodotus_on_thermopylae_-_livius.pdf |
Week 03 - Funeral Oration of Pericles (431 BC)
| week_03_less_05_thucydides_-_pericles_funeral_oration_-_internet-history-sourcebooks-project-ancient-history.pdf |
Week 03 - Plato's Republic Book VII (380-375 BC)
| week_03_less_06_platos_republic_book-7_english-translation-by-david-horan-1.pdf |
Week 03 - Antigone (excerpts) by Sophocles (441 BC)
| week_03_less_06_sophocles_-_antigone_-_internet-history-sourcebooks-project-ancient-history.pdf |
Week 04
Ancient Rome
Titus Livius - The History of Rome (27-9 BC)
| week_04_less_07_livy_history_of_rome_bk_2_ch_1.pdf |
| week_04_less_07_livy_history_of_rome_bk_2_ch_2.pdf |
| week_04_less_07_livy_history_of_rome_bk_2_ch_3.pdf |
| week_04_less_07_livy_history_of_rome_bk_2_ch_4.pdf |
| week_04_less_07_livy_history_of_rome_bk_2_ch_5.pdf |
| week_04_less_07_livy_history_of_rome_bk_2_ch_6.pdf |
| week_04_less_07_livy_history_of_rome_bk_2_ch_7.pdf |
| week_04_less_07_livy_history_of_rome_bk_2_ch_8.pdf |
| week_04_less_07_livy_history_of_rome_bk_2_ch_9.pdf |
| week_04_less_07_livy_history_of_rome_bk_2_ch_10.pdf |
| week_04_less_07_livy_history_of_rome_bk_2_ch_11.pdf |
| week_04_less_07_livy_history_of_rome_bk_2_ch_12.pdf |
| week_04_less_07_livy_history_of_rome_bk_2_ch_13.pdf |
| week_04_less_07_livy_history_of_rome_bk_2_ch_14.pdf |
Week 04 - Appian of Alexandria: Punic Wars 26 (before 162 AD)
| week_04_less_07.5_appian_the_punic_wars_26.pdf |
Week 04 - Appian of Alexandria: Punic Wars 27 (before 162 AD)
| week_04_less_07.5_appian_the_punic_wars_27.pdf |
| week_04_less_08_augustus_caesar_deeds_of_the_divine_augustus.pdf |
Week 04 - Suetonius: De Vita Caesarium, Life of Nero (121 AD)
| week_04_less_08_suetonius_life_of_nero.pdf |
Week 04 - Marcus Aurelius: Meditations, Book Two (170s AD)
| week_04_less_08_marcus_aurelius_meditations_book_2.pdf |
Week 05
Week 05 - Midterm Exam #1
Early Church
Week 05 - The Bible
- Luke 22-24
- Acts 1-2
| week_05_less_10_luke-22-24-esv-the-plot-to-kill-jesus-now-the-feast-bible-gateway.pdf |
| week_05_less_10_acts-1-2-esv-the-promise-of-the-holy-spirit-in-the-bible-gateway.pdf |
Week 05 - Didache: The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles (60-150)
| week_05_less_10_didache_teaching_of_the_twelve_apostles_-_translation-kirsopp-lake.pdf |
Week 05 - Martyrdom of Polycarp (155-156)
| week_05_less_10_martyrdom_of_polycarp_-_lightfoot-translation.pdf |
Week 05 - Nicene Creed (325)
| week_05_less_10_nicene_creed.pdf |
Week 06
Week 06 - Augustine: The Confessions, Book VIII (397-400)
| week_06_less_11_augustine_confessions_book-viii_-_st-augustine.pdf |
Week 06 - Benedict: Rule of St. Benedict, Prologue (530)
| week_06_less_11_benedict_rule_of_st_benedict_-_christian-classics-ethereal-library.pdf |
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Interesting Articles on the Decline of Western Rome- NOT required!!
Ancient Rome & the Development of Feudalism in Middle Ages
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Riddlebarger, Kim. "Jerome, Augustine, and the Fall of Rome." Modern Reformation, Nov-Dec 2009.
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Pelikan, Jaroslav. “The Two Cities: The Decline and Fall of Rome as Historical Paradigm.” Daedalus 111, no. 3 (1982): 85–91. http://www.jstor.org/stable/20024804.
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Simkhovitch, Vladimir G. “Rome’s Fall Reconsidered.” Political Science Quarterly 31, no. 2 (1916): 201–43. https://doi.org/10.2307/2141560.
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Week 06 - Selections from the Qur'an (610-632)
| week_06_less_12_quran_internet-history-sourcebooks-medieval-sourcebook.pdf |
Week 06 - Code of Justinian, Corpus Jurus Civilus [Book I: Sections I thru V & Book I: Section VIII] (529)
| week_06_less_12_code_of_justinian_-_internet-history-sourcebooks-medieval-sourcebook.pdf |
Week 06 - The Chronicle of Nestor (1113)
| week_06_less_12_chronicle_of_nestor_-_internet-history-sourcebooks-medieval-sourcebook.pdf |
Week 07
Week 07 - Letter from Charlemagne to Abbot Bagulf of Fulda (approx late 780s-800s)
| week_07_less_13_letter_charlemagne_to_abbot_bagulf_of_fulda.pdf |
Week 07 - Magna Carta (1215)
| week_07_less_13_magna_carta_-_online_library_of_liberty.pdf |
| week_07_less_14_thomas_aquinas_proof_of_existance_of_god.pdf |
Week 07 - Dante: The Divine Comedy, Inferno, Cantos 1-3 (1308-1320)
| week_07_less_14_alighieri-dante-1265-1321-the-divine-comedy-inferno-1-7.pdf |
Week 07 - Dante: The Divine Comedy, Paradiso, Cantos 31-33 (1308-1320)
| week_07_less_14_alighieri-dante-1265-1321-the-divine-comedy-paradiso-29-33.pdf |
Week 08
Week 08 - Petrarch: Letters (1372)
| week_08_less_15_petrarch_letters.pdf |
| week_08_less_15_machiavelli_the_prince.pdf |
| week_08_less_15_desiderius_erasmus_peraclesis_exhortation_diligent_study_scripture.pdf |
Week 08 - Midterm Exam #2
Week 09
Week 09 - Luther: 95 Thesis - Disputation of Dr Martin Luther on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences (1517)
| week_09_less_17_-_martin_luther_95-theses-luther.pdf |
Week 09 - Luther: Concerning Christian Liberty (1520)
| week_09_less_17_martin_luther_-_concerning_christian_liberty.pdf |
Week 09 - Calvin: Institutes of the Christian Religion, Book I, 1-3 (1536)
| week_09_less_17_john-calvin-institutes-of-the-christian-religion-christian-classics-ethereal-library.pdf |
Week 09 - The Thirty Nine Articles (1571, 1662)
| week_09_less_17_thirty_nine_articles_england_-internet-history-sourcebooks-modern-history.pdf |
Week 09 - Columbus: Letter to King Ferdinand (1493)
| week_09_less_18_columbus_letter_to_king_ferdinand_1493.pdf |
Week 09 - English Bill of Rights (1689)
| week_09_less_18_english_bill_of_rights_1689_-_online-library-of-liberty.pdf |
Week 09 - Winthrop: Modell of Christian Charity ["City on a Hill" sermon] (1630)
| week_09_less_18_john_winthrop_-_a-modell-of-christian-charity-1630.pdf |
Week 10
Week 10 - Galileo: Letter to the Grand Duchess Christian (1615)
| week_10_less_19_galileo_letter_to_grand_duchess_christina_1615.pdf |
Week 10 - Selections from the Encyclopedie, Drawings (1762)
| week_10_less_19_denis_diderot_selections_encyclopedie.pdf |
Week 10 - Selections from the Encyclopedie, Preliminary Discourse (1751)
| week_10_less_19_denis_diderot_encyclopedie_pt_1_prelim_discourse.pdf |
| week_10_less_19_voltaire_candide_1759.pdf |
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Week 10 - The Declaration of Independence (1776)
| week_10_less_20_declaration_of_independence_-_national-archives.pdf |
Week 10 - The Constitution (1787)
| week_10_less_20_consitution_of_us_-_national-archives.pdf |
Week 10 - Bill of Rights [Amendments 1-10] (1789)
| week_10_less_20_bill_of_rights_-_national-archives.pdf |
Week 10 - Constitutional Amendments (various)
| week_10_less_20_constitution_amendments_11-27_-_national-archives.pdf |
Optional: Williamsburg Fife & Drum Corps
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Week 11
Week 11 - Abbe Sieyes: What Is the Third Estate? (1789)
| week_11_less_21_abbe_sieyes_what_is_the_third_estate.pdf |
Week 11 - Declaration of the Rights of Man (1789)
| week_11_less_21_declaration_rights_of_man_france_-_avalon-project_1789.pdf |
Week 11 - Levee en Masse (1793)
| week_11_less_21_levee_en_masse_1793.pdf |
Week 11 - Maximilien Robespierre: Justification of the Use of Terror (1794)
| week_11_less_21_maximillian_robespierre_justif_of_use_of_terror_1794.pdf |
Optional - Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture
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Week 11 - Lincoln: First Inaugural (1861)
| week_11_less_22_abraham_lincoln_first_inaugural_1861_-_avalon-project.pdf |
Week 11 - Lincoln: Gettysburg Address (1863)
| week_11_less_22_abraham_lincoln_gettysgurg_address_1863_-_avalon-project.pdf |
Week 11: Lincoln: Second Inaugural (1865)
| week_11_less_22_abraham_lincoln_second_inaugural_1865_-_avalon-project.pdf |
Week 11 - Sadler Commission Report UK (1832)
| week_11_less_22_evidence_given_before_the_sadler_committee__1831-1832_.pdf |
| week_11_less_22_evidence_before_sadler_committee-1831-1832_-life-of-ninteenth-century-workers-e.pdf |
Week 11 - Marx: Communist Manifesto [selections] (1848)
| week_11_less_22_marx___engels_-_communist_manifesto_1848.pdf |
Week 12
Week 12 - Midterm Exam #3
Week 12 - Alexis de Tocqueville: Recollections [of French Revolution of 1848] (1848)
| week_12_less_24_recollections_of_alexis-de-tocqueville_-_project-gutenberg-ebook.pdf |
Week 12 - Mill: On Liberty (1859)
| week_12_less_24_john_stuart_mill_-_on_liberty.pdf |
Week 12 - Lord Byron: The Isles of Greece (1819)
| week_12_less_24_lord_byron_isles_of_greece_-internet-history-sourcebook.pdf |
Optional - Beethoven's 9th Symphony
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Week 13
Week 13 - World War One Poems (1914-1918)
| week_12_less_25_world_war_one_poems.pdf |
Week 13 - Eric Marie Remarque: All Quiet on the Western Front [selections] (1929)
| week_13_less_25_remarque_all_quiet_on_the_western_front.pdf |
Week 13 - Treaty of Versailles ( June 1919)
| week_13_less_25_treaty_of_versailles_wwi-lib-byu-edu.pdf |
| week_13_less_25_articles_1_-_30_and_annex_-_world_war_i_document_archive.pdf |
| week_13_less_25_articles_231_-_247_and_annexes_-_world_war_i_document_archive.pdf |
Week 13 - Vladimir Lenin: What Is to Be Done? [selections] (1902)
| week_13_less_26_lenin_what_is_to_be_done_selection.pdf |
Week 13 - Joseph Stalin: "Industrialization of the Country..." (1928)
| week_13_less_26_joseph_stalin_industrialization_of_the_country_1928.pdf |
Week 13 - Aleksander Solzhenitsyn: "Live Not By Lies" (1974)
| week_13_less_26_aleksandr_solzhenitsyn_live_not_by_lies_1974.pdf |
Week 14
Week 14 - Franklin D. Roosevelt: First Inaugural Address (1933)
| week_14_less_27_f_d_roosevelt_first_inaugural_-_avalon-project.pdf |
| week_14_less_27_winston_churchill_speech_before_commons_1940.pdf |
Week 14 - Winston Churchill: "The Few" Speech before House of Commons (1940)
| week_14_less_27_winston_churchill_-_the_few_-_international_churchill_society.pdf |
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OPTIONAL World War Two Primary Sources!!
Here are a few optional links of interest
Here are a few optional links of interest
March 5, 1946 - Fulton, Missouri
On March 5, 1946, the presence of Winston Churchill and President Harry Truman turned a college gymnasium in a small Midwestern town into a world stage as Churchill delivered his most famous post-World War II address — "The Sinews of Peace." Churchill's famous words “From Stettin in the Baltic, to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent,” ushered in the Cold War.
On March 5, 1946, the presence of Winston Churchill and President Harry Truman turned a college gymnasium in a small Midwestern town into a world stage as Churchill delivered his most famous post-World War II address — "The Sinews of Peace." Churchill's famous words “From Stettin in the Baltic, to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent,” ushered in the Cold War.
TOWARDS the middle of March, 1946, a “Pravda” correspondent requested J. V. Stalin to clarify a number of questions connected with Mr. Churchill’s speech at Fulton, U.S.A. Below are J. V. Stalin’s replies to the correspondent’s questions.
Week 14 - George Orwell: The Road to Wigan Pier [selection]
| week_14_less_27_orwell_road_to_wigan_pier.pdf |
Optional - World War Two Newsreels
Week 14 - George Kennan: Sources of Soviet Conduct (1947)
| week_14_less_28_george_kennan_sources_of_soviet_conduct.pdf |
Week 14 - Ronald Reagan: Address to members of Parliament (June 8, 1982)
| week_14_less_28_ronald_reagan_address-to-members-of-the-british-parliament.pdf |
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Week 14 - Martin Luther King, Jr.: I Have a Dream (August 28, 1963)
| week_14_less_28_martin-luther_king_-_i-have-a-dream-speech-american-rhetoric.pdf |
Week 14 - Martin Luther King, Jr.: Letters from a Birmingham City Jail (April 16, 1963)
| week_14_less_28_martin_luther_king_jr_-_letter-from-a-birmingham-jail.pdf |
| 14-2_reagan_remarks_-_tear_down_this_wall_june_12_1987.pdf |
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Optional - The Beatles: "I Wanna Hold Your Hand"
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Optional - The Beatles: "Help"
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Week 15
Week 15 - Mark Noll & Michael Nazir-Ali: "Faith and Conflict: The Global Rise of Christianity (2005)
| week_15_less_29_mark_noll___michael_nazir_ali_-_rise_of_global_christianity.pdf |
Week 15 - Midterm Exam #4
