.png){kind=icon}
Forging the Modern World 2e
Video and Web Links
Introduction
Web Links
“Why Study History?” by William H. McNeill
https://courses.bowdoin.edu/writing-guides/
Reading, Writing and Researching for History by Patrick Rael, Professor of History at Bowdoin College (2004)
The Historian’s Macroscope: Big Digital History by S. Graham, I. Milligan, & S. Weingart (2013)
Chapter 1
Videos
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5ihwha
The Ottomans, Part 3 of the PBS series: “Islam Empire of Faith”, 2000
Web Links
http://penn.museum/silkroad/events_lectures.php
The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology exhibit Secrets of the Silk Road in 2010-2011
Chapter 2
Videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qra6pcn4AOE
“American Holocaust: The Destruction of America’s Native Peoples.” The 31st Annual Vanderbilt University Holocaust Lecture Series
Web Links
https://www.jstor.org/stable/3054276
J.R. McNeill offers a critique of Diamon’s work at “The World According to Jared Diamond” Jstor
Papers from a panel on the role of Spanish imperial debates about conducting conquest and business in the New World at Oregon State University
Chapter 3
Videos
http://www.pbs.org/video/the-ming-ycdfou/
The Story of China, Episode 4: The Ming
https://portal.knme.org/video/the-last-empire-pkawy1/
The Story of China, Episode 5: The Qing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fp77mcJKsIK
PBS – Martin Luther (Parts 1 & 2)
Web Links
“The Diary of Samuel Pepys”
http://www.learn.columbia.edu/nanxuntu/start.html
“Recording the Grandeur of the Qing: The Southern Inspection Tour Scrolls of the Kangxi and Qianlong Emperors”
Chapter 4
Web Links
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/rijksstudio/timeline-dutch-history/1602-trade-with-the-east-voc
Rijksmuseum 2016 exhibit “Asia in Amsterdam: Luxury in the Golden Age”
Review of Rijksmuseum 2016 exhibit “Asia in Amsterdam: Luxury in the Golden Age”
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/devilsminer/mountain.html
PBS – “The Devil’s Miners”
“Story of Cities #6: How Silver Turned Potosi into the ‘first city of capitalism.’” The Guardian, March 21, 2016
http://www.learner.org/courses/worldhistory/units.html
“Early Global Commodities” Annenberg Foundation Bridging World History Unit 15
Chapter 5
Web Links
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=13855
“Review of Carretta, Vincent, Equiano the African: Biography of a Self-Made Man” H-Atlantic, H-Net Reviews, November 2007
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/15399/15399-h/15399-h.htm
“Olaudah Equiano: African or American?” in 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era
Trans-Atlantic Slave Voyages Database
http://www.slavevoyages.org/documents/download/VoyagesGuide.pdf
“Understanding and Using the Online Database and Website”
Chapter 6
Videos
http://pbsinternational.org/programs/egalite-for-all/
Sujewa Ekanayake dir. “Ègalité for All: Toussant L’Overture and The Haitian Revolution” PBS International
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOGVgQYX6SU
“Ègalité for All: Toussant L’Overture and The Haitian Revolution”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irb-cR3sTjM
Civilisation – “The Smile of Reason” Episode 10 – BBC series 1969
Web Links
https://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/connections/continental-congress/history.html
“Documents from the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention, 1774-1789” Library of Congress Collection
Stanford University’s French Revolution Digital Archive
http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2015/12/tanzimat.html
“The Ottoman Tanzimat in Practice.” Ottoman History Podcast, Episode No. 215, December 5, 2015
Chapter 7
Videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rr8pRVduqWQ
“150 years of humanitarian action: The Battle of Solferino” The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UY4zfJJDO7U
David Harvey lecture at The London School of Economics on a modern analysis of Marx’s theory as capitalism has evolved (to view this lecture with slides, https://youtu.be/0qmlxC3NAzY)
Web Links
http://www.victorian-era.org/victorian-era-child-labor.html
English child labor practices
http://www.victorian-era.org/working-conditions-in-the-victorian-era.html
Women’s labor issues
https://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/rise_fall_canton_01/index.html
“Rise and Fall of the Canton Trade System”
http://www.learner.org/courses/worldhistory/units.html
“Global Industrialization” Annenberg Foundation, Bridging World History Unit 19
Chapter 8
Web Links
https://libwww.freelibrary.org/digital/feature/centennial/
United States Centennial Exhibition Digital collection of the Philadelphia Free Library
https://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/throwing_off_asia_01/index.html
“Wood Block Prints of Domestic ‘Westernization’ (1868-1912)”
https://cla.umn.edu/ihrc/news-events/other/coolie-trade-19th-century
“Coolie Trade in the 19th Century”
BBC “Bitesize” Homepage
https://www.bbc.com/education/topics/zdjqtfr
Material on Germany in the 19th century
https://library.brown.edu/cds/paris
Paris: Capital of the 19th Century. Brown University Center for Digital Scholarship
Chapter 9
Web Links
https://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/throwing_off_asia_02/index.html
“Woodblock Prints of the Sino-Japanese War”
https://www.audubon.org/magazine/may-june-2014/why-passenger-pigeon-went-extinct
Barry Yoeman, “Why the Passenger Pigeon Went Extinct.” Audubon Magazine
http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/ism/exhibitions/brutal-exposure/congo.aspx
“Brutal Exposure: The Congo”
Chapter 10
Web Links
https://www.loc.gov/collections/world-war-i-and-1920-election-recordings/about-this-collection/
“American Leaders Speak: Recording from World War I”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/nov/14/first-world-war-legacy-aftermath
“The shameful legacy of the ‘great war’” The Guardian
“This Riveting Art From the Front Lines of World War I Has Gone Largely Unseen for Decades” Smithsonian Magazine
“Uncovering the Truth Behind the Myth of Pancho Villa, Movie Star” Smithsonian Magazine
Chapter 11
Videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVCUsKkXq3Y
Triumph of the Will
Web Links
Canadian Institute of Ukranian Studies at the University of Alberta
Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s 1936 speech accepting the nomination of the party at the Democratic National Convention
http://allthatinteresting.com/soviet-propaganda-posters-ww2
“Vintage Soviet Propaganda Posters from the Era of Stalin and World War II”
Chapter 12
Videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgzSnZidGuU
Africa: States of Independence – the scramble for Africa. Al Jazeera, 2010
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VBlBekw3Uk
Promises and Betrayals: Britain and the Holy Land (Israel and Palestinians) Timeline – World History Documentaries, 2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gC54k-lGYZs
The Vietnam War, Ken Burns and Lynn Novik
Web Links
https://exhibits.stanford.edu/1947-partition
“1947 Partition Archive” Stanford University
http://digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org/collection/188/china-and-the-korean-war
Woodrow Wilson Center, International History Declassified Digital Archive
http://digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org/collection/124/korean-war-origins-1945-1950
Woodrow Wilson Center, International History Declassified Digital Archive
http://digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org/collection/50/korean-war-1950-1953
Woodrow Wilson Center, International History Declassified Digital Archive
http://www.imf.org/en/About/Factsheets/Sheets/2016/07/27/15/31/IMF-World-Bank
The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank
http://www.worldbank.org/en/about/history/the-world-bank-group-and-the-imf
History and a brief explanation of differences
Chapter 13
Videos
https://www.c-span.org/video/?10137-1/glasnost-perestroika
“Glasnost and Perestroika” C-Span
Web Links
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joseph-nye/who-caused-the-end-of-the_b_350595.html
“Who Caused the End of the Cold War?” The Huffington Post
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/world-pop-by-political-regime
“Number of world citizens living under different political regimes”
http://www.pewglobal.org/2017/10/16/globally-broad-support-for-representative-and-direct-democracy/
“Globally, Broad Support for Representative and Direct Democracy But many also endorse nondemocratic alternatives” by Richard Wike, Katie Simmons, Bruce Stokes and Janell Fetterolf
http://www.opec.org/opec_web/en/about_us/24.htm
“On the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries”