Against Liberal Defeatism

Against Liberal Defeatism
https://nyti.ms/2GLx4uj?smid=nytcore-ios-share

To Deal with Trump, Look to Voltaire

To Deal With Trump, Look to Voltaire  
https://nyti.ms/2GKeMJO?smid=nytcore-ios-share

The End of Europe

The End of Europe?
https://nyti.ms/2R3kJWg?smid=nytcore-ios-share

They Shall Not Grow Old

How Peter Jackson Made WWI Footage Seem Astonishingly New
https://nyti.ms/2Gk3qMD?smid=nytcore-ios-share

Past Oxford’s Dreaming Spires, an Artist Shows a Different View

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/14/arts/design/penny-woolcock-oxford.html

Protests Grip Hungary In Response To Overtime Measure That Critics Call A 'Slave Law'

https://www.npr.org/2018/12/16/677111463/protests-grip-hungary-in-response-to-overtime-measure-that-critics-call-a-slave-

The Most Important Boring Story in the World

Brexit: The Most Boring Important Story in the World
https://nyti.ms/2GhMWoc?smid=nytcore-ios-share

The Real (Not Real?) Official Charter of the Yellow Vests

European Current Event of the Week: French Yellow Vest Movement (and will it spread to Belgium?)

 LATEST NEWS:

Macron Promises Minimum Wage Hike And Tax Cuts To End 'Yellow Vest' Protests

VIDEOS

                                                               (Economist) 

                                                                     
                                                                            (WSJ)

                                                               France 24

                                                                 (NY Times) 

                                                          BBC

WILL THE PROTESTS SPREAD TO BELGIUM? 

Macron Returns to Turmoil, as France Weighs State of Emergency

This is from a satirical website . . . IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE IT IS NOT TRUE; IT POKES FUN AT THE FACT THAT FRANCE HAD REVOLUTIONS IN 1815, 1830, 1848, AND 1870.

The G.O.P. Goes Full Authoritarian

The G.O.P. Goes Full Authoritarian
https://nyti.ms/2G85B5S?smid=nytcore-ios-share

With Brexit Deal in Peril...

With Brexit Deal in Peril, Theresa May Scrambles to Save It
https://nyti.ms/2zVRzhZ?smid=nytcore-ios-share

The Great Brexit Breakdown

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-great-brexit-breakdown-1544215917?emailToken=95f0bcbd89ca0906f92d15308290b74cDrdnnrQ8NfXrt2TK1BV7qCOd+Fp5z0AJzRx0b1mn9aqdNGO5yqbDfH/i1MnQUaqYo1FVrQdNdobW7XIQXoxM+w%3D%3D&reflink=article_copyURL_share

How Does the E.U. Think This Is Going to End?

How Does the E.U. Think This Is Going to End?
https://nyti.ms/2zLyBdT?smid=nytcore-ios-share

Annotated Bibliography due on Friday (50 Points)

Rampolla - the professor who wrote your Writing in History book (used in all Early World History classes) - includes a section on Annotated Bibliographies.  The relevant pages (27-29) are uploaded to my Google Drive HERE.  In the past, students also asked for a WHOLE SAMPLE, so I made one. It is uploaded to my Google Drive HERE.  The annotated bibliography RUBRIC is HERE.

Moving toward the Annotated Bibliography

Samples available through Schoology. See screenshot below. 

Unit 3 Board Notes

Current Events: Nov 26-30 Brexit and EU Mock Council Roster

U.K. and E.U. Leaders Clinch Brexit Divorce Terms (NY Times)

Simple Guide to Brexit (BBC) 

Reality Check: What Withdrawal Agreement Means (BBC)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZcvxu1sSxg (May testifies, broadcast by Guardian))

EU Mock Council Roster for 2018-1019 (Round of Applause, Please)

Brexit: A Series of Unfortunate Choices 

Brexit Deal in Jeopardy

Italy’s New Masters  Rattle EU but Ordiary Italians say Benissimo

Brexit explained in 2 minutes

Europe's Reaction to the U.K. Brexit Vote 

Why Brexit happened -- and what happens next?

Inside Brexit: How Britain Lost the European Plot

Theressa May's Nightmare Week Ends With a Party Coup Attempt

How Brexit could actually make the remaining union stronger? 

Primary source within Seconday Source Citation

Record and Share Your Family History in Five Steps

Record and Share Your Family History in 5 Steps
https://nyti.ms/2zlVBzP?smid=nytcore-ios-share

EU Mock Council Roster and Current Events Articles (Nov. 17-24)

EU Mock Council Roster for 2018-1019 (Round of Applause, Please)

Italy’s New Masters  Rattle EU but Ordiary Italians say Benissimo

Brexit: A Series of Unfortunate Choices 

Brexit Deal in Jeopardy

November Art Institute field trip: Presentation sign up sheet

REMINDER. ON MONDAY, 11/12, HALF OF US WILL GO TO THE ART INSTITUTE. WE WILL LEAVE OUTSIDE BLAINE IMMEDIATELY AFTER 3RD PERIOD. BRING MONEY FOR LUNCH IN THE CAFE.  THOSE REMAINING WILL HAVE A SUBSTITUTE AND MUST USE THE PERIOD TO WORK ON THEIR RESEARCH PORTFOLIOS. 

For those attending the November field trip, please review the google doc linked to below. Select an artwork, by October 28 at the latest, from the list provided to discuss with a partner during our visit to the Art Institute. Include both your name and your partner's name in the "presenter" column.

Also included below is a link to the presentation guidelines (posted in the syllabus as well). If you have any questions about the presentation or field trip, don't hesitate to write (nrousseva@uchicago.edu).

Fall field trip presentation sign up sheet 

Presentation guidelines 

Rubric 

Current Events Day (Week of November 12-16)

Economist Magazine: Populism is Reshaping the World

What is Populism? (Source for Ms. Gerst mini-lecture) 

Tech C.E.O.s Are in Love With Their Principal Doomsayer (NY Times)

One Legacy of Merkel? Angry East German Men Fueling the Far Right (NY Times)

As Merkel Eyes Exit, Nervous E.U. Wonders Who Will Take the Stage (NY Times)

Why Brexit is a Sideshow with the EU Beset on All Sides by Problems (the Guardian)

The Austrian Chancellor Talks Immigration and Islam (The Times)

The Last Gasp of Northern Ireland (The NY Times)

EU Plans Post-Brexit London Embassy (Economist)

British business leaders call for second Brexit vote (BBC)

The EU Just Voted to Ban Single USe Plastics by 2021 (Forbes)

See How Much You Know About the European Union (Council on Foreign Relations)

Italy's Battle with the EU is About Much More than the Budget (Weekly Standard)

Should America Be A Warning to Other Countries? 

U.S. Law Enforcement Failed to See the Threat of White Nationalism. Now They Don’t Know How to Stop It.

https://westernciv2017-18.blogspot.com/2018/10/the-oldest-hatred-anti-semitism.html

Large Print Overview of Anti-Judiasm and Antisemitism

The Attack in Pittsburgh was Hardly the First: Timeline of Attacks in the Past 100 Years

European Expansion and Atlantic Slavery

John Green: 15th Century Mariners 

Henry Louis Gates: Wonders of the African World (0-10:38 and -31:15-34:37)

Atlantic Slave Trade

Amazing Unit II Study Guide: Reformation(s) and Historical Habits of Mind

HUMANISM, EARLY CHALLENGERS, and ERASMUS

• Manchester, page 112-131 (at the break). Why were the humanists so dangerous to the Church and how far does ERASMUS go in challenging the church? 

• Perry textbook, Chapter 14, pages 316-326, including the primary source excerpts. How is Luther portrayed in Perry? What are the critical variables that allowed Luther to succeed where Wycliffe and Hus failed?

• Erasmus' The Praise of Folly, using the historical thinking exercise for The Praise of Folly. From the date, where does Erasmus and his work fit into the trajectory of Wycliffe, Hus, and Luther? 

Khan Academy: An Introduction to the Protestant Reformation

MARTIN LUTHER

• Manchester on Luther (pages 131-143)and Bainton on Luther (pages 237-245). Do these historians agree or disagree with each other about Luther?  What impact did Luther’s childhood have on his religious beliefs, including sin? What impact did the phrase, “My God, my God, why has thou forsaken me” have on Luther’s religious thinking? Finally, for Luther, what is required of Man?

Khan Academy: Martin Luther

PBS Video Already Watched in Class 

HENRY VIII's ANGLICANISM AND JOHN CALVIN'S CALVINIST GENEVA 

• Perry textbook on the Spread of the Reformation (pages 327-334) including how the different branches of Protestantism develop such as Henry VIII’s Anglican England and John Calvin’s Calvinist Geneva. Why was each so popular with the people? How do they develop differently? By 1560, what beliefs do Protestants everywhere share in common?

 Khan Academy: Varieties of the Reformation

Reformation and its Consequences

OTTOMAN EMPIRE AND ELIZABETHEAN ENGLAND 

• Brotton's Theological Brexit article and Mikhail's When England Admired Islam article. Source the articles, opine on perspective, and be ready to discuss this question, "How can this narrative regarding the Ottoman Empire challenge or disrupt claims to European heritage and identity?" 

Jerry Brotton, Islam & Shakespeare 

CATHOLIC REFORMATION 

• Perry textbook, pages 335-338 on the Catholic Response and the impact of the Reformation on modernity. How does the Catholic Church respond to growing Protestantism? To what extent does the Church fix itself? 

• Ms. Rousseva’s art history presentation 

VIEWS OF JEWS AND OTTOMAN TURKS DURING THE REFORMATION 

Facing History, Facing Ourselves: Ancient Roots of Anti-Judaism 

• Roper on Hatreds (Chapter 18, pages 371-385) of the Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet.  How does Luther's certainty of his interpretation lead to hatred of Catholics and Jews? How and why does Luther's view of the Ottoman Empire change over time?

THE PRINTING PRESS AND RELIGIOUS POLARIZATION  

• The Newberry Library Religious Change and Print Culture document packet. How did religious leaders use technology and print media to gain followers and attack other sects of Christianity? To what extent did the ideas, or needs, of the Reformation drive technological change or the manipulation of technology? Lessons for us today? 

Crash Course: Reformation

Current Event Day (Week of October 18): Jamal Khashoggi, Free Speech, and Turkish relations with Saudi Arabia, EU and US

We end this quarter with a unit on Free Speech & the Enlightenment and we end the spring quarter with our Mock EU Council, so the Jamal Khashoggi case seems quite relevant to our course.  Gerst classes will consider it as this week's current event issue, with Khashoggi's final article published this morning by the Washington Post.  Consider its argument on the importance of language in constructing a free press, something Martin Luther benefitted from with the printing press as well. 

What the World Needs Now: Free Expression

https://www.wsj.com/video/the-implications-behind-saudi-journalist-disappearance/46C5A0D2-88F9-4D1B-B8BE-2427554548B4.html  

https://www.wsj.com/video/what-we-know-about-the-missing-saudi-journalist-jamal-khashoggi/CFE671AC-8591-445D-B768-DF6706034DE7.html

http://www.wsj.com/video/how-saudi-journalist-jamal-khashoggi-went-from-missing-to-killed/D29C98D1-5209-41F6-B970-2A003883C49F.html

http://www.wsj.com/video/why-us-saudi-economic-ties-complicate-diplomacy/A7093B52-1E47-4BF3-9845-2757A1F385D0.html

https://www.wsj.com/video/two-countries-that-stand-to-benefit-from-the-khashoggi-tragedy/B6C82F79-4504-43C7-A833-C16DD10A07C6.html 

Saudis’ Image Makers: A Troll Army and a Twitter Insider 

https://www.state.gov/documents/organization/150546.pdf 

Five of the most violent moments of the Reformation

http://theconversation.com/five-of-the-most-violent-moments-of-the-reformation-71535

Why Europe’s wars of religion put 40,000 ‘witches’ to a terrible death

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/jan/07/witchcraft-economics-reformation-catholic-protestant-market-share

A classmate of mine at Kent reminded me of what Orwell said about “doublethink “* in 1984

The power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them… To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just as long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies—all this is indispensably necessary. Even in using the word doublethink it is necessary to exercise doublethink. For by using the word one admits that one is tampering with reality; by a fresh act of doublethink one erases this knowledge; and so on indefinitely, with the lie always one leap ahead of the truth.^[5

The Catastrophic Opening of the Atlantic & the Commercial Revolution

http://highered.mheducation.com/sites/0073106925/student_view0/animated_maps.html (use this link to get to the animated, Exploration and Empire: 1600-1800)

For a short video on how to place the European voyages globally at this time (played in Gerst Tuesday class), see John Green's 10 minute episode on 15th century mariners (Zheng He, de Gama, and Columbus).   

The Jungle Grows Back, the Case for American Leadership

https://youtu.be/sRCwYy5qrt4

Sign-Up Sheets for the Art Institute and for the EU Mock Council

Please sign up for the Art Institute field trip here.

Factors to consider:

• how busy you are this quarter versus how busy you are in the very late winter/early spring quarter (make sure you consider your extra-curricular activities) 
• your interest in representational vs. non-representational art 
• with whom you plan to partner 

Please sign up for your top three choices for the EU Mock Council here.

Factors to consider:

• your own language proficiency 
• the region inside or outside of Europe you are most interested in 
• the issues you are interested in (political, economic, or social). This year, we are featuring themes of (1) liberal democracy and the rule of law; (2) trade, competitiveness and globalization; and (3) language, immigration and identity.
• the partner(s) you want (larger countries are generally assigned three students, smaller countries two students, and partners are typically assigned within a class period so that you may work together on current event assignments) 
• you and your partner will split up the themes above within your country, so you should not sign up with a partner where both of you are dead-set on the same theme 

Art History Reformation Lecture Slides, 10/4

Art History Reformation Lecture Slides from 10/4

Five Centuries after the Reformation

During current events this week, we will begin to think about the influence of religion today in Western Europe.  (We will need to have a separate discussion on Eastern Europe.)

https://www.pbs.org/video/religion-and-ethics-newsweekly-500th-anniversary-protestant-reformation/

http://www.pewforum.org/2017/08/31/five-centuries-after-reformation-catholic-protestant-divide-in-western-europe-has-faded/

Depressed About the Future of Democracy? Study History

Depressed About the Future of Democracy? Study History    https://nyti.ms/2QiA555?smid=nytcore-ios-share

China’s Leaders Confront an Unlikely Foe: Ardent Young Communists

China’s Leaders Confront an Unlikely Foe: Ardent Young Communists   https://nyti.ms/2NPExM6?smid=nytcore-ios-share

Art History Writing Experiment

On Monday, we will be providing all students with class time to work on the writing experiment our art historian Ms. Rousseva assigned. A reminder that you need to pick an object from your home or wander by the Smart Museum and pick an artwork there. Your writing experiment may take many forms: poem, narration, descriptive and analytical museum label, critique, etc. Please see the handout she gave you for more information. Thanks! It is due on Thursday, October 4.

Sweden’s Prime Minister Loses No-Confidence Vote

Sweden’s Prime Minister Loses No-Confidence Vote   https://nyti.ms/2xFvEdK?smid=nytcore-ios-share

Think About Your Top Three Countries for the Mock EU Council

Go to the EU Mock Council 2019 page on the blog, scroll down to the bottom, and use steps 1-4 to explore countries of interest to you. Factors to consider:

• your own language proficiency 
• the region inside or outside of Europe you are most interested in 
• the issues you are interested in (political, economic, or social). This year, we are featuring themes of (1) liberal democracy and the rule of law; (2) trade, competitiveness and globalization; and (3) language, immigration and identity.
• the partner(s) you want (larger countries are generally assigned three students, smaller countries two students, and partners are typically assigned within a class period so that you may work together on current event assignments) 
• you and your partner will split up the themes above within your country, so you should not sign up with a partner where both of you are dead-set on the same theme 

Questions may be referred to Mr. Janus or Ms. Gerst.  Sign-ups will begin in very early October. 

September 26 European Day of Languages Lesson

Happy European Day of Languages day! 

French Turn on Macron, as They Grow Impatient for Results

French Turn on Macron, as They Grow Impatient for Results   https://nyti.ms/2zqe4Ml?smid=nytcore-ios-share

Hungary and Poland pose worse threat to EU than Brexit

https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/hungary-and-poland-pose-worse-threat-to-eu-than-brexit-1.3628355 

EU Is Unreceptive To Britain's Plan To Stay In Europe's Single Market

https://www.npr.org/2018/09/21/650341634/eu-is-unreceptive-to-britain-s-plan-to-stay-in-europe-s-single-market?sc=17&f=&utm_source=iosnewsapp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=app

European Leaders talk Brexit in Austria

https://www.npr.org/2018/09/19/649432639/european-leaders-talk-brexit-in-austria?sc=17&f=&utm_source=iosnewsapp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=app

Renaissance Study Guide

Unit I: Introduction to Historical Thinking and the Renaissance Study Guide
Your test is on Monday, September 24.

Art History Renaissance Lecture Slides from 9/20

Art History Lecture 1: "The Renaissance and its Margins"

Spain now receives more,migrants than any other European country

https://www.npr.org/2018/09/20/647526020/spain-now-sees-more-migrant-arrivals-than-any-other-european-country?sc=17&f=1001&utm_source=iosnewsapp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=app

Gerst Long Period #2: Sweden Current Events

Update: 9/25/18: Swedish parliament Votes to Oust Prime Minister

Sweden Was Long Seen as a ‘Moral Superpower.’ That May Be Changing.

Sweden’s Centrists Prevail Even as Far Right Has Its Best Showing Ever  

Would Sweden Leave the EU? 

Junk News, Swedish style. 


Miscellaneous:

A ‘Mansplaining’ Hotline? Yes, Actually, Sweden Has One   https://nyti.ms/2f0TF2J?smid=nytcore-ios-share