Sign - up link for EU Mock Council

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SU5oZoVfLlj7mM316MkMRMTt5wKt-tlwoRdW4xX6rsc/edit?usp=sharing

EU Mock Council Sign-Up Goes Live at 3:05 pm on Wednesday, January 31

Mr. Janus will be posting the Google document sign-up at 3:05 pm . . . .

Congress of Vienna Animated Map Video (4:30 minutes)

http://www.the-map-as-history.com/demos/tome01/The-Congress-of-Vienna-1814-1815.php

Gerst: Manifesto Sign Up

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aNbIf_g9TBJdc95nW8wIqxakg5h0S9DODE4xq_j5kCA/edit?usp=sharing

Winter Research Paper: Sample Student Papers

Last spring's edition of InFlame published two heritage and identity papers: one on Chinese nationalism and one on Italian-Jewish life.  Linked here.

Industrial Revolution, Corn Laws & Irish Potato Famine, and the Revolutions of 1848

                                                         1:30-14:30 and 20:10-42:35

Crash Course: Coal, Steam, and the Industrial Revolution

Economist article summarizing Allen's argument. 

Unsettled By Russia, Sweden Revives Pamphlets On What To Do 'If War Comes'

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/01/22/578893302/unsettled-by-russia-sweden-revives-pamphlets-on-what-to-do-if-war-comes?sc=17&f=1004&utm_source=iosnewsapp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=app

Does the Rise of Eurasia Herald a New World Order?

https://www.ft.com/content/a0f95ce6-fab1-11e7-a492-2c9be7f3120a

Germany Coalition Talks

November 2017 Reminder 

January 8, 2018 Update 

• Merkel negotiates with the SPD 

January 12, 2018 Update 

• Merkel and SPD coming closer to a coalition deal 

January 16, 2018 Update

• Schulz faces SPD backlash to coalition blueprint 

Chicago Council on Global Affairs Extra Credit: Artificial Intelligence: 1/18/2017

Please email Mr. Janus immediately if you'd like to attend. Program starts at 5:30 pm (bus leaves Blaine at 4:45 pm).

French Revolution & Napoleon Test: Key Themes

Enlightenment ideals/principles
National Assembly
Declaration of the Rights of Man
Robespierre
Reign of Terror
Napoleon
economic instability
economic modernization

Your first test of the quarter on the French Revolution & Napoleonic Europe will be held on Monday, January 22.  You will NOT have a notecard. You will have a test prep period in class in which you may write down quotations (using your textbook and your notebook) relevant to the class question on a handout that looks like this. You must turn the handout in at the end of the prep period, and the handouts will be distributed at the beginning of the testing period on Monday, January 22.  You should not be colloborating with other students; rather, you should be developing your own unique vantage point on the Revolution.  You will still type your essay and turn in via turnitin.com. (All class essay questions will be different beginning in the Winter Quarter, i.e., no class period will have the same question as another class period.) 

BITCOINS ARE BOON TO EXTREMIST GROUPS

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/bitcoins-boom-is-a-boon-for-extremist-groups/2017/12/26/9ca9c124-e59b-11e7-833f-155031558ff4_story.html

Tolstoy, Gandhi, King Jr. and Mandela: Non-violence

I came across an author last night describing how Gandhi was influenced by, and then adapted, the ideas of Russian author Leo Tolstoy (better known for his works War & Peace and Anna Karenina) in his commitment to nonviolence.  Gandhi and Tolstoy apparently wrote to one another.  Gandhi went on not only to lead the Quit India movement protesting British imperialism, but in turn influenced Martin Luther King, Jr. and Nelson Mandela. Nonviolence as an unbroken chain. See http://www.las.illinois.edu/alumni/magazine/articles/2009/tolstoy/ John Green has a video on the global nature of the non-violence movement (linked below).  Interesting to juxtapose these ideas against those of the Jacobins and Girondins, isn't it?

2017, THE BEST YEAR IN HUMAN HISTORY?

Why 2017 Was the Best Year in Human History https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/06/opinion/sunday/2017-progress-illiteracy-poverty.html