Current Events: Germany 4.0 (4th Industrial Revolution)

Choices Simulation - China on the World Stage: Weighing the US Response

Current Events: Slavery Reparations in Scotland today

Glasgow University to Pay Slavery Slavery Reparations

The Legacies of British Slave-Ownership Project's "database offers a unique snapsot of who the slaveowners were at the ending of slavery.  There were approximately 46,000 claimants, although not all of them were successful in gaining compensation. Of the 20 million pounds paid out, nearly half of the money stayed in Britain. Unsurprisingly, some of the funds went to wealthy absentees, but the flow of money also highlights the importance of another class of compensation recipient: the British merchant. This merchant class was a vitally important cog in the machinery of transatlantic slavery. . . . Mercantile wealth derived from the profits of the plantation was one important way that slavery returned home to Britain. . . . The Hibbert family, for example, made claims as trustees, owners-in-fee, mortgagees, judgment creditors, devisees in trust and executors. Their ownership of enslaved people was based both on plantation ownership and on the complex system of credit relationships that characterized the West India trade. . . . [George Hibbert] consistently argued throughout his career that investment in the slave economy was legitimate and that respectable people would be ruined without payment for their loss of 'property.'"  Katie Donington, A Society Built on Slavery, History Today (September 2015), 10-12.  What role then did slavery in the building of the global economy?

Brexit’s Warring Parties Share Old-School Roots: They All Went to Eton

https://www.wsj.com/articles/brexits-warring-parties-share-old-school-roots-they-all-went-to-eton-11571602032?emailToken=e2774f846ea742d549d6cf19fd6bbed6OcjgQ0xiaqIrQyJwdwL+Ti2bQFulDz/3cSrPCbykuNdLuAnWNC1gzsvfw1Ia5rE1BjnPFtgeZPcjRTqeroFVc4wn3MIwvn1ETzcjc5FPGgeHFWqPZYvJEm0lQG/5msjj1gxOz8vRtcPWip1EvaTIEA%3D%3D&reflink=article_copyURL_share

Reformation art history lecture

Dear all,

Here is a link to last Thursday's lecture on art and the Protestant Reformation. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to write.

Best wishes,
Ms. Rousseva

A Nun's 450-Year-Old 'Last Supper' Makes Its Museum Debut in Florence - Atlas Obscura

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/first-last-supper-woman-painter-florence

Spain’s Attempt to Atone for a 500-Year-Old Sin

Atlantic Magazine's article on Spain's Move to Atone for 500 Year Old Sin 

500 Anniversary of Protestant Reformation

How do Catholics and Lutherans engage across difference today?

How Brexit Changed The European Union

OBAMA’S SPPECH AT UIC

Another Scottish referendum beckons—and this time the nationalists may win

https://drive.google.com/a/ucls.uchicago.edu/file/d/0BwdvEG3Mi2VpY2JUTGpJZnVhenlDdWRBNkpCR0NLWGNaVnpv/view?usp=drivesdk

Tinker, Tailor, Writer, Spy John le Carré takes aim at Brexit and Boris Johnson in his new novel, “Agent Running in the Field.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/12/books/john-le-carre-agent-running-in-the-field.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

Military Leaders Fear They’ve Seen This Before. It Ended in the Iraq War.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/10/us/politics/turkey-kurds.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

The Ancient Roots of Anti-Judaism video

https://www.facinghistory.org/resource-library/video/ancient-roots-anti-judaism

Feedback after Unit 1 Test on Historical Habits of Mind and Renaissance

1. Non-fiction literacy, which could also be termed critical reading, takes center stage in this year in this course. Just as there is a summer learning “loss” for math, so there is for non-fiction reading. Non-fiction requires very different skills than fiction/literature. This is a class about ideas, so we ask 1-3 guided “idea” questions about the reading. (We don’t ask about tiny details such as dates, kings, etc.) A helpful homework handout that we gave you previously students is linked here:
http://ateurohistory.blogspot.com/2019/09/helpful-checklist-for-students... Our goal is for you to focus and take notes only these 1-3 questions as they read. It is called "predatory reading." Writing while reading helps students focus on their comprehensive and work as active readers. 

2. Prepare for and participate verbally during class discussion, and take notes during class discussion. Highlight the quotes other students point to in the readings to key in on important ideas. Write down three key ideas from each day's class. Build your study guide as we go. Make it the first 5 minutes of your homework routine. 

3. Some fun things help with the reading too, such as watching movies and Youtube videos sent in the historical time period, so you have the chance to SEE and visualize much more of the material culture and context at work. John Green just started a new series for Modern European History that is amazing! Each one matches up exactly with what we are studying in class:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tecocKSclwc There are other series like it as well (e.g., Tom Richey). Much can be learned on YouTube. 

4. There is always a study guide for every test. Here is the one we gave you for this past test: it is audio, visual and text. http://ateurohistory.blogspot.com/p/unit-i-study-guide-renaissance-and.h...

5. Finally, we encourage you to go back through the readings side-by-side as you begin to prepare for each exam. This is called "synthesizing" the readings, i.e., putting it all together. You should remember the author and main idea of each supplement (non-textbook) reading. 

6. Test-taking strategies. We encourage you to make sure you are answering the question we asked, not the question you hoped we asked.  Incorporate as many supporting details as possible.  You want to dig deep, scuba-diving not snokeling.  Incorporate specific and precise examples of supporting details from the reading. 

Please do not hesitate to let us know if you have any additional questions, insight, etc. 

Protestant Reformation

Protestant Reformation Part I

Speaker Opportunity Thursday, October 10

On the evening of October 10, the Brookings Institute, together with the Charles Koch Institute, will host a debate on the future of America’s relationship with Europe and Russia at the Gleacher Center of the University of Chicago. I wanted you to be aware of this event as I thought some of your students who study history, Europe, or world politics (or any members of a debate club) might be interested in attending a rigorous debate about this topic. It features former senior Obama administration officials such as Victoria Nuland, former Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, and a number of prominent Europe experts debating geopolitical trends in trade and security affecting America’s relationship with Europe and Russia. Our moderator is Edward Luce of The Financial Times.

Here is a website with information about the event (including free registration): https://charleskochinstitute.swoogo.com/transatlantic-relations. There will be an opportunity for students to mingle with the debate speakers and moderator before and after the event, and of course to ask questions.

Art Institute Field Trip Sign Up and Links

As discussed in class today, sophomores will be going on retreat later this week. Juniors are required to attend class and we recommend that you work on the Art Institute field trip -- scheduled for Monday, November 18 -- while they are away.  The sign-up sheet is linked below, along with a list of art works for which you may sign up for a single work, with your partner.  We recommend you pick from those in the "Renaissance" period because that is what we have studied in class at this point.

ART INSTITUTE SIGN-UP SHEET

ART INSTITUTE ASSIGNMENT 

ART INSTITUTE ARTIFACT CHOICES 

Rubric 

Free-speech is killing us

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/04/opinion/sunday/free-speech-social-media-violence.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

Introduction to European Union and History of Brexit

Historical Maps of EU Member Enlargement 

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-24367705

(3 years ago)

(3 years ago: Europe's reaction)

(2 years ago)

(1 year ago) 

(7 months ago) 

Boris Johnson and Suspension of Parliament

Suspension was Illegal, Court says

STUDENTS' CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS SEMINAR

STUDENTS' CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS SEMINAR (DEADLINE EXTENDED): Students who have completed their first-tier history course are invited to consider enrolling in a seminar on students' constitutional rights in conjunction with the University Law School and UC Woodlawn Charter School. Applications are due by the end of the day on Friday (10/4). More information and the application form can be found here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LNChf8yM-RQRGcKTyi6z8oS-P6ZfTOlzGwpmPsUWHCM/edit?usp=sharing

LaToya Ruby Frazier // Modern Art Notes Podcast

Dear Students,

Last Thursday I mentioned that the Ren's current exhibition by LaToya Ruby Frazier is fantastic. I hope some of you will visit the show and write about a photograph for your first writing experiment. If you're interested in the artist and her work, take a listen to the latest episode of the Modern Art Notes podcast. The discussion will be useful for others as well since Frazier mentions the influence of renaissance painting on her photographs - in particular paintings by Caravaggio who we'll look at next time.

https://manpodcast.com/portfolio/no-412-latoya-ruby-frazier/

Best wishes,
Nicoletta