*Numbers below refer to page numbers in the hard-copy coursepack

*Underlined items are available online

 

Venezuela Paper: Instructions      Model #1      Model #2 

 

Feb 12, 6:00-9:40: Online Session.  To begin the session, at about 5:45, 1. go to www.pipeline.wayne.edu/ 2. Type your WSU Access ID and password, then click OK.  3. Click the STUDENT tab.  4. Click MY COURSES. 5. Click WWI.  6. Click TOPIC: WHO IS TELLING THE TRUTH.  7. Click SIGN IN.  8. Click POST A REPLY, type your name, tel. #, and city.  9. Click POST.  10. Click MESSAGE BOARD. 11. You are ready to start the session.

How am I doing so far? 

Activities for Week 3

Reflections on the Five Points Assignment

 

Class Syllabus. . . ii 

Casualty Tables (Mosier) . . . 1

Chronology of WWI (Zieger) . . . 1

Accounts of WWI:

One Traditional Account of the War, Illustrating Weaknesses of Disciplinary History: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I . . . 227-250

The World in Arms (Time-Life) . . . 6

I Ain't Marching Anymore (Phil Ochs) . . . 40

The Outbreak of the First World War (Gilbert) . . . 41

The War as Ironic Action (Fussell) . . . 62

Roadblocks to Understanding WWI:

Complexity:

·         A Sound of Thunder (Bradbury) . . . 67

·         Complexity in Ecology . . . 76

·         The Century: A Bird’s Eye View (Hobsbawm) . . . 77

Lies:

·         A Tribute to Martin Luther King:  One Nation, Misled and Misinformed. . . . 251-4 

·         Lies My Teacher Told Me (Loewen) . . . 78

·         Is "education" good for you? (Loewen) . . . 96

·         Today's Detroit Free Press

Vividness—Snapshots of War:

·         Germany’s fateful decision to renew submarine warfare (Tuchman) . . . 101

·         The Riddle of the Lusitania (Ballard) . . . 108

·         Submarine Warfare . . . 113

·         Gas Attack, 1916 . . . 116

·         A Farewell to Arms (Hemingway) . . . 120

·         The Great Witch Hunt (Time-Life) . . . 129

·         The Great War and Modern History (Fussell) . . . 132

The USA and WWI:

War is the Health of the State (Zinn) . . . 138

The Myth of the Great War (Mosier) . . . 150

Hindenburg Confesses (Seldes) . . . 168

Were the Allies Morally Superior?:

Belgium's Imperialist Rape? . . . 171

The Philippine Insurrection (Goettel) . . . 177

The Lawrence Strike (Zinn) . . . 185

The Ludlow Massacre (Zinn) . . . 187

The Unknown Soldiers (Barbeau & Henri) . . .190

Invisibility of Racism in America’s Textbooks (Loewen) . . . 194

Some Parallels to the 21st Century:

Corporate Media:  April 14, 2002. Who is nearer the truth about a Venezuela "Coup": 

  The Associated Press (NY Times) . . . 255-7

                     OR

 The Tehran Times?  . . . 258-260

Parallels between World War I and the War in Iraq . . . 261-7 

Why War—A Few Disciplinary Speculations:

Economics: War is a Racket. . . 268-70 

Literature: The Lottery (Jackson) . . . 197

Corroborating Eyewitness Account: Stoning to Death (Macoll) . . . 203

Biology—In Black and White (Diamond) . . .204

Psychology—Obedience to Authority? (Milgram) . . . 221

Psychology:  We are Irrationally Married to Our Convictions . . . 271-8

Political Science—Money, the Environment, and War? (Green) . . . 222

 A Review of F. William Engdahl's "A Century of War" (William Bowels) . . . 279-85

Looking Back on the Twentieth Century:

The Century: A Bird’s Eye View (Hobsbawm) . . . 224

Highlights of WWI / Christmas in the Trenches. . . 279-82

Concert performance of "Christmas in the Trenches"

 

Recent highly recommended book:  Meyer, G.J. 2006.  A World Undone.

 

Some Websites of Interest

WWI Color Photos	WWI Highlights	War Literature	Art of WWI
Life in the trenches	A-to-Z History	Students' site	Sanderson Beck's Page
WWI Article
Parallels to the Present:	Global Policy Forum: Iraq	Yale Forum on Iraq	World Tribunal on Iraq
Media Coverage of the Greenhouse Effect	America's Friends	Jackson Browne's Lives in the Balance: Video

 

Music: Eric Bogle