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History 2: Modernity

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  1. Lesson 1: Orientation
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  2. Lesson 2: The Great Stage: Introduction to the West
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  3. Lesson 3: Ideas Have Consequences: The Enlightenment
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  4. Lesson 4: The Sacred & the Secular: Empires, Pirates, and Rulers
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  5. Lesson 5: Royal Science: The Scientific Revolution
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  6. Lesson 6: The Creators: Pascal, Vermeer, Johnson, and Bach
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  7. Lesson 7: The Devil Has No Stories: The French Revolution
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  8. Lesson 8: I Am The Revolution: Napoleon Bonaparte
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  9. Lesson 9: Deus Ex Machina: The Industrial Revolution
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  10. Lesson 10: The Antiquary & the Muse: Scott, Austen, and the Romantic Poets
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  11. Lesson 11: No Vision Too Large: Wilberforce & Chalmers
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  12. Lesson 12: Culture = State: Nationalism
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  13. Lesson 13: Eminent Culture: Victorianism
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  14. Lesson 14: The West and the Rest: Victorian Missions
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  15. Lesson 15: The New Priesthood: Scientism and Darwinism
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  16. Lesson 16: The Square Inch War: Kuyper and Wilson
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  17. Lesson 17: The Pity of War: World War I
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  18. Lesson 18: Domesticity Versus Tyranny: Versailles, Dictators, and America’s Roaring Twenties
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  19. Lesson 19: Modern Art and the Death of Culture: Art and Architecture
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  20. Lesson 20: I’ll Take My Stand: The Thirties
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  21. Lesson 21: The Lost Generation: Literary Converts
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  22. Lesson 22: The Wrath of Man: World War II
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  23. Lesson 23: The Cross and Perseverance: World War II, Bonhoeffer, and Churchill
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  24. Lesson 24: Personal Peace and Affluence: The Fifties
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  25. Lesson 25: The Great Divorce: The Sixties
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  26. Lesson 26: The West Like the Rest: The Seventies and the End of Modernity
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  27. Lesson 27: The Triumph of the West: The Fall of Communism and Postmodernity
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ASSIGNMENT:

  1. Read the following quotations about the study of history.
  2. Write an essay or discuss with your instructor the following question: According to these authors, what is the value of knowing the past?

SELECTION: Quotations about the study of history.

“The student of the New Testament should primarily be a historian. The center and core of all the Bible is history.” -J. Gresham Machen

“The value of history is its certainty—against which opinion is broken.” -Lord Acton

“The greatest advances in human civilization have come when we recovered what we had lost: when we learned the lessons of history.” -Winston Churchill

“A contempt of the monuments and the wisdom of the past, may be justly reckoned one of the reigning follies of these days, to which pride and idleness have equally contributed.” -Samuel Johnson