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U.S. History
Western Civilization
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A History of Western Society
,
Seventh Edition
John P. McKay, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Bennett D. Hill, Georgetown University
John Buckler, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Primary Sources
Title
Details
The Epic of Gilgamesh: A Great Flood
Chapter:
1
Date:
2700-2500 B.C.E.
Author:
Anonymous
Description:
Epic
Type:
Text
The Talmud Condemned
Chapter:
2, 11
Date:
1244
Author:
Pope Innocent IV
Description:
Religious Proclamation
Type:
Text
The Olympic Games:
A Historical Record Book of Champions
Chapter:
3
Date:
c. 160
Author:
Pausanius
Description:
Historical Record
Type:
Text
Runaway Slaves in Alexandria: Reward Offered!
Chapter:
4
Date:
c. 100 B.C.E.
Author:
Anonymous
Description:
Announcement
Type:
Text
Law in Early Roman Society: The Regulation of Women and Family
Chapter:
5
Date:
c. 600 B.C.E.; 451-450 B.C.E.
Author:
Numa Pompilius; Anonymous
Description:
Legal Code
Type:
Text
Voices of the People: Graffiti from the Walls of Pompeii
Chapter:
6
Date:
A.D. 79
Author:
Anonymous
Description:
Graffiti
Type:
Text
St. Augustine's Search for Truth: Divination and Manichaeism
Chapter:
7
Date:
373-387
Author:
St. Augustine
Description:
Religious Teaching
Type:
Text
The Qur'an: Call for Jihad
Chapter:
7
Date:
c. 650
Author:
The Prophet Mohammad
Description:
Religious Teaching
Type:
Text
The Lay of Igor's Host:
Warfare on the Russian Steppes
Chapter:
8
Date:
c. 900
Author:
Anonymous
Description:
Poem
Type:
Text
William the Conqueror and
Domesday Book
: A Contemporary Description
Chapter:
9, 11
Date:
1066
Author:
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicler
Description:
Biography/Historical Account
Type:
Text
Louis the Fat Dispenses Justice
Chapter:
11
Date:
1144
Author:
Abbot Suger of St. Denis
Description:
Biography
Type:
Text
Crooked Booksellers: The University Cracks Down
Chapter:
11
Date:
1275
Author:
The University of Masters and Scholars at Paris
Description:
University Regulations
Type:
Text
The Rules of Love?
Chapter:
12
Date:
1175
Author:
Andreas Capellanus
Description:
Philosophical/Satirical Treatise
Type:
Text
Diabolical Seduction: A Witch on Trial
Chapter:
12, 15
Date:
1427
Author:
The Magistrates of Florence
Description:
Court Proceedings
Type:
Text
The Plague Hits Florence
Chapter:
12
Date:
c. 1350
Author:
Giovanni Boccaccio
Description:
Fiction
Type:
Text
Made to Order: An Avignon Altarpiece
Chapter:
13
Date:
c. 1453
Author:
Notary for Jean de Montagnac and Enguerrand Quarton
Description:
Contract
Type:
Text
Leonardo's Notes on the Cosmos
Chapter:
13
Date:
c. 1515
Author:
Leonardo da Vinci
Description:
Scientific Study
Type:
Text
Ninety-five Theses on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences
Chapter:
14
Date:
1517
Author:
Martin Luther
Description:
Religious Proclamation
Type:
Text
Fifteenth-Century Slave Trade: The Portuguese in West Africa
Chapter:
15
Date:
1455-1456
Author:
Alvise da Cadamosto
Description:
Account
Type:
Text
The Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen
Chapter:
21
Date:
1789
Author:
National Assembly of France
Description:
Political Proclamation
Type:
Text
Manchester Becomes a Thriving Industrial City
Chapter:
22, 24
Date:
1795
Author:
John Aikin
Description:
Observations
Type:
Text
The Misery That Was Ireland: The Potato Famine
Chapter:
23
Date:
1847
Author:
W. Stewart Trench
Description:
Sociological Observations
Type:
Text
The Cult of Domesticity: A System of Middle-Class Values and Social Duties
Chapter:
23, 24
Date:
1838
Author:
Sara Stickney Ellis
Description:
Sociological Observations
Type:
Text
The Marxist Analysis of The Civil War in France: The Paris Commune
Chapter:
23, 25
Date:
1871
Author:
Karl Marx
Description:
Socio-economic Theory
Type:
Text
Survival of the Fittest Applied to Human Kind
Chapter:
24
Date:
1851
Author:
Herbert Spencer
Description:
Socio-economic Theory
Type:
Text
The Suffrage Movement Radicalized
Chapter:
25
Date:
c. 1906-07
Author:
Emmeline Pankhurst
Description:
Memoir Excerpt
Type:
Text
A French Response to the Demographic Crisis: Bonuses for Babies
Chapter:
25
Date:
1913
Author:
French National Assembly
Description:
Law
Type:
Text
Imperial Conquest: The Nation's Savior
Chapter:
26
Date:
1883
Author:
Le Petit Journal
Description:
Foreign Policy Editorial
Type:
Text
Mobilization: A French Soldier Remembers
Chapter:
27
Date:
1914
Author:
Henri Desagneui
Description:
Diary Entry
Type:
Text
The April Theses: A Blueprint for Revolution
Chapter:
27
Date:
1917
Author:
Vladimir I. Lenin
Description:
Proclamation/Manifesto
Type:
Text
The Interpretation of Dreams: Psychoanalysis Is Born
Chapter:
28
Date:
1900
Author:
Sigmund Freud
Description:
Psychology
Type:
Text
Sterilization for 'The Unfit': The Hitlerian Nightmare Begins
Chapter:
29
Date:
1933
Author:
Nazi German Government
Description:
Law
Type:
Text
The 'Fundamental Ideas' of Fascism
Chapter:
29
Date:
1935
Author:
Benito Mussolini
Description:
Political Theory
Type:
Text
An Iron Curtain Has Descended Across the Continent
Chapter:
30
Date:
1946
Author:
Winston Churchill
Description:
Speech
Type:
Text
The Second Sex: Existential Feminism
Chapter:
30
Date:
1949
Author:
Simone De Beauvoir
Description:
Social Criticism
Type:
Text
The 'Fundamental Codes of a Culture' Deconstruct the Order of Things
Chapter:
30
Date:
1961
Author:
Michel Foucault
Description:
Cultural Theory/Philosophy
Type:
Text
The 'Twenty-One Demands': A Call for Workers' Rights and Freedom in a Socialist State
Chapter:
30
Date:
1980
Author:
Solidarity Union
Description:
Social/Politcal Demands
Type:
Text
The Last Heir of Lenin Explains His Reform Plans: Perestroika and Glasnost
Chapter:
30, 31
Date:
1986
Author:
Mikhail Gorbachev
Description:
Socio-political Agenda
Type:
Text