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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsHow to Read a Primary Source About the Writing History Exercises About the Writing History Contributors Chapter 1. The Age of Religious Reform, 1490-1648 1.1 95 Theses, Martin Luther, 1517 1.2 Thomas Müntzer, A Highly Provoked Defense, 1524 1.3 Records from Calvin's Geneva, 1542-1547 1.4 "Canons on the Sacraments," The Council of Trent, March 3, 1547 and Tridentine Index of Books, 1564 1.5 The Account of Walpurga Hausmannin, Midwife accused of Witchcraft, 1587 1.6 VISUAL SOURCE: Francois Dubois, Painting of the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre in Paris, 1572-84 WRITING HISTORY: Coordination Chapter 2. States and Empires, 1450-1700 2.1 Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, Roxelana and the Turkish Court from Life and Letters 2.2 Hernán Cortés, Second Letter from Mexico to Emperor Charles V, 1522 2.3 The Political Testament of Frederick William ("the Great Elector") of Prussia, May 19, 1667 2.4 Mbemba A Nzinga (Afonso I) of Kongo, Correspondence with King Joao III of Portugal, 1526 2.5 Le Code Noir, issued by King Louis XIV, March 1685 2.6 VISUAL SOURCE: Spanish Piece of Eight coin WRITING HISTORY: Subordination Chapter 3. Crises of the Seventeenth Century 3.1 Duc de Saint-Simon, The Daily Habits of Louis XIV at Versailles, c. 1715 3.2 Robert Baillie, Letter to William Spang, 23 August 1648 3.3 Otto von Guericke, The Destruction of Magdeburg in the Thirty Years War, 1631 3.4 Henry IV of France, The Edict of Nantes, 1598 & Revoked by Louis XIV, 1685 3.5 Gerrard Winstanley, The True Levellers Standard Advanced, 1649 3.6 VISUAL SOURCE: The Resolution of the Women of London to the Parliament, 1642 WRITING HISTORY: Thesis Statements Chapter 4. Science and Enlightenment, 1600-1789 4.1 Galileo Galilei, Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina de' Medici, 1615 4.2 John Locke, Second Treatise on Government, 1689 4.3 Immanuel Kant, What Is Enlightenment?, September 30, 1784 4.4 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality among Men, 1754 4.5 Voltaire, "Toleration" and "Torture" from the Philosophical Dictionary, 1769 4.6 Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Women, 1792 4.7 VISUAL SOURCE: Jacques-Louis David, Portrait of Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier and his Wife (Marie-Anne Pierette Paulze), 1788 WRITING HISTORY: Thesis assembly Chapter 5. The Era of the French Revolution, 1750-1815 5.1 Toussaint Louverture, "Dictatorial Proclamation," November 25, 1801 5.2 Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, August 26, 1789 5.3 Olympe de Gouges, The Declaration of the Rights of Woman and Citizen, September 1791 5.4 Society of the Friends of the Blacks, "Address to the National Assembly in Favor of the Abolition of the Slave Trade," February 5, 1790 5.5 Maximilien Robespierre, "Speech on the Justification of Terror," February 5, 1794 5.6 Napoleon Bonaparte, Proclamation to the People of Egypt (With a response from Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti), July 2, 1798 5.7 VISUAL SOURCE: Souvenir Plate of King Louis's Execution, 1793 WRITING HISTORY: The thesis statement and its supporting ideas Chapter 6. The Industrial Revolution, 1750-1850 6.1 Samuel Smiles, Self-Help (1859) 6.2 Thomas Hood, "The Song of the Shirt," December 16, 1843 6.3 Young Miners Testify to the Ashley Commission, 1842 6.4 Friedrich Engels on Women's Work in The Condition of the Working Class in England In 1844 6.5 Charlotte Brontë, Shirley, 1849 6.6 VISUAL SOURCE: English Women's Dresses, ca. 1850 WRITING HISTORY: Cohesion across sentences Chapter 7. Conservatism, Reform, and Revolution, 1815-1852 7.1 George Sand, Letter to Giuseppe Mazzini, June 11, 1848 7.2 Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Masque of Anarchy, 1832, about Peterloo Massacre of 1819 7.3 The People's Charter, 1839 7.4 Flora Tristan, L'Union Ouvriére, 1843 7.5 On the Death of Lord Byron in Greece, according to The Westminster Review, July 1824 7.6 Giuseppe Mazzini, Instructions for the Members of Young Italy, 1831 7.7 VISUAL SOURCE: Janos Horvay, Lajos Kossuth Memorial, Budapest, Inaugurated 1927, Rededicated 2015 WRITING HISTORY: Paragraph flow Chapter 8. From National Unification to Religious Revival (1850-1880) 8.1 Otto von Bismarck, "Iron and Blood" Speech, September 30, 1862 8.2 Florence Nightingale, Notes on Nursing, 1860 8.3 Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Communist Manifesto, 1848 8.4 Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species, 1859 8.5 Pope Pius IX, The Syllabus of Errors, 1861 8.6 VISUAL SOURCE: Advertisement for Wombell's Royal National Zoological Collection, 1853 WRITING HISTORY: Text reconstruction Chapter 9. European Society and the Road to War, 1880-1914 9.1 Maria Montessori, Dr. Montessori's Own Handbook, 1914 9.2 Jules Ferry, Speech on Imperialism, July 28, 1883 9.3 Rudyard Kipling, The White Man's Burden, 1899 9.4 Mark Twain, "To the Person Sitting in Darkness," 1901 9.5 First Anti-Semitic Speech by Karl Lueger, October 2, 1887 9.6 Emmeline Pankhurst, Why We Are Militant, October 21, 1913 9.7 VISUAL SOURCE: Imperialism Board Game, Spain, c. Nineteenth Century WRITING HISTORY: Text reconstruction and composition Chapter 10. The First World War, 1914-1919 10.1 Siegfried Sassoon, "Does It Matter?" and "Suicide in the Trenches," 1918 10.2 Ernst Jünger, Battle as an Inner Experience, 1929 10.3 ANZAC Troops at Gallipoli in August 1915, 1941 10.4 Arno Dosch-Fleurot, Interview with Mary Gotoubyova, July 31, 1917 10.5 Woodrow Wilson, The Fourteen Points, 1918 10.6 John Maynard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace, 1920 10.7 VISUAL SOURCE: Kathe Kollwitz, The Grieving Parents, 1932 WRITING HISTORY: Paper reconstruction Chapter 11. The Russian Revolution and the Rise of the Soviet Union, 1905-1940 11.1 Aleksandra Kollontai, The Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman, 1926 11.2 Czar Nicholas II, Manifesto, October 17, 1905 11.3 N.N. Sukhanov, The Russian Revolution, 1917: Eyewitness Account 11.4 Vladimir Lenin, The New Economic Policy and the Tasks of the Political Education Departments (October 17, 1921) 11.5 Josef Stalin, "The Results of the First Five-Year Plan," January 7, 1933 11.6 Nikolai Bukharin, Culture in Two Worlds, 1934 11.7 VISUAL SOURCE: What the October Revolution Gave Worker and Peasant Women, October, 1920 WRITING HISTORY: Analyzing and sorting material into main ideas Chapter 12. Fascism and Nazism: Mass Politics and Mass Culture, 1919-1939 12.1 Leni Riefenstahl, A Memoir, 1987 12.2 José Ortega y Gasset, The Revolt of the Masses, 1930 12.3 Benito Mussolini, "The Doctrine of Fascism," from Italian Encyclopedia, 1932 12.4 Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, 1925 12.5 Hanna Schmitt, The Disfranchisement of Women, 1937 12.6 The Nuremberg Race Laws, September 15, 1935 12.7 VISUAL SOURCE: Palazzo della Civilita Italiana, EUR, Rome 1941 WRITING HISTORY: Creating the complex "noun phrases" of academic writing Chapter 13. The Second World War 13.1 Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz, 1947 13.2 Marc Bloch, Strange Defeat, 1940 13.3 Vidkun Quisling, "The Nordic Revival" and "A Greater Norway," 1931 and 1942 13.4 Albert Camus, Myth of Sisyphus, 1942 13.5 The Wannsee Protocol, January 20, 1942 13.6 Iris Origo, War in Val d'Orcia, May 1944 13.7 VISUAL SOURCE: Ronald Searle, sketch from To the Kwai--and Back WRITING HISTORY: Using passive voice, it-shifts, and what-shifts to tell your reader what matters most Chapter 14. The Postwar, 1945-1970 14.1 Ho Chi Minh, "The Path Which Led Me to Leninism," April 1960 14.2 The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, December 10, 1948 14.3 Sir William Beveridge, Report on "Social Insurance and Allied Services," November 20, 1942 14.4 The Treaty of Rome, Establishing the European Economic Community (EEC), March 25, 1957 14.5 Simone du Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1949 14.6 Hungarian Government Protest and Nikita Khrushchev's Recollections, November 2-3, 1956 14.7 VISUAL SOURCE: Slovak Commemorative Stamp, 2018, based on Ladislav Bielik, The Bare-Chested Man in Front of the Occupiers Tank, Bratislava, 1968 WRITING HISTORY: Using parallelism to simplify complex ideas Chapter 15. Economic Dilemmas, European Unity, and the Collapse of Communism, 1970-2010 15.1 Mikhail Gorbachev, Perestroika: New Thinking for Our Country and the World, 1987 15.2 American Diplomats Recall the "Carnation Revolution" in Portugal, April-December 1974 15.3 The Helsinki Accords, 1975 15.4 Margaret Thatcher, "The Lady's Not for Turning" Speech to Conservative Party Conference, October 10, 1980 15.5 Lech Walesa, The Struggle and the Triumph, 1991 15.6 Zlata Filipovic, The Diary of Zlata Filipovic, 1991 15.7 VISUAL SOURCE: Berlin Wall Fragment, United Nations, 2002 WRITING HISTORY: Using coordination and subordination to find and fix common punctuation mistakes Epilogue. Europe in the 21st Century Ep.1 Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Infidel, 2007 Ep.2 Vladimir Putin, Address to the Duma Concerning the Annexation of Crimea, March 19, 2014 Ep.3 Matt Zuvela, "Merkel Stays the Course in German Refugee Debate," November 25, 2015 Ep.4 Boris Johnson, Letter to E.U. President Donald Tusk, October 19, 2019 Ep.5 Mary Robinson Foundation-Climate Justice, Principles of Climate Justice, 2019 WRITING HISTORY: Double Foc Suggested Answers to Writing History Exercises Credits
