September 2: Introduction
September 5: Enlightenment Thinkers
September 9: The American Revolution
September 16: A Revolutionary World
Virtual Session: Tocqueville's Democracy in America
September 23: Marx's Communist Manifesto
September 26: Lecture--Graduate Center (optional)
September 30: The World in 1850
October 7: No class--transition day
October 10: Nationalism and the US Civil War
October 14: Imperialism I: Africa and Asia
October 17: Imperialism II: Latin America
October 21: World War I
Virtual Session: Marxism/Leninism and a Revolutionary World
October 28: Midterm Review
October 31: Midterm
November 7: Depression
November 11: Fascism
November 14: World War II
November 18: Cold War
November 21: Nuclear Revolution: Dr. Strangelove
November 25: Liberalism
December 2: Vietnam
December 5: The End of the Cold War
December 9: The End of History?
December 12: Final Review