Chapters

  1. History’s Story
  2. Wanderers and Settlers: The Ancient Middle East to 400 B.C.
  3. The Chosen People: Hebrews and Jews, 2000 B.C. to A.D. 135
  4. Trial of the Hellenes: The Ancient Greeks, 1200 B.C. to A.D. 146
  5. Imperium Romanum: The Romans, 753 B.C. to A.D. 300
  6. The Revolutionary Rabbi: Christianity, the Roman Empire, and Islam, 4 B.C. to A.D. 1453
  7. From Old Rome to the New West: The Early Middle Ages, A.D. 500 to 1000
  8. The Medieval Mêlée: The High and Later Middle Ages, 1000 to 1500
  9. Making the Modern World: The Renaissance and Reformation, 1400 to 1648
  10. Liberation of Mind and Body: Early Modern Europe, 1543 to 1815
  11. Mastery of the Machine: The Industrial Revolution, 1764 to 1914
  12. The Westerner’s Burden: Imperialism and Nationalism, 1810 to 1918
  13. Rejections of Democracy: The InterWar Years and World War II, 1917 to 1945
  14. A World Divided: The Cold War, 1945 to 1993
  15. Into the Future: The Contemporary Era, 1991 to the Present
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Links for Chapter 13
Rejections of Democracy: the Interwar Years and World War II, 1917 to 1945

From Bolshevism to Stalinism

Why does the Russian Revolution Matter?: essay on its hundredth anniversary.

What you need to know first to understand the Russian Revolution: a series of columns from the Smithsonian.

Joseph Stalin: National hero or cold-blooded murderer?: evaluation from article of the BBC.

Understanding Stalin: evaluation from 2014 based on new information from Russian archives.

 

On Fascism

Mussolini and the Rise of Fascism: short essay from Constitutional Rights Foundation.

The Story of Fascism in Europe: video by travel author Rick Steves.

Guernica: Testimony of War: a view of Spanish fascism using Picasso's painting.

How did Hitler happen?: page from National World War II museum.

The Rise of the Nazis: a series of videos from PBS.

 

On the Holocaust

The Simon Wiesenthal Center: many resources provided by a Jewish advocacy group tied to museums of tolerance and named after the famed Holocaust survivor and Nazi-hunter.

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

 

Last Updated: 2023 June 1