Course materials

Readings

Readings are grouped by week. Linked course files and public web texts open directly; readings marked Required text come from the seven books listed on the syllabus.

Week 4

September 21-25

Monday · Sep. 21

Global slavery

Wednesday · Sep. 23

Slavery in Africa

Friday · Sep. 25

The Haitian Revolution as philosophical event

  • C. L. R. James, The Black Jacobins, prefaceRequired text

Week 5

September 28-October 2

Monday · Sep. 28

Toussaint Louverture and the master-slave dialectic

Wednesday · Sep. 30

The Haitian Revolution

  • James, The Black Jacobins - selectionsRequired text
  • Dubois and Garrigus, Slave Revolution in the Caribbean - selectionsCourse file forthcoming
Friday · Oct. 2

Slavery, reproduction, and gender

Week 6

October 5-9

Monday · Oct. 5

Slavery, reproduction, and gender

Wednesday · Oct. 7

Slavery, reproduction, and gender

  • Simpson, Behind the Sheet - entire playRequired text
Friday · Oct. 9

Imperialism

  • McGreevy, Catholicism, pp. 135-155Required text

Week 8

October 19-23

Monday · Oct. 19

Church and the nation-state

  • McGreevy, Catholicism, pp. 156-186Required text
Wednesday · Oct. 21

Midterm exam

In class

Friday · Oct. 23

No lecture

Op-ed due at midnight

Week 12

November 16-20

Monday · Nov. 16

Catholic politics in the age of Hitler

  • McGreevy, Catholicism, ch. 8Required text
Wednesday · Nov. 18

Nuremberg: Bergen and conspiracy

No additional reading currently assigned

Friday · Nov. 20

Catholic resistance

  • Franz Jagerstatter - introductionCourse file forthcoming

Week 13

November 23-27

Monday · Nov. 23

A Hidden Life - setup

No reading assigned

Wednesday · Nov. 25

Thanksgiving recess

No class

Friday · Nov. 27

Thanksgiving recess

No class

Week 14

November 30-December 4

Monday · Nov. 30

Vatican II

No reading currently assigned

Wednesday · Dec. 2

Conscience

A Hidden Life

Friday · Dec. 4

The legacy of John Paul II

  • McGreevy, Catholicism, ch. 14Required text