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| Excess, Inquiry, and Restraint: 1600 to 1800 | |
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| the Baroque in Italy: the Church and Its Appeal | |
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| The Drama of Painting: Caravaggio and the Caravaggisti | |
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| Venice and Baroque Music | |
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| Focus: Andrea Pozzo's Apotheosis of Saint Ignatius | |
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| C & C: the End of Italian Ascendency | |
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| the Secular Baroque in the North: the Art of Observation | |
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| Calvinist Amsterdam: City of Conradictions | |
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| The Science of Observation | |
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| Dutch Vernacular Painting: the Art of the Familiar | |
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| The Baroque Keyboard | |
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| Focus: Rembrandt's the Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp | |
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| C & C: Tension between Populace and Court [to be retitled "The Art of the People and the Tastes of the Court"] | |
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| the Baroque Court: Absolute Power and Royal Patronage | |
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| Versailles and the Rise of Absolutism | |
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| The Arts of the French Court | |
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| The Art and Politics of the English Court | |
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| The Arts of the Spanish Court | |
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| The Baroque in the Americas | |
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| Focus: Vel�zquez's Las Meninas | |
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| C & C: Excess and Restraint | |
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| the Rise of the Enlightenment in England: the Claims of Reason | |
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| The New London: Toward the Enlightenment | |
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| The English Enlightenment | |
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| Literacy and the New Print Culture | |
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| Exploration in the Englightenment | |
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| Focus: Wren's St. Paul's Cathedral | |
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| C & C: the Growing Crisis of the Slave Trade | |
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| the Rococo and the Enlightenment on the Continent: Privilege and Reason | |
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| The Rococo | |
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| The Philosophes | |
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| Rococo and Classical Music | |
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| China and Europe: Cross-Cultural Contact | |
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| Focus: Watteau's Signboard of Gersaint | |
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| C & C: the End of the Rococo | |
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| the Rights of Man: Revolution and the Neoclassical Style | |
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| The American and French Revolutions | |
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| The Rights of Woman | |
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| The Neoclassical Spirit | |
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| Napoleon and Neoclassical Paris | |
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| The Issue of Slavery | |
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| Focus: David's the Lictors Returning to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons | |
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| C & C: the Romantics and Napoleon | |
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| Romanticism, Realism, and Empire: 1800 to 1900 | |
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| the Romantic World View: the Self in Nature and the Nature of Self | |
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| The Early Romantic Imagination | |
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| The Romantic Landscape | |
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| Transcendentalism and the American Romantics | |
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| Romanticism's Darker Realities | |
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| The Romantic Hero | |
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| Goya's Tragic Vision | |
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| Herman Melville: the Unceratin World of Moby Dick | |
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| Beethoven and the Rise of Romantic Music | |
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| Focus: the Sublime, the Beautiful, and the Picturesque | |
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| C & C: From Romanticism to Realism | |
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| Industry and the Working Class: A New Realism | |
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| The Industrial City: Conditions in London | |
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| Reformists Respond: Utopian Socialism, Medievalism, and Christian Reform | |
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| Literary Realism (including slave narratives) | |
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| French Painting: the Dialogue between Idealism and Realism | |
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| Photography: Realism's Pencil of Light [including early photos of Egypt by Maxime du Camp] | |
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| Charles Darwin: the Science of Objective Observation | |
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| Focus: Orientalism and Ingres's Turkish Bath | |
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| C & C: Documenting War | |
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| Global Confrontation and Civil War: Challenges to Cultural Identity | |
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| The Revolutions of 1848: From the Streets of Paris to Vienna and Beyond | |
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| The Haussmannization of Paris | |
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| The Rise of Nationalism | |
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| The American Civil War | |
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| The British in China an India | |
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| The Rise and Fall of Egypt | |
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| The Opening of Japan | |
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| Focus: Winslow Homer's A Visit from the Old Mistress | |
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| C & C: Painting Modern Life | |
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| In Pursuit of Modernity: Paris in the 1850s and 1860s | |
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| George Sand: Politics and the Female Voice | |
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| Charles Baudelaire and the Poetry of Modern Life | |
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| edouard Manet: the Painter of Modern Life | |
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| emile Zola and the Naturalist Novel | |
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| Nationalism and the Politics of Opera | |
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| Focus: Manet's Olympia | |
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| C & C: Impressionist Paris | |
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| the Promise of Renewal: Hope and Possibility in Late Nineteenth-Century Europe | |
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| French Impressionism | |
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| Russian Realism and the Quest for the Russian Soul | |
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| Britain and the Design of Social Reform | |
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| Focus: Renoir's the Luncheon of the Boating Party | |
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| C & C: the Prospect of America | |
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| the Course of Empire: Expansion and Conflict in America | |
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| The Native American in Myth and Reality | |
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| Walt Whitman's America | |
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| The American Woman | |
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| Ragtime and the Beginnings of Jazz | |
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| The American Abroad | |
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| Chicago and the Columbian Exposition of 1893 | |
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| Focus: Eakin's Gross Clinic and Agnew Clinic | |
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| C & C: the "Frontier Thesis" of Frederick Jackson Turner | |
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| the Fin de Si�cle: Toward the Modern | |
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| The Fin de Si�cle: From Naturalism to Symbolism | |
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| Post-Impressionist Painting | |
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| Toward the Modern | |
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| Africa and Empire [including Conrad's Heart of Darkness] | |
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| Focus: C�zanne's Still Life with Plaster Cast | |
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| C & C: Freud and the Unconscious | |
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| Modernism and the Globalization of Cultures: 1900 to the Present | |
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| the Era of Invention: Paris and the Modern World | |
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| Pablo Picasso's Paris: At the Heart of the Modern | |
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| The Expressionist Movement: Modernism in Germany and Austria | |
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| Early Twentieth Century Literature | |
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| The Origins of Cinema | |
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| Focus: Picasso's collages | |
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| C & C: the Prospect of War | |
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| the Great War and Its Impact: A Lost Generation and a New Imagination | |
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| Trench Warfare and the Literary Imagination | |
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| Escape from Despair: Dada in the Capitals | |
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| Russia: Art and Revolution | |
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| Freud, Jung, and the Art of the Unconscious | |
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| Focus: Eisenstein's the Battleship Potemkin, "Odessa Steps Sequence" | |
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| C & C: Harlem and the Great Migration | |
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| New York, Skyscraper Culture, and the Jazz Age: Making It New | |
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| The Harlem Renaissance | |
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| Skyscraper and Machine: Architecture in New York | |
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| [including intro to the International Style] | |
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| Making It New: the Art of Place | |
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| The Golden Age of Silent Film: Hollywood in the 1920s | |
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| Focus: William Carlos Williams's "The Great Figure" and Charles Demuth's the Figure 5 in Gold | |
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| C & C: the Rise of Fascism | |
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| the Age of Anxiety: Fascism and Depression, Holocaust and the Bomb | |
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| The Glitter and Angst of Berline | |
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| The Rise of Fascism | |
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| Revolution in Mexico | |
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| The Great Depression in America | |
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| Cinema: Talkies and Color | |
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| World War II | |
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| Focus: Picasso's Guernica | |
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| C & C: the Bauhaus in America | |
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| After the War: Existential Doubt, Artistic Triumph, and the Culture of Consumption | |
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| Europe after the War: the Existential Quest | |
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| America after the War: Triumph and Doubt | |
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| The Beat Generation | |
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| Pop Art | |
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| Minimalism in Art | |
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| Focus: Hamilton's Just What Is It That Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing? | |
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| C & C: the Civil Rights Movement | |
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| Multiplicity and Diversity: Cultures of Liberation and Identity in the 1960s and 1970s | |
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| Black Identity | |
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| The Vietnam War: Rebellion and the Arts | |
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| High and Low: the Example of Music | |
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| The Birth of the Feminist Era | |
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| Questions of Male Identity | |
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| Focus: James Rosenquist, F-111, 1965 | |
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| C & C: the Global Village | |
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| Without Boundaries: Multiple Meanings in a Postmodern World | |
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| Postmodern Architecture: Complexity, Contradiction, and Globalization | |
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| Pluralism and Postmodern Theory | |
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| Pluralism and Diversity in the Arts | |
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| A Plurality of Styles in Painting | |
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| Multiplicity in Postmodern Literature | |
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| A Diversity of Cultures: the Cross-Fertilization of the Present | |
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| A Multiplicity of Media: New Technologies | |
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| Focus: Basquiat's Charles the First | |
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| C & C: the Environment and the Humanist Tradition | |