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| Defining the Humanities and Cultural Roots for the Twenty-First Century | |
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| Renaissance and Reformation: Fusion of the Roots | |
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| Humanism and the Early Italian Renaissance | |
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| Beginnings of the Modern World | |
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| Daily Lives: Marriage in Renaissance | |
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| Florence Reading Selections: Francesco | |
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| Petrarch, from the Rime | |
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| Sparse (Scattered Rhymes); from Letters on Familiar Matters | |
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| Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, from the Oration on the Dignity of Man | |
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| Laura Cereta, Letter to Bibulus | |
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| Sempronius: Defense of the Liberal Instruction of Women | |
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| Art and Architecture in Florence | |
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| The City of Florence | |
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| Florentine Architecture | |
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| Sculpture in Florence in the Fifteenth Century | |
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| New Developments in Painting | |
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| The End of the Florentine | |
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| Renaissance: Machiavelli, Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael Niccol? | |
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| Machiavelli (1469-1527) | |
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| The Renaissance Artist | |
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| Daily Lives: A Renaissance Banquet | |
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| Reading Selections: Niccol? Machiaveli, from The Prince | |
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| The Northern Renaissance and the Protestant Reformation | |
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| Erasmus (1463-1536) | |
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| The Protestant Reformation | |
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| Reform and Counter-Reform | |
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| Economic Expansion | |
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| Cultural Relativism | |
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| William Shakespeare (1564-1616) and the Late Renaissance | |
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| Daily Lives: Theatergoing in Shakespeare's Time | |
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| Reading Selections: Desiderius | |
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| Erasmus, from The Praise of Folly | |
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| Michel de Montaigne, from the Essays | |
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| William Shakespeare, from the Sonnets; The Tempest | |
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| Science and Splendor: The Seventeenth Century | |
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| The Consolidation of Modernity | |
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| Daily Lives: The Suffering of Ordinary | |
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| People in the Thirty Years' War | |
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| The Thirty Years' War and Its Aftermath | |
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| The Scientific Revolution | |
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| Economic Life | |
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| The Age of Absolutism | |
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| Reading Selections: Ren? | |
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| Descartes, from the Discourse on Method | |
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| Thomas Hobbes, from Leviathan | |
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| John Locke, from the Second Treatise of Civil Government | |
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| The Baroque Style in Art and Literature | |
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| Baroque in the Visual Arts | |
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| Baroque Painting | |
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| Baroque Architecture and Sculpture in Rome: Gian Lorenzo | |
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| Bernini Literary | |
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| Baroque Reading Selections: Saint Teresa of ?vila, from | |
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| The Book of Her Life | |
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| Sor Juana In?s de la Cruz, A Philosophical Satire | |
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| Sonnet on a Portrait of Herself | |
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| Richard Crashaw, from The Flaming Heart | |
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| John Donne, from Holy Sonnets; from Elegies | |
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| Two Masters of Baroque | |
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| Music: Handel and Bach | |
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| George Frederick Handel (1685-1759): Messiah | |
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| Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750): Christmas | |
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| Oratorio and Toccata and Fugue in D Minor | |
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| The Arts at the Court of Louis XIV | |
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| Louis XIV (1638-1715) and Absolutism | |
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| Versailles Daily Lives: Rituals at Versailles | |
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| French Court | |
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| Ballet and the Origins of Modern | |
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| Theatrical Dancing French Neoclassical | |
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| Drama Marie de la Vergne de La | |
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| Fayette (1634-1693) and the Origins of the Modern Novel | |
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| Reading Selections: Moli?re, Tartuffe | |
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| Marie de la Vergne de | |
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| La Fayette, from The Princess of Cl?ves | |
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| Reason, Revolution, Romanticism: The Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries | |
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| The European Enlightenment | |
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| A Prerevolutionary Movement | |
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| Aspects of Painting in the Enlightenment | |
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| Reading Selections: Voltaire, Micromegas; from the Philosophical Dictionary | |
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| Montesquieu, from The Persian Letters | |
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| Jean-Jacques Rousseau, from The Social Contract | |
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| Mary Wollstonecraft, from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman | |
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| The Enlightenment in the United States | |
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| American Religion | |
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| The American Revolution | |
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| European Influences | |
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| American Federalism | |
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| Daily Lives: Education in a Moravian School for Girls | |
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| From European | |
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| Classicism to an “American Style” | |
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| African American Voices in the Enlightenment | |
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| Reading Selections: Jonathan Edwards, from A Faithful | |
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| Narrative of the Surprising Work of God | |
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| Thomas Jefferson, The Virginia | |
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| Statute of Religious Liberty | |
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| Phillis Wheatley, from Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral | |
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| Letters to Samson Occom | |
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| David Walker, from David Walker's | |
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| Appeal in Four Articles | |
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| Together with a Preamble, to the Coloured | |
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| Citizens of the World | |
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| The Classical Style in Music, the Development of Opera, and Mozart's Don Giovanni Opera | |
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| The Don Juan Theme | |
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| Don Giovanni: The Rake Punished | |
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| From Revolution to Romanticism | |
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| The French Revolution | |
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| The Art of the French Revolution: Jacques-Louis | |
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| David (1748-1825) | |
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| Romanticism: A Revolutionary Movement | |
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| Enlightened Ideas, Romantic Style | |
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| Friedrich Schiller, Hymn to Joy | |
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| Individualism and the Romantic Hero | |
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| Nature and “Natural People” | |
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| Influence of Rousseau | |
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| Daily Lives: Lord Byron | |
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| Nature in Poetry, Music, and Art | |
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| Art: Revolution, Individualism, and Nature | |
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| The Romantic Woman and Romantic Love | |
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| Reading Selections: William | |
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| Wordsworth, from The Prelude; The Solitary Reaper; Lines | |
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| Lord Byron, Prometheus; On This Day | |
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| I Complete | |
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| My Thirty-Sixth Year | |
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| John Keats, Ode to a Grecian Urn | |
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| Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ode to the West Wind; Ozymandias | |
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| Emily Dickinson, Selected Poems | |
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| Industrialism and the Humanities: The Middle and Late Nineteenth Century | |
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| The Industrial Revolution and New Social Thought | |
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| Britain in the Lead Karl Marx (1818-1883) | |
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| Material Progress | |
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| Daily Lives: The Lives of the Urban Poor | |
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| Under the Industrial Revolution | |
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| Liberalism | |
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| Slavery and the Abolitionist Movement | |
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| Women's Rights Movements | |
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| Reading Selections: Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, from The Communist Manifesto | |
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| The &lduqo;Declaration of Sentiments” of the Seneca | |
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| Falls Convention | |
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| John Stuart Mill, from The Subjection of Women | |
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| Frederick Douglass, from “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?”: An Address | |
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| Delivered in Rochester, New York, on 5 July 1852 | |
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| Art and Literature in the Industrial World: Realism and Beyond | |
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| Architecture Painting: Realism Photography | |
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| Realism in Literature | |
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| The Poet and the City: Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) | |
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| Late-Nineteenth-Century | |
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| Thinkers and Writers | |
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| The New Painting | |
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| Postimpressionism and Symbolism | |
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| Reading Selections: Guy de Maupassant, A Fishing Excursion | |
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| Charles Baudelaire, from Les Fleurs du Mal/The Flowers of Evil; The Swan | |
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| from Poems in Prose (The Spleen of Paris) | |
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| Friedrich Nietzsche, Zarathustra's Prologue | |
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| Fyodor Dostoevsky, from Notes from Underground | |
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| Discontinuities: The Early Twentieth Century | |
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| Colonialism, the Great War, and Cultural Change | |
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| Colonialism The Great War (World War I) and Its Aftermath | |
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| Daily Lives: Life in the Trenches | |
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| Scientific Developments | |
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| Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) | |
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| The Postwar Decades | |
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| Reading Selections: Wilfred Owen, Dulce et | |
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| Decorum Est; Strange Meeting | |
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| Ezra Pound, from Hugh Selwyn Mauberly | |
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| Rudyard Kipling, Recessional | |
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| Mohandas (“Mahatma”) | |
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| Gandhi, from Letter to Lord | |
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| Irwin; from A Conversation with Tobias and Mays | |
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| Sigmund Freud, from Civilization and Its Discontents | |
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| Modernism: Visual Arts, Music, and Dance | |
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| Modernist Painting, 1900-1930 | |
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| Nonobjective and Expressionist Painting | |
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| Dada and Surrealism | |
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| Modernist Sculpture, 1900-1930 | |
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| Modernist Painting in America | |
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| Modernist Architecture, 1900-1930 | |
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| Two New Art Forms: Photography and Film | |
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| Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971), the Russian Ballet, and The Rite of Spring | |
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| Modern Dance Jazz | |
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| Daily Lives: Harlem Nightlife in the Twenties | |
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| Modernism and Indigenous | |
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| Cultures in Latin America | |
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| Modernism: Theater and Literature | |
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| Influences of Asia on Modern European Theater | |
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| Modernist Movements in Fiction and Poetry | |
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| Surrealism N?gritude | |
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| The Harlem Renaissance | |
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| Developments in Latin American Literature | |
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| Reading Selections: Antonin | |
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| Artaud, from The Theater and Its Double | |
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| Franz Kafka, A Country Doctor | |
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| T. S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock | |
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| Ezra Pound, The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter | |
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| In a Station of the Metro | |
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| Virginia Woolf, from A Room of One's Own | |
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| L?opold S?dar Senghor, Prayer to Masks | |
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| L?on Gontran Damas, They came that night | |
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| Claude McKay, If We Must Die | |
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| Langston Hughes, The Negro | |
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| Speaks of Rivers; Danse Africaine | |
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| Marita Bonner, On Being | |
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| Young--a Woman--and Colored | |
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| Jorge Luis Borges, Death and the Compass | |
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| Miguel Angel Asturias, Tatuana's Tale | |
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| Pablo Neruda, Ode to Broken Things | |
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| Octavio Paz, Madrugada al raso/Daybreak | |
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| Escritura/Writing | |
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| La exclamaci?n/Exclamation | |
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| Pr?jimo lejano/Distant Neighbor | |
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| Cultural Plurality: From the Middle Twentieth Century On | |
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| Absurdity and Alienation: World War II and the Postwar Period | |
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| World War II | |
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| The Postwar Period | |
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| European Literature | |
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| Daily Lives: The Existentialists' | |
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| Life in Paris Under the German Occupation | |
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| Postwar American Literature | |
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| Postwar Music: Charlie Parker (1920-1955) | |
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| Painting After World War II | |
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| Sculpture After World War II | |
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| Reading Selections: Primo Levi, from If | |
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| This Is a Man | |
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| Jean-Paul Sartre, The Republic of Silence | |
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| Simone de Beauvoir, from The Second Sex | |
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| Albert Camus, from The Myth of Sisyphus | |
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| Eug?ne Ionesco, The Leader | |
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| Ralph Ellison, Prologue to Invisible Man | |
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| Allen Ginsberg, Sunflower Sutra | |
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| Frantz Fanon, from The Wretched of the Earth | |
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| Postcolonialism, Postmodernism, and Beyond | |
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| The United States from the 1960s into the Twenty-First Century | |
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| The World After the Cold War | |
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| The Arts in the Contemporary World | |
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| Postmodernism, Culture, and the Arts | |
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| Architecture from the International | |
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| Style to Postmodernism | |
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| Postmodern Visual Art: Polemics or Platitudes? | |
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| The Ascendancy of Craft: The Expansion of the Tradition | |
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| Postmodern Music and Dance | |
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| Mass Culture and Popular Music | |
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| Postmodern Literature and Theory | |
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| Reading Selections: Modern | |
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| African Poems: Chinua | |
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| Achebe, Generation Gap | |
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| Wole Soyinka, Death in the Dawn and I Think It Rains | |
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| From the Caribbean: Derek Walcott, White Magic and For Pablo Neruda | |
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| From the United States: Sonia Sanchez, present | |
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| Ishmael Reed, beware: do not read this poem | |
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| Rita Dove, Persephone | |
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| Abducted and Demeter Mourning | |
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| John Barth, Autobiography: A Self-Recorded Fiction | |
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| From Latin America: Ernesto | |
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| Cardenal, Prayer for Marilyn | |
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| Monroe; Clarice Lispector, He Soaked Me Up | |
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| From Israel/Palestine: Yehuda | |
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| Amichai, Jerusalem; 18; 42; Mahmoud | |
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| Darwish, Identity Card | |