links to online materials, spring 2009

REFRESHER COURSE: THE FALL MIDTERM EXAM FOR SECTION ONE

Randall Collins, "Confrontational Tension and Incompetent Violence"

Excerpts from Cynthia Kelly, ed., The Manhattan Project: The Birth of the Atomic Bomb in the Words of Its Creators, Eyewitnesses, and  Historians

Primo Levi, from Auschwitz Report

        Password and userid for the three readings above: reserve / yt8tn

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Half of a Yellow Sun
Glossary for Half of a Yellow Sun (created by students in Core 177-01)

YouTube videos
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bWtoFedu_s&feature=related    (All Hail Biafra)
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3ReFoFp0Gs    (Nigeria War Against Biafra I)
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQkIQuK7A50&feature=related    (Nigeria War Against Biafra II)
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7qQdZ9nzbI&feature=related    (Nigeria War Against Biafra III)

The Ahiara Declaration (The Principles of the Biafran Revolution, 1969)    

http://www.biafraland.com/    

Biafra--"socially relevant science"

Biafra: Photos That Changed the World

Leni Riefenstahl: Triumph of the Will  
   
YouTube - Leni Riefenstahl - scene from "Triumph of The Will"

Frank Capra: Prelude to War (1942)

Bart Passanante: One Man's WWII

Medicine in WW II

The Bhagavad Gita (translation by Shri Purohit Swami)

The Iliad (translation by Stanley Lombardo) Username: reserve   Password: yt8tn 

19th, 20th, & 21st century war poems

Henry David Thoreau, "Resistance to Civil Government"

 Propaganda posters

Anti-war propaganda posters

Gary Machlis and Thor Hanson, "Warfare Ecology"    Username: reserve   Password: yt8tn 

Radical Times: The Antiwar Movement of the 1960s

Michael Frayn's Copenhagen

2009 Borah Symposium: War and Health

Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland

Department of Energy Hanford Site

Richard Rhodes' The Making of the Atomic Bomb
        Larry Johnston's presentation

John Adams' Doctor Atomic 
        John Donne, Holy Sonnet #14

John Horgan, "Countering Students' Fatalism Toward War" Chronicle of higher Education, April 10, 2009

 

links to online materials, fall 2008

A passage from Horace, Odes III, 2.13

Gabriel Aresti, "My Father's House"

William Cronon, "'Only Connect': The Goals of a Liberal Education"

##Robert Jensen, "Saying Goodbye to Patriotism"
               
Passage from Herman Melville's novel White:Jacket

Richard Overy, "Air Warfare"    Username: reserve   Password: ug4wb

Martha Gellhorn, "High Explosives for Everyone"  Username: reserve   Password: ug4wb

Picasso's Guernica (PowerPoint)

##David Livingstone Smith, Chs 1-2 of The Most Dangerous Animal   Username: reserve   Password: ug4wb

Reading questions for Sigmund Freud's Civilization and Its Discontents

Michael Klare, “Oil, Geography, and War: The Competitive Pursuit of Petroleum Plenty”    Username: reserve   Password: ug4wb
 
  Oil World Map

Jerome Greene, Nez Perce Summer, 1877

Nez Perce L3 Life Long Learning Project—Big Hole battle

Materials relating to the oral history project

Information about the protest of the School of the Americas  (mentioned by Sr Angela Uhlorn during field trip)

1950s films recording atomic fear ("Atomic Alert," "Duck and Cover," etc.)

One couple who built a shelter...

Gary Machlis and Thor Hanson, "Warfare Ecology"    Username: reserve   Password: ug4wb

Richard Stone, "Agent Orange's Bitter Harvest"    Username: reserve   Password: ug4wb

Ashley Gilbertson, "Danger Close: Falluja, November 2004"     Username: reserve   Password: ug4wb