Introduction 1.
Why Should I Study History, and What Is It? 2.
Is There a Pattern to History?
Unit
I--Egypt
3.
Who's Who Of Egyptian Gods 4. The
Pyramid
Builders
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Filmstrip: old Kingdom and Middle Kingdom Art 5.
The oldest Book in the World 6.
The Artistic Age 7.
Queen Hatshepsut and the Conflict of Ideas 8.
The Wisdom of the Egyptians 9.
Ikhnaten and Tut--the Revolution in Thinking 10.
Rameses II and the Age of Power -----Filmstrip:
New Kingdom Art 11.
Piankhi, the Black Pharaoh 12.
Cleopatra and Other Greeks
Unit
II--India 13.
White Meets Black -----
Filmstrip: Art of the Indus Valley Civilization 14-15.
The Oneness of Hinduism 16.
Peace and Understanding of the Jains 17.
The Buddha: the Atheist Who Became a God 18.
Music of India 19.
Is It Wrong to be a Soldier? 20.
The Ideal Wife 21.
The Animals Speak -----
Filmstrip: The Golden Age of Indian Art 22.
Kalidasa: The Shakespeare of the East 23.
Aryabhatta: Mathematician for the World 24.
The Philosophy of Love 25.
When India Dominated Southeast Asia Without Trying To -----
Filmstrip: Giant Temple Complexes
Unit
III--China 26-27.
Confucius: Goodness Without God 28.
Daoism--The Simple Way of Nature 29.
The First Emperor 30.
The Ladies of Tang 31.
Li Bo, the Drunken Genius 32.
Du Fu, Who Wrote by the Rules 33.
Bo Zhu-yi, Poet of the Peasants -----
Filmstrip: Early Chinese Art 34.
The Lady Who Invented the Novel 35.
Three Systematizers 36.
Kublai Khan and the Struggle for Power -----
Filmstrip: Later Chinese Art 37.
The Small Arts of Good Living
Unit
IV--Classical Greece and Rome 38.
The Gods of Mount Olympus 39.
Athletics, Worship with Body and Mind 40.
Pythagoras: The Universal Harmony of Mathematics 41.
Aesop and Sappho--voices of Slaves and Women -----
Filmstrip: Three Stages of Greek Art 42.
Greek Drama in the Golden Age of Pericles 43.
Socrates and the Search for Wisdom 44.
Plato, Who Believed in the Ideal 45.
Aristotle, the Systematizer of Greek Thought 46.
Alexander and the Spread of Greek Learning 47.
When Africa Almost Conquered Europe 48.
Hail Caesar -----
Filmstrip: Roman Engineering 49.
Bread and Circus
Unit
V--The Arab World 50.
Zoroaster: The Battle Between Good and Evil 51.
The Jewish and Christian Heritage 52.
Queen Zenobia, and the Prophet Mani -----Filmstrip:
Byzantine Art 53.
Antara, the Black Knight of Arabia 54.
Mohammed, Who Welded the Religious Ideas Into one 55.
Tales of the Court of Harun al-Rashid -----
Filmstrip: Islamic Art 56.
A Book of Verses Underneath the Bough 57.
Arab Science and Mathematics 58.
Two Boys from the Same Neighborhood: Averroes and Maimonides 59.
Sa'di and Hafiz: The Last Songs of Autumn 60.
Conquerors of the Shifting Sands -----
Filmstrip: Mugha1 Gardens and Architecture
Unit
VI--American Indian Civilization 61. The
Idea of Change -----
Filmstrip: Mexican Art and Architecture 62.
The Maya Bible 63.
A Maya Dance-Drama 64.
The Wisdom of Quetzalcoatl 65.
Nezahualcoyotl, Bard of the Americas 66.
The Fall of Montezuma 67.
The Silent Stones of Peru -----
Filmstrip: Peruvian Art and Architecture 68.
Human Emotions and the Organized Society 69.
How Love and Jealousy Destroyed an Empire 70.
Echoes from North American Indians
Introduction 1.
The Pattern of Western Civilization 2.
Charlemagne, the Forerunner 3.
Vikings--Birthpangs of Western Civilization
Unit
I--Medieval 4. St.
Francis, Who Lived Like Jesus ----
Filmstrip: The Cathedrals 5.
Romance--The Other Side of Medieval Life 6.
Sweet Success: Abelard and Heloise 7.
An Age of Religious Logic 8.
The Origin of Western Literature 9.
Two Slightly Used Heroes: Joan of Arc and Bluebeard 10.
First Step in the Class Struggle
Unit
II--Renaissance 11.
Marsilius of Padua, Who Turned Western Civilization Around 12.
Pushing Back the Frontiers of Ignorance 13.
The Renaissance Man -----
Filmstrip: Renaissance Art 14.
All the World's a Stage--Shakespeare 15.
Machiavelli--The Art of Politics 16.
Erasmus and Luther 17.
The Flamboyant Tudors
Unit
III--The Baroque Transition 18. The
Bible and the Gun -----
Filmstrip: Baroque Art 19.
Thou Shalt Not Question -----Tape:
Baroque Music 20. The
Rise of the Middle Class
Unit
IV--Enlightenment 21.
Voltaire, Who Made People Stop and Think 22.
Thomas Paine, the Revolutionary Believer 23.
Phillis Wheatley, Who Rose Above All Obstacles 24.
The Development of Modern Science 25.
An Age of Elegance and Wit -----
Filmstrip: Rococo and Neoclassic Art 26.
Kings Who Ordered People to Be Free and Happy
Unit
V--Romanticism 27.
William Blake: Emotion is Good -----
Filmstrip: Romantic Art 28.
Two Revolutionaries: Marie Antoinette and Robespierre 29.
Napoleon and Faust: The Hero In Fact and Fiction 30.
Dreamers of Dreams and Tellers of Tales -----
Tape: Romantic Music 31.
Emerson: Trust Thyself 32.
Thoreau, Who Lived His Ideals 33.
Proletarian Revolts and Democratic Kings
Unit
VI--The Victorian Transition 34.
Darwin, Who Shook the Family Tree -----
Filmstrip: Victorian Art and Music 35. Karl
Marx, Who Predicted the Rise of the Lower Classes
Unit
VII--Realism 36. Hopes
and Ideals for Sale -----
Filmstrip: Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Art 37.
Telling the Ugly Truth 38.
The War to End All Wars 39.
Sigmund Freud: A Practical Use for Personal History -----
Tape: Realist Music 40.
World War II: The Dehumanization of Man 41.
Science, the Test of Truth
Unit
VIII--Existentialism 42.
Sartre and Borchert: You Are In Control of Your Life 43.
The Politics of Personal Protest--Martin Luther King 44.
When Scientific Logic Is Not Enough -----
Filmstrip: Directions in Modern Art 45.
Conservative Internationalists: Corporations and Fundamentalists 46.
Write the Next Chapter Yourself
Unit
I--Africa 11. Mansa
Musa of Timbuktu ----
Filmstrip: African Art 12.
Amda Sion: The Power of Confidence 13.
The Swahili Poets of East Africa 14.
Slavery 15.
Nation Builders: Dingiswayo, Shaka, and Mizilikazi 16.
From the Great Trek to Apartheid 17.
Their Own Way--Nkrumah, Kenyatta, and Haile Selassie 18.
The Voice of New Africa 19.
Additional Topics
a. Dr. Livingstone
b. Cecil Rhodes
c. Dr. Schweitzer
d. The Zanzibar War
Unit
II--Latin America 21.
Tupac Amaru: The Indians Lead the Way 22.
The Liberators, San Martin and Bolivar 23.
Splitting Into Banana Republics 24.
Dom Pedro I and Dom Pedro II 25.
The Three Black Emperors of Haiti 26.
The United States Plays at Empire Building 27.
The Other American Literature 28.
Communist Experimenters--Castro, Guevara, Allende, Ortega 29.
Additional Topics
a. The Last Colonies
b. William Walker
c. Marti and Hostos
d. The Christ of the Andes
Unit
III--Mexico and Canada 31.
Priests Lead the Rabble: Hidalgo and Morelos 32.
Iturbide—Revolution to Keep Things the Same 33.
Santa Anna, Jack-in-the-box President 34.
Good Guys on Both Sides--Maximilian and Juarez 35.
Porfirio Diaz—Modernizer or Monster? 36.
The Real Mexican Revolution--Madero and Carranza 37.
Bandido Patriots: Zapata and Pancho Villa ----
Filmstrip: Mexican Art 38.
Cardenas: The Promise Fulfilled 39.
Canada, the Quiet Neighbor
a. The Acadians
b. Maski-pitoon
c. Sir John A. Macdonald
d. The Riel Rebellions
e. Sir Wilfred Laurier
f. The Doukhobors
g. Grey Owl
h. W. L. Mackenzie King
i. Pierre Elliot Trudeau Unit
IV--The Communist Experiment 41.
Kerensky and Lenin: The Two Russian Revolutions 42.
The Conservative Dictatorship of Stalin 43.
Beware the Bewhiskered Bolsheviks 44.
Russian Satellites Try to Break Free 45.
The Chinese Republic that Failed 46.
Mao Tse-tung: Keeping the Revolution Young 47.
Vietnam--One Nation or Two? 48.
Gorbachev and Yeltsin: End of the Experiment 49.
Additional Topics
a. The Paris Commune
b. Rasputin
c. Rosa Luxemburg
d. Henry Pu-yi
Unit
V--Southeast Asia and Pacific 51.
The South Seas: Organizing Paradise into Empires 52.
The Eight Kings of Hawaii 53.
Australian Aborigines: The Biggest Manhunt In History 54.
Japan Becomes a Western Power In a Hurry 55.
Three Colonies Become Island Nations 56.
How a Religion is Born 57.
Gandhi, Who Awakened the Conscience of the World 58.
The Fruits of Dissension: Pakistan and Bangladesh 59.
Additional Topics
a. The Himalayan Kingdoms
b. The Rani of Jhansi
c. Mongkut and Chulalongkorn
d. The Tasaday
Unit
VI--The Middle East 61.
The Reawakening: Mohammed Ali and the Mahdi 62.
Abd al-Kader, Who Taught Europeans a Lesson in Honor 63.
Husein, Abdullah, and Faisal--A Family of Liberators 64.
Ataturk: Reform at-the Heart of Turkey 65.
Kahlil Gibran, Who Merged Beauty, Love and Wisdom 66.
Israel, the Promised Land 67.
Arab Unity--Oasis or Mirage? 68.
Oil to Grease the Palm 69.
Additional Topics
a. Bahai Faith
b. Cyprus
c. Sir Richard Burton
d. Lawrence of Arabia