Chapters

1. History’s Story
2. Wanderers and Settlers: The Ancient Middle East to 400 B.C.
3. The Chosen People: Hebrews and Jews, 2000 B.C. to A.D. 135
4. Trial of the Hellenes: The Ancient Greeks, 1200 B.C. to A.D. 146
5. Imperium Romanum: The Romans, 753 B.C. to A.D. 300
6. The Revolutionary Rabbi: Christianity, the Roman Empire, and Islam, 4 B.C. to A.D. 1453
7. From Old Rome to the New West: The Early Middle Ages, A.D. 500 to 1000
8. The Medieval Mêlée: The High and Later Middle Ages, 1000 to 1500
9. Making the Modern World: The Renaissance and Reformation, 1400 to 1648
10. Liberation of Mind and Body: Early Modern Europe, 1543 to 1815
11. Mastery of the Machine: The Industrial Revolution, 1764 to 1914
12. The Westerner’s Burden: Imperialism and Nationalism, 1810 to 1918
13. Rejections of Democracy: The InterWar Years and World War II, 1917 to 1945
14. A World Divided: The Cold War, 1945 to 1993
15. Into the Future: The Contemporary Era, 1991 to the Present

• Epilogue: Why Western Civilization?

Sources on Racism

David Reich "Race in Modern Genetics".

A letter attempting to clarify the issue of race in the above article.

How Not to Talk About Race And Genetics.

Why racsim is not backed by science.

Race is a Social Construct, Scientists Argue.

Race -- The Power of an Illusion: website with brief bits of information connected to the 2003 series.

 

 

Other Relevant Source Links

Diversity in Roman Britain

Denise Eileen McCoskey, " What would James Baldwin do?"

Rebecca Futo Kennedy. "We Condone It by Our Silence: Confronting Classics' Complicity in White Supremacy."

Darwin

Wilders

11a. Arthur Conan Doyle versus M. Woeste about Imperialism