| Sept. 7 | Th | Introduction | Text |
| Sept. 12 | T | Europe Before 1914 | ch. 1 |
| Sept. 14 | Th | The Great Powers and the Growth of Tensions | ch. 2 |
| Sept. 19 | T | The Great Powers and the Growth of Tensions | ch. 2 |
| Sept. 21 | Th | The Explosive Balkans | ch. 3 |
| Sept. 26 | T | The July Crisis and the Outbreak of the War | ch. 4 |
| Sept. 28 | Th | Great Expectations and Illusions | ch. 5 |
| Oct. 3 | T | 1914: Deadlock on the Western Front | ch. 6 |
| Oct. 5 | Th | 1914: Deadlock on the Eastern Front | ch. 7 |
| Oct. 10 | T | 1915: The Western Front and Gallipoli | ch. 8 |
11. Oct. 12 Th 1915: Stalemate in the South, Allied Disaster in East ch. 9
12. Oct. 17 T 1916: The Hell of Verdun and the Somme ch. 10
13. Oct. 19 Th 1916: Attrition in the South and East ch. 11
14. Oct. 24 T Review
15. Oct. 26 Th Midterm Examination
16. Oct. 31 T The War at Sea and in the Air ch. 12
17. Nov. 2 Th War Aims and Total War ch. 13
18. Nov. 7 T War Aims and Total War ch. 13
19. Nov. 9 Th The Russian Revolutions ch. 14
20. Nov. 14 T The Russian Revolutions ch. 14
21. Nov. 16 Th America Enters the War ch. 15
22. Nov. 21 T 1917: Crisis for the Allies ch. 16
23. Nov. 28 T The War Outside Europe ch. 17
24. Nov. 30 Th 1918: Germany's Last Bid for Victory ch. 18
25. Dec. 5 T 1918: Collapse of the Central Powers ch. 19
26. Dec. 7 Th The Postwar Settlement ch. 20
27. Dec. 12 T The Troubled Aftermath ch. 21
28. Dec. 14 Th The Troubled Aftermath ch. 21
Michael J. Lyons, World War I: A Short History (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1994).
Laurence Lafore: The Long Fuse: An Interpretation of the Origins of World War I (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1971).
Please note that the topics announced for each day are simply that, general topic areas taken from the chapter headings in the text. What we will actually do on any particular day within that topic limitation depends on developments in my mind and in yours. What could happen is that I will decide to give a lecture, show a documentary, some slides, play some music, or ask you to discuss the assigned reading - almost anything within the broad topical limitation. There will be two examinations, a Midterm Exam of the essay variety and a Final Exam more or less in the same format. In addition there are two required book reviews, one based on Lafore' The Long Fuse, a classic in history if there ever was one. More details will follow. You are expected to attend class, participate in discussion and see all the scheduled videos and movies. The contents of videos are simply another form of knowledge like the content of lectures and books. So it goes without saying that exams should reflect this fact.
Grades will be determined roughly by assigning 30% to Midterm, 30% to Final, 30% to book reviews and 10% to class parti-cipation.
Here are some books-some of them classics-on World War I which I found in my little library. This means that I bought them recently or a long time ago, and that I am reading them now, have read them at some point, or at least know what is in them. In any case, you might find them good choices for a second book review, or simply for chasing down some theme you have gotten interested in.
1. Albrecht-Carrié, René. The Meaning of the First World War (Englewood Cliffs, Prentice-Hall, 1965).
2. Berghahn, V. R. Germany and the Approach of War in 1914 (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1973).
3. Creveld, Martin van . Technology and War: From 2000 B.C. to the Present (New York: The Free Press, 1989).
4. Creveld, Martin van . The Transformation of War (New York: The Free Press, 1991).
5. Czernin, Ferdinand. Versailles, 1919: The Forces, Events and Personalities That Shaped the Treaty (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1964).
6. Dos Passos, John. Nineteen Nineteen (New York: Washington Square Press, 1930/1961).
7. Ferro, Marc. Nicholas II: Last of the Tsars, translated by Brian Pearce (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991).
8. Hart, Captain B. H. Liddell. The Real War: 1914-1918 (Boston: Little Brown and Co., 1930).
9. Hillgruber, Andreas. Germany and the Two World Wars, translated by William C. Kirby (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1981).
10. Horn, Alistair. The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916 (London: Penguin Books, 1962/1993).
11. Hughes, Michael. Nationalism and Society: Germany 1800-1945 (London: Edward Arnold, 1988).
12. Koch, H. W. ed. The Origins of the First Wold War: Great Power Rivalry and German War Aims (London: Macmillan, 1990).
13. Kohn, George C. Dictionary of Wars (New York: Anchor Doubleday, 1986).
14. Laqueur, Walter and George L. Mosse, eds. 1914: The Coming of the First World War, Journal of Contemporary History, vol. 3 (New York: Harper and Row, 1966).
15. Lincoln, W. Bruce. In War's Dark Shadow: The Russians Before the Great War (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994).
16. Lincoln, W. Bruce. Passage Through Armageddon: The Russians in War and Revolution, 1914-1918 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994).
17. Marks, Sally. The Illusion of Peace: International Relations in Europe, 1918-1933 (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1976).
18. Marshall, S. L. A. World War I [American Heritage Libarary] (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1964/1992).
19. Massie, Robert K. Dreadnought: Britain, Germany and the Coming of the Great War (New York: Random House, 1991).
20. Paschall, Rod. The Defeat of Imperial Germany, 1917-1918 , with an Introduction by John S. D. Eisenhower (New York: Da Capo Press, 1994).
21. Remak, Joachim. The Origins of World War I: 1871-1914 (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1967).
22. Remarque, Erich Maria. All Quiet On The Western Front (Boston: Little Brown and Co., 1929). [German original: Im Westen Nichts Neues, copyright 1928 by Ullstein A.G., Berlin].
23. Simpson, Colin. The Lusitania (Boston: Little Brown, 1972).
24. Taylor, A. J. P. A History of the First World War (New York: Berkley Publishing Corp., 1966).
25. Taylor, Edmond. The Fall of the Dynasties: The Collapse of the Old Order, 1905-1922 (Garden City: Doubleday and Co., 1963).
26. Thomson, George Malcolm. The Twelve Days: 24 July to 4 August 1914 (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1964).
27. Tuchman, Barbara. The Guns of August (New York: Dell Publishing Co., 1962).
28. Tuchman, Barbara. The Zimmermann Telegram (New York: Dell Publishing Co., 1958).