Secondary Sources

These are what would be the lectures in a live class. I have written a few of them, but I've also used essays written by others, especially those done by Skip Knox, Lynn Nelson and Steven Kreis, three pioneers of teaching history via the Internet.

The Secondary Sources provide a common core of historical writing for the class, but you should not regard these as being either complete or comprehensive. Expect to supplement them with secondary sources of your own. An old college textbook would be good. If you can't find one at a used bookstore, any college library will have some in their stacks that you can check out.

The optional text book for this course is The Making of the West: Peoples and Cultures, Volume I to 1740, by Hunt, Martin, Rosenwein, Hsia, Smith 2001, Bedford/St. Martins ISBN 0312183690

The text used for the classroom version of this course is A History of World Societies, 5^th edition, by John McKay, Bennett Hill and John Buckler, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000. ISBN: 0395944899.