Discovering the Western Past (002)

... The recognition that history involves discovery as much as physics or astronomy does is often unshared by students, whose classroom experience of history frequently does not extend beyond listening to lectures and reading textbooks. The primary goal of Discovering The Western Past: A Look At Evidence is to allows students enrolled in the Western Civilization course to do history in the same way we as historians do - to examine a group of original sources in order to answer a question about the past. We feel that contact with original sources is an excellent means of communicating the excitement of doing history, but incorporating complete works or a collection of documents into Western Civilization course can be problematic for many instructors. Rome - Athens - Augustus - Horace - Greece - Christianity - Medieval - Feudal Power - Universities - Paris - Commercial Revolution - Economic and Social Change Middle Ages - The Renaissance - Reformation - Exploration - Absolutism - Republics