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The Seven Years War | The American Revolution | Maritime Exploration | The French Revolution | Napoleon Bonaparte | The Industrial Revolution | The American Civil War | Cowboys and Indians | The Aeroplane/Airplane





 
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Table of Contents | 1. Earth | 2. The Origin of Life and Evolution of Man | 3. Civilisation | 4. Fertile Crescent | 5. Egypt | 6. Indus Valley | 7. Yellow River (Haung He/Huang Ho) | 8. Hittites, Canaanites, Phoenicians, Assyrians | 9. New World (B. C./Pre-Columban) | 10. Greeks and Persians | 11. Rome ( - B. C. - A. D. 96) | 12. Saul of Tarsus | 13. Rome ( - A. D. 275) | 14. Rome and Byzantium (Nova Roma) | 15. Islam | 16. Charlemagne | 17. Vikings | 18. Turks, Crusaders, Mongols, Moors, Explorers and Conquistadors | 19. Reformation, Enlightenment (1300s -1700s) | 20. Mid-1700s - early 1900s | 21. The Great War | 22. Inter-War Years | 23. The War in Europe and Africa | 24. Second World War | 25. War in the Pacific | 26. Defeating the Axis in Europe and Africa | 27. End of Japanese Imperialism | 28. Ending the War | 29. Conquest of Space | 30. Averting Nuclear War | 31. End of Empire | 32. Man on the Moon | 33. Arms Race and Limitation | 34. Lifting the Iron Curtain | 35. The 21st Century | 36. Outer Space | 37. | 42. 

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The Romantic Movement
 
A reading of The History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell (1945)
 
 
 
 
 
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The Modern Philosophers

 

Program # 36 of the 1987 lecture series The Western Tradition by Eugen Weber at UCLA

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZCqmP4W3wA

 

 

 

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

1712 - 1778
 

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778)
of Geneva; philosopher, writer and
composer; his philosophical writings
inspired the French Revolution

 
 
Rousseau
 
A reading of The History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell (1945)
 
 
Note: Pronunication of many words by the reader are incorrect

 
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778)
 
par Henri Guillemin
 
(audio sans image)
 
 
(le même avec image)
 
 
 
 

Dans les pas de Jean-Jacques Rousseau 
 

- Rousseau en Rhône-Alpes
 
épisode 1 - Genève, l'enfance
 
 
épisode 2 - Annecy, l'amour
 
 
épisode 3 - Turin, la servitude
 
 
épisode 4 - Chambéry, le bonheur
 
 
épisode 5 - Chambéry, les Charmettes
 
 
épisode 6 - la vallée du Rhône, le voyage
 
 
épisode 7 - Lyon, l'éducation
 
 
épisode 8 - Lyon, la musique
. . . . . . .
 
épisode 9 - Lyon, la botanique
 
 
épisode 10 - de la Chartreuse au Pilat, la nature
 
 
épisode 11 - Bourgoin, les confessions
 
 
 
 
 
Rousseau
 
Two lectures by Iván Szelényi from the course Foundations of Modern Social Theory (socy 151) at Yale U., Fall 2009
 
Lecture # 5.
 
1. Rousseau in a Historical Context
2. Major Works and Lasting Legacy
3. "The Social Contract": Major Themes
4. Book I: Legitimate Rule, Diluted Justice, Popular Sovereignty
5. Book II: General Will, Law and the Lawgivers
 
Yale U. site:
 
 
You Tube:
 
 
Transcript:
 
 
 
Lecture # 6.
 
Rousseau on State of Nature and Education
 
1. General Will (cont.)
2. Émile: Major Themes
3. Nature is Good; Society Corrupts
4. Turning Savages into Social Beings
5. Men and Women, Sexuality and Love
Yale U. site:
 
 
You Tube:
 
Transcript:
 
 
 
 
 
Democracy and Participation
 
Three lectures by Steven Smith from the course Introduction to Political Philosophy (PLSC 114) at Yale U., Fall 2006
 
Lecture #18.
 
Democracy and Participation: Rousseau, Discourse on Inequality (Author's Preface, Part I)



1. Who Is Rousseau?
2. Rousseau's State of Nature
3. Civilization and Property: How Man Transitioned from Nature to Society
 
Yale U. site:
 
 
You Tube:
 
 
Transcript:
 
 
 
Lecture # 19.
 
Democracy and Participation: Rousseau, Discourse on Inequality (Part II)
 
1."Amour-Propre": The Most Durable Cause of Inequality
2.Civilization and Its Discontents
3."The Social Contract"
 
Yale U site:
 
 
You Tube:
 
 
Transcript:
 

 

Lecture # 20.

Democracy and Participation: Rousseau, Social Contract, I-II

1.Introduction: Social Contract and the General Will
2.Applications of the General Will
3.The Legacies of Rousseau

Yale U. site:

http://oyc.yale.edu/political-science/plsc-114/lecture-20

You Tube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPwx8-mFvUs

Transcript:

http://oyc.yale.edu/transcript/795/plsc-114

 
 
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Voltaire
 
1694 – 1778
 
Portrait of François-Marie Arouet (1694 -
1778), French writer, historian and philosopher, by Maurice-Quentin de Latour in 1735
 
 
 
Voltaire
 
Documentary
 
 
 
Voltaire (1694-1778)
 
par Henri Guillemin
 
 
ou
 
 
 
Candide, ou l'Optimisme (1759)
 
 
 
VOLTAIRE:
 
Candide ou L'optimisme
 
Livre Audio Complet en Français
 
 
 
Voltaire's Candide
 
Discussion on the BBC's In Our Time with Melvyn Bragg, 3 May 2012
 

 
 
 
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Louis XV
 
 

Louis XV (1710 – 1774) (Louis le bien aimé).

King of France and Navarre (1715 - 1774).

Reigned with a regent in full control to 1723.

Reigned with a chief minister in partial control to 1743.
 
 
The Bourbons - Louis XV
 

 

Louis XV, le Soleil Noir

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMfBUK4d4Rg

 



Place Louis XV à Paris

Designed in 1755 and named in honour of Louis XV.

The equestrian stature of Louis XV.



 
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Frederick the Great
 
(Friedrich der Große)
 
1712 – 1786
 
 
Frederick Hohenzollern; King Frederick II of Prussia ("Old Fritz"/Der Alte Fritz) (1740–1786); Prince-Elector of Holy Roman Empire; Elector of Brandenburg; Philosopher; 'Prince of the Enlightenment'
 
Started the Third Silesian War by invading Saxony in 1756
 
 
Frederick the Great
 
BBC documentary with Christopher Clark
 
 
or, the same:
 
 
 
 
 
Map of Prussia (1600 - 1795)
 
 
The Rise and Fall of Prussia/Preußen
 
Prussian history recounted over a map
 
 
 
Der alte und der junge König (1935)
 
 
 
Der Große König (1942)
 
 
 
Friedrich der Grosse - Alles oder nichts
 
DOKU
 
 
 
The Silesian Wars (1740 - 1763)
 
War of the Austrian Succession (1740 - 1748)
 
First Silesian War (1740 - 1742)
 
Second Silesian War (1744 - 1745)
 
 
 
Prussian infantry attacks the Austrian army at the Battle of Hohenfriedberg (today in Poland) (Second Silesian War of the War of the Austrian Succession) (1745)
 
 
Hohenfriedberger Marsch
 
 
 
Seven Years' War (1756 - 1763)
 
The Third Silesian War (1756 - 1763)
 
Der Choral von Leuthen (The Hymn of Leuthen)
 
1933 German movie about the rise of King Frederick the Great and his victory over the Austrians at the Battle of Leuthen in December 1757, assuring that Prussia retained control of Silesia during the Third Silesian War (1756 - 1762) or Seven Years' War (1756 - 1763).
 
(83 min.)
 
 

Battle of Leuthen, 1757
 
Animated Battle Map
 
 
or, the same, on You Tube:
 
 
 
 
Leuthen 1757
 
 
 
Der Choral von Leuthen
 
(The Hymn of Leuthen)
 
Clip from the 1933 movie Der Choral von Leuthen, the hymn was composed in the 1600s and sung by the Prussian army after its victory at Leuthen.
 

 

 

Die Schlacht bei Leuthen

 

Dokumentarfilm

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvWFhdR0wzc

 
 
Pomeranian War (1757 - 1762)
 
Great Northern War 1720
 
 
East Prussia from to 1653 - 1945
 
 
 
Top map: Seven Years War (French & Indian War) (1757 - 1763); bottom map: Pomeranian War (1756 - 1762) and Third Silesian War (1756 - 1763)
 
 
Frederick the Great
 
Discussion of the weekly BBC radio program
 
In Our Time hosted by Melvyn Bragg
 
2 July 2015
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Add here:
 
Peter III
 
Catherine the Great
 
Sweden

 
 
 
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William Pitt
 
William Pitt "the Elder", First Earl
of Chatham (1708- 1778), British
leader during the Seven Years War
 
 
 
William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
 
Speech in 1741 from the series Greatest 
Speeches in History
 
 
 
 
 
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King George II of England
 
 
George Augustus (1683 - 1760), German Protestant;
 
as Prince of Wales inherited British crown from his father, George I, and reigned as King George II of Great Britain and Ireland (1727- 1760);
 
Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg;
 
Arch-treasurer and Prince-Elector of Hanover in the Holy Roman Empire (1727 - 1760)

 

 

 

King George II

 

Excerpt from a lecture by George S. Stuart

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxDgaqLIprU

 
 
 
 
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King George III of England
 
Full-length portrait in oils of a clean-shaven young George in eighteenth century dress: gold jacket and breeches, ermine cloak, powdered wig, white stockings, and buckled shoes.
original
 
resized
 
Image result for King george III
George William Frederick (1738 - 1820),
 
- King of Great Britain and Ireland (1760 - 1820);
 
- Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1760 - 1814) and King of Hanover (1814 - 1820);
 
- Elector of Hanover in the Holy Roman Empire
(1760 - 1820).

Portrait painting (1762) by Allan Ramsay of Scotland (1713 - 1784)
 

 
Image result for King george III
Crop to head
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 

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Seven Years War (1756 - 1763)
 
Sixth French & Indian War
 
France against Britain in North America (1754 - 1763)
 
Third Silesian War - Prussia against Austria (1756 - 1763)
 
Pomeranian War - Prussia against Sweden (1757 - 1762)
 
Third Carnatic War - France against Britain in India (1757 - 1763)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

 

Colonial Expansion

 

North America 1492-1763

 

By Erpi Classroom Films (1942)

 

North American history explained over a map from Columbus to the end of the French and Indian Wars

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDsEjjreqGY

 

 

History of Colonial America

 
1497 - 1763
 
Description over a map of Spanish, British, French, Dutch, Swedish colonization of North America
 
This video begins with John Cabot, omitting Columbus
 

 
 
French & Indian Wars (1689 - 1763)
 
Intercolonial Wars (1688 - 1763)

 

Sixth French & Indian War

 

Fourth Intercolonial War (1754 - 1763)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Seven Years War and the Great Awakening

 

Crash Course (US version)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vKGU3aEGss

 

 

The Seven Years War

 

Crash Course World History (# 26)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0qbzNHmfW0

 

 

French and Indian War

 

1962 Documentary

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0vwxJ-0m_I

 

 

The War that made America

 

The French and Indian War

 

4-part PBS documentary

 

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SaT7yvv6bE

 

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9x-dxmaEVw

 

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTM0KyY86DA

 

4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwbRRihtXcY

 

 

 

 

Voltaire
 
 
La Guerre de sept ans (1756 - 1763)
 
Racontée par Voltaire
 

 

 

William Fowler Jr.

 

On the Seven Years' War

 

2006 Canadian TV interview

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wh9uhDoimbM

 

 

A Year that Changed North America

 

(1763)

 

2013 Canadian TV interview

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyHybbKlbKw

 

 

Why the French & Indian War is worth remembering

 

The Ironies

 

Lecture by Fred Anderson, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M61K-nLZFR4

 
 
Results of the French and Indian War
 
Part I.
 
 
Part 2.
 
 
 
Battle For Canada 1759
 
Episode from the documentary series History's Turning Points
 
 
 
 
 
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Québec History

 

1. Natives Americans 1

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCQZTCbzlZk

 

2. Natives Americans 2

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4ZzKX0ImmA

 

3 - The French-Indian Alliance

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1ZgsoMoXc8

 

4 - The Fall of Huronia

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGOGZimncR8

 

5 - The End of the Iroquois Wars

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTXRGwTmiM4

 

6 - French and English Rivalry

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eDBy-qOrr0

 

7 - Great Peace of Montreal 1701

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25m93JVO7kw

 

8 - French and Indian War

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V81u1HJY6m4

 

9 - Battle of the Monongahela

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T33NCbQzOIg

 

10 - The Acadians Deportation

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnpW5IVyWtU

 

11 - Battle of Fort William Henry

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-a8YogdB1Qk

 

12 - Battle of Carillon

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hF6Lwvo1UBQ

 

13 - The British Conquest 1759

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jA-8H0XSSEE

 

14 - Invasion of Québec City

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgU7K_qGB24

 

15 - Battle Plains of Abraham

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4eVwzZ9a_A

 

16 - Battle of Ste-Foy and Pontiac

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtxmbrBfoLU

 

 

continued to the American Revolution

 
 
 
Histoire du Québec

 

Épopée en Amérique:

 

Épisode 1 - Vaincre la mer (1534-1608)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ydy0YqH6l8A

 

Épisode 2 - Naissance d'une colonie (1608-fin du XVIIe siècle)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZypM3qsFouM

 

Épisode 3 - Explorer un continent (1608-1743)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RM11nNAyM7w

 
 
The same, divided into shorter sections:
 
Histoire du Québec
 
1 - Le Nouveau Monde
 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOP8nHwp0rY

 

2 - Jacques Cartier 1534

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HViCNQdNC38

 

3 - Samuel de Champlain 1608

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tT0MebL6xq0

 

4 - Les Missionnaires Jésuites

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IW8tcIx8_v4

 

5 - Les Guerres Franco-Iroquoises

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osuuMJJKSm0

 

6 - Les Filles du Roi

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUlkx84Uf-Q

 

7 - Les Grands Explorateurs

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOqWAwuPi9U

 

8 - Les Habitants

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWMkr1GbT8Y

 

9 - La Culture et les Femmes

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2_hlyaS1X0

 

10 - La Guerre de Neuf Ans

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZX7JP5-PaY

 

11 - La Guerre de Sept Ans

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4W0yNVOg3eY

 

12 - La Conquête Britannique 1759

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZRwoVE_ngM

 

13 - Le Traité de Paris et Pontiac

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mV4Lo_j2Qw

 
 
 
 
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History of Canada
 
Documentary
 
Episode 1: When the World Began
 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vLJFetmtXc

 

Episode 2: Adventurers and Mystics

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wd01qOlbtYc

 

Episode 3: Claiming the Wilderness

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JCGmyC7sC8

 

Episode 4 - Battle for a Continent

Removed from You Tube

 

or

 

Canada: A People's History

 

Episode 4 - Battle for a Continent

Removed from You Tube

 

 

Le rapatriement des Français d'Acadie

 

(1755-1763)

 

Empire Colonial Français

 

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljmGt2GbgXg

 

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qum9Ub4PLWc

 
 
 
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Treaty of Paris at the Old State House
 
Boston, Massachusetts
 
February 1763
 
 
 
Of the 27 articles of the treaty, four concerned Canada:
 
Le Traité de Paris de 1763 - la fin de la Nouvelle-France

 

Conférence-débat

 

Table ronde preséntée par Pointe à Calliere, Musée d’archéologie at d’histoire de Montréal, le 9 février 2013

 

Première partie:

 

Thème I. Les clauses du traité

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpOEdkvOjjQ

 

Deuxième partie:

 

Thème II.

 

La France a-t-elle cédé ou abandonné la Nouvelle-France

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Hvi35grmp0

 

Troisième partie:

 

Thème III.

 

Quel est l'impact du Traité sur les Canadiens?

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yXWe7kCQiU

 

Quatrième partie:

 

Thème IV.

 

Les conséquences du Traité. Qui a lui bénéficie des conséquences du Traité parmi les trois grandes puissances?

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9kuWZpcW5A

 

 

Le 10 février 1763 — Le traité de Paris

 

La France peut être heureuse sans Québec

 

Denis Vaugeois, historien

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOW3JU5PWA8

 

 

 

 

 

Royal Proclamation of 1763

 

 

 

Royal Proclamation of 1763

 
Forbade British expansion westward into French and Indian country (October 1763)
 
 
 
 
 
 
Territorial expansion of the United States
 
1763 - Present
 
Description over a map
 
 
 
 
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Hillbilly

 

Documentary about the early travellers and settlers in the Appalachians

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PJ7qqnkVaI&feature=relmfu

 

 

 

 
 

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