New courses in Historyhttp://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/History/index.htm2008-09-04MIT OpenCourseWare http://ocw.mit.eduen-USContent within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/terms/terms/index.htm21H.001, a HASS-D, CI course, explores fundamental questions about the causes and nature of revolutions. How do people overthrow their rulers? How do they establish new governments? Do radical upheavals require bloodshed, violence, or even terror? How have revolutionaries attempted to establish their ideals and realize their goals? We will look at a set of major political transformations throughout the world and across centuries to understand the meaning of revolution and evaluate its impact. By the end of the course, students will be able to offer reasons why some revolutions succeed and others fail. Materials for the course include the writings of revolutionaries, declarations and constitutions, music, films, art, memoirs, and newspapers. http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/History/21H-001Fall-2007/CourseHome/index.htmBroadhead, WilliamRavel, JeffreyPerdue, PeterJacobs, Meg2008-07-23T04:30:06-04:0021H.001en-USHistoryHolocaust and Related StudiessuppressionundergroundsubversionideologyresistancenationalismequalityCommunismpopulismdemocracyhuman rightsimperialismreactionaryL'OuvertureReaganLeninMaorevolutionemancipationself-determinationindependencefreedom fighterswarinsurgentsMIT OpenCourseWare http://ocw.mit.eduContent within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/terms/terms/index.htmThis class examines how and why twentieth-century Americans came to define the “good life” through consumption, leisure, and material abundance. We will explore how such things as department stores, nationally advertised brand-name goods, mass-produced cars, and suburbs transformed the American economy, society, and politics. The course is organized both thematically and chronologically. Each period deals with a new development in the history of consumer culture. Throughout we explore both celebrations and critiques of mass consumption and abundance.http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/History/21H-206Fall-2007/CourseHome/index.htmJacobs, Meg2008-06-18T03:41:01-04:0021H.206en-USHistoryLeisure and Recreational Activities, Generalfast foode-commercesuburbsmass-marketAmerican Dreamstatusadvertisingmiddle classpoliticseconomicsconsumptionmass-productionmarketingunited statespopular culturehistorytwentieth century historyMIT OpenCourseWare http://ocw.mit.eduContent within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/terms/terms/index.htmExtensive reading and discussion of how visual images impose a variety of identities on individuals and societies. Case studies drawn primarily from the Pacific region, and include: identities of individuals in a society; identities of a country through history; us/them in times of war; and identities of an entire geographic region of the world (Orient/Occident). All types of visual images from both popular and high cultures are discussed. Students develop a course project. Taught in English. From the course home page: Course Description In this new course, students will study how images have been used to shape the identity of peoples and cultures. A prototype digital project looking at American and Japanese graphics depicting the opening of Japan to the outside world in the 1850s will be used as a case study to introduce the conceptual and practical issues involved in “visualizing cultures.” The major course requirement will be creation and presentation of a project involving visualized cultures. http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Foreign-Languages-and-Literatures/21F-027JSpring-2008/CourseHome/index.htmProfessor John DowerProfessor Shigeru Miyagawa2008-05-06T11:24:26-04:0021F.027JCMS.87421H.917Jen-USComparative Media StudiesVisualizationForeign Languages/Modern Languages, General21H.91721F.027cultural identityimagerycultural perceptionHistoryForeign Languages and LiteraturesMIT OpenCourseWare http://ocw.mit.eduContent within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/terms/terms/index.htmHow our views of Jewish history have been formed and how this history can explain the survival of the Jews as an ethnic/religious group into the present day. Special attention to the partial and fragmentary nature of our information about the past, and the difficulties inherent in decoding statements about the past that were written with a religious agenda in mind. Considers complex events in Jewish history -- from early history as portrayed in the Bible to recent history, including the Holocaust.http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/History/21H-914Fall-2007/CourseHome/index.htmTemin, Peter2008-03-12T01:21:36-04:0021H.914en-USHistoryJewish/Judaic StudiesAmerican JewJewish immigrantelite minorityJewish economic elitesAnne FrankWarsaw GhettoNightNazisAuschwitzWWIIPolish JewishfacismHolocaustAshkenaziMedieval Jewiwsh TradersMaimonidesRoman hostility to the JewsMaccabean RevolutionRomeJudaeabiblical IsraelSolomonbibleExodusGenesisFive books of MosesMIT OpenCourseWare http://ocw.mit.eduContent within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/terms/terms/index.htm