HIST1007: A World in Flames - Global History of … 1007 A World in Flames Global History of World War IIHistory Department: Dr. Stephen Connor Email: [email protected] Department

History 1007

A World inFlames

Global History of World War II

Dr. Stephen Connor Email:

[email protected]

Department of History

Useful Links History Department: http://www.nipissingu.ca/academics/faculties/arts-science/history/Pages/default.aspx

Twitter: https://twitter.com/NipUHistDept, https://twitter.com/DrConnorNU

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NipUHistDept

Canada Remembers: http://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance

Canadian War Museum: http://www.warmuseum.ca/home

World at War series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3H6z037pboEKhZaLYS879YMuDG8mGuQI

World War II Resources: http://besthistorysites.net/ww2/

H-War: https://networks.h-net.org/h-war

Assignments Personnel File Research Assignment: Complete a Personnel File Research Assignment of a single Canadian soldier killed in the Second World War and buried or commemorated at a site in Belgium, Holland or France. The assignment consists of two 500-word components: a biographical sketch and an Interpretation/analysis.

Research Essay Proposal and Bibliography: Submit a research essay proposal and bibliography of secondary sources. Your proposal will include a brief summary of the context of your topic, specific research questions and a draft argument.

Research Essay: Write a research paper. Based on a variety of sourcesthat you explored in your proposal, your essay will demonstrate interpretation’s centrality to the historian’s craft.

“One cannot see the modern world as it is unless one recognizes the overwhelming strength of patriotism and national loyalty.”

~George Orwell

Course Format This is a one semester, three-credit course and meets three times a week, two days for lecture and one for seminar. Lectures will be approximately 50 minutes. Seminars consist of about 15 students and allow for discussion of important course themes, issues and problems raised in lectures and the readings.

Course Description This course examines the Second World War in a global context. In surveying principle ‘flashpoints’ between 1919-1945, we explore the origins, conduct and outcomes of the last global war. Particular attention will be paid to themes such as scope, combatants and methods. Finally, we will examine some of the debates concerning the Intentions, practices and impacts of this conflict that fundamentally transformed our world.

History 1007

A World in Flames

Global History of World War II

Dr. Stephen Connor Email:

[email protected]

Department of History

Useful Links History Department: http://www.nipissingu.ca/academics/faculties/arts-science/history/Pages/default.aspx

Twitter: https://twitter.com/NipUHistDept, https://twitter.com/DrConnorNU

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NipUHistDept

Canada Remembers: http://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance

Canadian War Museum: http://www.warmuseum.ca/home

World at War series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3H6z037pboEKhZaLYS879YMuDG8mGuQI

World War II Resources: http://besthistorysites.net/ww2/

H-War: https://networks.h-net.org/h-war

Assignments Personnel File Research Assignment: Complete a Personnel File Research Assignment of a single Canadian soldier killed in the Second World War and buried or commemorated at a site in Belgium, Holland or France. The assignment consists of two 500-word components: a biographical sketch and an Interpretation/analysis.

Research Essay Proposal and Bibliography: Submit a research essay proposal and bibliography of secondary sources. Your proposal will include a brief summary of the context of your topic, specific research questions and a draft argument.

Research Essay: Write a research paper. Based on a variety of sources that you explored in your proposal, your essay will demonstrate interpretation’s centrality to the historian’s craft.