DVD Resources
(hyperlinked version available at www.amomentintime.com)
Would you like to know more about A Moral Universe?
Print Resources
Feiler, Bruce S. Abraham: A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths. New York: HarperCollins,
2005. ISBN: 0060838663
Kirsch, Jonathan. God Against the Gods: The History of the War Between Monotheism and
Polytheism. New York: Penguin Group, 2005. ISBN: 0142196339
Stark, Rodney. One True God: Historical Consequences of Monotheism. Princeton, New Jersey:
Princeton University Press, 2003. ISBN: 0691115001
Internet Resources
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10499a.htm
Films
A History of God (History Channel, 2001)
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Print Resources
Nelson, Eric D., Susan K. Allard-Nelson. Complete Idiot’s Guide to Ancient Greece. New York:
Penguin Group, 2005. ISBN: 1592572731
Robinson, Eric W. Ancient Greek Democracy: Readings and Sources. Malden, Massachusetts:
Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2003. ISBN: 0631233946
Internet Resources
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/greeks/
Films
The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)
Rome (HBO) (2005)
Empires - The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization (2000)
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Print Resources
Heather, Peter. The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians. New
York: Oxford University Press, 2005. ISBN: 0195159543
Nelson, Eric D. Complete Idiot’s Guide to the Roman Empire. New York: Penguin Group, 2001.
ISBN: 0028641515
Internet Resources
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/romans/
Films
Socrates (1970)
Gladiator (2000)
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Print Resources
Armstrong, Karen. Islam: A Short History. New York: Random House Publishing Group, 2002.
ISBN: 081296618X
Wood, Michael. In Search of the Dark Ages. New York: Facts on File, Inc., 2001. ISBN:
816047022
Internet Resources
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook1s.html
Films
Mohammad, Messenger of God (1977)
King Arthur (2004)
Would you like to know more about Unity of Church and State?
Print Resources
Logan, F. Donald. History of the Church in the Middle Ages. New York: Taylor & Francis, Inc.,
2002. ISBN-10: 0415132894
Shannon, Maggie Oman. One God, Shared Hope: Twenty Threads Shared by Judaism,
Christianity, and Islam. Newburyport, MA: Red Wheel/Weiser, LLC, 2003. ISBN:
1590030516
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Smith, Huston. The Worlds Religions: Our Great Wisdom Traditions. New York:
HarperCollins, 1991. ISBN: 0062508113
Internet Resources
http://jds.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/20/1-2/125.pdf
http://www.eppc.org/publications/pubID.1536/pub_detail.asp
http://your.sydneyanglicans.net/indepth/articles/kevin_rudd_on_politics_and_christianity/
Films
Joan of Arc (1948)
Confession (2005)
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Print Resources
Johnson, Paul. Renaissance: A Short History. New York: Random House Publishing Group,
2002. ISBN: 0812966198
Manchester, William. A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and theRenaissance Portrait of an Age. Boston: Back Bay Books, 1993. ISBN: 0316545562
Internet Resources
http://www.open2.net/renaissancesecrets/index.html
http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/ttp/ttpbooks.html
Films
The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965)
The Age of the Medicis (1973)
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Print Resources
Bainton, Roland H. Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther. New York: Penguin Group,
1995. ISBN: 0452011469
Cameron, Euan. The European Reformation. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 1991.
ISBN: 0198730934
Internet Resources
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook02.html
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Films
Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation (1969)
La Reine Margot (1994)
Luther (2003)
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Print Resources
Dunn, Susan. Sister Revolutions: French Lightning, American Light. New York: Faber and Faber,
Inc., 2004. ISBN: 0571199895
Herman, Arthur. How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western
Europe’s Poorest Nation Created Our World and Everything In It. New York: Three
Rivers Press, 2002. ISBN: 0609809997
Porter, Roy. Enlightenment. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2001. ISBN: 0333454146
Internet Resources
http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/ENLIGHT/ENLIGHT.HTM
Films
A Tale of Two Cities (1958)
Dangerous Liaisons (1988)
Ridicule (1996) [in French]
The Patriot (2000)
Marie Antoinette (2006)
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Print Resources
Ashton, T.S. The Industrial Revolution, 1760-1830. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
ISBN: 0192892894
Henry, John. The Scientific Revolution and the Origins of Modern Science. New York:
Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. ISBN: 0333960904
Internet Resources
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook14.html
http://search.eb.com/eb/article-25796
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Films
The Voyage of Charles Darwin (1980)
Germinal (1993) [In French]
Galileo: On the Shoulders of Giants (1998) TV
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Print Resources
Florida, Richard. The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It’s Transforming Work, Leisure,
Community, and Everyday Life. New York: Basic Books, 2003. ISBN: 0465024777
Frieden, Jeffry A. Global Capitalism: Its Fall and Rise in the Twentieth Century. New York:
W.W. Norton & Co., 2006. ISBN: 0393058085
Robbins, Richard H. Global Problems and the Culture of Capitalism. Boston: Allyn & Bacon,
Inc, 2004. ISBN: 0205407412
Internet Resources
http://www.learner.org/biographyofamerica/prog07/index.html
Films
Grapes of Wrath (1940)
Karl Marx: the Massive Dissent (1970)
The Fountainhead (1949)
Wall Street (1987)
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Print Resources
Friedman, Thomas L. The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century.
New York: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 2006. ISBN: 0374292795
Sclar, Elliott D. You Don't Always Get What You Pay for: The Economics of Privatization. Ithaca,
NY: Cornell University Press, 2001. ISBN: 0801487625
Internet Resources
http://www.opendemocracy.net/democracy_and_power/index.jsp
Films
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)
Chernobyl: The Bitter Taste of Wormwood (1987)
Enemy of the State (1998)
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Print Resources
Almond, Gabriel A., R. Scott Apleby, Emmanuel Sivan. Strong Religion: The Rise of
Fundamentalisms around the World. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. ISBN:
0226014983
Blankley, Tony. The West’s Last Chance: Will We Win the Clash of Civilizations?.
Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, 2005. ISBN: 0895260158
Carson, Rachel. Silent Spring. (40th Anniversary Edition, Introduction by Linda Lear, Afterward
by Edward O. Wilson). Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2002. ISBN: 0618249060
Huntington, Samuel P. The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order. New York:
Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing, 1998. ISBN: 0684844419
Internet Resources
http://www.un.org/english/
http://ecumene.org/IIS/csss99.htm
http://www.loc.gov/rr/international/hispanic/terrorism/islamic_fundamentalism.html
Films
An Inconvenient Truth (2006)
Would you like to know more about the pop-ups?
A Moral Universe
Abraham, father of three great monotheistic religions, was born in Ur, now in present-day Iraq.
http://www.theology.edu/abraham.htm
Judaism is the oldest surviving monotheistic religion, arising in 2nd millennium B.C.E.
http://www.brandeis.edu/MusicUnitesUS/docs/lesson-religionhw.pdf
Roots of Democracy
In the 2nd century C.E., the Roman Colosseum could hold about 50,000 people.
http://www.sentex.net/~ajy/facts/romanemp.html
Unholy Alliance
Persecution of Christians ended in 313 C.E., when Constantine proclaimed the Edict of Milan.
http://members.aol.com/byzruth/index.htm
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Gathering Darkness
Islam is currently the second most practiced religion in the world, as well as the fastest growing.
www.cnn.com/WORLD/9704/14/egypt.islam/
Unity of Church and State
Christian leaders organized “Crusades” against Muslims in the “Holy Land” (1096-1291).
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04543c.htm
Reawakening
In 1513 Machiavelli wrote his best-known work, The Prince.
www.philosophypages.com/hy/3v.htm
The University of Bologna, founded in 1088, is the oldest existing university in Europe.
http://www.eng.unibo.it/PortaleEn/University/Our+History/default.htm
Members of the Medici family were tutored personally by Galileo, who named four of Jupiter's
moons after them.
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16564826/site/newsweek/
Reformation and Disruption
Jan Hus was burned at the stake in 1415 for saying some of same things Martin Luther would
argue 100 years later.
http://www.religionfacts.com/christianity/people/luther/bio.htm
A New World
“(White male) Americans of 1776 had highest standard of living and lowest taxes in Western
World.”
http://www.state.de.us/facts/ushist/revfacts.htm
It is estimated that 18,500 to 40,000 people were killed during the Reign of Terror in France.
http://www.pbs.org/marieantoinette/timeline/reign.html
Science & Industry
James Watt developed the first efficient steam engine in
1769.http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/History_nw/a.html
Edison’s first light bulb burned for 40 hours and he eventually produced one that could glow for
over 1500 hours.
http://www.edisonmuseum.org/content.php?pageCatID=2&pageID=4
An Explosion of Riches
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As a result of the crash of 1929, the stock market lost 90 percent of its value.
http://eh.net/encyclopedia/article/Bierman.Crash
Power & Peril of Democracy
The Bolshevik Revolution (1917) laid the foundation for Stalinism and the Cold War
http://www.answers.com/topic/october-revolution
It is estimated that 65 million people died during WWII.
http://www.pbs.org/greatwar/resources/casdeath_pop.html
Challenges for the Future of Civilization
137 plant, animal and insect species disappear every day due to rainforest deforestation.
http://www.rain-tree.com/facts.htm
Additional Reading Resources
Ayers, Edward L. American Passages: A History of the United States, Compact Edition. New York:
Penguin Group, 2006. ISBN: 0495188573
________. “The Pasts and Futures of Digital History.” 1999.
http://www.vcdh.virginia.edu/PastsFutures.html (accessed March 2, 2007).
McCullough, David. 1776. New York: Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group, 2006
ISBN: 0743226720
________. The Path to the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal 1870-1914. New York: Simon &
Schuster Adult Publishing Group, 1978. ISBN: 0671244094
Note from Dan Roberts: Or just about anything by David McCullough
Pink, Daniel H. A Whole New Mind: Moving from the Information Age to the Conceptual Age. New
York: Penguin Group, 2005. ISBN: 1573223085
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