Witness to the Present
(PROVISIONAL COPY)
Witness to Society
The Colour Black: African Americans from Slavery to President Obama
• The Origins of Slavery
• Abolition of Slavery in England
• The Slave System in the United States
• The Civil War
• The Jim Crow’s Laws
• The Education of the Blacks: Booker T. Washington and William Du Bois
• The 20th Century: the Civil Rights Era
• The New Millennium
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Olaudah Equiano, A Slave’s Voyage to the West Indies
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Phillis Wheatley, On Being Brought from Africa to America
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Frederick Douglass, The Word “Abolition”
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William Du Bois, The Atlanta “Compromise”
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Claude McKay, Outcast – If We Must Die
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Lynching
C. McKay, The Lynching
A. Meerpol, Strange Fruit
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Billie Holiday
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Rosa Parks
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E.R. Shipp, Rosa Parks, The Founding Symbol of Civil Rights Movement
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Martin Luther King, Jr, I’ve Been to the Mountaintop
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Barak Obama, Inaugural Address
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From Diaries to Social Networking
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What’s the Difference Between Diaries, Journals and Blogs?
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Diary
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From Real to Fictional Diaries: Adrian Mole, Bridget Jones, Greg Heffley
Sue Townsend, The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾
Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’s Diary
Jeff Kinney, Diary of a Wimpy Kid
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What Is a Blog
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Darren Rowse, Advice to a Prospective Blogger
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Facebook
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The 2011 Time 100: Mark Zuckerberg
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The Social Network: the movie
[from Time]
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Twitter
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Twitter tomorrow
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A History of the Business of Social Media
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Kristen McTighe, A Blogger at Arab Spring’s Genesis[from The New York Times]
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Mohamed Bouazizi
[from National Public Radio npr.org]
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Colum McCann, Arab Spring
[from The New York Times]
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Witness to the Scientific World
Fly Me to the Moon
• Space Explorations
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James D. Burke, Moon, Observation and Exploration
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Landing on the Moon
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Mars Rover Exploration
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Jeffrey Kluger, The Ending of the Shuttle Program
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The Biggest Rover on Mars
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Kenneth Chang, Consequences of NASA’s Curtailing Manned Space Flights
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Kepler 22-b, Earth’s “TWIN” Planet
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The Extraordinary Voyage of Charles Darwin
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Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything
Darwin and the Beagle
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Creation: Darwin’s Life
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Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species
Introduction
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Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species
Conclusion
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Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything
Discussing Darwin’s Theory
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Lord Kelvin
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Carl Zimmer, The Ever Evolving Theories of Darwin
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Witness to the Arts
The Portrait of the Artist: Shakespeare’s Many Faces
• Shakespeare’s Identity
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Anonymous, by Roland Emmerich
Rebecca Keegan, Roland Emmerich’s Anonymous Shakes up Shakespeare
Scholars
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James Shapiro, Shakespeare – a Fraud? Anonymous Is Ridiculous
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Bill Bryson, Shakespeare
In Search of William Shakespeare
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Finding Shakespeare
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The Stage and the Set: Shakespeare on film, TV, music...
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Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem
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The Place: Coventry Cathedral
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The Authors: Benjamin Britten and Wilfred Owen
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War Requiem
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Derek Jarman’s War Requiem
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War Requiem: Music and Poetry
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Moments in 20th-Century Art
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Thomas M. Messer, How to Look at Contemporary Art
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An Introduction to Art in the 20th Century
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Francis Bacon, Tryptich, August 1972
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R.B. Kitaj, Cecil Court, London WC2 (The Refugees)
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Balthus, The Street
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Peter Blake, The Toy Shop
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Peter Blake and Lewis Carroll’s Alice
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David Hockney, Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy
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Richard Serra, Shovel Plate Prop
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Gilbert & George, Death Hope Life Fear
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Anish Kapoor, As If to Celebrate, I Discovered a Mountain Blooming with Red
Flowers
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The World of Pop Music from the Beatles to Amy Winehouse
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British Pop Music: from Skiffle to the Seventies
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A. Posener, The Beatles Story
John & Paul & George...
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A. Posener, The Beatles Story
...& Brian & Ringo
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The Royal Variety Performance
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Songs of the ’60s: Yesterday and Michelle
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A. Posener, The Beatles Story
The End of the Game
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Songs of the ’70s: Image and Mull of Kintyre
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British Pop Music: from New Romanticism to the Present Day
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Caroline Sullivan, Amy Winehouse
[from The Guardian]
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Amy Winehouse: A Biographical Sketch
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“Her Passing Hits Close to Home”: Jared Leto Remembers
Amy Winehouse
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The Forever 27 Club
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Rehab
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