Western Civ – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and Memory

And now for something completely different… Here is an audio introduction to the English literary critic, A.C. Bradley, and his legendary lectures on the high tragedies of William Shakespeare: the plays of Othello, Hamlet, Macbeth and King Lear.  Bradley has been mute too long, buried in the mass of materials not properly advertised or displayed … Continue reading A.C. Bradley on...

Why did the American Revolution stop being a revolution and, in the words of historian Eugen Weber, the French Revolution by contrast became an avalanche of social change? Why was it that the American Revolution escaped the fate of all other revolutions, and did not become, like the French Revolution, a prelude to a violent … Continue reading Unit 2, Episode 2: Comparing the American Revolut...

  n this brief overview, we preview the other podcasts in this episode, which define the ideas of liberalism, nationalism and romanticism, and we preview their role as triggers of two very different kinds of revolution in the nineteenth century to come. n this brief overview, we preview the other podcasts in this episode, which … Continue reading Unit 2 Overview: The Age of Revolutions...