Justin D. Lyons
Assistant Professor of Political
Science
Office: Andrews 117
(419) 289-5709
Course Links
HIST 112: Western Civilization
Flannery, “Liberal Arts and Liberal Education”
Foster, “On the Goal of Liberal Education”
Schramm, “On Reclaiming Liberal Education in the
University”
Internet Ancient
History Sourcebook
Greek, Roman, and Celtic Mythology
HIST 113: Western Civilization
Internet Modern History
Sourcebook
Prescott, History of the
Conquest of Mexico, I. Ch. 3; II. CH. 2
Federalist
#9 (Read first three paragraphs)
HIST 267: Medieval
HIST 321: Warfare: Ancient and Modern
Victor
Davis Hanson, “The Return of Military History?”
POLSC 205: Comparative Politics
Robert C.
Bartlett, On the Decline of Contemporary Political Development Studies
POLSC 231: International Relations
Immanuel Kant, Perpetual
Peace: A Philosophical Sketch
Morgenthau, Six
Principles of Political Realism
Cohen,
History and the Hyperpower
President’s
Address to the Nation January 10, 2007
POLSC 355: International
Organization
Universal Declaration of Human
Rights
World Press Review, The United
Nations, International Law, and the War in Iraq
Campaign for the International
Criminal Court
Global Policy Forum, The
International Criminal Court
Rwanda’s
Genocide: Looking Back
CRS: The United
Nations Security Council: Its Role in the Iraq Crisis
CRS: International Law and the Preemptive Use of Force Against Iraq
POLSC 380/HIST 304: Churchill
Hitler, Speech of April 10,
1923
Hitler, Speech
of April 13, 1923
Hitler, Speech of March 23,
1933
Hitler, Speech of October
9, 1938
A Guide to
Avoiding the Evils of Plagiarism
Martin
Luther and the Reformation
Week 1: The
Medieval Background
*Papal Documents (handout)
Week 2: The Reformation Begins
*Disputation of Doctor Martin Luther on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences (95 Theses), 1517:
http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/text/wittenberg/luther/web/ninetyfive.html
*Letter to the Archbishop Albrecht of Mainz, 1517:
http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/text/wittenberg/luther/nine5-albrecht.txt
*Letter to Pope Leo X, 1518:
http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/text/wittenberg/luther/nine5-pope.txt
Luther's Tower Experience: Martin Luther Discovers the True Meaning of Righteousness:
http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/text/wittenberg/luther/tower.txt
*THE THREE WALLS OF THE ROMANISTS from An
Open Letter to The Christian Nobility of the German Nation Concerning the
Reform of the Christian Estate, 1520:
http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/text/wittenberg/luther/web/nblty-03.html
Week 3: Theological Critique; Excommunication*The Babylonian Captivity of the Church, 1520:http://www.ctsfw.edu/etext/luther/babylonian/babylonian.htm
Read 1. Luther’s Introduction 2. The Sacrament of the Altar, A-G *Exsurge Domine, 1520: http://www.papalencyclicals.net/Leo10/l10exdom.htm
Week 4: Freedom of a Christian; Counter-Reformation
*Martin Luther's Definition of Faith: An excerpt from "An Introduction to St. Paul's Letter to the Romans," Luther's German Bible of 1522:
http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/text/wittenberg/luther/luther-faith.txt
* Concerning Christian Liberty, 1520 Three parts:http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/text/wittenberg/luther/web/cclib-1.html
http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/text/wittenberg/luther/web/cclib-2.html
http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/text/wittenberg/luther/web/cclib-3.html
*From the Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Jesuit Order http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/loyola-spirex.html
For General Reference:
Luther sources: http://www.projectwittenberg.org/pub/resources/text/wittenberg/wittenberg-luther.html
*Council of Trent, 1545-63:
http://history.hanover.edu/texts/trent.html
*Catechism of the Catholic church:
http://www.christusrex.org/www1/CDHN/ccc.html