Voices | Gregory Shaya | Activity https://voices.wooster.edu/members/gshaya/activity/ Activity feed for Gregory Shaya. Fri, 24 Apr 2026 17:48:00 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 6dd97c788f98b95df8be54c536432924 Gregory Shaya wrote a new post on the site The Department of History https://history.voices.wooster.edu/?p=4177 Mon, 18 Oct 2021 18:18:49 +0000 Come join the information session on Thursday if you’d like to learn more about this spring-summer course on documentary filmmaking & history in Buenos Aires.

Info Session: Thursday, October 21 at 11am in A […]

]]> 17c0dd326f12bc0a8071eb22e105e80c Gregory Shaya wrote a new post on the site Gregory Shaya https://gshaya.voices.wooster.edu/?p=61 Wed, 06 Oct 2021 04:16:41 +0000 Test post!!!

]]> 61365fbf7727c363728e22618dd00da3 Gregory Shaya wrote a new post on the site History 301 - The World in 1900 http://worldin1900.voices.wooster.edu/?p=1 Wed, 10 Jan 2018 19:38:40 +0000 This is the course website for History 301: The World in 1900! As you can see, it is still very much under construction. But stay tuned. We’ll be filling in details all semester.

We’ll also be using Moodle for […]

]]> 6a9e6f1f896db4c20b1d6a2a6ce83bcc Gregory Shaya's profile was updated https://voices.wooster.edu/activity/p/447/ Sun, 20 Aug 2017 16:17:34 +0000 0 b56e78d666c7be99e7499a904310d2a7 Gregory Shaya changed their profile picture https://voices.wooster.edu/activity/p/446/ Sun, 20 Aug 2017 16:17:11 +0000 0 82c15507d481027834cf41538b82cf84 Gregory Shaya wrote a new post on the site Western Civ Since 1600 http://history107.voices.wooster.edu/?p=94 Sun, 05 Dec 2010 20:01:56 +0000 Well, I know we still have one more presentation to watch, but I thought I’d offer a couple quick comments about the whole idea.

As professors, faculty members are often critical of the idea that we should be […]

]]> 2b2ab66a1001ecceeb8139c728945c78 Gregory Shaya wrote a new post on the site Western Civ Since 1600 http://history107.voices.wooster.edu/?p=90 Sun, 05 Dec 2010 19:50:37 +0000 It seems that everyday I open the paper there is some bit of news or commentary that calls to mind the history we’ve been studying. Here’s one from this past week.

You’ve all surely heard the news about the […]

]]> ee02c362f188e8ea33b82a7f9cb0e2e7 Gregory Shaya wrote a new post on the site Western Civ Since 1600 http://history107.voices.wooster.edu/?p=86 Mon, 15 Nov 2010 06:33:17 +0000 Alright, well, it was officially over when the armistice was signed on November 11, 1918. That marked the end of hostilities. The peace treaties of 1919, such as the Versailles Treaty, promised an accounting of […]

]]> a7ee9cb1942cab87cce2a4a95e6fb60e Gregory Shaya wrote a new post on the site Western Civ Since 1600 http://history107.voices.wooster.edu/?p=82 Fri, 12 Nov 2010 04:27:22 +0000 The Battle of the Somme has become a symbol of the destructive power of the First World War. The offensive, begun on the first of July, 1916, was to be the Big Push that would end the war. Instead it was a […]

]]> 5a4ddfb52ffc85f64d2c999a38ec50bd Gregory Shaya wrote a new post on the site Western Civ Since 1600 http://history107.voices.wooster.edu/?p=77 Sun, 07 Nov 2010 22:00:18 +0000 We’ve given some close attention to the “new imperialism” of the late nineteenth century, which is typically dated from the 1880s (the  Berlin Conference of 1884 was an important turning point) down to the […]

]]> 68a4fa6721e3e29772cb9d10e912600e Gregory Shaya wrote a new post on the site Western Civ Since 1600 http://history107.voices.wooster.edu/?p=74 Mon, 01 Nov 2010 02:02:43 +0000 There’s so much to say about the late nineteenth century I don’t know where to begin. Let me just lay out a few questions that we can talk about this week.

First, a look back at Friday: did my reading of […]

]]> 6ae2d8c8a566728d82f3fba9c16a2070 Gregory Shaya wrote a new post on the site Western Civ Since 1600 http://history107.voices.wooster.edu/?p=70 Wed, 06 Oct 2010 02:03:10 +0000 Walter Benjamin offered that “There is no document of civilization that is not at the very same time a document of barbarism.” Writing in 1940 and in Paris, where the German-Jewish writer had fled the Nazis, […]

]]> 400666cbf79d39fdc2c74b57f8c1ca89 Gregory Shaya wrote a new post on the site Western Civ Since 1600 http://history107.voices.wooster.edu/?p=64 Wed, 06 Oct 2010 01:34:53 +0000 This week we’ve begun to contemplate the upheaval in world history that has come to be known as the industrial revolution, the transformation from an agrarian, handicraft economy to an industrial economy that […]

]]> 5e5f15650565467e062a0365e8bfe232 Gregory Shaya wrote a new post on the site Western Civ Since 1600 http://history107.voices.wooster.edu/?p=53 Mon, 27 Sep 2010 21:52:35 +0000 The French Revolution is one of those world historical events that will be forever studied, forever argued over. Today I gave you just a glimpse of its meaning and complexity.

If you want to explore a bit […]

]]> b4f943ccf60ee9e805eed0056407a1a3 Gregory Shaya wrote a new post on the site Western Civ Since 1600 http://history107.voices.wooster.edu/?p=3324 Wed, 22 Sep 2010 02:37:35 +0000 For a bit of extra credit, I invite you to watch this documentary film on Thursday night and offer a few comments to the class. The film, “Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North,” will be shown on T […]

https://youtu.be/cj0qASES6Uo

]]> 5bf050fcd57782767274383787b5e615 Gregory Shaya wrote a new post on the site Western Civ Since 1600 http://history107.voices.wooster.edu/?p=30 Thu, 16 Sep 2010 02:36:41 +0000 If you find yourself studying abroad in Tuscany in the near future, be sure to wander through the renovated (and newly named) Museo Galileo, the museum of science in Florence, Italy, where you can check out […]

]]> f8c7db6e49209cdd060a4e413f4e03d7 Gregory Shaya wrote a new post on the site Western Civ Since 1600 http://history107.voices.wooster.edu/?p=26 Tue, 14 Sep 2010 21:49:41 +0000 I also wanted to share this clip from a film on Louis XIV by Roberto Rossellini, the great Italian director. In his youth, the monarchy was beset by challenges — from provincial nobles, from the urban law […]

]]> acfcfd45936afbd04fd31eed4f4e5db5 Gregory Shaya wrote a new post on the site Western Civ Since 1600 http://history107.voices.wooster.edu/?p=23 Tue, 14 Sep 2010 21:34:55 +0000 The kinds of resources available on the web — some scholarly, some entertaining, some put together by academics, some by amateurs — is overwhelming. I’ll try to point out a few interesting sites as we go […]

]]> b6d489f14851766eaa22e16c4311d306 Gregory Shaya wrote a new post on the site Western Civ Since 1600 http://history107.voices.wooster.edu/?p=21 Fri, 10 Sep 2010 04:08:02 +0000 You can’t understand the 16th c. and the Protestant Reformation without understanding a thing or two about John Calvin (1509-1564). Born in France, trained as a lawyer, rooted in European humanism, Calvin made a […]

]]> 635546f1a254de63ad8c3ebd59f391a0 Gregory Shaya wrote a new post on the site Western Civ Since 1600 http://history107.voices.wooster.edu/?p=12 Tue, 07 Sep 2010 13:11:57 +0000 A few generations of scholars have now demonstrated just how loose the relationship between history and history on film usually is. Grand historical dramas are meant, first of all, to entertain. But a good […]

]]> d134119143f1055161b2d96bb4c6e9c6 Gregory Shaya wrote a new post on the site Western Civ Since 1600 http://history107.voices.wooster.edu/?p=8 Tue, 07 Sep 2010 05:05:45 +0000 Should students study Western Civ as an introduction to the modern world? Or would they do better with World History? It’s been a topic of much debate. I tried to give you a bit of the history of the idea of “ […]

]]> cad9444ca732de8cb07470e0db66a0ee Gregory Shaya wrote a new post on the site Western Civ Since 1600 http://history107.voices.wooster.edu/?p=4 Mon, 30 Aug 2010 05:40:09 +0000 Welcome to the Western Civ blog, a place to share links, comments on the topics to come, reading questions, announcements, and random observations. If you have an idea for something we should include here, just […]

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