A new course on the terrible twentieth century
... A new course I've developed for the fall on the catastrophes and suffering of the twentieth century. It is aimed at giving students a fairly immediate and experiential awareness of the realities of fascism, racism, genocide, totalitarian dictatorship, the Holocaust, and the Holodomor. Authors include Orwell, Koestler, Grossman, Ramachandran, Shalamov, Steinbeck, and Langston Hughes.
https://undsoc.org/2023/07/30/a-new-course-on-the-terrible-twentieth-century/
Understanding Society · A new course on the terrible twentieth centuryI’ve spent the last several weeks designing a new honors course for juniors on the catastrophes of the twentieth century. It’s not a “history” course, and it’s not a p…