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CORCORAN SCHOOL OF HISTORY.

Professor Dabney.

Dr. Wayland.

Required for Admission to the Work of the School: The General
Entrance Examination, with the condition that one of the two units
of history (p. 77) elected by the candidate must be Unit A.

The following courses are offered:

Course 1B: General History.—In this course great stress is laid
upon the unity and continuity of History, although special attention is
given to those events and periods that have markedly determined the
course of historical evolution.

Text-Books.—Dow's Atlas of European History; Capes' Age of the Antonines;
Thatcher's and Schwill's Europe in the Middle Age; Thatcher's and McNeal's Source
Book for Mediæval History; Myers' The Modern Age; Seebohm's Era of the Protestant
Revolution; Gardiner's Thirty Years' War; Longman's Frederick the Great and
the Seven Year's War; Dabney's Causes of the French Revolution; Morris's French
Revolution and First Empire.

Course 2C: English and American History: Course 1B prerequisite.—In
this higher course the principles taught in the course preceding
will be applied to a more special field; and, in order that the students may
be encouraged to exercise independent thought and judgment, they will be
required to write essays or make reports on particular topics.

Text-Books—Oman's History of England; Lee's Source Book of English History;
Gardiner's Atlas of English History; Lecky's American Revolution (edited by Woodburn);
and other works on American history to be announced later.

Only one of the two following courses will be given in any one year.
The first is broad and extensive, the second, minute and intensive.

Course 3D: Courses 1B and 2C prerequisite, or their equivalent.—
Intellectual, Moral, Religious, and Social Development of Europe.—The
course will begin with a study of the principles of historical method based
upon the "Introduction to the Study of History" by Langlois and Seignobos;
and these principles will then be applied to the critical examination
of a number of works by such authors as Buckle, Lecky, Draper, Guizot,
Andrew D. White, Bryce, and others. In addition to critical discussions
of, and written examinations upon each of the works selected, a critical
written essay upon each of them will also be required. Required, together
with Courses 1B and 2C, of students selecting History as primary
minor subject for the Ph. D. degree.

Course 4D: Courses 1B and 2C prerequisite, or their equivalent.—
History of the Reconstruction of the Southern States. A close study of
the sources, as well as of the secondary authorities in this period. Required,
together with Courses 1B, 2C, and 3D, of students selecting History
as major subject for the Ph. D. degree, or, together with Courses 1B
and 2C, of those selecting it as primary minor.