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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, and an examination for classification in
History, covering the history of Greece and Rome, the history of
Mediaeval and Modern Europe, English history, and American history
and government. The examination for classification may be waived if
the applicant (a) is twenty years of age at the beginning of the academic

year; or (b) has already passed in at least two full courses in
other subjects at this University; or (c) can convince the Professor
either by a certificate from a reputable school or college, or otherwise,
that his historical knowledge and mental discipline are adequate. The
following courses are offered:

Primarily for Undergraduates.

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's The Modern Age; Seebohm's Era of the Protestant
Revolution; Gardiner's Thirty Years' War; Longman's Frederick the Great and
the Seven Years' War; Dabney's Causes of the French Revolution; Morris's French
Revolution and First Empire.

For Undergraduates and Graduates.

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; Lky's American Revolution (edited by Woodburn);
Walker's Making of the Nation; Burgess's Middle Period; Powell's Nullification
and Secession in the United States; Dodge's Bird's-Eye View of our Civil War;
Curry's Southern States of the American Union; Hart's Epoch Maps Illustrating
American History.

For Graduates Only.

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. Required, together with Courses
1B and 2C, of students selecting History as primary minor subject for
the Ph. D. degree. Offered for 1908-'09.

Course 4D: Courses 1B and 2C prerequisite, or their equivalent.—
History of the Reconstruction of the Southern States. 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. Not offered in 1908-'09.