محاضرات في مقياس Civilisation Text Study

Abstract

This handout outlines a university-level civilization course that uses key moments in British and American history to train students to read events critically rather than memorize dates, linking political transformations to questions of identity, power, and ideology. It contrasts “history” with “civilization,” then moves from the rise and decline of the British Empire to the American Revolution, nation-building, westward expansion, the Civil War and Reconstruction, and finally to segregation, race, ethnicity, and the myth of American exceptionalism.Across these lectures, students are asked to interrogate national myths (empire, Manifest Destiny, exceptionalism) and trace how economic interests, racial hierarchies, and democratic ideals together shape the United States’ evolving national narrative.