The Human Story: An Introduction to the Humanities

by Nicholas Vargas-Rose (né Andrews)

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This text provides an introduction to the Humanities, the academic disciplines that study human culture, creativity, and thought. At their core, the humanities explore what it means to be human by examining our artistic expressions, intellectual pursuits, and cultural achievements, via modes of expression and modes of reflection.

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Coalinga College
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Humanities
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Teens profiles and older, judged from its title and subjects

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  1. Front Matter
  2. Title Page
  3. Info Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Licensing
  6. 1: Introduction to the Humanities
  7. 1.1: Chapter Introduction
  8. 1.2: Defining the Humanities
  9. 1.3: Chapter Review Questions
  10. 2: Prehistory
  11. 2.1: Chapter Introduction
  12. 2.3: Paleolithic Cave Art and Portable Art
  13. 2.4: The Mesolithic and Neolithic Periods
  14. 3: Ancient Mesopotamia
  15. 3.1: Chapter Introduction
  16. 3.2: The Fertile Crescent
  17. 3.3: Mesopotamian Civilization Before the Ancient Dark Ages
  18. 3.4: The Ancient “Dark Ages” and the Rise of the Israelite State
  19. 3.5: Neo-Assyrian Civilization
  20. 3.6: The Neo-Babylonians and Persians
  21. 4: Ancient Egypt
  22. 4.1: About This Module
  23. 4.2: The Nile and Egyptian Religion
  24. 4.3: The New Kingdom and the Amarna Period
  25. 4.4: Pre-Dynastic Egypt and The Old Kingdom
  26. 4.5: The First and Second Intermediate Period
  27. 5: Ancient Greece
  28. 5.1: About This Module
  29. 5.2: Cycladic, Minoan, and Mycenaean Civilization
  30. 5.3: The Greek Dark Ages, Classical Greece, and the Rise of Athens
  31. 5.4: Greek Religion, Philosophy, and Sculpture
  32. 5.5: The Hellenistic Age
  33. 6: Ancient Rome and Christianity
  34. 6.1: About This Module
  35. 6.2: Early Beliefs and the Roman Pantheon
  36. 6.3: Cults
  37. 6.4: Early Christian Religion and Culture
  38. 7: Islam and Byzantine Culture
  39. 7.1: About This Module
  40. 7.2: The Byzantine Empire
  41. 7.3: Islamic Civilization
  42. 8: Medieval Europe
  43. 8.1: About This Module
  44. 8.2: Early Middle Ages and Western Society
  45. 8.3: The Rise of Islam, Carolingian Europe, New Kingdoms, and a Revived Byzantium
  46. 8.4: Art, Architecture, and Military and Technological Developments
  47. 8.5: High Middle Ages
  48. 8.6: The Late Middle Ages and Collapse of Byzantium
  49. 9: The Renaissance
  50. 9.1: The Renaissance
  51. 9.2: Key Characteristics of Art- Renaissance through Baroque
  52. 9.3: Florence in the Trecento (1300s)
  53. 9.4: Florence in the Early Renaissance
  54. 9.5: Toward the High Renaissance
  55. 9.6: 1500–1600 End of the Renaissance and the Reformation
  56. 9.7: Video- Linear Perspective- Brunelleschi’s Experiement
  57. 9.8: Video- How One-Point Linear Perspective Works
  58. 9.9: Video- Rogier van der Weyden, Deposition, c. 1435
  59. 9.10: Humanist Thought
  60. 9.11: Art in the Renaissance
  61. 9.12: Renaissance Artists
  62. 10: The Age of Reason and Revolution
  63. 10.1: The Enlightenment
  64. 10.2: Enlightenment Thinkers
  65. 10.3: The Age of Discovery
  66. 10.4: The Scientific Revolution
  67. 10.5: Protestantism
  68. 10.6: The Baroque- Art, Politics, and Religion in Seventeenth-Century Europe
  69. 10.7: Music in the Baroque Era
  70. 10.8: The Baroque Era Music of Bach
  71. 10.9: Overview of the Classical Era of Music
  72. 10.10: Overview of Classical Opera
  73. 10.11: Art, Architecture, and Theater in the Baroque Era
  74. 10.12: Neo-Classicism
  75. 10.13: David’s Death of Marat
  76. 10.14: Romanticism in France Delacroix’s Liberty Leading the People
  77. 11: The Modern World
  78. 11.1: The Birth of Modernism and the Modern World (1900-1920s)
  79. 11.1.1: Modernism
  80. 11.1.2: War and Revolution
  81. 11.1.3: The Freudian Revolution
  82. 11.1.4: Modern Art
  83. 11.1.5: Modernist Poetry
  84. 11.1.6: The Birth of Film
  85. 11.1.7: Modern Architecture
  86. 11.1.8: Music and Dance
  87. 11.2: The Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression (1920s-1945)
  88. 11.2.1: The Jazz Age
  89. 11.2.2: The Great Migration
  90. 11.2.3: The Harlem Renaissance
  91. 11.2.4: More Modern Art
  92. 11.2.5: The Lost Generation
  93. 11.2.6: The Great Depression
  94. 11.2.7: The Mexican Muralist Movement
  95. 11.2.8: World War II
  96. 11.3: The Search for Meaning and the Beginning of Globalization (1945-1950s)
  97. 11.3.1: The Cold War
  98. 11.3.2: Existentialism
  99. 11.3.3: Origins of Theater and Theater of the Absurd
  100. 11.3.4: Abstract Expressionism
  101. 11.4: Liberation and Equality (1960-Onward)
  102. 11.4.1: Quest for Equality
  103. 11.4.2: The Civil Rights Movement
  104. 11.4.3: The Women’s Rights Movement
  105. 11.4.4: LGBTQIA+ History
  106. 11.4.5: The Vietnam War
  107. 11.4.6: Hippies and the Counterculture
  108. 11.4.7: The Birth of Rock 'n’ Roll, Pop Culture, and Mass Media
  109. 11.4.8: New Modern Art Movements
  110. 11.4.9: Metamodernism
  111. 11.4.10: Punk Rock Revolution
  112. Back Matter
  113. Index
  114. Glossary
  115. Detailed Licensing