Victory, H.M.S.

H.M.S. Victory is a 104-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched in 1765, served as Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson's flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, was moved to a dry dock at Portsmouth in 1922, and has been the flagship of the First Sea Lord since 2012 (photo: www.dailymail.co.uk).

Photo by Michael R. Maitzen, teleproductions supervisor for the School of Liberal Arts Communication Technology Laboratory, IUPUI, 2013.

HIST-B 310, section 22992	Dr. Thomas A. Mason
HIST H-509, section 26031	e-mail: masonta@iupui.edu
British History since 1688	cell phone: 317.985.6905
This is a 100% online-delivered class.	Office Hours: By appointment
No on-campus class meetings are required.	Spring semester 2021

Welcome to HIST-B 310, section 22992 / HIST H-509, section 26301, British History since 1688!

course learning objective: The goal of the course is to instill historical knowledge concerning the development of modern British society, economy, politics, and culture, including industrialization, deindustrialization, colonization, decolonization, and the emergence of ideologies.

learning outcomes: In fulfillment of the learning objective of the course, students will be able to:

distinguish between facts and interpretation
ascertain the reliability of primary and secondary source materials
for specific examples, explain the difference between primary and secondary sources
distinguish between objectivity and advocacy in source materials
evaluate written, artistic, and architectural evidence to achieve research goals
recognize the significance of geopolitical information found in maps
assess research-based scholarship
analyze historical cause and effect
synthesize primary and secondary source materials to create new historical knowledge
engage an audience with that new synthesis through concise written communication

In short, students will learn the craft of history.

The course addresses continuity and change in modern British history. Students will articulate the characteristics of modern British society, economy, politics, and culture identified by the historical discipline:

in technology, the agricultural revolution, industrialization, and deindustrialization
in political organization: monarchy, republicanism, absolutism, empire, aristocracy, democracy, and the social contract
in military conflicts: causes, course of events, and outcomes
in economics, from subsistence through commercial, mercantilist, and capitalist modes of production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services
in philosophy: idealism, empiricism, and moral-sense theory
in ideology: liberalism, conservatism, utilitarianism, socialism, and social democracy

I have been teaching courses on Western Civilization, American History, and British History, online and in person, at IUPUI for the past thirteen years, and before that at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. I edited the Papers of James Madison at the University of Virginia and the Papers of Lew and Susan Wallace at the Indiana Historical Society.

You can access the course content on this Canvas site in the following ways:

The syllabus is your primary guide to the content, requirements, and organization of the course.
The modules provide a guide to the course content—the learning objectives, learning outcomes, videos / lectures, reading assignments (including lecture / videos) for each class, and assignments for the course. These will be under construction during the coming weeks, as I update some of the lectures, but I will publish them in plenty of time before examinations. The lecture / videos are accessible through the modules as:

PowerPoints (if you prefer to access the course content in PowerPoint format instead of video and without the audio recording),
PowerPoint Recordings (if you prefer to access the course content in PowerPoint format—downloadable to a smartphone—instead of video), or
Videos.

The review sheets—these are basically course outlines—provide a guide to the exams: Review Sheet 1 (for the mid-semester examination), and Review Sheet 2 (for the final examination).
Instruction sheets for the two book reviews—Book Review of Locke and Book review of Keynes—and the research paper.

To participate in the synchronous (live) class discussions at 12:00 NOON, Monday, February 8; 12:00 NOON, Wednesday, February 17; 12:00 NOON, Wednesday, February 24; 12:00 NOON, Wednesday, March 3; 12:00 NOON, Wednesday, March 24; and 12:00 NOON, Wednesday, April 21:

You can connect to Zoom by clicking on the link to Zoom Class Meetings in the course navigation (list of links on the left of Canvas), or click on https://iu.zoom.us/j/9047954919?pwd=MlgrVHE4VHM3cTk2M25JNWkzdVlKUT09, or copy that URL to your browser.
If prompted for a passcode, enter: 162885.
For more information on Zoom, click on http://zoom.iu.edu; you can also phone the UITS Support Center at 317-274-4357 for assistance and/or watch this short video from Zoom: Joining a Meeting
If those times don’t work for you (since most students also have in-person courses and/or day jobs), I can schedule one-on-one discussions on Zoom or by phone, by appointment. Please use e-mail to set up a discussion appointment with me.

I will record those online conferences and add the recording to Kaltura Media Gallery for students who could not attend to review after the fact.

To get started, click on the link on the left to the Syllabus, or click on: syllabus.