Obang Okello

Obang Okello will be giving a presentation November 5, 2007, in the blue room of the Johnson Fine Arts Center at 6:30 p.m. Mr. Okello has an amazing story to tell, and hearing about his experiences during the Ethiopian civil war will help you understand much better some of the things we will be talking about later in History 122.

Please attend the presentation if you can, and comment here on what you learned from Mr. Okello.

The French Encyclopedia (Extra Credit)

Reading the articles in Diderot's Encylopedia is one of the best ways to understand the French Enlightenment. It shows the attitudes of the philosophes toward everything from Islam to Women to Intolerance to History. While the online translation of the Encylopedia articles does not include the wonderful illustrations of the orginal, you will probably still find much of interest.

Browse to an article on a topic of interest to you. Comment on what you found particularly interesting in that article.

Voltaire's "On Policy" (Extra Credit)

While Candide is the one Voltaire book everyone seems to read, it is not necessarily his best (or most interesting) work. Read through the selection from his Philosophical Dictionary on pp. 36-40 in your Communist Manifesto and Other Revolutionary Writings anthology. What do you find here that is particularly amusing, interesting, or important?