Please click on the links below to find the readings.

February 17:  Selections from St. Augustine, City of God.

February 24:  (1) Martin Luther, "An Open Letter to the Christian Nobility" (Just the cover letters); (2) Martin Luther,  "Against the Murderous and Thieving Hordes of Peasants";  and (3) John Calvin, "Of Civil Government."

March 1:  Selections from John Foxe, Foxe's Book of Martyrs.

March 8:  Selections from Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan.

April 12:  Excerpts from the trial of John Scopes ("The Monkey Trial").  Browse through the selections, but pay particular attention to Day 7 ("Darrow Examines Bryan"), Day 8 ("Verdict and Sentencing"), and "Bryan's Summation" (which he never gave).  For a bit of humor, check out "Mencken's Accounts."

April 28:  Mahatma Gandhi on Nonviolence.  (Scroll down to chapter 11 ["Nonviolence"] on the left side of the screen).

May 3:  (1) Martin Luther King, Jr., "Letter from Birmingham Jail"; and (2) Malcolm X, "The Ballot or the Bullet."