Please click on the links below to find the readings.

February 16:  Selections from St. Augustine, City of God.

February 21:  (1) Martin Luther, "An Open Letter to the Christian Nobility" (Just the cover letters); and (2) Martin Luther,  "Against the Murderous and Thieving Hordes of Peasants."

February 23:  Selections from John Foxe, Foxe's Book of Martyrs.

March 2:  Selections from Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan.

April 6:  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 25:  Mahatma Gandhi on Nonviolence.  (Scroll down to chapter 11 ["Nonviolence"] on the left side of the screen).

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