Professor John Eicher's Western History

As a 2023-24 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, I created a ten-part public humanities lecture series titled: "Western Civilization (1500-Present): From Dawn, to Decadence, to Disillusionment." 

The series argues that the growth of bureaucracies in "the West" created a world in which abstractions eclipse reality. I explain and explore this argument through the development of what I call the "ABCs" of modern Western history: Abstraction, Bureaucracy and Control. 

I will release a new video each month from September 2023 to April 2024.