Turning Points in History examines critical junctures in history, examining moments and periods in the past when the old appeared to give way to the new. In this class, students will be forced to consider the concepts of contingency and causality, reckoning with why history moved in a certain direction and whether those changes might have played out differently. Examining different areas of the world and historical epochs, Turning Points in History ponders why things change and what forces ultimately move history.