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Lesson 1 The Neolithic Revolution and the Mesopotamian Civilizationsback to top of page

Paleolithic Societies

Chauvet Cave Paintings, c. 30,000 BCE
http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/arcnat/chauvet/en/

Ancient Mesopotamia

Sumeria (c. 3100-c. 2000 BCE)

Secondary Sources:

Sumeria: links to information about Sumerian archaeology, artwork, culture, history, religion, law, and liturature [At Crystalinks]
http://www.crystalinks.com/sumer.html

Primary Sources:

Enki, a Sumerian High God
http://alexm.here.ru/mirrors/www.enteract.com/jwalz/Eliade/016.html

The Great Hymn to Shamash
http://alexm.here.ru/mirrors/www.enteract.com/jwalz/Eliade/133.html

The Epic of Gilgamesh [At Angelfire]
http://www.angelfire.com/tx/gatestobabylon/temple1.html

Akkadia (c. 2350-2200 BCE)

Secondary Sources:

Akkadia: map, images, and a brief chronology [At Crystalinks]
http://www.crystalinks.com/akkadia.html

Primary Sources:

The Legend of Sargon of Akkadê, c. 2300 BCE [At Ancient History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/2300sargon1.html

Enheduanna [At Angelfire]
http://www.angelfire.com/mi/enheduanna/index.html

Babylonia (c. 2000-1600 BCE)

Secondary sources:

Babylonia: links to maps, history, law, literature, culture, and art [At Crystalinks]
http://www.crystalinks.com/babylonian.html

Primary sources:

Code of Hammurabi, c. 1780 [At Ancient History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/hamcode.html

A Collection of Babylonian Prayers, c. 1600 BCE [At Ancient History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/1600babylonianprayers.html

Lesson 2 Ancient Egyptback to top of page

Secondary Sources:

Egypt: links to history, religion, art, literature, law, and culture in ancient Egypt [At Crystalinks]
http://www.crystalinks.com/egyptian.html

Primary Sources:

Pen-ta-ur: The Victory of Ramses II Over the Khita, 1326 BCE [At Ancient History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/1326khita.html

Herodotus: Mummification, from The Histories [At Ancient History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/herodotus-mummies.html

Egyptian Love Poetry, c. 2000-1100 BCE [At Ancient History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/2000egypt-love.html

Museo Gregoriano Egiziano: Images from the Vatican's Egyptian Museum.
http://198.62.75.1/www1/vaticano/EG-Egiziano.html

Exploring Ancient World Cultures: links to Egyptian Images
http://eawc.evansville.edu/pictures/egpage.htm

Lesson 3 Ancient Indian Cities and the Aryan Invasionsback to top of page

Secondary Sources:

Ancient India: links to map, history, culture, religion, and daily life in ancient India [At Crystalinks]
http://www.crystalinks.com/india.html

Primary Sources:

Hymns from the Rig Veda [From Reading About the World, edited by Paul Brians, PhD, Professor, Department of English, Washington State University]
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/ANCINDIA/ANCINDIA.HTM Click on Resources.

The Laws of Manu, c. 1500 BCE [At Indian History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/india/manu-full.html

The Creation of the World According to the Upanishads [At Eliade Page]
http://alexm.here.ru/mirrors/www.enteract.com/jwalz/Eliade/058.html

The Moment of Death as described in the Upanishads [At Eliade Page]
http://alexm.here.ru/mirrors/www.enteract.com/jwalz/Eliade/160.html

The Ramayana: a 50,000-line poem written in Sanskrit by Sage Valmiki. [translated by Desiraju Hanumanta Rao and K.M.K.Murthy]
http://www.valmikiramayan.net

Ramayana: images and maps [At Syracuse]
http://www.maxwell.syr.edu/moynihan/programs/sac/Outreach/ramayana/images.asp

Bhagavad Gita: complete text [At WSU]
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/ANCINDIA/GITA.HTM

Sources on the Buddha's Life and Death [At Indian History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/india/buddha-life.html

Sources on Buddhist Order [At Indian History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/india/buddha-order.html

Lesson 4 The Origins of Chinese Civilizationback to top of page

Secondary Sources:

Ancient China: links to art, architecture, history, culture and daily life in ancient China [At Crystalinks]
http://www.crystalinks.com/china.html

The Great Wall [At Cystalinks]
http://www.crystalinks.com/chinawall.html

The Great Wall Image [At East Asian Sourcebook]
http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/core9/phalsall/images/gtwall-2.gif

Primary Sources:

Confucius (5th Century BCE?): Analects [Lun Yu] [At WSU]
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_1/confucius.html

Legalism: Han Fei tzu (d. 233 BCE): Selections [At East Asian Sourcebook]
http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/core9/phalsall/texts/hanfei.html

Daoism: Selections from the Dao De Jing, Laozi Lao Tzu (5th Century BCE??) [At East Asian Sourcebook]
http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/core9/phalsall/texts/taote-ex.html

The Deification of Lao Zi, c. 666 CE [At East Asian Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/eastasia/666laozi.html

The Zhou Dynasty

Sima Qian Ssuma Ch'ien: Two Biographies, from The Records of the Grand Historian of China (The Shih Chi) (6th century BCE) [At East Asian Sourcebook]
http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/core9/phalsall/texts/ssuma1.html

The Qin Dynasty

The legalist policies of the Qin [At East Asian Sourcebook]
http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/core9/phalsall/texts/ssuma2.html

The Han Dynasty

Selections of Chinese Poetry [At East Asian Sourcebook]
http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/core9/phalsall/texts/c-poet1.html

Map of China under the Han [At East Asian Sourcebook]
http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/core9/phalsall/images/hanmap.jpg

The Tang Dynasty

Image: Tang Lady [At East Asian Sourcebook]
http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/core9/phalsall/images/tanglady.gif

Image: Tang Horse [At East Asian Sourcebook]
http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/core9/phalsall/images/tanghors.jpg

Lesson 5 Ancient Greeceback to top of page

Secondary Sources:

Ancient Greece: links to art, archaeology, history, culture, religion, and literature in ancient Greece [At Crystalinks]
http://www.crystalinks.com/greece.html

John Porter, "The Archaic Age and the Rise of the Polis" [At Saskatchewan]
modified 10/26/06 http://homepage.usask.ca/~jrp638/CourseNotes/Polis.html

Primary Sources:

History

Herodotus (c. 490-c. 425 BCE), The Histories [At Ancient History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/herodotus-history.txt

Thucydides (c. 460/455-c. 399 BCE), 11th Britanica [At Ancient History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/eb11-thucydides.html

Politics and Law

Solon (c. 640-after 561 BCE): Selected Fragments [At Saskatchewan]
modified 10/26/06 http://homepage.usask.ca/~jrp638/DeptTransls/Solon.html

Aristotle (384-323 BCE), The Athenian Constitution [At Ancient History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/aristotle-athcon.txt

Aristotle (384-323 BCE) on the origin of the polis from The Politics [At Ancient History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/Aristotle-politics-polis.html

Sophocles (496-405/6 BCE): Antigone (442 BCE), excerpts. [At Ancient History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/sophocles-antigone.html

Greek Colonization: Documents on the Founding of Cyrene, c. 630 BCE [At Ancient History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/630cyrene.html

Documents on Greek Slavery [At Ancient History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/greek-slaves.html

Alexander the Great, Plutarch (c. 46-c. 120 CE), excerpts from Life of Alexander. [At Ancient History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/plutarch-alexander1.html

Literature and Mythology

Homer (c. 8th Cent. BCE), The Illiad [At Ancient History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/homer-illiad.txt

Homer (c. 8th Cent. BCE), The Odyssey [At Ancient History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/homer-odysseySB.txt

Hesiod (c. 700 BCE), Theogony excerpts [At Ancient History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/hesiod-theogony-ex.html

Selections from Greek Lyric Poets [At Saskatachewan]
modified 10/26/06 http://homepage.usask.ca/~jrp638/DeptTransls/LyricPoetsPorter.html

Religion

Accounts of Hellenic Religious Beliefs, c. 800 BCE-110 CE [At Ancient History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/greekrel2.html

Accounts of Personal Religion, c. 430 BCE-300 CE [At Ancient History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/personalrelig.html

The Persian Wars

Herodotus, Selections from The Persian Wars [At Saskatchewan]
modified 10/26/06 http://homepage.usask.ca/~jrp638/DeptTransls/Hdt.html

Herodotus (c. 490-c. 425 BCE): Xerxes Invades Greece from The Histories [At Ancient History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/herodotus-xerxes.html

Herodotus (c. 490-c. 425 BCE): On the Kings from Sparta, from The History of the Persian Wars [At Ancient History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/herodotus-sparta1.html

11th Brittanica: Delian League [At Ancient History Sourcebook ]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/eb11-delianleague.html

Justin (3rd Cent CE): The Beginning of Philip of Macedon's Reign, c. 359-352 BCE [At Ancient History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/justin-philip.html

Philosophy

Plato (427-347 BCE), The Republic [At Ancient History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/plato-republic.txt

Greek Art [At University of Richmond, VA]

Athens - Museum Artifacts http://oncampus.richmond.edu/academics/classics/photos/athens_Mus.html

Lesson 6 Romeback to top of page

Secondary Sources:

Ancient Rome: links to art images, archaeology, history, maps, culture, religion, literature, and philosophy in ancient Rome [At Crystalinks]
http://www.crystalinks.com/rome.html

Primary Sources:

Etruscans

Reports of Etruscans, c. 430 BCE-10 CE. From Herodotus and Livy [At Ancient History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/etrucans2.html

Museo Gregoriano Etrusco I, Etruscan Art from the Vatican
http://198.62.75.1/www1/vaticano/ET1-Etrusco.html

Roman Law and Politics

The Twelve Tables 451/450 BCE selections [At Ancient History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/12tables.html

The Roman Government: Checks and Balances [From Polybius, Histories, 6] [At Ancient History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/rome-balance.html

War and Expansion

Polybius (c. 200-after 118 BCE): The Third Punic War, 149-146 BCE, The Histories, Book XXXVI-XXXIX [At Ancient History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/polybius-punic3.html

Livy (59 BCE-17 CE): The Roman Way of Declaring War, c. 650 BCE, from History of Rome I.34 [At Ancient History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/650livy1-34.html

Polybius (c. 200-after 185 BCE): Rome at the End of the Punic Wars, from The Histories, Book 6 [At Ancient History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/polybius6.html

Cornelius Nepos (c. 99-c. 24 BCE): Life of Hannibal
http://shot.holycross.edu/courses/Sallust-Livy/S06/pdfs/Nepos-Hannibal-eng.pdf

Appian (1st Cent CE): The Civil Wars (On the Gracchi) [At Ancient History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/appian-civwars1.html

Julius Caesar (100-44 BCE): Julius Caesar's Gallic War [At Perseus Digital Library, Tufts University]
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0001

Plutarch (c.46-c.120 CE): The Assassination of Julius Caesar from Marcus Brutus, excerpts, translated by John Dryden. [At Ancient History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/plutarch-caesar.html

Slavery in the Roman Republic [At Ancient History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/slavery-romrep1.html

Life and Literature

Cicero (105-43 BCE): Selected Letters [At Ancient History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/cicero-letters.html

Cicero, On Friendship, or Laelius, 44 BCE full text, trans. by W. Melmoth [At Ancient History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/cicero-laelius-melmoth.html

Catullus (c. 84-c. 54 BCE): Poems [At Saskatchewan]
modified 10/26/06 http://homepage.usask.ca/~jrp638/DeptTransls/Catullus.html

Juvenal and Persius: Satires: Introduction [At Ancient History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/juvenalpersius-intro.html

The Empire

Augustus (63 BCE-14 CE): Selections from The Acts of the Divine Augustus (Res Gestae Divi Augusti) [At Saskatchewan]
modified 10/26/06 http://homepage.usask.ca/~jrp638/DeptTransls/ResGest.html

Suetonius (c. 69-after 122 CE): Life of Augustus, complete, Worthington translation [At Ancient History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/suetonius-augustus.html

The Five Good Emperors

Pliny the Younger (61/62-113 CE) and Trajan (r. 98-117 CE): Letters, Book X. 25ff : The Correspondence of a Provincial Governor and the Emperor Trajan, c. 112 CE [At Ancient History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/pliny-trajan1.html

Aelius Spartianus: Life of Hadrian, (r. 117-138 CE.), excerpts [At Ancient History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/aelius-hadrian1.html

Eutropius (4th Cent CE): The Reign of Marcus Aurelius, 161-180 CE, from Compendium of Roman History, 8:12-14 [At Ancient History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/eutropius-marcusaurelius1.html

Religion

Accounts of Roman Religion [At Ancient History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/romrelig3.html

Roman Art

Roman Art [The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York]
http://www.metmuseum.org/works_of_art/collection_database/index.aspx?dep=13&vw=0

Roman Images [At Exploring Ancient World Cultures]
http://eawc.evansville.edu/pictures/ropage.htm

Lesson 7 Christianity and the Transformation of the Roman Empireback to top of page

Secondary Sources:

The Franks [At Online Catholic Encyclopedia]
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06238a.htm

Primary Sources:

Germanic Tribes

Jordannes, Origins and Deeds of the Goths [At Calgary]
http://www.ucalgary.ca/~vandersp/Courses/texts/jordgeti.html

Conversion and Christianity

The Conversion of Clovis (496); two Accounts [At Medieval Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/496clovis.html

Gregory of Tours (539-594): Life of St. Gall [At Medieval Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/gregory-stgall.html

The Rule of Saint Benedict, (c. 530) short excerpts [At Medieval Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/rul-benedict-excerp.html

Willibald: The Life of Saint Boniface [At Medieval Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/willibald-boniface.html

Byzantine Empire

Procopius, The Secret History, extracts [At Medieval Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/procop-anec1.html

Corpus Iuris Civilis: The Digest and Codex: Marriage Laws [At Medieval Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/cjc-marriage.html

John of Damascus: In Defence of Icons, c. 730, extracts from On the Holy Icons and the Fount of Wisdom. [At Medieval Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/johndam-icons.html

Second Council of Nicea, (787), Decree on Icons [At Medieval Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/nicea2-dec.html

Lesson 8 Islam and the Arab Empiresback to top of page

Secondary Sources:

Patricia Crone, Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam. [At Islamic Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/med/crone.html

Arthur Jeffry, A Reader on Islam: Passages from Standard Arabic Writings Illustrative of the Beliefs and Practices of Muslims [At University of Pennsylvania]
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~rs143/Resources/ajwiba.html

Shia Islam, a multimedia site by Richard Hooker [At Wichita State University]
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/SHIA/SHIA.HTM

Primary Sources:

Ibn Ishaq (d. c. 773 CE): Selections from the Life of Muhammad [At Islamic Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/muhammadi-sira.html

The Qu'ran, Surah 1, 47 [At Islamic Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/koran-sel.html

Sunni Tradition

Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (1058-1111 CE): The Remembrance of Death and the Afterlife [At Islamic Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/alghazali.html

The Shiite Tradition

Early and Medieval Shi'a, by Richard Hooker [At Wichita State University]
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/SHIA/SHIA.HTM

The Safavids, by Richard Hooker [At Wichita State University]
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/SHIA/SHIA.HTM

Abbasids

Yakut: Baghdad under the Abbasids, c. 1000 CE [At Islamic Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/1000baghdad.html

Ummayyad Spain

Selections from poetry by Spanish Moors [At Islamic Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/moorishpoetry.html

Lesson 9 The Civilizations of Medieval Africaback to top of page

Secondary Sources:

Ghana, by Richard Hooker [At Wichita State University]
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/CIVAFRCA/GHANA.HTM

Kush, by Richard Hooker [At Wichita State University]
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/CIVAFRCA/KUSH.HTM

Axum, by Richard Hooker [At Wichita State University]
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/CIVAFRCA/AXUM.HTM

Songhay, by Richard Hooker [At Wichita State University]
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/CIVAFRCA/SONGHAY.HTM

The Swahili Kingdoms, by Richard Hooker [At Wichita State University]
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/CIVAFRCA/SWAHILI.HTM

Islam in Africa, by Richard Hooker [At Wichita State University]
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/CIVAFRCA/ISLAM.HTM

Primary Sources:

Accounts of Meröe, Kush, and Axum, c. 430 BCE-550 CE [At African History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/nubia1.html

Leo Africanus: Description of Timbuktu from The Description of Africa (1526) [At Wichita State University]
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_2/leo_africanus.html

Bill of Sale for Saracen Slave Girls [At Medieval Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/1248serfs5.html

Lesson 10 India's Middle Agesback to top of page

Secondary Sources:

Gupta Empire Map [At Wichita State University]
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/ANCINDIA/GUPTAMAP.HTM

Primary Sources:

The Edicts of King Ashoka [At Colorado State]
http://www.cs.colostate.edu/~malaiya/ashoka.html

Kalidasa: The Recognition of Sakuntala (4th-5th C. CE?) [At Wichita State University]
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_1/sakuntala.html

Lesson 11 Classical Chinaback to top of page

Secondary Sources:

Chinese Dynasties [At ThinkQuest, Oracle Education Foundation]
http://library.thinkquest.org/12255/library/dynasty/dynasty.htm

The Song Dynasty, a multimedia site, has links to economic, intellectual, and social developments during this period, including Neo-Confucianism [At Columbia University].
http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/song/

Map: China under the Northern Song Dynasty [At East Asian Sourcebook]
http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/core9/phalsall/images/sungmap.jpg

Map: The Mongol Empire [At East Asian Sourcebook]
http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/core9/phalsall/images/mongmap.jpg

Primary Sources:

Li Po (701 762 CE): Drinking Alone by Moonlight [At Wichita State University]
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_1/drink.html

Liu Hsün's wife: The Curtain of the Wedding Bed (3rd C. CE) [At Wichita State University]
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_1/bed.html

Chinese Accounts of Rome, Byzantium and the Middle East, c. 91 B.C.E. - 1643 C.E. [At East Asian Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/eastasia/romchin1.html

Song Painting: Bird on silk by Emperor Hui-tsang 1101-1125 [At East Asian Sourcebook]
http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/core9/phalsall/images/yellbird.gif

Marco Polo: On the Tartars [i.e., Mongols] (1254-1324) [At Medieval Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/mpolo44-46.html

Marco Polo: The Glories Of Kinsay [Hangchow] (c. 1300) [At Medieval Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/polo-kinsay.html

Lesson 12 The Rise of Japanback to top of page

Secondary Sources:

Ancient Japan [At Crystalinks]
http://www.crystalinks.com/japan.html

Feudal Japan [At Wichita State University]
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/FEUJAPAN/CONTENTS.HTM

Shinto [At About.com]
http://www.religioustolerance.org/shinto.htm

The Kamakura Shogunate [At Minnesota State University, Mankato]
http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/prehistory/japan/kamakura/kamakura-p.html

Primary Sources:

Jimmu Tenno, The First Emperor [At Wichita State University]
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/ANCJAPAN/JIMMU.HTM

The Taika Reform Edicts [At Wichita State University]
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/ANCJAPAN/TAIKA.HTM

Japanese Poetry [At Wichita State University]
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_1/japanese_poetry.html

The Tale of Genji by Lady Murasaki Shikibu [At Pacific University]
http://mcel.pacificu.edu/as/students/genji/homepage.html

Lesson 13 Early Medieval Europeback to top of page

Secondary Sources:

Pepin the Short [At Online Catholic Encyclopedia]
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11662b.htm

The Vikings [At Online Catholic Encyclopedia]
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11115b.htm

Vikings in America [At University of Pittsburgh]
http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/vinland.html

Feudalism, a concise and clear introduction, by Paul Halsall [At Medieval Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook1i.html#Feudalism

Primary Sources:

Arabs, Franks, and the Battle of Tours, 732: Three Accounts [At Medieval Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/732tours.html

The Monk of Saint Gall (Notker the Stammerer): The Life of Charlemagne (c. 883/4), full text [At Medieval Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/stgall-charlemagne.html

Charlemagne: General Capitulary of the Misi (802) [At Medieval Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/carol-missi1.html

Agobard of Lyons (9th century): On Hail and Thunder [At Medieval Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/Agobard-OnHailandThunder.html

Viking Incursions

Three Sources on the Ravages of the Northmen in Frankland, c. 843-912 [At Medieval Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/843bertin.html

Initiation of a warrior: Going beserk from the Volsunga Saga, chapters 7-8 [At Eliade Page]
http://alexm.here.ru/mirrors/www.enteract.com/jwalz/Eliade/145.html

Feudalism and Manorialism

Fulbert of Chartres: Letter on feudal obligations, 1020 [At Medieval Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/fulbert1.html

Canute the Great: Granting of Fiefs, 1028 [At Medieval Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/1028Cnutfief.html

Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: Rent-payments in Kind and Coin, 852 [At Medieval Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/852ASC-rentsinkind.html

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: The Domesday Book, 1086 [At Medieval Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/1186ASChron-Domesday.html

Plague multimedia site (At Insecta)
http://www.insecta-inspecta.com/fleas/bdeath

Economic change and social tension in the late 14th Century (At ORB)
http://the-orb.net/textbooks/muhlberger/14c_economy.html

Lesson 14 The High Middle Ages in Europeback to top of page

Secondary Sources:

Tables on Population in Medieval Europe [At Medieval Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/pop-in-eur.html

Medieval Prices [At Medieval Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/medievalprices.html

The Crusades [At ORB]
http://www.the-orb.net/encyclop/religion/crusades/crusade.html

The Crusades [At Online Catholic Encyclopedia]
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04543c.htm

Primary Sources:

Commercial Revolution

Henry I, King of England: Grant of Tax Liberties to London, 1133 [At Medieval Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/1133Hank1tax.html

Edgar the Peaceable: Regulation of Coinage, Measures, and Price of Wool, c. 959-975 [At Medieval Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/975edgar-price.html

Henry II of England: Concerning Loans From The Jews [At Medieval Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/hen2-jewsloans.html

The Great Fair at Thessalonica, 12th century [At Medieval Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/thess-fair.html

Grants of Privileges at London to the Hanse of Cologne, 1157-1194 [At Medieval Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/1194hanse-koln-london.html

Agreement Between Hamburg and Lübeck for Protection, 1241 [At Medieval Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/1241lubeckhamburg.html

Commune of Richirzegcheide: Grant of a Gild to the Carpenters, 1180 [At Medieval Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/1180carpentersguild.html

The Regulations of the Garment Cutters' Gild of Stendal, 1231 [At Medieval Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/1231Weavers3.html

Religious Life

Foundation Charter of Cluny, 910 [At Medieval Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/chart-cluny.html

William of St. Thierry: A Description of Clairvaux, c. 1143 [At Medieval Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/1143clairvaux.html

Gregory VII: Lay Investitures Forbidden, 1074, 1080 [At Medieval Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/g7-reform2.html

Gregory VII: Deposition of Henry IV, February 22, 1076 [At Medieval Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/g7-ban1.html

The Crusades

Urban II (1088-1099): Speech at Council of Clermont, 1095, Five versions of the Speech [At Online Medieval Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/urban2-5vers.html

Albert of Aix and Ekkehard of Aura: Emico and the Slaughter of the Rhineland Jews [At Medieval Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/1096jews.html

The Siege and Capture of Jerusalem: Collected Accounts [At Medieval Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/cde-jlem.html

Anna Comena, The Alexiad: On the Crusades [At Medieval Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/comnena-cde.html

Magna Carta

Magna Carta, 1215 [At Medieval Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/mcarta.html

Lesson 15 The End of Medieval Europeback to top of page

Secondary Sources:

Peter Abelard [At Online Catholic Encyclopedia]
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01036b.htm

Thomas Aquinas [At Online Catholic Encyclopedia]
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14663b.htm

Scholasticism [At Online Catholic Encyclopedia]
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13548a.htm

The Plague, a multimedia site with maps, charts, information, and quotes [At Insecta]
http://www.insecta-inspecta.com/fleas/bdeath/

Economic Change and Social Tension in the Late Fourteenth Century, by Steven Muhlberger [At Orb]
http://the-orb.net/textbooks/muhlberger/14c_economy.html

Primary Sources:

Scholasticism and University Life

Peter Abelard (1079-1142): Prologue to Sic et Non [At Medieval Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/Abelard-SicetNon-Prologue.html

Robert de Courçon: Statutes for the University of Paris, 1215 [At Medieval Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/courcon1.html

Jacques de Vitry: Life of the Students at Paris [At Medieval Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/vitry1.html

Medieval Students' Songs [At Medieval Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/medievalstudentsongs.html

Literature

Chrétien de Troyes, Lancelot, c. 1170, excerpts [At Medieval Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/1170chretien-lancelot.html

Andreas Capellanus: The Art of Courtly Love (c. 1174-1186). [At Medieval Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/capellanus.html

Gothic Architecture

Gothic Architecture, by Jeffery Howe [At Boston College]
http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/arch/gothic_arch.html

History of Gothic Architecture
http://web.kyoto-inet.or.jp/org/orion/eng/hst/gothic.html

The Plague [Black Death]

Boccaccio: The Decameron - Introduction [At Medieval Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/boccacio2.html

The Black Death and the Jews, 1348-1349 CE [At Jewish Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/jewish/1348-jewsblackdeath.html

The Hundred Years War

Jean Froissart: On The Hundred Years War (1337-1453) [At Medieval Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/froissart1.html

Hundred Years War: Treaty of Troyes, 1420, and Conditions in France in 1422 [At Medieval Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/1420troyes.html

Lesson 16 The European Renaissanceback to top of page

Secondary Sources:

Christendom in the 14th and 15th centuries [by Frank Smitha]
http://www.fsmitha.com/h3/h14eu1.htm and http://www.fsmitha.com/h3/h14eu2.htm

Jacob Burkhardt, "The State as a Work of Art" [At Boise State University]
http://www.idbsu.edu/courses/hy309/docs/burckhardt/1-1.html

Saint Thomas More [At Online Catholic Encyclopedia]
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14689c.htm

Desiderius Erasmus [At Online Catholic Encyclopedia]
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05510b.htm

The Renaissance [At Online Catholic Encyclopedia]
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12765b.htm

Renaissance Art, by Chris Witcombe, sites with numerous links to images and information [Sweetbriar College]
   Italy http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHrenaissanceitaly.html
   Northern Europe and Spain http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHrenaissanceeurope.html

Primary Sources:

Politics, Politicians, and Political Thought

Lorenzo De Medici: Paternal Advice To A Cardinal (c. 1491) [At Medieval Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/lorenzomed1.html

Niccolo Machiavelli: The Prince [excerpts], 1513 [At Medieval Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/prince-excerp.html

Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527): History of Florence: Lorence de' Medici [At Medieval Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/machiavelli-histflo-lorenzo.html

A Venetian Memorandum on the Power and Revenue of European States (c. 1420)
http://www.shsu.edu/~his_ncp/Venice.html

Culture and Philosophy

Baldesar Castiglione (1478-1529): The Book of the Courtier, translated by Sir Thomas Hoby (1561), full text [At Oregon]
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/courtier/courtier.html

Erasmus Text Project, an informative site with links to Erasmus's works in Latin and English [At University of the South]
http://smith2.sewanee.edu/erasmus/etp.html

Thomas More, Utopia [At Oregon State University]
http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl302/texts/more/utopia-contents.html

Giorgio Vasari: Life of Leonardo da Vinci, 1550 [At Medieval Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/vasari1.html

Lesson 17 The Civilizations of the Ancient Americas and the European Explorationsback to top of page

Secondary Sources:

Olmec Civilization [At Crystalinks]
http://www.crystalinks.com/olmec.html

Mayan Civilization, a multimedia site with links to Mayan history, culture, religion, science, and archaeology [At Crystalinks]
http://www.crystalinks.com/mayan.html

Aztec Civilization, a multimedia site with links to Aztec history, culture, architecture, and archaeology [At Crystalinks]
http://www.crystalinks.com/aztecs.html

Inca Civilization, a multimedia site with links to Inca history, architecture, and archaeology [At Crystalinks]
http://www.crystalinks.com/peru.html

Primary Sources:

Explorers and Exploration

Vasco da Gama: Round Africa to India, 1497-1498 CE [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1497degama.html

Privileges and Prerogatives Granted by their Most Catholic Majesties to Christopher Columbus (1492) [At Yale]
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/colum.htm

Christopher Columbus: Letter to the King and Queen of Spain [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/columbus2.html

Christopher Columbus: Extracts from his Journal [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/columbus1.html

Aztec Accounts of the Conquest of Mexico [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/aztecs1.html

Capture of an Inca King, Francisco Pizaro
http://www.fll.vt.edu/culture-civ/spanish/texts/spainlatinamerica/pizarro.html

Amerigo Vespucci (1452-1512): Account of His First Voyage, 1497 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1497vespucci-america.html

Trade and the New Economy

Thomas Mun: England's Treasure By Forraign Trade, 1664 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1664mun-engtrade.html

Josiah Child: Brief Observations Concerning Trade and Interest of Money (1688) [At Yale]
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/econ/trade.htm

Adam Smith: From The Wealth of Nations, 1776: Of Colonies [At The American Revolution Site]
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/1776-1800/adamsmith/wealth01.htm

Lesson 18 Religious Reformations in Europeback to top of page

Secondary Sources:

The Reformation, a comprehensive site with links to primary sources and images [At Memorial U]
http://www.mun.ca/rels/reform/index.html

Reformation [At Online Catholic Encyclopedia]
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12700b.htm

Martin Luther [At Online Catholic Encyclopedia]
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09438b.htm

John Calvin [At Online Catholic Encyclopedia]
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03195b.htm

Saint Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Jesuit Order [At Online Catholic Encyclopedia]
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07639c.htm

Map: Religious Division in Europe [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/map16rel.gif

Religious Wars [by Frank Smitha]
http://www.fsmitha.com/h3/h18-eu.html and http://www.fsmitha.com/h3/h18-fw.htm and http://www.fsmitha.com/h3/h18-eg.htm

Thirty Years War [At Online Catholic Encyclopedia]
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14648b.htm

Primary Sources:

Protestant Reform

Martin Luther (1483-1546): 95 Theses (1517) [At Medieval Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/luther95.txt

Martin Luther (1483-1546): To the Christian Nobility of the German Nation [At Hanover]
http://history.hanover.edu/early/Luther/nobility.html

John Calvin (1509-1564): Institutes of the Christian Religion, [At Center for Reformed Theology and Apologetics]
http://www.reformed.org/books/institutes

John Calvin: On Predestination [At Online Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/calvin-predest.html

Archbishop Thomas Cranmer (1489-1556): Letter on Henry VIII's Divorce, 1533 [At Medieval Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/cramner-hen8.html

Henry VIII (r. 1509-1547): Act of Supremacy, 1534 [At Britian Express Limited]
http://www.britainexpress.com/History/tudor/supremacy-henry-text.htm

The Schleitheim Confession, adopted by a Swiss Brethren Conference, February 24, 1527 [At Anabaptists.org]
http://www.anabaptists.org/history/schleith.html

Baptist Confessions of Faith, 1644, 1655 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1644baptists.html

Catholic Counter-Reform

The Council of Trent [At Hanover]
http://history.hanover.edu/early/trent.html

Council of Trent: Rules on Prohibited Books [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/trent-booksrules.html

Conflict: The French Wars and the Thirty Years War

De Thou (1553-1617): St. Bartholemew's Day Massacre (1572) [At Hanover]
http://history.hanover.edu/texts/barth.htm

Sources on the Thirty Years War
http://www.shsu.edu/~his_ncp/Thirty.html

Treaty of Westphalia (October 24, 1648) [At Yale]
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/westphal.htm

Witchcraft Documents [At Medieval Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/witches1.html

A Letter Sent from "Sarient Maior Iohn Forbes from the King of Swethens Army" (An eyewitness account of the Battle of Breitenfeld, September 1631) [At Seventeenth Century Site]
http://www.lukehistory.com/resources/sgtforbs.html

Lesson 19 The Development of Early Modern Europeback to top of page

Secondary Sources:

The Rise and Fall of the Absolute Monarchy: Grand Siècle and Enlightenment [At Library of Congress]
http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/bnf/bnf0005.html

English Civil Wars, numerous links to history, places, and people involved [English Civil War Pages]
http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~crossby/ECW/

Thomas Cromwell: Thomas Macauley: from History of England, Volume I (London: D. Appleton and Co., 1880), pp. 90-95. [At Online Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/macauley-cromwell.html

The Glorious Revolution [At University of Georgia]
http://www.law.uga.edu/academics/profiles/dwilkes_more/his3_forgotten.html

Primary Sources:

England

James I & VI (b.1566, r. 1566 {Scotland}, r. {England} 1603-1625): True Law of Free Monarchies, 1598 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/james1-trew2.html

Commonwealth Instrument of Government, 1653 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1653intrumentgovt.html

France

Cardinal Richelieu: Political Testament, 1624, Excerpts [At Hanover]
http://history.hanover.edu/texts/richelie.htm

Jean Domat (1625-1696): On Social Order and Absolute Monarchy [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1687domat.html

Louis XIV: Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, October 22, 1685 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1685revocation.html

Duc de Saint-Simon: The Court of Louis XIV, from Memoires [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/17stsimon.html

The Duchess of Orleans: Versailles Etiquette, 1704 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1704duchess.html

Russia

Peter the Great and the Rise of Russia, 1682-1725 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/petergreat.html

Dutch Republic

The Dutch Declaration of Independence, 1581 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1581dutch.html

Lesson 20 Muslim Empires in the Early Modern Periodback to top of page

Secondary Sources:

The Ottomans, a multimedia site, by Richard Hooker [At Wichita State University]
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/OTTOMAN/OTTOMAN1.HTM

Ottoman Lyric Poetry, An Introduction [At Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute]
http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~sibel/poetry/books/ottoman/index.html

The Turks and the Rise of the Ottomans
http://www.shsu.edu/~his_ncp/Turkey2.html

The Mughals, a multimedia site, by Richard Hooker [At Wichita State University]
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/MUGHAL/MUGHAL.HTM

Map: The Mughal Empire [At Wichita State University]
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/MUGHAL/MUGHMAP.HTM

Primary Sources:

Ottoman Empire

A Visit to the Wife of Suleiman the Magnificent (Translated from a Genoese Letter), c. 1550 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1550sultanavisit.html

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762): Dining With The Sultana, 1718 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1718montague-sultana.html

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762): Smallpox Vaccination in Turkey [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/montagu-smallpox.html

Sir William Eton: A Survey of the Turkish Empire, 1799 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1799Ottomans.html

Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, The Turkish Letters, 1555-1562 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1555busbecq.html

The Mughal Empire in India

Sidi Ali Reis (16th Century CE): Mirat ul Memalik (The Mirror of Countries), 1557 CE [At Islamic Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/16CSidi1.html

François Bernier: An Account of India and the Great Moghul, 1655 CE [At Indian Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/india/1655bernier.html

England, India, and The East Indies, 1617 CE [At Indian Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/india/1617englandindies.html

British India

Edmund Burke: Speech in Commons on India, 1783 [At Indian Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1783Burke-india.html

Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859): On Empire and Education [At Indian Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1833macaulay-india.html

William Bentinck: On Ritual Murder in India, 1829 [At Indian Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1829bentinck.html

Dadabhai Naoroji: The Benefits of British Rule, 1871 [At Indian Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1871britishrule.html

Lesson 21 Early Modern China and Japanback to top of page

Secondary Sources:

East Asia to 1700 [by Frank Smitha]
http://www.fsmitha.com/h3/h24china.html
http://www.fsmitha.com/h3/h24jpn.html
http://www.fsmitha.com/h3/h24kor.html
http://www.fsmitha.com/h3/h24indo.html

Ming China [At Wichita State University]
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/MING/MING.HTM

Map: China under the Ming Dynasty [At City University of New York]
http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/core9/phalsall/images/mingmap.jpg

The Qing Dynasty [At Wichita State University]
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/CHING/CHING.HTM

Tokugawa Japan [At Wichita State University]
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/TOKJAPAN/TOKJAPAN.HTM

Primary Sources:

The Ming

Chu Yuan-Chang: Manifesto of Accession as First Ming Emperor, 1372 CE [At East Asia History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/eastasia/1372mingmanf.html

Image: A Ming Dynasty Vase [At City University of New York]
http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/core9/phalsall/images/mingvase.gif

Image: Peking, Hall of Harmony [At City University of New York]
http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/core9/phalsall/images/pek-hall.jpg

Image: Peking, Dragon Throne [At City University of New York]
http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/core9/phalsall/images/pek-thro.jpg

The Qing

Chien Lung: Letter to George III (1793) [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1793qianlong.html

Li Ju-chen: The Land of the Great (1828) [At Wichita State University]
http://www.wsu.edu/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_2/li_ju-chen.html

Lin Tse-heu: Letter of Advice to Queen Victoria [At City University of New York]
http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~phalsall/texts/com-lin.html

Tokugawa Japan

Honda Toshiaki: A Secret Plan for Government, 1798 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1798honda.html

St. Francis Xavier: Letter from Japan, to the Society of Jesus at Goa, 1551 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1551xavier3.html

St. Francis Xavier: Letter from Japan, to the Society of Jesus in Europe, 1552 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1552xavier4.html

Lesson 22 The Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenmentback to top of page

Secondary Sources:

The Scientific Revolution: A Summary [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/SCIREV.html

The Galileo Project [At Rice University]
http://es.rice.edu/ES/humsoc/Galileo//

Britain, France, and the Enlightenment [by Frank Smitha]
http://www.fsmitha.com/h3/h29-fr.htm

War, Central Europe, and the Enlightenment [by Frank Smitha]
http://www.fsmitha.com/h3/h31-gr.htm

Eighteenth Century Resources [At Rutgers University]
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/18th/

Primary Sources:

The Scientific Revolution

Nicolas Copernicus: from The Revolutions of the Heavenly Bodies, 1543 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1543copernicus2.html

Robert Bellarmine: Letter on Galileo's Theories, 1615 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1615bellarmine-letter.html

Francis Bacon: from First Book of Aphorisms [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/bacon-aphor.html

Isaac Newton: The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/newton-princ.html

René Descartes: Discourse on Method (1637) [At Wichita State University]
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_2/descartes.html

Enlightenment Thought

Voltaire (1694-1778): Letters on the English or Lettres Philosophiques, c. 1778 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1778voltaire-lettres.html

Voltaire: Patrie, in The Philosophical Dictionary, 1752 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1752voltaire.html

Voltaire: A Treatise on Toleration (1763) [At Wichita State University]
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_2/voltaire.html

Montesquieu: The Persian Letters, No. 13, 1721 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/montesq-pers13.html

Jean Jacques Rousseau: A Dissertation On the Origin and Foundation of the Inequality of Mankind, 1755 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/rousseau-inequality1-2.html

Adam Smith: The Wealth of Nations, 1776 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/adamsmith-summary.html

Daniel Defoe: (On) The Education Of Women, 1719 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1719defoe-women.html

Lesson 23 The Revolutionary Age Beginsback to top of page

Secondary Source:

The French Revolution: A Summary [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/FRENREV.html

Primary Sources:

American Revolution

J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur: What Is an American? [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/crevecour2.html

Account of the Boston Massacre [At American Revolution Site]
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/1751-1775/bostonmassacre/anon.htm

Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of taking up Arms, July 6, 1775 [At American Revolution Site]
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/1751-1775/war/causes.htm

Declaration of Independence [At Yale]
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/declare.htm

Articles of Confederation [At Yale]
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/artconf.htm

United States Constitution [At Yale]
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/usconst.htm

French Revolution

Declaration of the Rights of Man, 1789 [At Yale]
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/rightsof.htm

The Oath of the Tennis Court (June 20, 1789) [At Steven Kreis's The History Guide, Lectures on Modern European Intellectual History]
http://www.historyguide.org/intellect/tennis_oath.html

Edmund Burke: The Death of Marie Antoinette [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1793burke.html

Maximilien Robespierre: Justification of the Use of Terror [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/robespierre-terror.html

Olympe de Gouge: Declaration of the Rights of Women, 1791 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1791degouge1.html

Edmund Burke: Reflections on The Revolution in France, 1791 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1791burke.html

Napoleon's Proclamation to His Troops in Italy (March-April 1796)
http://www.historyguide.org/intellect/nap1796.html

The Code Napoleon (1804)
http://www.historyguide.org/intellect/code_nap.html

The Return of Napoleon from Elba, 1815 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1815napoleon100days.html

Lesson 24 The Industrial Revolutionback to top of page

Secondary Sources:

The South Sea Bubble [At History House]
http://www.historyhouse.com/in_history/south_sea/

Lectures on The Industrial Revolution in England, by Arnold Toynbee (1884) [At McMaster]
http://socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/toynbee/indrev

Primary Sources:

Leeds Woollen Workers' Petition, 1786 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1786machines.html

Letter from Leeds Cloth Merchants, 1791 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1791machines.html

Image: Watts Steam Engine [At Rochester]
http://www.history.rochester.edu/steam/thurston/1878/f26p98.gif

The Life of the Industrial Worker in Ninteenth-Century England, excerpts from primary sources, by Laura Del Col [At West Virginia University]
http://www.victorianweb.org/history/workers2.html

Friederich Engels: Industrial Manchester, 1844 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1844engels.html

Women Miners in the English Coal Pits [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1842womenminers.html

Harriet Robinson: Lowell Mill Girls [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/robinson-lowell.html

Thomas Carlyle: from Signs of the Times: The "Mechanical Age" [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/carlyle-times.html

Lesson 25 Nationalism and National Unification in Europeback to top of page

Secondary Sources:

Nationalism and Music [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/NATMUSIC.html

The Menscheviks: On the Seizure of Power and Participation in a Provisional Government, April 1905 [At Metropolitan State College of Denver]
http://clem.mscd.edu/~wynot/mensprog.html

National Unification of Germany and Italy [At Britannia]
http://www.britannia.com/history/euro/1/3_2.html

Primary Sources:

Romanticism

Walter Scott Digital Archive and Walter Scott image database [At Edinburgh University Library]
http://www.walterscott.lib.ed.ac.uk/
http://www.walterscott.lib.ed.ac.uk/imdata.html

Walter Scott's "The Lady of the Lake" [At Penn State Hazleton]
http://www2.hn.psu.edu/faculty/jmanis/walter-scott.htm

"Some Poems by Sir Walter Scott" ("The Vision of Don Roderick," "The Field of Waterloo," "The Dance of Death," Romance of Dunois,"
"The Troubadour," "Pibroch of Donald Dhu")
[At Project Gutenburg]
http://www.gutenberg.net/etext04/wspm10.txt

Liberalism

John Stuart Mill: On Liberty (1859) [At Wichita State University]
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_2/mill.html

The Treaty of London for Greek Independence, July 6, 1827, excerpts [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1827gktreaty.html

Hungarian Declaration of Independence [At H-Net]
http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~habsweb/sourcetexts/hungind.html

Socialism

Marx-Engels Library
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/

Karl Marx and Fredrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto [At The Australian National University]
http://www.anu.edu.au/polsci/marx/classics/manifesto.html

Excerpts from the French Socialist Program (1905) [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1905frenchsoc.html

Nationalism

Germany

Friedrich Engels on the Prussian Military Question and the German Workers' Party [At The International Workingmen's Association]
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1865/03/17.htm

Johann Gottlieb Fichte: Address To The German Nation, 1807 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1807fichte1.html

Documents of the German Unification [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/germanunification.html

Maurice Leudet: A Day with Kaiser Wilhelm II, 1898 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1898wilhelm2.html

Bismark and the "Polish Question" [At H-Net]
http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~german/gtext/kaiserreich/speech.html

Italy

Giuseppe Mazzini: On Nationality, 1852 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1852mazzini.html

Documents of the Italian Unification [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1861italianunif.html

King Victor Emmanuel: Address to Parliament, Rome, 1871 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1871victoremm.html

France

Alphonse de Lamartine (1790-1869): History of the Revolution of 1848 in France [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1848lamartine.html

Russia

Manifesto of 1905 [At Durham]
http://www.dur.ac.uk/a.k.harrington/octmanif.html

Program of the Socialist Revolutionary Party, 1905 [At Durham]
http://www.dur.ac.uk/a.k.harrington/srprog.html

Lesson 26 The Age of Western Imperialismback to top of page

Secondary Sources:

The Opium Monopoly, by Ellen N. La Motte [At Drug Library]
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/History/om/ommenu.htm

Timeline of U.S. Intervention in Latin America [At zompist.com, © Mark Rosenfelder]
http://www.zompist.com/latam.html

Primary Sources:

British Empire

John Hobson: Imperialism, 1902 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1902hobson.html

British Missionary Letters: Urging the Annexation of The South Sea Islands, 1883 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1883hebrides.html

Capt. F. D. Lugard: The Rise of Our East African Empire, 1893 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1893lugard.html

Wilfred Scawen Blunt: Britain's Imperial Destiny, 1896-1899 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1899blunt.html

Dadabhai Naoroji: The Benefits of British Rule, 1871 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1871britishrule.html

Field Marshal Lord Roberts: When Queen Victoria Became Empress of India, 1877 [Indian History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/india/1877empressvictoria.html

France & Reactions

Jules Ferry (1832-1893): On French Colonial Expansion [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1884ferry.html

Rudyard Kipling, The White Man's Burden, 1899 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/Kipling.html

Edward Morel: The Black Man's Burden, 1903 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1903blackburden.html

China

First Open Door Note on China (1899) [At American Revolution]
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/1876-1900/foreignpolicy/opendr.htm

The Boxer Rebellion

The Boxer Rebellion [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1900Fei-boxers.html

Pierre Loti: When the Allies Entered Peking, 1900 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1900Loti-peking.html

Japan

Documents Relating to U.S. Foreign Policy, 1898-1914 [At Mt. Holyoke]
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/to1914.htm

Commodore Matthew Perry: When We Landed in Japan, 1854 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1854Perry-japan1.html

Okuma: from Fifty Years of New Japan, 1907-1908 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1908okuma.html

Lt. Tadayoshi Sakurai: The Attack upon Port Arthur, 1905 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1905portarthur.html

Latin America

Simon Bolivar: Proclamation to the People of Venezuela (June 15, 1813) [At Geocities]
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/7609/eng/bolivar/venezuela1813.html

Simon Bolivar: Proclamation to the People of Columbia (December 10, 1830) [At Geocities]
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/7609/eng/bolivar/colombia1830.html

Lesson 27 World War I, The Russian Revolutions, and the Development of Soviet Russiaback to top of page

Secondary Sources:

World War I: Trenches on the Web, a site with numerous links to sources and articles [At Worldwar1.com]
http://www.worldwar1.com/

The Russian Revolution: A Summary [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/rusrev.html

The Russian Revolution Web Guide, a site with numerous links
http://www.barnsdle.demon.co.uk/russ/rusrev.html

Mark Shepard: Mahatma Gandhi and His Myths, the 1990 Annual Gandhi Lecture for the International Association of Gandhian Studies, delivered at the University of Virginia at Charlottesville on October 2 [At Mark Shepard's Nonviolence Page]
http://www.markshep.com/nonviolence/Myths.html

Primary Sources:

World War I

World War I Document Archive [At Brigham Young University]
http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/

The Dual Alliance Between Austria-Hungary and Germany, October 7, 1879 [At Yale]
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/dualalli.htm

Private Donald Fraser, Canadian Expeditionary Force: Selections from My Daily Journal, 1915-1916 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1918fraser.html

Fritz Kriesler: Four Weeks in the Trenches, 1915 [At H-net]
http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~habsweb/sourcetexts/kreis1.htm

The Peace Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, 1918 [At Yale]
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/brest.htm

The Treaty of Versailles, June 28, 1919 [At Yale]
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/imt/menu.htm

The Russian Revolution

Vladimir Illyich Lenin: Our Programme, 1899 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1899lenin-program.html

Vladimir Illyich Lenin: State and Revolution, 1918 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/lenin-staterev.html

Tsar Nicholas II, Abdication, (March 15, 1917) [At Brigham Young University]
http://net.lib.byu.edu/~rdh7/wwi/1917/abnick2.html

Resolutions adopted by the First All-Russian Congress of Soviets, (June 1917) [At Durham]
http://www.dur.ac.uk/a.k.harrington/congsovs.html

Anatoly Vasilievich Lunacharsky: Leo Trotsky, from Revolutionary Silhouttes [At Marxists Internet Archive]
http://www.marxists.org/archive/lunachar/works/silhouet/trotsky.htm

Hanging Order for Kulaks (1918) [At Library of Congress]
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/archives/ad2kulak.html

Indian Nationalism

Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948): Indian Home Rule, 1909 [At Wichita State University]
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_2/gandhi.html

Government of India: Text of the Original "Quit India" Resolution, April 27, 1942 [At ibiblio.org]
http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/policy/1942/420427a.html

Zionism

Theodor Herzl: On the Jewish State, 1896 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1896herzl.html

League of Nations: The Mandate for Palestine, July 24, 1922 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1922mandate.html

The Partition of Palestine: UN General Assembly Resolution 181, November 29, 1947 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1947UN181.html

Lesson 28 Depression, Dictatorship, and World War IIback to top of page

Secondary Sources:

The Weimar Republic Page
http://www.barnsdle.demon.co.uk/hist/weilin.html

The Holocaust [Mt. Holyoke]
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/holocaus.htm

Bernard Lazare: Antisemitism: Its History and Causes (1894), full text [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/jewish/lazare-anti.html

"Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust," by Daniel J. Goldhagen, a modern opinion [At HistoryPlace]
http://www.historyplace.com/pointsofview/goldhagen.htm

Revelations from the Russian Archives [At Library of Congress]
http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/archives/intro.html

Primary Sources:

The Depression

Treaty of Versailles, June 28, 1919 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1919versailles.html

John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946): The Economic Consequences of the Peace, 1920, excerpts [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1920keynes.html

American Life Histories, manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1940, contains primary oral accounts of the Depression in the United States [At Library of Congress]
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/wpahome.html

Nazism and World War II

Adolph Hitler: Reichstag Speech, February 20, 1938 [At Yale]
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/wwii/bluebook/blbk05.htm

Adolf Hitler: The Discovery of Antisemitism in Vienna, excerpts from Mein Kampf (1932) [At HNet]
http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~german/gtext/kaiserreich/hitler1.html

Neville Chamberlain: "Peace in Our Time," 1938 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1938PEACE.html

World War II Documents [At Yale]
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/wwii/wwii.htm

Documents of World War II [At Mt. Holyoke]
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/ww2.htm

Winston Churchill: "Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat," May 13, 1940 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/churchill-blood.html

Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945): "America, the Arsenal of Democracy" [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/roosevelt-arsenal.html

United States Declaration of War on Germany, December 11, 1941 [At University of Oklahoma]
http://www.law.ou.edu/hist/germwar.html

Pearl Harbor Attack Documents [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1941PEARL.html

United States Declaration of War on Japan, December 8, 1941 [At University of Oklahoma]
http://www.law.ou.edu/hist/japwar.html

Hermann Friedrich Graebe: Account of Holocaust Mass Shooting, 1942 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1942graebe.html

Rudolf Hoess, Commandant of Auschwitz: Testimony at Nuremburg, 1946 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1946hoess.html

German Surrender Documents [At University of Oklahoma]
http://www.law.ou.edu/hist/germsurr.html

Japanese Surrender Documents [At U Oklahoma]
http://www.law.ou.edu/hist/japsurr.html

The Nuremberg War Crimes Trials [At Yale]
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/imt/imt.htm

Russia under Stalin

Joseph Stalin (1879-1953): Industrialization of the Country, 1928 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1928stalin.html

Stalin's Purges: an official explanation [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1936purges.html

Hymn to Stalin [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/stalin-worship.html

Lesson 29 The West Since World War IIback to top of page

Secondary Sources:

Cold War International History Project
http://www.cwihp.org

Cold War Timeline
http://library.thinkquest.org/10826/timeline.htm

Russia [At Mt. Holyoke]
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/russia.htm

"The Collapse of the USSR and the destiny of Socialism," by Sam Marcy [At University of Washington]
http://eserver.org/history/collapse-of-ussr.txt

Primary Sources:

The Cold War

Winston S. Churchill: "Iron Curtain Speech," March 5, 1946 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/churchill-iron.html

Joseph Stalin: Reply to Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech, 1946 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1946stalin.html

The Truman Doctrine, 1947 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1947TRUMAN.html

Khrushchev and Eisenhower: Summit Statements, May 16, 1960 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1960summit-statements1.html

United Nations: Cuban Missile Crisis Debate, 1962 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1962-cuba-un1.html

Soviet Statement: Friendship and Co-operation Between the Soviet Union and Other Socialist States, October 30, 1956 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1956soviet-coop1.html

Communism in China

Mao Zedong (1893-1976): Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan, March 1927 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1927mao.html

Mao Zedong: The People's Democratic Dictatorship [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1949mao.html

The Vietnam War

Vietnamese Declaration of Independence, 1945 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1945vietnam.html

Charles de Gaulle: France's Attitude Toward U.S. Policy in Vietnam, 1964 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1964degaulle-vietnam.html

President Lyndon Johnson and Ho Chi Minh: Letter Exchange, 1967 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1967-vietnam-letters1.html

Vietnam Veterans Against the War Statement, 1971 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1972VVAW.html

Lesson 30 The Rise of the Third World and the Global Villageback to top of page

Secondary Sources:

Modern International Relations, by Professor Vincent Ferraro, with full texts of source documents and secondary discussions [At Mt. Holyoke]
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/feros-pg.htm

Primary Sources:

The Developing "Third World"

United Nations: Declaration on Granting Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, 1960 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1960-un-colonialism.html

Documents Relating to the Global Economy [At Mt. Holyoke]
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/globecon.htm

Global Poverty [At Mt. Holyoke]
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/chossu.htm

Ethnic Conflict [At Mt. Holyoke]
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/ethnic.htm

Africa

UN Resolution 1598: On Race Conflict in South Africa, 1961 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1961-un-southafrica1.html

A. L. Geyer: The Case for Apartheid, 1953 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1953geyer.html

Nelson Mandela: Speech on Release from Prison, 1990 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1990MANDELA.html

Nelson Mandela: Inaugural Address, May 10, 1994 [At Wichita State University]
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_2/mandela.html

Anwar el Sadat: Afro-Asian Solidarity and the World Mission of the Peoples of Africa and Asia, 1957 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1957sadat-afroasian1.html

The Revolutions of 1989

Balkan History Documents [At Mt. Holyoke]
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/bosnia.htm

India and the Islamic World

Declaration of Pakistan and India on Jammu and Kashmir, 1966 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1966kashmir1.html

The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Documents [At Mt. Holyoke]
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/me.htm

The Hamas Covenant, 1988 [At Yale]
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/mideast/hamas.htm

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Internet Indian Sourcebook
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http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/asbook.html

Medieval History Sourcebook
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.html

Global History Sourcebook