Internet Modern History Sourcebook
Additions in 1998
[For current year, see main New Additions Page]
CONTENTS
The Sourcebook became too large [nearly 300k] to maintain as one file. As of
July 1st 1998, it has been divided as follows.
1998
December
November
- WEB Nelson's Letters [At
anglia.co.uk][Added 11/29/1998]
- WEB The World Turned Upside Down [Added 11/29/1998]
A Major site on the radicals during the English Revolution, with many online texts..
- The Bloody Project Or a discovery of the New Designe, in the present War., 1648 [At The World
Turned Upside Down][Added 11/29/1998]
An early antiwar tract, written during the second round of the English Civil War.
- An Agreement of the
People for A firme and present Peace, upon grounds of common-right and freedome, 1647
[At The World Turned Upside Down][Added 11/29/1998]
- Edward Burrough: The
Epistle To The Reader, London the 9. Mo. 1658
an introduction to The Great Mystery of the Great Whore of Babylon Unfolded by George Fox.
[At The World Turned Upside Down][Added 11/29/1998]
A brief history of the early Quaker movement, in an epistle written in 1658 as an
introduction to a book written by George Fox defending the Quaker faith.
- Gerrard Winstanley: The
True Levellers Standard Advanced [At Campbell]
- The Gunpowder-Plot, 1605
[At Armistead][Added 11/29/1998]
The trial of Guy Fawkes and others - full transcription of the trial of the conspirators
in the Gunpowder-Plot.
- George Washington: Thanksgiving Proclamation, 1789
[At this Site][Added 11/25/1998]
- Johann Gottfried von Herder (1744-1803): Materials for
the Philosophy of the History of Mankind, 1784 [At this Site][Added 11/25/1998]
- Mary Antin: A Little Jewish Girl in the Russian Pale,
1890 [At this Site][Added 11/25/1998]
- Commander Vladimir Semenoff: Coaling at Sea, 1905
[At this Site][Added 11/25/1998]
The adventures of a Russian ship on its way to the Russo-Japanese war.
- A Magyar Folk-Tale: The Poor Man and the King of the Crows [At this Site][Added 11/25/1998]
- Jan Garay: The Pilgrim, A Magyar Tale [At this
Site][Added 11/25/1998]
- A Legend of the Austrian Tyrol: St. Kümmernis [At this
Site][Added 11/25/1998]
- Theodor Vernaleken: The Dog and the Wolf, A Bohemian
Folk-Tale [At this Site][Added 11/25/1998]
- Alexander Petofi: The National Song of Hungary,
1848 [At this Site][Added 11/25/1998]
- Bayard Taylor: The Salt Mines of Wieliczka, 1850 [At
this Site][Added 11/25/1998]
- Théophile Gautier: The Races on the Neva River, 1870 [At
this Site][Added 11/25/1998]
- John Henry Newman (1801-1890): Surrender to God (1st
Sunday in Lent), 1848 [At this Site][Added 11/25/1998]
- John Henry Newman (1801-1890): The World and Sin (2nd Sunday in Lent), 1848 [At this Site][Added 11/25/1998]
- John Henry Newman (1801-1890): Faith and Private
Judgement,1849 [At this Site][Added 11/25/1998]
- Nikita Krushchev: Address to the UN General Assembly,
Sept. 23 1960 [At this Site][Added 11/24/1998]
- TASS: Statement on the Eisenhower Doctrine,
January 14 1957 [At this Site][Added 11/24/1998]
- President Eisenhower: The Eisenhower Doctrine on
the Middle East, A Message to Congress, January 5, 1957 [At this Site][Added
11/24/1998]
- Pravda: Editorial: The Anti-Soviet Policy of Communist
China, February 16,1967 [At this Site][Added 11/24/1998]
- The Romanian Workers' Party: Statement on the
Sino-Soviet Dispute, April 22, 1964 [At this Site][Added 11/24/1998]
- Chinese Communist Party: The Leaders of the CPSU are the
Greates Splitters of Our Times, February 4, 1964 [At this Site][Added
11/24/1998]
- Nikita Khruschchev: Speech to the RFSR
Teacher's Congress - on Cuba, Moscow, July 9, 1960 [At this Site][Added
11/24/1998]
- Soviet Statement: Friendship and Co-operation Between
the Soviet Union and Other Socialist States, October 30, 1956 [At this
Site][Added 11/24/1998]
- Trybuna Ludu: Clear Current and Scum, 1956
[At this Site][Added 11/24/1998]
A Polish newspaper on events in Hungary.
- Sixteen Political, Economic, and Ideological Points,
Budapest, October 22, 1956 [At this Site][Added 11/24/1998]
- The Warsaw Pact, 1955 [At this Site][Added
11/24/1998]
- Cominform Comminuqué: Resolution of the Information
Bureau Concerning the Communist Party of Yugoslavia, June 28, 1948 [At this
Site][Added 11/24/1998]
- Old Serbian Tales: Marko and the Turks, c. 1450 [At this
Site][Added 11/24/1998]
- Alfred Lord Tennyson: Montenegro [At this
Site][Added 11/24/1998]
- Arthur D. Howden-Smith: An Attack on the Bashi-Bazouks,
Macedonia, 1907 [At this Site][Added 11/24/1998]
- Bernard Grant: The Flight of the Turks from Lule-Burgas,
1912 [At this Site][Added 11/24/1998]
- Philip Gibbs: The Siege of Adrianople, 1912 [At this
Site][Added 11/24/1998]
- Dr. Cyrus Hamlin: Turkish
Bread, 1907 [At this Site][Added 11/24/1998]
- Demetra Vaka: Aïshé
Hanoum, c. 1888 [At this Site][Added 11/24/1998]
Life of a Turkish woman.
- Julia Pardoe: The
Dancing Dervishes, 1902 [At this Site][Added 11/24/1998]
- Colonel L. du Couret: Justice in Arabia,
c. 1890 [At this Site][Added 11/24/1998]
- Encyclical of the Eastern Patriarchs, 1848 [At
this Site][Added 11/24/1998]
A Reply to the Epistle of Pope Pius IX, To the Easterns
- The Patriarchal Encyclical, 1895 [At this
Site][Added 11/24/1998]
A Reply to the Papal Encyclical of Pope Leo XIII On Reunion (1895)
- Count von Moltke: The Coronation of Tsar Alexander
II, 1855 [At this Site][Added 11/24/1998]
- Lindon Bates, Jr.: In a Tartar Tent, c. 1909 [At
this Site][Added 11/24/1998]
- Baroness M. De Packh: On The March to Siberia, c.
1840 [At this Site][Added 11/24/1998]
- Edmondo de Amicis: One Day in Morocco, c. 1870 [At this
Site][Added 11/24/1998]
- Paul du Chaillu: Travels in Africa, 1868-1870 [At
this Site][Added 11/24/1998]
- Anthony Trollope: The Diamond Fields of South
Africa, 1870 [At this Site][Added 11/24/1998]
- Gustave Freensen: In The German South African Army,
1903-1904 [At this Site][Added 11/24/1998]
- Alfred Egmont Hake: The
Death of General Gordon at Khartoum, 1885 [At this Site][Added 11/24/1998]
- George E. Thompson: The
Great Market of Tripoli, c. 1890 [At this Site][Added 11/24/1998]
- The Story of the Suez
Canal, from All the Year Round, January 8, 1876 [At this Site][Added
11/24/1998]
- Charles James Wills: A Persian Wedding, 1885 [At this Site][Added 11/24/1998]
- S. G. W. Benjamin: Life
in Persia, 1885 [At this Site][Added 11/24/1998]
- Samuel G. Wilson: New
Year's Calls and Gifts, Persia 1895 [At this Site][Added 11/24/1998]
- James M. Ludlow: The
Tribute of Children, 1493 [At this Site][Added 11/24/1998]
- Eustache de Lory: The
Persian Bazaars, 1910 [At this Site][Added 11/24/1998]
- Rev. Arthur Male: The
Hill of Bones, Afghanistan 1878 [At this Site][Added 11/24/1998]
- Sir Monier Monier-Williams: The Towers of Silence,
1870 [At this Site][Added 11/24/1998]
The Parsee's in Bombay.
- Robert Traill Spence Lowell: The Relief of Lucknow [At this Site][Added 11/20/1998]
- Field Marshal Lord Roberts: When Queen Victoria
Became Empress of India, 1877 [At this Site][Added 11/20/1998]
- Mountstuart Elphinstone: Indian Customs and
Manners, 1840 [At this Site][Added 11/20/1998]
Includes graphic account of suttee.
- Sir Monier Monier-Williams: Camp Life in India, 1850
[At this Site][Added 11/20/1998]
- Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke: On
Patriotism, 1730-1754 [At this Site][Added 11/18/1998]
- Rev. Charles Davy: The Earthquake at Lisbon, 1755 [At
this Site][Added 11/18/1998]
- Marie Antoinette: Letter to Her Mother, 1773 [At
this Site][Added 11/18/1998]
- Madame Campan: Memoirs of the Private Life of Marie
Antoinette, 1818 [At this Site][Added 11/18/1998]
- Charles O'Malley: Wellington's Crossing of the Douro,
1809 [At this Site][Added 11/18/1998]
- The Return of Napoleon from Elba, 1815 [At the
Site][Added 11/18/1998]
- Lord Byron: The Isles of Greece [At this Site][Added
11/18/1998]
- The French Constitution, 1830 [At this
Site][Added 11/18/1998]
- Percy B. St. John: The French Revolution in 1848 [At this
Site][Added 11/18/1998]
- George Makepeace Towle: Bismarck in the Reichstag and at
Home, 1880 [At this Site][Added 11/18/1998]
- Max Schneckenburger: The Watch on The Rhine, 1870 [At
this Site][Added 11/18/1998]
- Ernst Moritz Arndt: The German Fatherland [At this
Site][Added 11/18/1998]
- A War Correspondent in the Franco-Prussian War, 1870 [At
this Site][Added 11/18/1998]
- John Leighton: One Day Under the Paris Commune,
1871 [At this Site][Added 11/18/1998]
- Oswald Crawfurd: A Portuguese Shooting Party,
1880 [At this Site][Added 11/18/1998]
- Maurice Leudet: A Day with Kaiser Wilhelm II, 1898 [At
this Site][Added 11/18/1998]
- Mrs. Alfred Sidgwick: Student Life at the German
Universities, 1900 [At this Site][Added 11/18/1998]
- How the Swiss Built the Greatest Tunnel in the World,
1905 [At this Site][Added 11/18/1998]
- Clarence Rook: How Switzerland Defends Herself, 1908 [At
this Site][Added 11/18/1998]
- Prince Ukhtomskii: Russia's Imperial Destiny, 1891 [At
this Site][Added 11/9/1998]
- Richard Price: The Discourse on the Love of Country,
1789 [At this Site][Added 11/9/1998]
- Capt. F. D. Lugard: The Rise of Our East African Empire,
1893 [At this Site][Added 11/9/1998]
- Alexandre Millerand: Reformist Socialism, 1903 [At this
Site][Added 11/9/1998]
- Thomas Henry Huxley: The Struggle for Existence,
1888 [At this Site][Added 11/9/1998]
- Wilfred Scawen Blunt: Britain's Imperial Destiny, 1896-1899
[At this Site][Added 11/9/1998]
Sees an eventual decline of the Empire.
- Joseph Chamberlain: The Radical Programme, 1885 [At
this Site][Added 11/9/1998]
- W. L. Blease: The New Liberalism, 1913 [At this
Site][Added 11/9/1998]
On the emergence of social reformist/welfare liberalism, as in the British government of
1906.
- The Earl of Rosebery: The State of Liberalism,
1908 [At this Site][Added 11/9/1998]
- Thomas Henry Huxley: The Struggle for Existence,
1888 [At this Site][Added 11/9/1998]
- Walter Bagehot: The Use of Conflict, 1872 [At this
Site][Added 11/9/1998]
An application of evolutionary thought to military conflict.
- The Need for Source
Criticism: A Letter from Alexander to Aristotle? [At this Site][Added 11/8/1998]
- J. H. Gladstone: Points of Supposed Collision Between
the Scriptures and Natural Science, 1872 [At this Site][Added 11/8/1998]
- Survey of Brydithfield in
the Manor of Brandon, Suffolk [in Latin][At Kansas][Added 11/3/1998]
Transcription of a portion of Kenneth Spencer Research Library MS E112, a
sixteenth-century survey of the ten fields in the manor.
- Andrew Dickson White: A History of the Warfare
of Science with Theology in Christendom, 1896, full text, [At Wiretap][Added
11/3/1998]
- Anonymous: Confessions
of a Young Lady Laudanum-Drinker, The Journal of Mental Sciences January 1889
[At Drug Library][Added 11/3/1998]
- 2ND Ellen N. La Motte: The Opium Monopoly,
1920 [At Drug Library][Added 11/3/1998]
- H. H. Kane: A
Hashish-House in New York, Harper's Monthly, Vol. 67 (November, 1883),
944-49. [At Drug Library][Added 11/3/1998]
- F. E. Oliver, M.D. : The Use
and Abuse of Opium, Massachusetts State Board of Health, Third Annual Report (Boston: Wright and Potter, State Printers, 1872), 162-77. [At Drug Library][Added
11/3/1998]
- San Francisco
Chinatown Opium Den 1870's [Image][At Drug Library][Added 11/3/1998]
- Chinese Miners
in the Gold Fields - 1860 [Image][At Drug Library][Added 11/3/1998]
- Chinatown
Declared a Nuisance! [At Drug Library][Added 11/3/1998]
This is the full text of a sixteen-page pamphlet, "Chinatown Declared a
Nuisance!"; distributed by the Workingmen's Committee of California, it called for
the abatement of Chinatown as a health menace.
- California: Anti-Coolie
Act, 1862 [At Drug Library][Added 11/3/1998]
"An Act to protect free White labor against competition with Chinese collie labor,
and to discourse the immigration of the Chinese into the state of California, April 26,
1862"
- Albert S. Evans: A
Cruise on the Barbary Coast, Chapter 12 of A la California. Sketch of Life in the
Golden State, c, 1871. [At Drug Library][Added 11/3/1998]
- Lysander Spooner: Vices
Are Not Crimes: A Vindication of Moral Liberty, 1875 [At Drug Library][Added
11/3/1998]
- Abraham Lincoln: Temperance Address:
Delivered before the Springfield (Illinois) Washington Temperance Society,22d
February, 1842 [At Drug Library][Added 11/3/1998]
- Allen S. Williams: The
Demon of the Orient, 1883 [At Drug Library][Added 11/3/1998]
- Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859): Confessions of an English
Opium Eater [At Drug Library][Added 11/3/1998]
- 16th
Century Surgeon [At CCNY][Added 11/3/1998]
- 16th Century
Hebrew Printed Bible [At CCNY][Added 11/3/1998]
- Horace Walpole: The
Castle of Otranto, full text [At CMU][Added 11/3/1998]
- Michael Cervantes: Don
Quixote, trans. John Ormsby, full text [At CMU][Added 11/3/1998]
- Joseph II of Austria: Ideals [At
CCNY][Added 11/3/1998]
- League of Nations: The Mandate for Palestine, July 24,
1922 [At this Site][Added 11/3/1998]
- UN General Assembly Resolution 181: The Partition of Palestine,
November 29, 1947 [At this Site][Added 11/3/1998]
- WEB Cultural studies and Critical Theory [At
CMU][Added 11/3/1998]
- The Nuremberg Laws:Introduction,
1935 [At Holocaust/Shoah][Added 11/3/1998]
- Franz Kafka (1883-1924): Metamorphosis,
full text [At vr.net][Added 11/1/1998]
- Constitution of Japan, November 3, 1946 [At
this Site][Added 11/1/1998]
- 2ND Jacob Heilbrunn: Viewer
Discretion Advised - CNN's tendentious "Cold War." The New
Republic 11/9/1998, [At TNR][Added 11/1/1998]
Interesting attempt to accuse CNN of being contentious by a writer who surely cannot think
he is exempt?
- United States Atomic Energy Commission: In The Matter of J. Robert
Oppenheimer [At Yale][Added 11/1/1998]
Texts of Principal Documents and Letters of Personnel Security Board, General Manager,
Commissioners Washington, D.C., May 27, 1954, through June 29, 1954
- A Modern Relic Certificate, 1952 [At this
Site][Added 11/1/1998]
- 2ND Lee Siegel: The
Gay Science: Queer theory, Literature, and the Sexualization of Everything. The
New Republic 11/9/1998, [At TNR][Added 11/1/1998]
An extended attack on everybody involved in Queer Theory from a conservative magazine now
virtually indistinguishable from Commentary.
- 2ND Bernard Lazare: Antisemitism: Its History
and Causes, 1894, full text [At this Site][Added 11/1/1998]
- 2ND Jonathan Frankel: "Ritual Murder" in
the Modern Era: The Damascus Affair of 1840, Jewish Social Studies Volume 3,
Number 2 [At JSS][Added 11/1/1998]
- 2ND Anita Shapira: Historiography and Memory:
Latrun, 1948, Jewish Social Studies Volume 3, Number 1 [At JSS] [Added
11/1/1998]
- Emperor Kuang Hsu: Attempted
Reforms, 1898 [At this Site][Added 11/1/1998]
- Emperor Kuang Hsu: Abolition
of the Examination System, 1898 [At this Site][Added 11/1/1998]
- John W. Foster: The
Chinese Boycott, from The Atlantic Monthly, January 1906 [At this
Site][Added 11/1/1998]
- Isaac Taylor Headland, 1859-1942: Court life in
China: the capital, its officials and people, (New York, F.H. Revell, c1909), full
text [At this Site][Added 11/1/1998]
Contemporary discussion of reform efforts in late imperial China, with a significant
discussion of the lives of elite women.
- St. George Jackson Mivart (1827-1900): On the Genesis of the
Species, 1871 [At this Site][Added 11/1/1998]
Mivart was a Catholic convert who wrote a noted reply to the Darwinian thesis, which
he did not dismiss out of hand, in 1871. In 1876, Pope Pius IX conferred on him the degree
of doctor of philosophy.
- Samuel Wilberforce: On Darwin's Origin of
Species, 1860 [At this Site][Added 11/1/1998]
A negative reaction.
- Ludwig Büchner: Force and Matter--Empirico-Philosophical
Studies Intelligibly Rendered, 1855 [At this Site][Added 11/1/1998]
This is one of the most successful, and early, statements on Materialism stemming from the
conclusions of the New Science.
- Ernst Haeckel: The Confession of Faith of a Man of Science,
1892 [At this Site][Added 11/1/1998]
- James Kent: Commentaries on American
Law, 1826, full text [At Constitution.org][Added 11/1/1998]
- John Stuart Mill: Representative
Government, 1861, full text [At Constitution.org][Added 11/1/1998]
- 2ND Patricia Cline Cohen: The Murder of Helen Jewett
The Life and Death of a Prostitute in Nineteenth-Century New York, Chapter 1 [At NY
Times: you will be asked to "sign up" to access the text][Added 11/1/1998]
- WEB Philosophers, Scientists
and Theologians of the 19th Century [At Cybernex][Added 11/1/1998]
Names, dates, and major works (with text links where available)
- WEB Literature of the Victorian
Period [At ACCD][Added 11/1/1998]
Listing of the major British authors, with dates of their works, and links to the works
when online.
- WEB 19th Century British and
Irish Authors [At Nagoya][Added 11/1/1998]
Splendid online guide to texts and sites on 19th century authors
- WEB Literature of the English
Renaissance and Early Seventeenth Century [At ACCD][Added 11/1/1998]
Listing of the major British authors, with dates of their works, and links to the works
when online.
- WEB Restoration and Eighteenth
Century English Literature [At ACCD][Added 11/1/1998]
Listing of the major British authors, with dates of their works, and links to the works
when online.
- WEB The Romantic Movement in
British Literature [At ACCD][Added 11/1/1998]
Listing of the major British authors, with dates of their works, and links to the works
when online.
- WEB Modern British Literature [At ACCD][Added 11/1/1998]
Listing of the major British authors, with dates of their works, and links to the works
when online. Mostly Pre-WW II authors.
- Jeremy Bentham: Defence of Usury,
1787 [At Mcmaster][Added 11/1/1998]
- Caesar Beccaria: A Discourse on
Public Economy and Commerce [At Bristol][Added 11/1/1998]
- Blackstone's Commentaries, with
notes by St. George Tucker, 1803, full text [At Constitution.org][Added 11/1/1998]
- David Hume: Selected Essays, full
texts [At Constitution.org][Added 11/1/1998]
- David Hume: Of the Original
Contract, 1748, full text [At Constitution.org][Added 11/1/1998]
- David Hume: Idea of a Perfect
Commonwealth, 1754, full text [At Constitution.org][Added 11/1/1998]
- Jean Jacques Rousseau: A Discourse
on Political Economy, 1755, full text [At Constitution.org][Added 11/1/1998]
- Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu: The Spirit of the Laws, Translated by
Thomas Nugent, revised by J. V. Prichard, 1914 ed., full text [At Constitution.org][Added
11/1/1998]
- 2ND David J. Bederman: Reception of the
Classical Tradition in International Law: Grotius' De Jure Belli ac Pacis, 1996 [At
Emory][Added 11/1/1998]
- The Book of Common Prayer, 1662
[At BCP][Added 11/1/1998]
With some texts from the first Book of Common Prayer of 1549 and the second Book of 1552.
- WEB Oremus:
An Anglican Liturgical Library [Added 11/1/1998]
- The Act of
Uniformity, 1559, [At BCP][Added 11/1/1998]
- Touching for the
King's Evil (Scrofula) [At BCP][Added 11/1/1998]
- WEB Gerard Manley Hopkins Page [At
Creighton][Added 11/1/1998]
- Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889): Selected
Poetry [At Toronto][Added 11/1/1998]
- Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889): Poems, complete 1918
edition, [At Bartleby][Added 11/1/1998]
- Gilbert Keith Chesteron: Heretics, 1905, full
text, [At CCEL][Added 11/1/1998]
- Gilbert Keith Chesteron: Orthodoxy, 1909,
full text, [At CCEL][Added 11/1/1998]
- WEB G. K. Chesterton Page, including Chesterton's Works on the Web [At
Durham][Added 11/1/1998]
- WEB Mgsr. Robert Hugh Benson (1871-1914) [At
Notre Dame][Added 11/1/1998]
- Mgsr. Robert Hugh Benson (1871-1914): Papers of a Pariah,
1907 [At Notre Dame][Added 11/1/1998]
- Mgsr. Robert Hugh Benson (1871-1914): Confessions of a Convert,
1913 [At Notre Dame][Added 11/1/1998]
- Francis Thompson !859-1907): The Hound of Heaven,
with discussion [At Drexel][Added 11/1/1998]
- 2ND Peter C. Erb: A Question of Sovereignty: The Politics of
Manning's Conversion, 1996 [At Emory][Added 11/1/1998]
- 2ND Patrick Allitt: Catholic Converts:
British and American Intellectuals Turn to Rome, Chapter 1, with an interesting review by
Peter Steinfels. [At NY Times: you will be asked to "sign up" to access the
text][Added 11/1/1998]
October
- Lytton Strachey: Cardinal Manning (1807-1982), from Eminent
Victorians, 1918 [At this Site][Added 10/27/1998]
- John Henry Newman (1801-1890): The Second Spring: A
sermon delivered to the First Provincial Council of Westminster, 1852 [At this
Site][Added 10/27/1998]
- John Henry Newman (1801-1890): Sermon on Fasting [At
this Site][Added 10/27/1998]
- The Tracts for the Times, 1833-1841 [At this Site][Added
10/27/1998]
Listing of all tracts, with links to online texts were available.
- Tracts for the Times 1: Thoughts on the Ministerial
Commisson, 1833, [by John Henry Newman][At this Site][Added 10/27/1998]
- Tracts for the Times 2: The Catholic Church, 1833 [by
John Henry Newman][At this Site][Added 10/27/1998]
- Tracts for the Times 3: Thoughts on Alteration in the
Liturgy, 1833 [by John Henry Newman][At this Site][Added 10/27/1998]
- Tracts for the Times 4: Adherence to the Apostolical
Succession the Safest Course. On Alterations in the Prayer-book, 1833 [by
John Keble] [At this Site][Added 10/27/1998]
- John Henry Newman (1801-1890): A Letter Addressed to His
Grace the Duke of Norfolk on Occasion of Mr. Gladstone's Recent Expostulation, Dec.
27, 1874 [At this Site][Added 10/25/1998]
- John Henry Newman (1801-1890): On Consulting the Faithful
in Matters of Doctrine, July 1859 [At this Site][Added 10/25/1998]
- John Henry Newman (1801-1890): The Theory of
Developments in Religious Doctrine, 1843 [At this Site][Added 10/25/1998]
This is a "University Sermon" from 1843 (the last of his Fifteen Sermons
Preached Before the University of Oxford), not the more extended monograph of 1845.
- The Nature of History: A Debate between Marc
Trachtenberg and James M. Banner, Jr., 1998 [At this Site][Added 10/24/1998]
- Hans Mayr: The Voyage and Acts of Dom Francisco, 1505-
[At this Site][Added 10/24/1998]
- James Burney: The Maoris, 1777-73 [At this
Site][Added 10/24/1998]
- Pamphlet: In Defence of Laissez-Faire, c. 1840
[At this Site][Added 10/24/1998]
- Fei Ch'i-hao: The Boxer Rebellion, 1900 [At this
Site][Added 10/24/1998]
- Emmeline Pankhurst: My Own Story, 1914 [At this
Site][Added 10/24/1998]
- Jack London: The People of the Abyss:
Whitechapel in 1902 [At this Site][Added 10/24/1998]
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945): America, the Arsenal
of Democracy [At this Site][Added 10/24/1998]
- Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964): Speech On the Granting of Indian
Independence, August 14, 1947 [At this Site][Added 10/24/1998]
- A.J. Balfour (1848-1930): Defense of the Palestine Mandate,
1922 [At this Site][Added 10/24/1998]
- St. Francis Xavier: Letter from India, to the Society of
Jesus at Rome, 1543 [At this Site][Added 10/23/1998]
- St. Francis Xavier: Letter on the Missions, to St.
Ignatius de Loyola, 1549 [At this Site][Added 10/23/1998]
- St. Francis Xavier: Letter from Japan, to the Society of
Jesus at Goa, 1551 [At this Site][Added 10/23/1998]
- St. Francis Xavier: Letter from Japan, to the Society of
Jesus in Europe, 1552 [At this Site][Added 10/23/1998]
- Will Adams: My Coming to Japan, 1611 [At this
Site][Added 10/23/1998]
- Hsu Kuang-chi: Memorial to Fra Matteo Ricci, 1617 [At
this Site][Added 10/23/1998]
- Mendez Pinto: The Woman with the Cross, c. 1630 [At this
Site][Added 10/23/1998]
A Chinese Christian woman.
- Père du Halde: Teaching Science to the Manchu Emperor, c.
1680 [At this Site][Added 10/23/1998]
- Père du Halde: The Manchu Emperor and Chinese Music, c.
1680 [At this Site][Added 10/23/1998]
- Père du Halde: Chinese Punishments, c. 1680 [At this
Site][Added 10/23/1998]
- Père Gerbillon: A Visit to a Lama, c. 1690 [At this
Site][Added 10/23/1998]
- Commissioner Lin: Letter to Queen Victoria, 1839 [At this
Site][Added 10/23/1998]
- Yan Phou Lee: When I Went to School in China, 1880 [At
this Site][Added 10/23/1998]
A late Confucian education.
- Charles Dudley Warner: Up the Cataracts of the Nile, 1875
[At this Site][Added 10/23/1998]
- Edwin Wildman: A Visit to Aguinaldo, Leader of the
Philippine Rebels, 1898 [At this Site][Added 10/23/1998]
- R. L. Bullard: Preparing Our Moros for Government, 1906
[At this Site][Added 10/23/1998]
- W. A. P. Martin: The Worship of Ancestors, 1900 [At
this Site][Added 10/23/1998]
- William Henry Furness III: A Visit to a Head-Hunter of Borneo,
1901 [At this Site][Added 10/23/1998]
- Sir Edwin Arnold: A Japanese Dinner Party, 1890 [At
this Site][Added 10/23/1998]
- Alice M. Bacon: How Japanese Ladies Go Shopping, 1890
[At this Site][Added 10/23/1998]
- Martin Luther: On the Freedom of a Christian,
full text [At this Site][Added 10/23/1998]
- Samuel P. Huntington: The West Unique: Not
Universal, Foreign Affairs 75/6, Nov-Dec 96 [At Colorado][Added
10/23/1998]
- Norman O'Neal, S.J.: A
Sketch of the Life of St. Ignatius Loyola [At LUC][Added 10/23/1998]
- Thomas Jefferson: The Bible [At Angelfire][Added 10/23/1998]
Jefferson's re-writing of the Bible "as it should be" - with no miracles and
little theology
- John Calvin: The Order of
Excommunication and of Public Repentance 1569 [At SWRB][Added 10/23/1998]
- Aldous Leonard Huxley (1894-1963): Brave
New World, 1932, full text, [At Yggdrasil][Added 10/23/1998]
The site claims the US copyright is expired.
- Lugwig Wittgenstein: Tractatus
Logico-Philosophicus [At Witt][Added 10/23/1998]
Hypertext of the Ogden bilingual edition.
- Kurt Gödel: On Formally
Undecidable Propositions Of Principia Mathematica and Related Systems, 1931
full text with introduction, [At Yggdrasil][Added 10/23/1998]
- The Texas Declaration of
Independence, March 2, 1836 [At Texas Republic][Added 10/23/1998]
- Joseph Schumpeter: On the
Concept of Social Value, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 23, 1908-9.
[At Macmaster][Added 10/23/1998]
- Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805): Wilhelm
Tell, 1805, full text [At Yggdrasil][Added 10/23/1998]
- Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805): An
Ode to Joy [At Yggdrasil][Added 10/23/1998]
- George Orwell (1903-1950): Animal
Farm: A Fairy Story, 1946, full text [At Yggdrasil][Added 10/23/1998]
The site claims the US copyright is expired.
- Arthur Schopenhauer: On Suicide [At Frownland][Added 10/23/1998]
- Arthur Schopenhauer: On
the Sufferings of the World [At Frownland][Added 10/23/1998]
- Arthur Schopenhauer: The
Metaphysics of the Love of the Sexes [At Frownland][Added 10/23/1998]
- 2ND Intelligence in the
American War of Independence [At ODCI][Added 10/23/1998]
- 2ND William Hickling Prescott: The History of the Conquest of Mexico,
1843 [At BBS Laguna][Added 10/23/1998][Added 10/23/1998]
- WEB French
Legal Texts
- Law on Associations of 1 July 1901, in
French [At Bib. Lisieux][Added 10/23/1998]
- Law on the Separation of Churches and
State. 9 Dec 1905, in French [At Rabenou][Added 10/23/1998]
- Gwynne Lewis: The
People and the French Revolution [At Warwick][Added 10/23/1998]
- Denis Diderot (1713-1784): Regrets sur ma
vieille robe de chambre ou avis à ceux qui ont plus de goût que de fortune, 1772, in
French [At Bib. Lisieux][Added 10/23/1998]
- WWW La
Bibliotheque Eletronique De Lisieux
French texts, in French. Mostly 19th century.
- Le Manifeste
de la Noblesse de Normandie par lequel elle déclare reconnaître son Altesse Royale
pour Lieutenant Général pour le Roy et se joint aux Princes et aux Parlements pour
mettre en exécution les déclarations et arrêt donnés contre le Cardinal Mazarin,1652,
in French [At Bib. Lisieux][Added 10/23/1998]
- L'hercule
triomphant ou les heureux succès de sa Majesté en son voyage de Normandie, 1650,
in French [At Bib. Lisieux][Added 10/23/1998]
- Sigmund Freud (1856-1939): Five Lectures
on Psycho-Analysis: First Lecture [At Warwick][Added 10/23/1998]
- Sigmund Freud (1856-1939): Five Lectures
on Psycho-Analysis: Third Lecture [At Warwick][Added 10/23/1998]
- Sigmund Freud (1856-1939): Five Lectures
on Psycho-Analysis: Fifth Lecture [At Warwick][Added 10/23/1998]
- Friederich Nietzsche: "Good
and Evil," "Good and Bad" [At Warwick][Added 10/23/1998]
- Tom Wolfe: The Me Decade and the Third Great Awakening [At Warwick][Added 10/23/1998]
- The
Communist Manifesto,1848 [At Warwick][Added 10/23/1998]
An easy-to-cite version.
- Karl Marx: A
Contribution to the Critique of the Political Economy 1859 [At Warwick][Added
10/23/1998]
- F Engels: Speech
at the Graveside of Karl Marx, 1883 [At Warwick][Added 10/23/1998]
- Henri Saint-Simon: Lettres d'un
habitant de Genèeve a ses contemporains [At Warwick][Added 10/23/1998]
- Henri Saint-Simon: Series of the
Development of Human Intelligence [At Warwick][Added 10/23/1998]
- Henri Saint-Simon: The Failure of
European Liberalism, 1824 [At Warwick][Added 10/23/1998]
- Auguste Comte: View of the
Nature and Importance of the Positive Philosophy [At Warwick][Added 10/23/1998]
- Auguste Comte: The Action of
Positivism on the Working classes [At Warwick][Added 10/23/1998]
- Charles Baudelaire: What is
Romanticism? [At Warwick][Added 10/23/1998]
- Philipp Otto Runge: Letter to his
brother Daniel, March 9, 1802 [At Warwick][Added 10/23/1998]
- Freidrich Schlegel: Extract from
Descriptions of Paintings, 1802-1804 [At Warwick][Added 10/23/1998]
- J W Goethe, "Einleitung
in die Propylaen" [At Warwick][Added 10/23/1998]
- Carl Gustav Carus: Extract from
Nine Letters on Landscape Painting [At Warwick][Added 10/23/1998]
- Walter Scott: The Patriot [At Warwick][Added 10/23/1998]
- Bibliography
on History of Disease [At Warwick][Added 10/23/1998]
- Adolf Hitler: Reichstag
Speech, February 20, 1938 [At Yale][Added 10/23/1998]
- Margaret Sanger (1883-1966): The Pivot of Civilization,
full text [Gutenberg][Added 10/23/1998]
- The Schleitheim Confession,
adopted by a Swiss Brethren Conference, February 24, 1527 [At Anabaptists.org][Added
10/23/1998]
- George Fox and Other Quakers (attrib): Letter to the Governor of Barbadoes,1671
[At cpcug][Added 10/23/1998]
- WEB The Wesleys and Their Times [At
UMC][Added 10/23/1998]
A site with many orginal texts.[Added 10/23/1998]
- John Wesely: Advice to a
People Called Methodist, 1745 [At UMC][Added 10/23/1998]
- John Wesley: The Character
of a Methodist [At UMC][Added 10/23/1998]
- John Wesley: Thoughts Upon Slavery,
1774 [At UMC][Added 10/23/1998]
Wesley was opposed to slavery, but this is interesting as it includes explict descriptions
of the way in which people were enslaved and treated. A great example of the moral force
of Evangelical Christianity.
- William Penn: A Letter to the
King of Poland On behalf of the Friends of Dantzic, 1677 [At Delphi][Added 10/23/1998]
- The Barmen Declaration, 1934 [At
UCC] [Added 10/23/1998]
A call to resistance against the theological claims of the Nazi state, In 1934 the
emerging "Confessing Church" adopted this declaration drafted by Reformed
theologian Karl Barth and Lutheran theologian Hans Asmussen.
- Richmond Conference (Quakers): Declaration
of Faith , 1887 [At cpcug]
but see another opinion [Added
10/23/1998]
- The King and Queenes Entertainement
at Richmond. September 12, 1636. (Charles II.) [At Oregon][Added 10/12/98]
- Samuel Pepys: The Concise
Pepys Diary, in chapter files, [At Bibliomania][Added 10/12/98]
- Adam Smith (1723-90): The Wealth of Nations,
in chapter files, full text, [At Bibliomania][Added 10/12/98]
- George Bernard Shaw: An
Unsocial Socialist [Project Gutenberg Release #1654][Added 10/12/98]
- 2ND Edward Simmonds: A Student's History of
American Literature [At Bibliomania][Added 10/12/98]
- A.S. Eddington (1882-1944): Stars and Atoms,
1926 in chapter files, full text, [At Bibliomania][Added 10/12/98]
- Sigmund Freud (1856-1939):: The Interpretation of Dreams,
in chapter files, full text, [At Bibliomania][Added 10/12/98]
- Percival Lowell (1855-1916): Mars, 1895, in
chapter files, full text, [At Bibliomania][Added 10/12/98]
- James Nasmyth: Autobiography,
1897, in chapter files, full text, [At Bibliomania][Added 10/12/98]
- Sir Henry Bessemer (1813-1898): Autobiography,
1905, in chapter files, full text, [At Bibliomania][Added 10/12/98]
- 2ND John Tyndall: Faraday as a
Discoverer, 1894, in chapter files, full text, [At Bibliomania]
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762): Dining With
The Sultana, 1718 [At this Site][Added 10/8/98]
- A Visit to the Wife of Suleiman the Magnificent (Translated from a Genoese Letter), c. 1550 [At this Site][Added 10/8/98]
- Nightmares of a Rwandan Survivor,
[At the Guardian][Added 10/5/98]
- Desiderius Erasmus: The Praise of Folly (Moriae
Encomium), 1509 [At this Site][Full text][Added 10/1/98]
- Jules Jezequal: Transylvania Ten Years After, 1928
[At this Site][Added 10/1/98]
- Edward Dicey: Bulgarian Political Attitudes, 1894 [At
this Site][Added 10/1/98]
- Jan Slomka: The Life of a Polish Peasant, c. 1900
[At this Site][Added 10/1/98]
- Ivan Derer: The Autonomist Movement in Slovakia, 1938
[At this Site][Added 10/1/98]
- The Pact of Corfu & The Formation of Yugoslavia,
1917 [At this Site][Added 10/1/98]
- William Miller: Modern Greek Politics, 1928 [At this
Site][Added 10/1/98]
- Dushan Popovitch & T. Katzerovitch: Memorandum on the
Austro-Hungarian Occupation of Serbia Presented to the Socialist Conference at
Stockholm, 1917 [At this Site][Added 10/1/98]
- Eduard Bene: The Rationale for The Little Entente,
1924 [At this Site][Added 10/1/98]
- Eduard Bene: The Coup d'Etat in Prague, October 28,
1918 [At this Site]
- Zachary Stoyanoff: The Stara Zagora Uprising, 1875
[At this Site][Added 10/1/98]
- Sir Edwin Pears: The Massacre of Bulgarians,
1876 [At this Site][Added 10/1/98]
- H. M. Tomlinson: The Sea and the
Jungle, 1912 [At Eldritch Press][Added 10/1/98]
"Narrative of the voyage of the tramp steamer Capella from Swansea to Para in the
Brazils, and thence 2000 miles along the forests of the Amazon.."
- Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca: Adventures
in the Unknown Interior of America, 1542, translated and annotated by Cyclone Covey
(1963, copyright not renewed), full text [At Eldritch][Added 10/1/98]
"The semi-official report to the king of Spain by the ranking surviving officer of a
royal expedition to conquer Florida which fantastically miscarried."
- The Constitution of the Empire
of Japan, 1889 [At Hanover][Added 10/1/98]
- Telegram from the American
Consulater in Sweden to the U.S. Secretary of State, March 17, 1917 [At Hanover][Added
10/1/98]
- Telegram from the American
Consulate in Petrograd to the U.S. Secretary of State, March 20, 1917 [At
Hanover][Added 10/1/98]
- Telegram from the American
Consulate in Moscow to the U.S. Secretary of State, March 20, 1917 [At Hanover][Added
10/1/98]
- Letters Patent Establishing the
French Academy, 1635, excerpts [At Hanover][Added 10/1/98]
- Benefit of Clergy denied to
Murderers, 1512 [At Hanover][Added 10/1/98]
- Queen Elizabeth I: Proclamation
to Forbid Preaching, 1558 [At Hanover][Added 10/1/98]
- The 1559 Injunctions [At
Hanover][Added 10/1/98]
- Puritan Voices [At
Hanover][Added 10/1/98]
Nehemiah Wallington, Diary; Josias Nichols, A Plea for the Innocent; Anonymous, Letter
from Hell; Anonymous, Aminadab Blower
- Ordinances For The Regulation of
the Churches Dependent Upon the Seigniory of Geneva, 1547, [At Hanover][Added 10/1/98]
- Nicholas de la Fontaine: The
Complaint Against Michael Servetus, 14 August, 1553 [At Hanover][Added 10/1/98]
Servetus was a unitarian who attracted the disapproval of Calvin. Calvin had him attacked,
handed over to the Inquisition in Lyons, where he was burnt.
- Johan De Laet (1582-1649): New World, or
Description of West-India: Of the Nature of the Land and Manners of the Folk on the
Great River of Mountains [At Brooklyn/Burrows][Added 10/1/98]
On New Netherlands, ie New York.
- Nicolaes Van Wassenaer: Excerpts from the
"Historisch Verhael" (Historical Account), 1624-1630 [At
Brooklyn/Burrows][Added 10/1/98]
By resident of Amsterdam named Nicolaes Van Wassenaer on the formation of the Dutch West
India Company and its colonizing efforts in New Netherland.
- Isaack de Rasieres: Excerpts from a
Letter to Samuel Blommaert, c.1628 [At Brooklyn/Burrows][Added 10/1/98]
On earliest New York.
- Oath of a Freeman
of the City of New York, 1731 [At Brooklyn/Burrows][Added 10/1/98]
- Table: Population
of North American Ports to 1775 [At Brooklyn/Burrows][Added 10/1/98]
- WEB The Gaskell Page [At
Nagoya][Added 10/1/98]
A Comprehensive web page dedicated to the works of Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-65). It
includes ALL of Mrs. Gaskell's writings as etexts, as well as a lot of ancillary material
about 19th-century England.
September
- Émile Zola: Germinal, 1885
Translated by Havelock Ellis (1894), full text [At Eldritch Press][Added 9/14/98]
See also Paul Brian's Study
Guide [At WSU]
- Émile Zola: J'accuse [French text][At BPJJ][Added 9/14/98]
- Luxun Lu Hsun (1881-1936): Selected Stories of Lu Hsun,
Translated by
Yang Hsien-yi and Gladys Yang, full text of 20 stories. [At Eldritch Press][Added 9/14/98]
A leading May 4th Movement writer.
- Natsume Soseki (1867-1916): Kokoro,
translation by Edwin McClellan. [At Eldritch][Added 9/14/98]
- Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904): Writings
on Japan [At Eldritch][Added 9/14/98]
- Virginia Reed Murphy: Across the Plains in the
Donner Party: A Personal Narrative of the Overland Trip to California [Added 9/14/98]
- Lothrup Stoddard: The Revolt
Against Civilization: The Menace of the Under Man, 1922 [At Patrick Henry
Online][Added 9/14/98]
Practical social darwinism.
- Henri Barbusse (1874-1935): Under
Fire: The Story of a Squad, 1916, full text [At Eldritch][Added 9/14/98]
- John Dos Passos: One Man's
Initiation: 1917: A Novel, 1920 full text [At Eldritch][Added 9/14/98]
- Georges Duhamel (Denis Thévenin)(1884-1966): Civilization 1914-1917,
translated by E. S. Brooks [At Eldritch][Added 9/14/98]
- Carl von Clausewitz: Principles of War,
1818 [At Stacpole][Added 9/14/98]
- Frederick Winslow Taylor, M.E., Sc. D.: The Principles of Scientific Management,
1911 [At Eldritch][Added 9/14/98]
- Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888): An
Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving [At Eldritch][Added 9/14/98]
- Pierre Vidal-Naquet: The
Assassins of Memory: Essays on the Denial of the Holocaust [At CMU][Added 9/14/98]
- Andrew F. Crosse: The Transylvanian Germans, 1878
[At this Site][Added 9/14/98]
- Charles K. Tuekerman: The Greeks of Today, 1878 [At
this Site][Added 9/14/98]
- The Treaty of London For Greek Independence, July 6,
1827, excerpts [At this Site][Added 9/14/98]
- Michael J. Quin: A Voyage Down the Danube, 1836 [At this
Site][Added 9/14/98]
- The Firman of Investiture of Prince Charles of
Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen as Prince of the United Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia,
October 23, 1866 [At this Site][Added 9/14/98]
- Captain Spencer: The Perils of Travel through Moldavia,
1854 [At this Site][Added 9/14/98]
- Adam Neale: The Romanian Principalities, 1818 [At this
Site][Added 9/14/98]
- William MacMichael: The Court at Bucharest, 1819 [At
this Site]
- Thomas Thorton: The Phanariots of Moldavia, 1809
[At this Site][Added 9/14/98]
- Paul, Archdeacon of Aleppo: Wallachia in 1657 from The Travels of Macarius, Patriarch of Antioch [At this Site][Added 9/14/98]
- Henry Blount: A Voyage Into The Levant, 1634 [At this
Site][Added 9/14/98]
In this case the "Levant" means Hungary.
- Thomas Jefferson: Autobiography 1743-1790, 1821 [At
this Site][Added 9/14/98]
Includes his account of events in Paris in 1789.
- Charles Peirce: The Fixation of Belief [At this Site][Added
9/14/98]
- Charles Lyell: Principles of Geology III & IV [At this Site][Added 9/14/98]
- William Harvey (1578-1657): On the Motion of the Heart,
excerpts [At this Site][Added 9/14/98]
- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745): Hints Towards An Essay
On Conversation, 1713 [At this Site][Added 9/14/98]
- John Woolman (1720-1772): Journal, full text, [At this
Site][Added 9/6/98]
Journal of an 18th century English Quaker and his travels among Friends in America.
- Commonwealth Instrument of Government, 1653 [At
this Site][Added 9/6/98]
- Martin Luther (1483-1546): Commentary on the Epistle to
the Galatians, 1535, abridged, but very long, [At this Site][Added 9/6/98]
- Sidi Ali Reis (16th Century CE): Mirat ul Memalik (The
Mirror of Countries), 1557 CE [At this Site][Added 9/2/98]
Europeans were not the only ones to look at other cultures. This is a Turkish Admiral's
account of his travels in the world of India and the Middle East.
- John Winthrop: Arbitrary government described and the
Government of the Massachusetts vindicated from that aspersion, 1644 [At this
Site][Added 9/2/98]
- Martin Luther (1483-1546): Address To The Nobility of the
German Nation, 1520, full text [At this Site][Added 9/2/98]
- 2ND Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859): Essay On Machiavelli, 1850 [At this
Site][Added 9/2/98]
- William Ellery Channing (1780-1842): On The Elevation
of The Laboring Classes, 1840 [At this Site][Added 9/2/98]
- Sir Henry Vane: Healing Question, 1656 [At this
Site][Added 9/2/98]
A proposal for civil and religious liberty by the former governor of Massachusetts.
- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891): On Democracy,
1868 [At this Site][Added 9/2/98]
- Annexation of The Hawaiian Islands, 1898 [At this
Site][Added 9/2/98]
- Robert E. Lee: Farewell To His Army, 1865 [At this
Site][Added 9/2/98]
- Terms of Lee's Surrender At Appomattox, 1865 [At
this Site][Added 9/2/98]
- Proclamation Declaring The Insurrection At An End,
1866 [At this Site][Added 9/2/98]
- John L. O'Sullivan: The
Democratic Principle 1838 [At Furman][Added 9/2/98]
- Woman's Rights Petition to
the New York Legislature, 1854 [At Furman][Added 9/2/98]
- Report of the Select Committe
[On the Women's Rights Petition], In Assembly, March 27, 1854 [At Furman][Added
9/2/98]
- John C. Calhoun: The Southern
Address, 1849 [At Furman][Added 9/2/98]
- William Henry Seward: "Higher
Law" Speech, 1850 [At Furman][Added 9/2/98]
- Calhoun and Seward wordlists,
side-by-side [At Furman][Added 9/2/98]
- Angelina E. Grimké: Appeal
To The Christian Women of the South, 1836, full text [At Furman][Added 9/2/98]
Text of one of the few abolitionist treatises published by a Southern
white woman.
- Rev. Dr. Richard Furman: Exposition
of the Views of the Baptists, Relative to the Coloured Population in the United States,
2nd ed, 1838 [At Furman][Added 9/2/98]
A defence of slavery on Biblical principles.
August
- Lt. Tadayoshi Sakurai: The Attack upon Port Arthur,
1905 [At this Site][Added 8/28/98]
- Pierre Loti: When the Allies Entered Peking, 1900 [At
this Site][Added 8/28/98]
- Commodore Matthew Perry: When We Landed in Japan,
1854 [At this Site][Added 8/28/98]
- Francis Ottiwell Adams: The Schools of Japan [At
this Site][Added 8/28/98]
Description from the mid 19th century
- Townsend Harris: The President's Letter [At this
Site][Added 8/28/98]
Harris was the first US ambassador to Japan.
- Channing Arnold & Frederick J. Tabor Frost: The Rule of
Porfirio Diaz, 1909 [At this Site][Added 8/28/98]
- Thomas Browne (1605-1682): Religio Medici, 1643
[At this Site][Added 8/28/98]
- William Harrison (1534-1593): Description Of
Elizabethan England, 1577
(from Holinshed's Chronicles) [At this Site][Added 8/26/98]
- Francis Pretty: Sir Francis Drake's Famous Voyage Round
The World, 1580 [At this Site][Added 8/26/98]
- Sir Walter Raleigh (1554-1618): The Discovery of
Guiana, 1595 [At this Site][Added 8/26/98]
- John Milton (1608-1674): Areopagitica,1643 [At this
Site][Added 8/26/98]
- John Locke (1632-1704): Some Thoughts Concerning
Education, 1692 [At this Site][Added 8/26/98]
- William Roper: The Life of Sir Thomas More [At this
Site][Added 8/26/98]
- Robert Louis Stevenson: Samuel Pepys, (written
1886) [At this Site][Added 8/26/98]
- Eric Berger: The
Birthplace of the Web, 1991 [At ChemTeam][Added 8/24/98]
- Michael Faraday: Observations
on the Filth of the Thames, contained in a letter addressed to the Editor of "
The Times" Newspaper, 1855 [At ChemTeam][Added 8/24/98]
- Louis Pasteur (1822-1895): Germ Theory and Its
Applications to Medicine and Surgery, 1878 [At this Site][Added 8/24/98]
- Louis Pasteur (1822-1894): Extension of The Germ Theory,
1880 [At this Site][Added 8/24/98]
- Louis Pasteur (1822-1895): Physiological Theory of
Fermentation, 1879 [At this Site][Added 8/24/98]
- Gotthold Ephriam Lessing (1729-1781): The Education
of The Human Race, 1778 [At this Site][Added 8/24/98]
- Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778): A Discourse Upon
The Origin and The Foundation of The Inequality among Mankind [At this Site][Added
8/24/98]
- William Penn (1644-1718): Some Fruits of Solitude In
Reflections And Maxims, 1682 [At this Site][Added 8/24/98]
- Mecklenberg Declaration of Independence, 1775 [At
this Site][Added 8/24/98]
- Luther's Tower Experience, 1519 [At this
Site][Added 8/24/98]
- The Belgic Confession, 1561 (1619 version) [At
this Site][Added 8/24/98]
- The Canons of the Synod of Dordt, 1618-1619 [At this
Site][Added 8/24/98]
- Blaise Pascal (1623-1662): Penseés (Thoughts),
1660 [At this Site][Added 8/24/98]
- The Discovery of North America by Leif Ericsson, c. 1000
from The Saga of Eric the Red, (1387) [At this Site][Added 8/24/98]
- Sir William Thomson (Lord Kelvin)(1824-1907): Tides,
1882 [At this Site][Added 8/22/98]
- Sir William Thomson (Lord Kelvin)(1824-1907): Wave
Theory Of Light, 1884 [At this Site][Added 8/22/98]
- Simon Newcomb (1835-1909): Extent of The Universe,
1884 [At this Site][Added 8/22/98]
- Joseph Lister (1827-1912): Antiseptic Principle of The
Practice of Surgery, 1867 [At this Site][Added 8/22/98]
- Edward Jenner (1749-1823): Three Original Publications on
Vaccination Against Smallpox, 1798 [At this Site][Added 8/22/98]
- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894): Contagiousness of
Puerperal Fever, 1843 [At this Site][Added 8/22/98]
- Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz: On The
Conservation Of Force, 1863 [At this Site][Added 8/22/98]
- Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz: Ice and
Glaciers, 1865 [At this Site][Added 8/22/98]
- Archibald Geikie: Geographical Evolution, 1879
[At this Site][Added 8/22/98]
- William Harvey (1578-1657): On The Motion Of The Heart
And Blood In Animals, 1628 [At this Site][Added 8/22/98]
- Edward Haies: Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage To
Newfoundland, 1583 [At this Site][Added 8/22/98]
- Ben Jonson (1573-1625): On Lord Francis Bacon, 1625
[At this Site][Added 8/22/98]
- Francis Bacon (1561-1626): The New Atlantis, 1627
[At this Site][Added 8/22/98]
- Abraham Cowley (1618-1667): Of Agriculture,
1650 [At this Site][Added 8/22/98]
- Michael Faraday (1791-1867): Lectures on the Forces of
Matter, 1859 [At this Site][Added 8/22/98]
- Michael Faraday (1791-1867): The Chemical History of A
Candle, 1860 [At this Site][Added 8/22/98]
- H.C. Ernst: Extension of The Germ Theory, 1880 [At
this Site][Added 8/22/98]
- Thomas H. Huxley (1825-95): Science and Culture,
1880 [At this Site][Added 8/22/98]
- Sydney Smith (1771-1845): Fallacies of Anti-Reformers,
1824 [At this Site][Added 8/22/98]
- Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859): Levana and Our Ladies of
Sorrow, 1821 [At this Site][Added 8/22/98]
- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881): On Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832),
1838 [At this Site][Added 8/22/98]
- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822): Defence of Poetry,
1819 [At this Site][Added 8/22/98]
- J. C. Friedrich Von Schiller (1759-1805): Letters Upon
The Aesthetic Education of Man, 1794 [At this Site][Added 8/22/98]
- John Henry Newman (1801-1890): The Idea of A
University, 1854 [At this Site][Added 8/22/98]
- Edward Augustus Freeman (1823-92): Race and Language,
1879 [At this Site]
- Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778): Profession of
Faith of a Savoyard Vicar, 1782 [At this Site][Added 8/20/98]
- David Hume (1711-1776): Of the Standard of Taste, 1760
[At this Site][Added 8/20/98]
- Daniel Defoe (1660-1731): On The Education Of Women,
1719 [At this Site][Added 8/20/98]
- Voltaire (1694-1778): On The Royal Society And
Other Academies from Letters on the English or Lettres Philosophiques, c.
1778 [At this Site][Added 8/20/98]
- Voltaire (1694-1778): On John Locke, from Letters
on the English or Lettres Philosophiques, c. 1778 [At this Site][Added
8/20/98]
- Voltaire (1694-1778): On Francis Bacon, from
Letters on the English or Lettres Philosophiques, c. 1778 [At this
Site][Added 8/20/98]
- Voltaire (1694-1778): Letters on Newton,
from the Letters on the English or Lettres Philosophiques, c. 1778 [At this
Site][Added 8/20/98]
- Voltaire (1694-1778): Letters on the English or Lettres
Philosophiques, full text, c. 1778 [At this Site][Added 8/20/98]
- Edmund Burke (1729-1797): On Taste, c. 1756 [At this
Site][Added 8/20/98]
- Zimmerman
Telegram [At NARA][Added 8/16/98]
- Dr. John Wallis: The Origin of The Royal Society,
1645-1662 [At this Site][Added 8/16/98]
- Juan Domingo Perón: Justicialism, 1948/1950 [At this
Site][Added 8/7/98]
- Selections from Der Stuermer [At this
Site][Added 8/3/98]
- United States-Spain: Treaty of 1819 [At this Site][Added
8/3/98]
By which the US acquired Florida.
- US Recognition of Cuban Independence, 1898 [At this
Site][Added 8/3/98]
- Convention Between the US and Panama (Panama Canal), 1903
[At this Site][Added 8/3/98]
- Washington Irving: A Tour on
the Prairies, 1835 [At nakedword][Added 8/3/98]
- Carl Schurz: Abraham Lincoln:
An Essay,1891 [At nakedword][Added 8/3/98]
- Abraham Lincoln: Letter to Mrs. Bixby, 1864 [At
this Site][Added 8/3/98]
- Slaves' Appeal to Thomas Gage, Royal Governor of
Massachusetts, May 25 1774 [At this Site][Added 8/3/98]
- The Heidelberg Catechism,1542
[At CCEL][Added 8/3/98]
The standard Calvinist confession of faith.
- St. Francis de Sales (1567-1622): Introduction to the Devout Life [At CCEL]
- Amerigo Vespucci (1452-1512): Account of His First
Voyage, 1497 [At this Site][Added 8/3/98]
- John Cabot (c.1450-1499): Voyage to North America,
1497 [At this Site][Added 8/3/98]
July
- Jomo Kenyatta: The Kenya Africa Union is Not the Mau
Mau, 1952 [At this Site][Added 7/31/98]
- France: The "Loi-Cadre" of June 23, 1956
[At this Site][Added 7/31/98]
- All-African People's Conference: Resolution on Imperialism
and Colonialism, Accra, December 5-13, 1958 [At this Site][Added 7/31/98]
- The National Party's Colour Policy, 1948 [At
this Site][Added 7/31/98]
- UN Resolution 1598: On Race Conflict in South Africa,
1961 [At this Site][Added 7/31/98]
- U Thant: The Congo Problem, 1962 [At this
Site][Added 7/31/98]
- Charter of the Organisation of African Unity, May 25
1963 [At this Site][Added 7/31/98]
- Rhodesia: Unilateral Declaration of Independence
Documents, 1965 [At this Site][Added 7/31/98]
- Prime Minister Ian Smith: Announcement of Unilateral Declaration of Independence,
November 11, 1965
- Prime Minister Harold Wilson: The Position of the British Government on the Unilateral
Declaration of Independenec by Rhodesia, Speech to Parliament, November 11,1965
- Soviet Government Statement: The Situation in Southern Rhodesia, November 15, 1965
- President Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia: African
Development and Foreign Aid, Speech of March 18, 1966 [At this Site][Added
7/31/98]
- Tanzania: The Arusha Declaration, 1967 [At this
Site][Added 7/31/98]
- United Nations: Declaration on Granting Independence
to Colonial Countries and Peoples, 1960 [At this Site][Added 7/31/98]
- Operation Pan-America, 1958 [At this Site][Added
7/31/98]
An Aide Mémoire sent Brazil to other American States, August 9, 1958
- President John F. Kennedy: On the Alliance for Progress,
1961 [At this Site][Added 7/31/98]
- Alberto Lleras: Report on the Alliance for Progress,
1963 [At this Site][Added 7/31/98]
- Inter-American Committee: Problems of Latin American
Economies, 1965
- Senator Fulbright: Appraisal of US Policy in
the Dominican Crisis, September 15, 1965 [At this Site][Added 7/31/98]
A wide-ranging critique of US foreign policy.
- President Eisenhower: Letter to Ngo Dinh
Diem, October 23, 1954 [At this Site][Added 7/31/98]
Beginning US "humanitarian" aid.
- Viet Cong Program, 1962 [At this Site][Added
7/31/98]
- Charles de Gaulle: France's Attitude Toward US
Policy in Vietnam, 1964 [At this Site][Added 7/31/98]
- The Tonkin Bay Resolution, 1964 [At this
Site][Added 7/31/98]
- US State Department: North Vietnamese
Aggression, 1965 [At this Site][Added 7/31/98]
- President Lyndon Johnson and Ho Chi Minh: Letter
Exchange, 1967 [At this Site][Added 7/31/98]
- President Nasser: Denouncement of the Proposal for a
Canal Users' Association, 1956 [At this Site][Added 7/31/98]
- Anwar el Sadat: Afro-Asian Solidarity and the World
Mission of the Peoples of Africa and Asia, 1957 [At this Site][Added 7/31/98]
- Prime Minister Nehru: Speech to Bandung Conference
Political Committee, 1955 [At this Site][Added 7/31/98]
- Declaration of Pakistan and India on Jammu and Kashmir,
1966 [At this Site][Added 7/31/98]
- U Nu: Burma Looks Ahead, 1951 [At this
Site][Added 7/31/98]
- The Manila Accord, 1963 [At this Site][Added
7/31/98]
Between Malaya, Indonesia and the Philippines,
- Soviet Reaction to the Baghdad Pact, 1955 [At
this Site][Added 7/31/98]
- John Foster Dulles: Dynamic Peace, 1957 [At
this Site][Added 7/31/98]
- Khrushchev and Eisenhower: Summit Statements,
May 16 1960 [At this Site][Added 7/31/98]
- President John F. Kennedy: Towards a Strategy of
Peace, June 10, 1963 [At this Site][Added 7/31/98]
- President Dwight Eisenhower: Farewell to the
Nation, January 17, 1961 [At this Site][Added 7/31/98]
The remarkable speech in which the Republican President slammed the
"military-industrial" complex.
- Joseph A. Schumpeter: The Sociology of Imperialism,
1918 [At this Site][Added 7/31/98]
- President Lyndon B. Johnson: The War on Poverty,
March 1964 [At this Site][Added 7/29/98]
- Senator Josephy McCarthy: The History of George
Catlett Marshall, 1951 [At this Site][Added 7/29/98]
- John F. Kennedy: The Lesson of Cuba, 1961 [At
this Site][Added 7/29/98]
- United Nations: Cuban Missile Crisis Debate, 1962 [At
this Site][Added 7/29/98]
- Nikita S. Khrushchev: The Secret Speech - On the
Cult of Personality, 1956 [At this Site][Added 7/29/98]
Long excerpts.
- Maurice Couve de Murville, Foreign Minister: France's
View of the Atlantic Alliance and NATO, 1966 [At this Site][Added 7/29/98]
- President Charles de Gaulle: Le Grand
"Non": Britain's Proposed Entry Into The Common Market, May 16, 1967
[At this Site][Added 7/29/98]
- United States Department of State Press Statement: The
European Common Market And The Free Trade Area, January 15, 1957 [At this Site][Added
7/29/98]
- The Spaniard's Charter, July 16 1945 [At this
Site][Added 7/29/98]
- The Spanish Act of Succession, June 7, 1947
[At this Site][Added 7/29/98]
- Principles of The Spanish National Movement,
According to the Act of May 17, 1958 [At this Site][Added 7/29/98]
- USA and USSR: Exchange of Notes on the Berlin Wall,
1961 [At this Site][Added 7/29/98]
- Charles de Gaulle, President of France: Europe and
Its Role In World Affairs, July 23, 1964 [At this Site][Added 7/29/98]
- Charles de Gaulle, French Premier: Speech at
Constantine, Algeria, October 3, 1958 [At this Site][Added 7/29/98]
- G. R. Strauss, Minister of Supply: Speech
Delivered on Nationalizing the Iron and Steel Industry, November 15, 1948 [At this
Site][Added 7/29/98]
- Let Us Face The Future: A Declaration of Labour
Policy for the Consideration of the Nation, 1945 [At this Site][Added 7/29/98]
- President Sukarno of Indonesia: Speech at The Opening
of The Bandung Conference, April 18 1955 [At this Site][Added 7/29/98]
- The Final Declaration of the Geneva Conference: On
Restoring Peace in Indochina, July 21, 1954 [At this Site][Added 7/29/98]
- The Manifesto of The Laodong Party, February1951
- Andrei A. Gromyko: On American Intervention In Korea,
1950 [At this Site][Added 7/29/98]
- Report of The United Nations Commission on Korea, 1950
[At this Site][Added 7/29/98]
- British Government Statement: Policy in India,
1946 [At this Site][Added 7/29/98]
- British Government Statement: Policy in Burma,
May 1945 [At this Site][Added 7/29/98]
- Lu Ting-yi: Let Flowers of Many Kinds Blossom, Diverse
Schools of Thought Contend!, 1956 [At this Site][Added 7/29/98]
- The Common Program of The Chinese People's Political
Consultative Conference, 1949 [At this Site][Added 7/29/98]
- Dean Acheson: United States Position on China,
August 1949 [At this Site][Added 7/29/98]
An acute critique of Nationalist/Koumintang failures.
- China Gets the Bomb, 1964 [At this Site][Added
7/29/98]
- Defense Minister Lin Piao: The Nature of People's War,
Statement of September 3, 1965 [At this Site][Added 7/29/98]
A standard Maoist view.
- Editorial of the Liberation Army Daily (Jiefangjun Bao): Mao Tse-Tung's Thought is the Telescope and Microscope
of Our Revolutionary Cause, June 7, 1966 [At this Site][Added 7/29/98]
- Statement of the Central Committee of The Chinese
Communist Party, February 1, 1947 [At this Site][Added 7/29/98]
- American Views on the Situation In China, 1947
[At this Site][Added 7/29/98]
Statement by General Marshall, January 7, 1947
- The Marshall Plan, 1947 [At this Site][Added
7/29/98]
Long excerpts from the Speech delivered by General George Marshall at Harvard University
on June 5, 1947
- Sir Henry M. Stanley: How I Found Livingstone, 1871 [At
this Site][Added 7/29/98]
- Pedro de Cieza de Léon: Chronicles of the Incas,
1540 [At this Site][Added 7/29/98]
- F. Hassaurek: How to Conduct a Latin-American Revolution,
1865 [At this Site][Added 7/29/98]
Based on observations in Ecuador.
- The Tale of Mulan, the Maiden Chief, c. 502-556 CE [At this
Site][Added 7/29/98]
- The Reception of the First English Ambassador to China,
1792 [At this Site][Added 7/29/98]
- The People of Canton: Against the English, 1842 [At
this Site][Added 7/29/98]
- Proclamation of The Abdication of the Manchus, 1912
[At this Site][Added 7/29/98]
- Sir Richard Francis Burton: A Pilgrimage to Mecca, 1853
[At this Site][Added 7/29/98]
- Robert Kaplan: Sons
of Devils, The Atlantic Monthly, November 1987 [At The Atlantic][Added
7/29/98]
On Kurdish identity.
- Laurie Mylroie: After
Saddam Hussein, The Atlantic Monthly, December 1992 [At The Atlantic][Added
7/29/98]
On the Kurds in the Middle East.
- Theodore Roosevelt: Political
Assessments in the Coming Campaign, The Atlantic Monthly, July 1892 [At The
Atlantic][Added 7/29/98]
- Charles Trueheart: Welcome to The Next
Church, The Atlantic Monthly, August 1996 [At The Atlantic][Added 7/29/98]
On consumerist Christianity.
- Harvey Cox: The
Warring Visions of the Religious Right, The Atlantic Monthly, November 1995
[At The Atlantic][Added 7/29/98]
- Cullen Murphy: Religion and the
Cultural Elite, The Atlantic Monthly, April 1994 [At The Atlantic][Added
7/29/98]
- Glenn Tinder: Can We Be Good
Without God?, The Atlantic Monthly, December 1989 [At The
Atlantic][Added 7/29/98]
- Charles E. Wyzanski Jr.: Nuremberg--A Fair
Trial? Dangerous Precedent, The Atlantic Monthly, April 194 [At The
Atlantic][Added 7/29/98]
Wyzanski voiced concerns about the hazards of attempting to administer international
justice in a vacuum. After the trial had run its course, he wrote Nuremberg in
Retrospect, The Atlantic Monthly, December 1946 on the exemplary manner in
which the trial had been conducted.
- Raymond B. Fosdick: The
League of Nations is Alive, The Atlantic Monthly, June 1920 [At The
Atlantic][Added 7/29/98]
- L. P. Jacks. A League of
Nations or of Governments, The Atlantic Monthly, February, 1923 [At The
Atlantic][Added 7/29/98]
- Henry Demarest Lloyd: The
Story of a Great Monopoly, The Atlantic Monthly, March 1881. [At The
Atlantic][Added 7/29/98]
On Standard Oil and the Rockefellars. See modern comments in The
Atlantic Monthly, May 1998 [At The Atlantic][Added 7/29/98]
- The Atlantic: Immigration:
The Perpetual Controversy, The Atlantic Monthly, April 1996
- Francis A. Walker: Restriction of
Immigration, The Atlantic Monthly, June 1896 [At The Atlantic][Added 7/29/98]
Warnings about "vast inpourings of southern European immigrants"
- Robert DeCourcey Ward: Immigration and
the South, The Atlantic Monthly, November1905 [At The Atlantic][Added
7/29/98]
Against the North's "unloading of second-rate immigrants by sending them South."
- William Z. Ripley: Races
in the United States, The Atlantic Monthly, December 1908 [At The
Atlantic][Added 7/29/98]
The "problem" of Mediterranean, Slavic, and Oriental races upon the character of
the nation.
- Don D. Lescohier: Immigration and
the Labor Supply, The Atlantic Monthly, November 1905 [At The
Atlantic][Added 7/29/98]
Immigrants would undermine the improved labor standards that American workers were
struggling to establish.
- James Fallows: Immigration:
How It's Affecting Us, The Atlantic Monthly, November 1983 [At The
Atlantic][Added 7/29/98]
"Immigration tends to select for those who are especially resilient, adaptable, and
hardworking".
- Lowell Weiss: Timing is
Everything, The Atlantic Monthly, January1994 [At The Atlantic][Added
7/29/98]
The fate of two groups of Vietnamese immigrants in America.
- Roy Beck: The
Ordeal of Immigration in Wausau, The Atlantic Monthly, April 1994 [At The
Atlantic][Added 7/29/98]
Effects of Southeast Asian refugees in Wausau.
- Jack Miles: A Bold Proposal
on Immigration, The Atlantic Monthly, June 1994 [At The Atlantic][Added
7/29/98]
"The United States can and should clamp down on points of illegal entry into this
country"
- Matthew Connelly and Paul Kennedy: Must It Be the
Rest Against the West?, The Atlantic Monthly, December 1994 [At The
Atlantic][Added 7/29/98]
Immigration issue as a problem of global inequalities. See critique by Virginia Abernethy: Optimism and
Overpopulation [At The Atlantic][Added 7/29/98]
- Henry W. Massingham: Ireland, 1916--And
Beyond, The Atlantic Monthly, December1916 [At The Atlantic][Added 7/29/98]
- John V. Kelleher: Can Ireland Unite?, The Atlantic Monthly, April, 1954 [At The Atlantic][Added 7/29/98]
- Robert Coles: Ulster's
Children, The Atlantic Monthly, December 1980 [At The Atlantic][Added
7/29/98]
- Conor Cruise O'Brien: Twentieth-Century
Witness, The Atlantic Monthly, July 1992 [At The Atlantic][Added 7/29/98]
- The Atlantic: Ballpark Memories, The Atlantic Monthly, April 1997 [At The Atlantic][Added 7/29/98]
- Birdie Tebbetts: I'd Rather Catch, The Atlantic Monthly, September, 1949 [At The Atlantic][Added 7/29/98]
- Jim Brosnan: The
Fantasy World of Baseball, The Atlantic Monthly, April, 1964 [At The
Atlantic][Added 7/29/98]
- Donald Honig: Out
of Reach of All the Glory, The Atlantic Monthly, May, 1975 [At The
Atlantic][Added 7/29/98]
an excerpt from his book Baseball When the Grass Was Green
- Michael Lenehan: Pure Baseball Men, The Atlantic Monthly, August, 1981 [At The Atlantic][Added 7/29/98]
- Thomas P. Curtis: High Hurdles and
White Gloves, The Atlantic Monthly, December 1956 [At The
Atlantic][Added 7/29/98]
The selection of the US Olympic team in 1932.
- Geoffrey Wheatcroft: The
Paradoxical Case of Tony Blair, The Atlantic Monthly, August 1988, [At The
Atlantic][Added 7/28/98]
A Labour Party leader who hates the Labour Party?
- James Russell Lowel: The Election in
November, The Atlantic Monthly, October, 1860 [At The Atlantic][Added
7/28/98].
Powerful endorsement of Lincoln.
- The 1964 Election, The
Atlantic Monthly, October 1964, [At The Atlantic][Added 7/28/98]
Endorsement of Johnson.
- The Atlantic: The
Break-up of China, and Our Interest in It, The Atlantic Monthly, August, 1899
[At The Atlantic][Added 7/28/98]
- Paul S. Reinsch: A Parliament for
China, The Atlantic Monthly, December, 1909 [At The Atlantic][Added 7/28/98]
- John K. Fairbank: China: Time for a
Policy, The Atlantic Monthly, April 1957 [At The Atlantic][Added 7/28/98]
Evaluation of US policy options toward newly Communist mainland China.
- James C. Thomson Jr.: Dragon Under Glass:
Time for a New China Policy, The Atlantic Monthly, October 1967 [At The
Atlantic][Added 7/28/98]
Argued that the time had come for the United States to reconcile itself with Communist
China.
- Orville Schell: China's
Andrei Sakharov,The Atlantic Monthly, May1988 [At The Atlantic][Added
7/28/98]
Profile of Fang Lizhi
- Orville Schell: Once
Again, Long Live Chairman Mao, The Atlantic Monthly, December, 1992 [At The
Atlantic][Added 7/28/98]
- Atlantic Report: Hong Kong, The Atlantic Monthly, June 1957 [At The Atlantic][Added 7/28/98]
Hong Kong still in the early stages of its emergence as an economic powerhouse.
- Maynard Parker: Report on
Hong Kong, The Atlantic Monthly, November 1967 [At The Atlantic][Added
7/28/98]
Hong Kong in the face of Mao's Cultural Revolution.
- Cait Murphy: A Culture of
Emigration, The Atlantic Monthly, April, 1991 [At The Atlantic][Added
7/28/98]
The growing unease among Chinese Hong Kong citizens about the impending Chinese rule.
- Xiao-huang Yin: China's
Gilded Age, The Atlantic Monthly, April 1994, [At The Atlantic][Added
7/28/98]
The changes in China's society wrought by Deng's drive toward a free-market economy
- One China, The
Atlantic Monthly, March 1996 [At The Atlantic][Added 7/28/98]
Coverage by the magazine of China in the 20th century.
- WEB Documents from the Organization of African
Unity [At Diana][Added 7/28/98]
- Robert D. Kaplan: The Coming
Anarchy February 1996, and Proportionalism August 1996, , The Atlantic Monthly, [At The Atlantic][Added 7/28/98]
Address Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia, and he US response.
- Violence and
Unrest in Central Africa, The Atlantic Monthly, November 1996, [At The
Atlantic][Added 7/28/98]
- The Atlantic Report: Rwanda, The
Atlantic Monthly, June 1964, [At The Atlantic][Added 7/28/98]
- Stanley Meisler: Rwanda and Burundi, The Atlantic Monthly, September 1973, [At The Atlantic][Added 7/28/98]
- Bill Berkeley: Zaire:
An African Horror Story, The Atlantic Monthly, August 1993, [At The
Atlantic][Added 7/28/98]
- Charles Creighton Hazewell: British India, The
Atlantic Monthly, November 1857, [At The Atlantic][Added 7/28/98]
- Charles Creighton Hazewell: The Indian Revolt, The
Atlantic Monthly, December 1857, [At The Atlantic][Added 7/28/98]
- Jabez Sunderland: The New
Nationalist Movement in India, The Atlantic Monthly, October 1908, [At The
Atlantic][Added 7/28/98]
- Arthur Bonner: India's
Masses: the Public That Can't Be Reached, The Atlantic Monthly, October 1959,
[At The Atlantic][Added 7/28/98]
- Leland Hazard: Strong
Medicine for India; The Atlantic Monthly, December 1965, [At The
Atlantic][Added 7/28/98]
- Conor Cruise O'Brien: Holy
War Against India, The Atlantic Monthly, August 1988, [At The Atlantic][Added
7/28/98]
On Sikh Nationalism.
- Hubert Howe Bancroft: Burial of an Archbishop-Viceroy in
Mexico City, 1612 [At this Site][Added 7/28/98]
- Henry C Lea (1829-1909): The Inquisition in 17th-Century
Peru: Cases of Portuguese Judaizers [At this Site][Added 7/28/98]
- Biographic Sources On Spaniards In The New World,
16th-17th Centuries [At this Site][Added 7/28/98]
- The New Laws of the Indies, 1542 [At this
Site][Added 7/28/98]
Spain's pro-Indian laws.
- Alexander Von Humboldt: Problems and Progress in
Mexico, c. 1800 [At this Site][Added 7/28/98]
- Francisco Garcia Calderón: Imperialism of Decadence,
1913 [At this Site][Added 7/28/98]
- Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq: The Turkish Letters,
excerpts, 1555-1562 [At this Site][Added 7/28/98]
- Francisco Madero: The Plan of San Luis Potosi, November
20, 1910 [At this Site][Added 7/28/98]
- Sir Henry McMahon: Letter to Ali ibn Husain, 1915 [At
this Site][Added 7/28/98]
British promises to Arab leaders during World War I.
- Bal Gangadhar Tilak (1856-1920): Address to the Indian National
Congress, 1907 [At this Site][Added 7/28/98]
- Proclamation of the Irish Republic, Easter 1916 [readable
image file of poster] [At this Site][Added 7/28/98]
- Jorge Juan and Antonio de Ulloa: Colonial Lima, from A
Voyage to South America, 1748 [At MS State][Added 7/27/98]
- Lope de Aguirre: Letter from to King Philip of Spain,
1561 [At this Site][Added 7/27/98]
- 2ND Roger P. Davis: "The
Odyssey of Identity: Culture and Politics in the Evolution of Latin American
Nationalism," Platte \/alley Review, 15:1 (Spring, 1987), 36-45 [At MS
State][Added 7/27/98]
- Roy R. Rubottom, Jr.: Communism in
the Americas, Department of State Bulletin, February 3, 1958 [At MS
State][Added 7/27/98]
Cold War view of Communist efforts in Latin America.
- Bobby Sands (d.1981): The Diary
of Bobby Sands, March 1981 [At Larkspirit][Added 7/27/98]
- 2ND H-Net Caudillos Discussion [At H-Net][Added 7/27/98]
Discusses different historical approaches to the caudillos.
- Francisco Bilbao (1823-1865): America in Danger, 1862 [At
this Site][Added 7/27/98]
- WEB The
Diggers, San Francisco 1966-1968 [At diggers.org][Added 7/26/98]
Archive of material on the "anarchist guerilla street theater" group.
- Ayatollah Khomeini: The Uprising of Khurdad 15, 1979 [At
this Site][Added 7/26/98]
- Tahâ Hussein: From The Future of Culture in Egypt,
excerpts,1954 [At this Site][Added 7/26/98]
- Tanaka Kotaro: In Search of Truth and Peace, excerpts,
1952 [At this Site][Added 7/26/98]
- Honda Toshiaki: A Secret Plan for Government,
excerpts, 1798 [At this Site][Added 7/26/98]
- Léon Gambetta (1838-82): The Belleville Manifesto, 1869
[At this Site][Added 7/26/98]
- François Guizot (1787-1874): Condition of the July Monarchy,
1830-1848 [At this Site][Added 7/26/98]
- William Graham Sumner (1840-1910): The Challenge of Facts,
pub. 1914 [At this Site][Added 7/26/98]
A prominent American social Darwinist mixes social Darwinism with aspects of a Calvinistic
work ethic, provides Darwinist explantion of the family, and attacks Socialism.
- Bertrand Russell (1872-1970): A Free Man's
Worship, 1917 [At this Site][Added 7/26/98]
An unflinching examintion of the human situation from an atheistic viewpoint.
- Luther Before 1517: Letters to Spalatin [At this
Site][Added 7/25/98]
These letters are interesting in showing Luther's atitude towards Rome and towards
theology. They also reveal that Luther's hatred of Jews, best seen in his 1543 letter, was
not some affectation of old age, but was present very early on.
- James I & VI (b.1566, r. 1566 {Scotland), r. {England} 1603 - 1625): True Law of Free Monarchies, 1598 [At this Site][Added
7/25/98]
- Lord Acton: Inaugural Lecture on the Study of History, 1906
[At this Site][Added 7/25/98]
- Remonstrance of the Pennsylvania Frontiersmen: On the
Indians, 1764 [At this Site][Added 7/25/98]
- J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur: What Is an American? [At this Site][Added 7/25/98]
- Scottish Immigration to the American Colonies, 1772
[At this Site]
- The Division of Poland, 1772, 1793, 1795 [At this
Site][Added 7/25/98]
- The Decline of the Holy Roman Empire and the Rise of Prussia,
1700-1786 [At this Site][Added 7/25/98]
- Samuel Pufendorf: History of the Principal Kingdoms, 1700
- Count von Seckendorf: On Frederick William I
- Isaac Isaacsohn: History of the Prussian Civil Service
- Letters of Prince Frederick and Frederick William I
- Frederick II (1740-1786): Memoirs
- Frederick II (1740-1786): Essay on Froms of Government
- Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859): Speech On The
Reform Bill of 1832, March 2, 1831 [At this Site][Added 7/25/98]
- Samuel Bamford (1788-1872): Passages in the Life of a
Radical-on the Peterloo Massacre, 1819 [At this Site][Added 7/25/98]
- Alphonse de Lamartine (1790-1869): History of the
Revolution of 1848 in France [At this Site][Added 7/25/98]
- Thomas Escott (1844-1924): England: Her People, Polity, and
Pursuits, 1885 [At this Site][Added 7/25/98]
- Samuel Smiles: Self Help, 1882 [At this Site][Added
7/25/98]
- Jean-Baptiste Colbert (1619-1683): Memorandum on Trade,
1664 [At this Site][Added 7/25/98]
- Jean Domat (1625-1696): On Social Order and Absolute Monarchy,
1697 [At this Site][Added 7/25/98]
- Mao Zedong (1893-1976): Report on an Investigation of the Peasant
Movement in Hunan, March 1927 [At this Site][Added 7/25/98]
- Alexander H. Stephens (1812-1883): Cornerstone Address,
March 21, 1861 [At this Site][Added 7/25/98]
- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865): Special Session Message,
July 4, 1861 [At this Site][Added 7/25/98]
- Robert Clive (1725-1774): Speech in Commons on India,
1772 [At this Site]
- India: Regulating Act, 1773 [At this Site][Added
7/25/98]
- Edmund Burke (1729-1797): Speech in Commons on India,
1783 [At this Site][Added 7/25/98]
- Ching Chun Wang: A
Plea for the Recognition of the Chinese Republic, The Atlantic Monthly,
January 1913 [At The Atlantic][Added 7/23/98]
- Conor Cruise O'Brien: The Roots of My
Preoccupations, The Atlantic Monthly, July 1994
His experiences in government in Catholic Ireland of the 1950s.
- Henry B.F. Macfarland: Mr. McKinley as
President, The Atlantic Monthly, March 1901, [At The Atlantic][Added 7/23/98]
- James Cameron: Albania:
The Marxist Paradise, The Atlantic Monthly, June 1963 [At The Atlantic][Added
7/23/98]
- Benjamin Schwarz: The Diversity
Myth, The Atlantic Monthly, May 1995 [At The Atlantic][Added 7/23/98]
- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.: The New
Isolationism, The Atlantic Monthly, May 1952, [At The Atlantic][Added
7/23/98]
- Benjamin R. Barber: Jihad Vs.
McWorld, The Atlantic Monthly, March 1992 [At The Atlantic][Added
7/23/98]
- V.S. Naipaul: Among the
Believers, The Atlantic Monthly, July 1981, [At The Atlantic][Added 7/23/98]
Shia Islam in Revolutionary Iran.
- Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.: The
Lowering Hemisphere, The Atlantic Monthly, January, 1970, [At The
Atlantic][Added 7/23/98]
On US policy in Latin America.
- Randolph S. Bourne, Transnational
America, The Atlantic Monthly, July 1916, [At The Atlantic][Added 7/23/98]
On the failure of the "Melting Pot".
- Raymond B. Fosdick, The
League of Nations as an Instrument of Liberalism, The Atlantic Monthly,
October 1920, [At The Atlantic][Added 7/23/98]
- H. Sacher, A Jewish
Palestine, The Atlantic Monthly, July 1919, [At The Atlantic][Added 7/23/98]
- H.G. Wells: The Idea of a
League of Nations and Part
II,The Atlantic Monthly, January and February, 1919, [At The Atlantic][Added
7/23/98]
- Walter Lippman: Mr
Kennan and Reappraisal in Europe, The Atlantic Monthly, April 1958, [At The
Atlantic][Added 7/23/98]
- Maynard Parker: Hong Kong, The Atlantic Monthly, November 1967, [At The Atlantic][Added 7/23/98]
- Katherine Anne Porter: The Never-Ending Wrong, The Atlantic Monthly, June 1977, [At The Atlantic][Added 7/23/98]
On Sacco and Vanzetti.
- W. E. Burghardt Du Bois: Strivings of the
Negro People, The Atlantic Monthly, August 1897, [At The Atlantic][Added
7/23/98]
- W. E. B. Du Bois: A Negro
Schoolmaster in the New South, The Atlantic Monthly, January 1889, [At The
Atlantic][Added 7/23/98]
Du Bois recounts some of his own experiences as a rural schoolteacher in Tennessee, and
expresses frustration at the barriers that confronted some of his more ambitious students.
- W. E. B. Du Bois: Of the Training of
Black Men, The Atlantic Monthly, September 1902 [At The Atlantic][Added
7/23/98]
His response to Booker T Washington's approach.
- Ralph McGill: Interview
with W.E.B Dubois, The Atlantic Monthly, June 1977, [At The Atlantic][Added
7/23/98]
- Booker T. Washington (1856-1915): The Case of the Negro, The Atlantic Monthly, November 1889, [At The Atlantic][Added 7/23/98]
- Booker T Washington (1856-1915): Speech at the
Atlanta Exposition, 1895 [At this Site][Added 7/23/98]
- Booker T. Washington (1856-1915): The Awakening of the
Negro, The Atlantic Monthly, September 1896 [At The Atlantic][Added 7/23/98]
- Frederick Douglass, Reconstruction, The
Atlantic Monthly, December 1866, [At The Atlantic][Added 7/23/98]
- Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968): The Negro is Your Brother,
Letter from a Birmingham Jail, The Atlantic Monthly, August 1963, [At The
Atlantic][Added 7/23/98]
- Friedrich von Schlegel (1772-1829): German
Romanticism in Philosophy [At this Site][Added 7/23/98]
- Josef Stalin (1879-1953): Industrialization of the Country,
1928 [At this Site][Added 7/23/98]
- Marie Curie (1867-1934): On the Discovery of Radium [At
this Site][Added 7/23/98]
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762): Smallpox
Vaccination in Turkey, [At this Site][Added 7/23/98]
- Mary Shelley (1797-1851): The Last Man [At this
Site][Added 7/23/98]
- The Platt Amendment, 1901 [At this Site][Added 7/23/98]
- Jules Ferry (1832-1893): On French Colonial Expansion, 1884
[At this Site][Added 7/23/98]
- Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859): On Empire and
Education, 1830s, [At this Site][Added 7/23/98]
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965): Conservative
Party Principles, 1946 [At this Site][Added 7/23/98]
- Documents of German Unification, 1848-1871 [At this
Site][Added 7/23/98]
- Johann Gustav Droysen: Speech to the Frankfurt Assembly, 1848
- Friedrich Wilhelm IV, King of Prussia: Proclamation of 1849
- Otto von Bismarck: Letter to Minister von Manteuffel, 1856
- Field Marshal Helmuth von Moltke: 1866
- Otto von Bismarck: 1866
- The Imperial Proclamation, January 18, 1871
- George M. McBride: Haciendas from The Land Systems
of Mexico, 1923
- Pierre Denis: The Coffee Fazenda of Brazil,
excerpts. 1911 [At this Site][Added 7/23/98]
- Simón de Bolívar (1783-1830): Message to the Congress of
Angostura, 1819 [At this Site][Added 7/23/98]
- Okuma: Fifty Years of New Japan, 1907-08, excerpts
[At this Site][Added 7/23/98]
- Calvin Coolidge: Intervention
in Nicaragua [At Mt. Holyoke][Added 7/23/98]
- European Convention for the Protection
of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, 1950 [At coe.fr][Added 7/23/98]
- Zou Rong (1885-1911): The
Revolutionary Army, 1905 [At Sharib][Added 7/23/98]
A radical Anti-Manchu tract, published in Shanghai.
- WEB Irish Passenger Lists [At
geneology.org][Added 7/23/98]
- WEB 65th (2nd Yorkshire North Riding)
Regiment of Foot: Songs and Music [At Multidoc.co.nz][Added 7/23/98]
- Thomas Hariot: A Briefe
and True Report of the New Found Land of V I R G I N I A, full text, [At
Virginia][Added 7/23/98]
- Rosa Luxemburg, "The
War and the Workers": The Junius Pamphlet, 1916 [At H-Net][Added 7/23/98]
- Rubén Darío (1867-1916): To
Roosevelt [At WSU][Added 7/23/98]
- Siegfried Sassoon: Attack [At this Site][Added
7/22/98]
- Captain Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen [The Red Baron] (1892-1918): Air Warfare [At this Site][Added 7/22/98]
- Fidel Castro: On The Export of Revolution [At this
Site][Added 7/22/98]
- Eva Duarte de Perón: History of Perónism, excerpts,
1951 [At this Site][Added 7/22/98]
- Hungary 1956 [At this Site][Added 7/22/98]
Statement of the Soviet Government, October 30, 1956 and Imry Nage: Last Message (November
4, 1956)
- Count von Beust: Memoirs of the Ausgleich, 1867
[At this Site][Added 7/22/98]
- Garibaldi: Report on the Conquest of Naples, 1860 [At
this Site][Added 7/22/98]
- King Victor Emmanuel: Address to Parliament, Rome, 1871
[At this Site][Added 7/22/98]
- Harold Baron: The Chemical Industry on the Continent, 1909
[At this Site][Added 7/22/98]
- Auguste Comte (1798-1857): A General View of Positivism [At this Site][Added 7/22/98]
- Maya Angelou: A Poem from
the Million Man March [At Norconnect][Added 7/22/98]
- Maya Angelou: I Know Why
Caged Birds Sing part of Poems [At
Norconnect][Added 7/22/98]
- W.H. Auden (1907-1973) : The
Unknown Citizen, March 1939, part of Poems [At
Norconnect][Added 7/22/98]
- Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936): Poems, In
English and Spanish [At Norconnect][Added 7/22/98]
- Sylvia Plath (1932-1963): Poems [At
Norconnect][Added 7/22/98]
- Leonard Cohen: Poems [At Norconnect][Added 7/22/98]
- Adrienne Rich (1929-): Poems [At
Norconnect][Added 7/22/98]
- Ernesto Cardenal (1925-): Poems, in
English and Spanish [At Norconnect][Added 7/22/98]
- Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926): Poems, in
English and German [At Norconnect][Added 7/22/98]
- St. John of the Cross (1542-1591): Poems In
English and Spanish [At Norconnect][Added 7/22/98]
- The Popul-Vuh [At Stanford][Added 7/22/98]
The Mayan Creation myth.
- Pablo Neruda (1904-1973): Poems [At
Norconnect][Added 7/22/98]
- Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648-1695): Poems [At Sappho][Added 7/22/98]
- Eva Peron: Speech, 1950, in Spanish [At this
Site][Added 7/22/98]
- 2ND Brian Loveman: When You Wish Upon The
Stars: Why the Generals (and Admirals) Say Yes to Latin American
Transitions to Civilian Government [At UCSD][Added 7/22/98]
- 2ND María Fernanda Arias: Charismatic Leadership and the
Transition to Democracy: The Rise of Carlos Saúl Menem in Argentine Politics, Texas
Papers on Latin America Paper No. 95-02 [At Lanic][Added 7/22/98]
- The Treaty of Berlin, Excerpts on the Balkans, 1878 [At
this Site][Added 7/22/98]
- Postwar Progressive and Protest Songs [At this
Site][Added 7/22/98]
- Pope Leo XIII: Encyclical: In Plurimus (On the Abolition of Slavery in Brazil), 1888. [At American][Added 7/21/98]
The pope gives a history of slavery in the modern period, condemns Muslim slavery and
condones anti-slavery activity by popes. He neglects to mention the permission for the
onset of the African slave trade provide by Pope Nicholas V.
- Pope Leo XIII: Encyclical: Catholicae
Ecclesiae (On Slavery in The Missions), 1890. [At American][Added 7/21/98]
- The Earl of Cromer: Why Britain Acquired Egypt in 1882,
(1908) [At this Site][Added 7/21/98]
- British Missionary Letters: Urging the Annexation of The
South Sea Islands, 1883 [At this Site][Added 7/21/98]
- Program of the Pan-German League, 1890-1898 [At this
Site][Added 7/21/98]
- Sir Robert Clive: The Battle of Plassey, 1757 [At this
Site][Added 7/21/98]
- Dadabhai Naoroji: The Benefits of British Rule, 1871
[At this Site][Added 7/21/98]
- The Three Emperors League,
June 18, 1881 [At Yale][Added 7/21/98]
- The Dual Alliance Between
Austria-Hungary and Germany, October 7, 1879 [At Yale][Added 7/21/98]
- The Anglo-Russian Entente,
1907 [At Yale][Added 7/21/98]
- WEB The Laws of War [At
Yale][Added 7/21/98]
The Hague Conventions, Geneva Conventions, and Pacific Protocol.
- International Military Tribunal
for the Far East [At Yale][Added 7/21/98]
- Convention for the
Mutual Abolition of the Droit d'Aubaine and Taxes on Emigration Between the United
States of America and his Royal Highness the Duke of Nassau; May 27, 1846.[At Yale][Added
7/21/98]
One of a series of such documents at the Avalon Project's German-American Diplomacy,
1785-1847. [At Yale][Added 7/21/98]
- US Treaty with the Two
Sicilies; December 1, 1845 [At Yale][Added 7/21/98]
- WEB Spanish-American Diplomacy 1795 - 1898 [At Yale][Added 7/21/98]
- Treaty of Amity,
Settlement, and Limits Between the United States of America and His Catholic Majesty,
1819 [At Yale][Added 7/21/98]
- Treaty of Peace Between
the United States and Spain, 1898
By which the US acquired Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Phillipines. [At Yale][Added 7/21/98]
- Convention with Peru
for the Satisfaction of Claims of American Citizens, March 17, 1841 [At
Yale][Added 7/21/98]
- Postal Convention
Between the United States of America and the Republic of
Mexico, December 11, 1861 [At Yale][Added 7/21/98]
- Treaty of San Ildefonso :
October 1, 1800 [At Yale][Added 7/21/98]
Preliminary and Secret Treaty between the French Republic and His Catholic Majesty the
King of Spain, Concerning the Aggrandizement of His Royal Highness the Infant Duke of
Parma in Italy and the Retrocession of Louisiana.
- Exchange of Notes
Relative to Naval Forces on the American Lakes: 1817 and
Associated Documents [At Yale][Added 7/21/98]
- US- Mexico, Treaty of Velasco,
14 May 1836
- WEB Texas From Independence to
Annexation, 1836-1846 [At Yale][Added 7/21/98]
- Treaty with Great
Britain, in Regard to Limits Westward of the Rocky Mountains, 1846 [At
Yale][Added 7/21/98]
- Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1854 [At
Yale][Added 7/21/98]
- Gadsden Purchase Treaty,
December 30, 1853 [At Yale][Added 7/21/98]
- Treaty for the Final
Settlement of the Claims of the Hudson's Bay and Puget's Sound Agricultural Companies,
July 1, 1863 [At Yale][Added 7/21/98]
- Treaty With Russia,
1867 [At Yale][Added 7/21/98]
The United States' aquistion of Alaska.
- WEB US Treaties with Native
Americans: 1778-1868 [At Yale][Added 7/21/98]
Contains treaties/documents dealing with the following peoples: 1778: Delawares; 1782
Chickasaw; 1784 Six Nations; 1785 Wyandot, Cherokee; 1786 Chocktaw, Chickasaw,
Shawnee; 1789 Wyandot, Six Nations; 1790 Creeks; 1791 Cherokee; 1794 Cherokee, Six
Nations, Oneida; 1795 Greenville; 1805 Chickasaw; 1816 Chickasaw; 1818 Chickasaw; 1826
Chickasaws and Choctaws; 1828 Potawatami; 1830 Chickasaw; 1832 Potawatami; 1852
Apache; 1853 Comanche, Kiowa, and Apache; 1865 Cheyenne and Arapaho; Apache, Cheyenne, and
Arapaho; 1867 Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache; 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty.
- WEB Statutes of the United
States Concerning Native Americans: Chronological [At Yale][Added 7/21/98]
- WEB Relations Between The United States
and Native Americans [At Yale][Added 7/21/98]
Statutes, treaties, cases, and presidential messages to Congress.
- The Dawes Act,
1887 [At Yale][Added 7/21/98]
An Act to Provide for the Allotment of Lands in Severalty to Indians on the Various
Reservations, and to Extend the Protection of the Laws of the United States and the
Territories over the Indians, and for Other Purposes.
- WEB War of 1812 and Associated
Documents [At Yale][Added 7/21/98]
- Treaty of Ghent,
1814 [At Yale][Added 7/21/98]
Ending the 1812 War.
- WEB Statutes of the
United States Concerning Slavery, 1794-1850 [At Yale][Added 7/21/98]
- Treaty Between United
States and Great Britain for the Suppression of the Slave Trade, April 7, 1862, and Additional Article to the
Treaty for the Suppression of the African Slave Trade, February 17, 1863 [At
Yale][Added 7/21/98]
- WEB Treaties with The Barbary
Powers: 1786-1836 [At Yale][Added 7/21/98]
- The Barbary Treaties : Treaty of Peace, Signed Algiers June 30 and July 3, 1815 [At Yale][Added 7/21/98]
- The Barbary Treaties:
Treaty of Peace and Amity, with Article Additional and Explanatory, Signed at Algiers
December 22 and 23, 1816 [At Yale]
- Treaty of Commerce and
Navigation Between the United States and the Ottoman Empire, February 25, 1862 [At
Yale][Added 7/21/98]
- Robert Owen (1771-1858): A
New View of Society [At Yale]
- Israel Basic Laws 1960-1994
[At Wuerzburg][Added 7/20/98]
- WWW International Constitutional Law [At
Wuerzburg][Added 7/20/98]
Maintains online texts in English, and search machines for comparative studies of
constitutions.
- New Zealand: Treaty of
Waitangi, 1841 [At Wuerzburg][Added 7/20/98]
- Statute of Westminster, 1931 [At this
Site][Added 7/20/98]
The act by which the British Parliament assented to the independence, within the British
Commonwealth, of what were called the "White Dominions".
- Brazil Constitution,1993
[At Wuerzburg][Added 7/20/98]
- Paraguay Constitution, 1992
[At Wuerzburg][Added 7/20/98]
- Spain: Constitution, 1992,
in English and Spanish, [At Wuerzburg.de][Added 7/20/98]
- Louis XIV: Letter to the Town
Officers and People of Marseilles, August 26, 1664 [At Hanover][Added 7/20/98]
On economic modernization.
- Ordinances For The Regulation of
the Churches Dependent Upon the Seigniory of Geneva, 1547 [At Hanover][Added
7/20/98]
Waitangi: Declaration of Independence, 1835 [At this
Site][Added 7/20/98]
- Instructions to Sir Edmund
Andros, 1686 [At Hanover][Added 7/20/98]
- Commercial Orders to Governor
Andros, 1686-1687 [At Hanover][Added 7/20/98]
- Orders For Sending Sir Edmund
Andros To England, 1689 [At Hanover][Added 7/20/98]
- John Winthrop: A Model of
Christian Charity, 1630 [At Hanover][Added 7/20/98]
- Anne Bradstreet: A Dialogue
Between Old England and New, 1630 [At Hanover][Added 7/20/98]
- Samuel Green, ed.: Groton
in Witchcraft Times, c.1671 [At Hanover][Added 7/20/98]
- Samuel Adams: The Rights of the
Colonists, 1772 [At Hanover][Added 7/20/98]
- Massachusett's Body of Liberties,
1641 [At Hanover College][Added 7/20/98]
- Massachusett's Body of Liberties: The
Body of Liberties, 1-49, and The
Body of Liberties, 50-98, 1641 [At Hanover College][Added 7/20/98]
- Japan: Constitution, 1889
[At Hanover College][Added 7/20/98]
- Japan: Constitution,
1946 [At Solon Law Archive][Added 7/20/98]
- Sarashina: The Diary of
Lady Sarashina (1009-1059)[At Hanover College][Added 7/20/98]
- Australia: Commonwealth
of Australia Constitution Act, 1900 [At Solon Law Archive][Added 7/20/98]
- WEB British American Diplomacy,
1782-1863 [At Yale][Added 7/21/98][Added 7/20/98]
- General
Greement on Trade and Tariffs [At Solon Law Archive][Added 7/20/98]
- North
American Free Trade Agreement [At Solon Law Archive][Added 7/20/98]
- France: Constitution
of the 5th Repubic, 1958 [At Solon Law Archive] and ine English [At
france.dilpomatie][Added 7/20/98]
- France: Constitution of
the 4th Republic, 1946, in French [At www.premier-ministre.gouv.fr][Added 7/20/98]
- National Socialism and the
Protestant Church, 1934-1938, collected documents in German, [At AOL][Added 7/20/98]
- Bruce Bliven: "Flapper Jane",
from The New Republic, September 9, 1925. [At Pandora's Box][Added 7/20/98]
- Two
Letters to Ngo Dinh Diem [At Wiretap]
Eisenhower, October 23, 1954 (Department of State Bulletin, November 15, 1954): and
Kennedy, December 14, 1961 (Department of State Bulletin, January 1, 1962)[Added 7/20/98]
- WEB Court TV: Nuremberg Documents [At Court
TV][Added 7/20/98]
- France: The Third
Republic: Constitutional Laws of 1875, in French, [At
www.premier-ministre.gouv.fr][Added 7/20/98]
- Mexico: Constitución
de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos, 31 de enero de 1917, [At Solon Law Archive][Added
7/20/98]
- Canada: The
Constitution Act, 1867 (The British North America Act), [At Solon Law Archive][Added
7/20/98]
- US-Britain: Declaration
Concerning the Convention Regulating Commerce and Navigation, 1815 [At Yale][Added
7/21/98]
- US-Britain: A
Convention to Regulate the Commerce, 1815 [At Yale][Added 7/21/98]
- Sir Robert Peel (1788-1850): The
Tamworth Manifesto, 1834 [At Brown][Added 7/20/98]
- Sir Robert Peel (1788-1850): Final
Ministerial speech in the House of Commons, 29 June 1846 [At Brown][Added 7/20/98]
- Benjamin Disraeli: Assessment
of Peel, from Lord George Bentinck, 1852 [At Brown][Added 7/20/98]
- 2ND Marjie Bloy: Sir
Robert Peel: An Overview [At Brown][Added 7/20/98]
- 2ND Richard Parsons: Sir Robert Peel created a new
Conservative Party only to destroy it [At Hogarth][Added 7/20/98]
- Contemporary Views on the
Reform Act, 1832 [At Spartacus][Added 7/20/98]
- National Socialism and the
Protestant Church, 1934-1938, collected documents in German, [At AOL][Added 7/20/98]
- Bruce Bliven: "Flapper Jane",
from The New Republic, September 9, 1925. [At Pandora's Box][Added 7/20/98]
- Two
Letters to Ngo Dinh Diem [At Wiretap]
Eisenhower, October 23, 1954 (Department of State Bulletin, November 15, 1954): and
Kennedy, December 14, 1961 (Department of State Bulletin, January 1, 1962)[Added 7/20/98]
- WEB Our
Bodies. Ourselves Reading Room, Articles and Speeches [At Feminist.com][Added 7/20/98]
- WEB Court TV: Nuremberg Documents [At Court
TV][Added 7/20/98]
- Carl Schurz: A Look Back at 1848, 1907 [At this
Site][Added 7/20/98]
- Arthur Young (1741-1820): Travels
in France, 1792. excerpts [At Hanover][Added 7/20/98]
- Cahier of 1789: The Clergy of Blois and Romorantin [At Hanover][Added 7/20/98]
- Cahiers of 1789: The Nobility of Blois [At Hanover][Added 7/20/98]
- Cahiers of 1789: The Third
Estate of Versailles [At Hanover][Added 7/20/98]
- Cahiers of 1789: The Third Estate
of Carcassonne [At Hanover][Added 7/20/98]
- Cahiers of 1789: Cahiers de
Doleances of Carcassone, 1789 [At Hanover][Added 7/20/98]
- Henry Carey: The
Harmony of Interests: Agricultural, Manufacturing & Commercial, 1851[At American
Revolution][Added 7/20/98]
- Frederick Law Olmsted: A Journey in the
Seaboard Slave States, 1856 [At American Revolution][Added 7/20/98]
- Abraham Lincoln: Proclamation
on the Wade-Davis Bill, July 8, 1864 [At American Revolution][Added 7/20/98]
- The
Wade-Davis Manifesto, August 5, 1864 [At American Revolution][Added 7/20/98]
- Abraham Lincoln: Last
Speech, April 11, 1865 [At American Revolution][Added 7/20/98]
- Thaddeus Stevens: Speech,
December 18, 1865 [At American Revolution][Added 7/20/98]
- Address of a
Convention of Negroes held in Alexandria, Virginia, August 1865 [At American
Revolution][Added 7/20/98]
- William Barret Travis: Letter from the
Commandancy of the Alamo, 1836 [At American Revolution][Added 7/20/98]
- Dartmouth
College v. Woodward, 1819 [At American Revolution][Added 7/20/98]
- Cohens v.
Virginia, 1821 [At American Revolution][Added 7/20/98]
- Gibbons v.
Ogden, 1824 [At American Revolution][Added 7/20/98]
- Cherokee
Nation v. State of Georgia, 1831 [At American Revolution][Added 7/20/98]
- The Autobiography of
Geronimo, full text, [At American Revolution][Added 7/20/98]
- Virginia
Resolution, 1798 [At American Revolution][Added 7/20/98]
- Kentucky
Resolution, 1799 [At American Revolution][Added 7/20/98]
- John Adams: Inaugural
address, 1797 [At American Revolution][Added 7/20/98]
- The Jay Treaty,
1794 [At American Revolution][Added 7/20/98]
- Adam Smith (1723-90): Of Colonies,
from The Wealth of Nations, 1776 [At American Revolution][Added 7/20/98]
- Adam Smith (1723-90), The Cost of Empire,
from The Wealth of Nations, 1776 [At American Revolution][Added 7/20/98]
- Charles Inglis: The True Interest
of America Impartially Stated, 1776 [At American Revolution][Added 7/20/98]
- George Washington: Letter
to John Hancock, September 24, 1776 [At American Revolution][Added 7/20/98]
- Albigence Waldo: From
the diary of a Surgeon at Valley Forge, 1777 [At American Revolution][Added
7/20/98]
- Thomas Paine, The
American Crisis, 1780-1783 [At American Revolution][Added 7/20/98]
- Ebenezer Denny: From His
diary, 1781 [At American Revolution][Added 7/20/98]
Describing the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown
- Samuell Searls: Letter, May
12, 1782 [At American Revolution][Added 7/20/98]
- The Charlotte
Town Resolves, 1775 [At American Revolution][Added 7/20/98]
- Daniel Leonard: Letter,
of January 9, 1775 [At American Revolution][Added 7/20/98]
- John Adams: Novanglus,
February 6, 1775 [At American Revolution][Added 7/20/98]
- Governor Glen, The
Role of the Indians in the Rivalry Between France, Spain, and England, 1761 [At
American Revolution][Added 7/20/98]
- Daniel Dulany: Considerations,
October 1765 [At American Revolution][Added 7/20/98]
- Soame Jenyns: The
Objections to the taxation consider'd, 1765 [At American Revolution][Added 7/20/98]
- William Pitt: Speech
on the Stamp Act, January 14 1766 [At American Revolution][Added 7/20/98]
- John Dickenson: Letter
2, from Letters from a Farmer, 1767-1768 [At American Revolution][Added 7/20/98]
- John Dickenson: Letter
4, from Letters from a Farmer, 1767-1768 [At American Revolution][Added 7/20/98]
- Penn's Plan for a Union,
1697 [At American Revolution][Added 7/20/98]
- William III: Address
to Parliament on the French Question, 31 December 1701 [At American Revolution][Added
7/20/98]
- Robert Beverley: On
Bacon's Rebellion, 1704 [At American Revolution][Added 7/20/98]
- The North
Carolina Biennal Act, 1715 [At American Revolution][Added 7/20/98]
- Governor Gabriel Johnston: Request to repeal
the Biennal act, 18 October 1736 (translated) [At American Revolution][Added 7/20/98]
- Disposition
of the North Carolina Biennal Act, 1737 (translated) [At American Revolution][Added
7/20/98]
- Massachusetts House of Representatives: On the Governor's
Salary, 11 September 1728 (translated) [At American Revolution][Added 7/20/98]
- Governor Burnet of Massachusetts: On the Governor's
Salary, 17 September 1728 (translated) [At American Revolution][Added 7/20/98]
- French Memoir: On
the English Aggression, October 1750 [At American Revolution][Added 7/20/98]
- Marquis de la Galissoniere: Memoir on the French
Colonies in North America, December 1750 [At American Revolution][Added 7/20/98]
- Petition to Parliament: Reasons for making bar, as
well as pig or sow-iron, ca. 1750 [At American Revolution][Added 7/20/98]
- Petition to Parliament: Reason against a general
prohibition of the Iron Manufacture in Plantations [At American Revolution][Added
7/20/98]
- John Locke (1632-1704): A Letter Concerning
Toleration, 1689, excerpts [At American Revolution][Added 7/20/98]
- John Locke (1632-1704): An Essay Concerning
the true original, extent, and end of Civil Government, 1689, excerpts [At American
Revolution][Added 7/20/98]
- Bacon's
Declaration in the Name of the People, 30 July 1676 [At American Revolution][Added
7/20/98]
The rebellion in Virginia
- Governor William Berkely: On Bacon's Rebellion,
19 May 1676 [At American Revolution][Added 7/20/98]
- Edward Randolph Condemnation of
the Massachussetts Bay Company, 12 June 1683 [At American Revolution][Added 7/20/98]
- Memoir for the
Marquis de Seignelay Regarding the Dangers That Threaten Canada and the Means to Remedy
Them, January 1687 [At American Revolution][Added 7/20/98]
- An Ordinance and
Constitution of the Virginia Company in England for a Council of State and General
Assembly, 24 July 1621 [At American Revolution][Added 7/20/98]
- Instructions for
the Virginia Colony, 1606 [At American Revolution][Added 7/20/98]
- Thomas Paine (1737-1809): Common Sense, Jan 1776, full
text [At this Site][Added 7/19/98]
- John McCrae (1872-1918): In Flanders Fields [At this
Site][Added 7/19/98]
- Timothy Leary: The Declaration of Evolution [At
this Site][Added 7/19/98]
- Charles Darwin (1809-1882): The Descent of Man,
1871, excerpts on Sexual Selection [At this Site][Added 7/19/98]
- Alfred Tennyson: The Charge of the Light Brigade, c.1880
[At this Site][Added 7/19/98]
- Woman's Christian Temperance Union: Growth of
Membership and of Local, Auxiliary Unions, 1879-1921 [At this Site][Added 7/19/98]
- The Treaty of Guadaloupe Hidalgo, 2 Feb 1848 [At this
Site][Added 7/19/98]
- Vladimir Illyich Lenin (1870-1924): Imperialism,
The Highest Stage of Capitalism, 1916, Full text, [At this Site][Added 7/19/98]
- The Crime of Galileo: Indictment 1630 [At this
Site][Added 7/19/98]
- Karl Pearson: National Life From the Standpoint of Science,
1900 [At this Site][Added 7/19/98]
- Alexander Ledru-Rollin: Speech to the Electors of Sarthe,
1841 [At this Site][Added 7/19/98]
- Voltaire (1694-1778): Patrie, in The
Philosophical Dictionary, 1752 [At this Site]
Voltaire's attack on national chauvinism - and his views than people should be citizens of
the world.
- Tsar Nicholas I: Imperial Manifesto on Poland, March 25,
1832 [At this Site][Added 7/19/98]
- Jan Hus: Final Declaration, July 1, 1415 [At this
Site][Added 7/19/98]
- First, Second, & Third Virginia Charters [At U
Oklahoma][Added 7/19/98]
- Charter of Massachusetts Bay, 1629
[At U Oklahoma][Added 7/19/98]
- Connecticut Colony Charter, 1662
[At U Oklahoma][Added 7/19/98]
- First Thanksgiving Proclamation,
1676 [At U Oklahoma][Added 7/19/98]
- The Resolutions of the Stamp Act,
Oct. 19, 1765 [At U Oklahoma][Added 7/19/98]
- Patrick Henry: Give Me Liberty or Give
Me Death, March 23, 1775 [At U Oklahoma][Added 7/19/98]
- Declaration of Arms July 6, 1775
[At U Oklahoma][Added 7/19/98]
- Yankee Doodle [At U
Oklahoma][Added 7/18/98]
- WEB Benjamin Franklin: Works [At VTech] [At U Oklahoma][Added
7/19/98]
- Memorial and Remonstrance June 20,
1785 [At U Oklahoma][Added 7/19/98]
- Annapolis Convention Sept. 14,
1786 [At U Oklahoma][Added 7/19/98]
- Letter of Transmittal of the U.S.
Constitution Sept. 17, 1787 [At U Oklahoma][Added 7/19/98]
- WEB Rare
& Historical Newspapers [At Early America] [At U Oklahoma][Added 7/19/98]
- Fugitive Slave Law 1793
[At U Oklahoma][Added 7/19/98]
- WEB Papers of George Washington [At Virginia]
- Sedition Act July 14, 1798
[At U Oklahoma][Added 7/19/98]
- WEB Works of Thomas Jefferson [At Virgina Tech]
- Ralph Waldo Emerson: Concord Hymn July 4, 1837 [At U Oklahoma][Added 7/19/98]
- Declaration of Causes of seceding states Winter 1861 [At U Oklahoma][Added 7/19/98]
- Constitution of the
Confederate States of America March 11, 1861 [At U Oklahoma][Added 7/19/98]
- Battle Hymn of the Republic
[At U Oklahoma][Added 7/18/98]
- McClellan's Letter to President
Lincoln July 7, 1862 [At U Oklahoma][Added 7/19/98]
- WEB Letters from an Iowa
Soldier during the Civil War [At UCSC][Added 7/19/98]
- MEGA Civil
War Resources on the Web [At VMI]
- Frederick Douglass: Appeal to Congress for Impartial Suffrage, Jan. 1867 [At U
Oklahoma][Added 7/19/98]
- Espionage Act 1918 [At Ukansas][Added 7/19/98]
- Neutrality
Acts of 1937 & 1939 [At Wiretap][Added 7/19/98]
- Franklin D. Roosevelt: Infamy Speech Dec. 8, 1941 [At U Oklahoma][Added 7/19/98]
- US Declaration of War on Japan Dec.
8, 1941 [At U Oklahoma][Added 7/19/98]
- US Declaration of War on Germany Dec. 11, 1941 [At U Oklahoma][Added 7/19/98]
- German Surrender Documents of
World War II May 8, 1945 [At U Oklahoma][Added 7/19/98]
- Japanese Surrender Documents of
World War II Sept. 12, 1945 [At U Oklahoma][Added 7/19/98]
- Martin Luther King Jr's I Have A Dream Speech Aug. 28, 1963 [At UC Boulder][Added 7/19/98]
- State Department: White Paper on
Vietnam Feb. 27, 1965 [At Wiretap][Added 7/19/98]
- Non-Proliferation
of Nuclear Weapons Treaty 1968 [At U Cornell][Added 7/19/98]
- War
Powers Resolution Nov. 7, 1973 [At U Ms State][Added 7/19/98]
- Civil Rights Act,
1991 [At Wiretap][Added 7/19/98]
- Inaugural Addresses of US Presidents,
1789-1997, Index [At this Site][Added 7/19/98]
- John Stuart Mill: Liberalism Evaluated, 1873, from his
Autobiography [At this Site][Added 7/18/98]
Mill discusses how his faith in Liberalism slipped away and he began tending towards
Liberal Socialism (i.e., that of Hobhouse rather than the Fabians).
- The Horst Wessel Song [At this Site][Added 7/18/98]
- Songs of the German Army: World War II [At this
Site][Added 7/18/98]
- The Red Flag [At This Site][Added 7/18/98]
- British Imperialistic Anthems [At this Site][Added
7/18/98]
- Sidney Webb: The Historic Basis of Socialism, 1889 [At this
Site][Added 7/18/98]
- British Songs of World War II [At this Site][Added
7/18/98]
- Music and History Page now operational, with text
and multimedia content [Added 7/18/98]
- WEB Interpreting The Irish
Famine, 1846-1850 [At Virginia][Added 7/17/98]
A large collection of online original texts from Ireland, England, and America on the
Irish Famine. Includes a great deal on emigration to America.
- WEB The Mary Anne Sadlier Archive [At Virginia][Added 7/17/98]
Mary Anne Sadlier (1820-1903), an Irish-American immigrant, wrote sixty
volumes of work -- from domestic novels to historical romances to children's catechisms.
- Treaty of Rome,
1957 in one file. [At Tufts][Added 7/17/98]
- Italian Constitution 1961, in Italian [At wiretap][Added 7/17/98]
- Ireland: Constitution [At TCD][Added 7/17/98]
- William O Douglas (1898-1980): A Living Bill of
Rights, excerpts, 1961 [At Civnet][Added 7/17/98]
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945): The Four Freedoms,
from his message to Congress given on January 6, 1941 [At Civnet][Added 7/17/98]
- Immanuel Kant (1724-1804): On Paternalism, from On
the Relationship of Theory to Practice in Political Right, 1792 [At
Civnet][Added 7/17/98]
- Voltaire (1694-1778): On English Government,
from Philosophical Dictionary, 1764 [At Civnet][Added 7/17/98]
- American Anti-Slavery Society: Declaration of Sentiments,
1833 [At Civnet][Added 7/17/98]
- Henry David Thoreau: Civil
Disobedience, 1846 [At Civnet][Added 7/17/98]
Very long selections.
- Massachusetts Personal
Liberty Act, 1855 [At Civnet][Added 7/17/98]
Aimed at hleping runaway slaves.
- Dred Scott v. Sanford,
1857 [At Civnet][Added 7/17/98]
Infamous Supreme court decision defining an enslaved person as "property".
- Abraham Lincoln: "A
House Divided", 1858 [At Civnet][Added 7/17/98]
Delivered June 17, 1858, at the close of the Republican State Convention.
- Sullivan Ballou: Letter
to His Wife, 1861 [At Civnet][Added 7/17/98]
- Abraham Lincoln: Emancipation
Proclamation, 1863 [At Civnet][Added 7/17/98]
- Abraham Lincoln: Gettysburg
Address, 1863 [At Civnet][Added 7/17/98]
- Ex parte Milligan,
1866 [At Civnet][Added 7/17/98]
The Supreme court insists on the rights of individuals, even during war.
- Morrill Act, 1862
[At Civnet][Added 7/17/98]
Allowed western states to establish land grant college.
- Pendleton Act,
1883 [At Civnet][Added 7/17/98]
Regulated the neutrality of the civil service.
- People's Party
Platform, 1896 [At Civnet][Added 7/17/98]
Radical rural/farmers' party. The roots of American "populism".
- Muller v. Oregon,
1908 [At Civnet][Added 7/17/98]
Allowed states to create worker protection laws.
- Theodore Roosevelt: The
New Nationalism, 1910 [At Civnet][Added 7/17/98]
The famous speech at Ossowatomie, Kansas, on August 31, 1910, which contains the kernel of
the "Progressive" ideas which would lead to the modern American welfare state.
So a speech outlining modern Aamerican "liberalism" by a Republican.
- Woodrow Wilson: First
Inaugural, 1913 [At Civnet][Added 7/17/98]
Wilson's vision, in contrast to Roosevelt, is of a small-unit economy presided over by a
government of limited powers. In other words a speech echoing major themese in modern
American conservatism by a Democratic president.
- Plessy v. Ferguson,
1896 [At Civnet][Added 7/17/98]
Established the legal basis for American apartheid in the South.
- Harlan Fiske Stone: Carolene
Products Footnote, 1938 [At Civnet][Added 7/17/98]
- 35. Harry S. Truman: Excutive
Order 9981 1948 [At Civnet][Added 7/17/98]
Established equal treatment of Blacks in the hitherto segregated armed forces.
- Brown v. Board of
Education, 1954 [At Civnet][Added 7/17/98]
The finale of the NAACP's legislative campaign to overturn the "separate but
equal" doctrine in education.
- Cooper v. Aaron,
1958 [At Civnet][Added 7/17/98]
Forced the South to put Brown into effect.
- Martin Luther King Jr.: "I Have a Dream",
1963 (introduction) [At Civnet][Added 7/17/98]
- Civil Rights Act,
1964 [At Civnet][Added 7/17/98]
- Lyndon B. Johnson: The
American Promise, 1965 [At Civnet][Added 7/17/98]
Johnson's use of the "bully pulpit" on behalf of the Civil Rights movement.
- Regents of the
University of California v. Bakke, 1978 [At Civnet][Added 7/17/98]
The Supreme Court wavered over "affirmative action", allowing for its later
dismantling.
- Virginia Stature for
Religious Freedom, 1786 [At Civnet][Added 7/17/98]
Drafted by Jefferson and Madison, Jefferson considered it one of his greates achievements.
The basis for the later First Amendment.
- Abrams v. United
States, 1919 [At Civnet][Added 7/17/98]
The dissent by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes which is seen as the start of modern judicial
approaches to free speech.
- Whitney v. California,
1927 [At Civnet][Added 7/17/98]
Justice Louis D. Brandeis's concurrence is counted as one of the greatest defences of free
speech.
- Near v. Minnesota,
1931 [At Civnet][Added 7/17/98]
Extended the First Amendment to cover state courts.
- West Virginia Board of
Education v.Barnette, 1943 [At Civnet][Added 7/17/98]
In Minersville School District v. Gobitis (1940), the Supreme Court sustained local
school board requirements that all students salute the flag. Jehovah's Witnesses refused
to compromise, and in this case the Supreme Court reversed its earlier decision.
- Engel v. Vitale,
1962 [At Civnet][Added 7/17/98]
The Supreme court effectively bans school prayer.
- New York Times Co. v.
United States, 1971 [At Civnet][Added 7/17/98]
The Supreme Court rules against "prior restraint" in publication.
- George Washington: Farewell
Address, 1796 [At Civnet][Added 7/17/98]
Washington's call the avoidance of "entangling alliances".
- The Monroe Doctrine,
1823 [At Civnet][Added 7/17/98]
- Woodrow Wilson: Fourteen
Points Speech, 1918 [At Civnet][Added 7/17/98]
- Franklin D. Roosevelt: Address
at Charlottesville, 1940 [At Civnet][Added 7/17/98]
Roosevelt rebuts isolationism and promised to aid Britain against Germany.
- The Atlantic Charter,
1941 [At Civnet][Added 7/17/98]
- Foreign Aid and Human
Rights, 1976 [At Civnet][Added 7/17/98]
In 1976, Congress overrode a presidential veto to enact this human rights policy into the
International Security and Arms Export Control Act.
- Jimmy Carter: Human
Rights and Foreign Policy, 1977 [At Civnet][Added 7/17/98]
A commencement speech given at Notre Dame University in June 1977.
- Sanctions Against
South Africa, 1986 [At Civnet][Added 7/17/98]
- The Marshall Plan,
1947 [At Civnet][Added 7/17/98]
- Recall of General
Douglas McArthur 1951 [At Civnet][Added 7/17/98]
Truman repressed perhaps the greatest challenge made by a military leader to the Civilian
government.
- Youngstown Sheet &
Tube Co. v. Sawyer, 1952 [At Civnet][Added 7/17/98]
Steel owners sought to defend their rights against the executive by addressing the issue
of the balance of power.
- Censure of Senator
Joseph McCarthy, 1954 [At Civnet][Added 7/17/98]
- Democracy and Foreign
Policy, 1990 [At Civnet][Added 7/17/98]
Secretary of State James Baker addresss the issue in a speech to the World Affairs Council
in March 1990,
- Bardwell v. Illinois,
1873 [At Civnet][Added 7/17/98]
The supreme court agreed that women could be banned from the bar.
- Emma Lazarus,
"The New Colossus", 1883 [At Civnet][Added 7/17/98]
The poem on the Statute of Liberty.
- Yick Wo v. Hopkins,
1886 [At Civnet][Added 7/17/98]
Yick Wo v. Hopkins is the first instance of the Court inferring the existence of
discrimination from data about a law's application, a technique that would be used again
in the 1960s to strike down statutes discriminating against African Americans.
- Korematsu v. United
States, 1944 [At Civnet][Added 7/17/98]
The Court allowed the internment of Japanese Americans during the Second World War.
Only three members dissented.
- John F Kennedy: Address
to Southern Baptist Leaders, 1960 [At Civnet][Added 7/17/98]
On his Catholicism and politics.
- Gideon v. Wainwright,
1963 [At Civnet][Added 7/17/98]
Extended 6th Amendment right to counsel to defendants in state court cases.
- Reynolds v. Sims,
1964 [At Civnet][Added 7/17/98]
Required equitable dstribution of electoral districts.
- NOW Statement of
Purpose, 1966 [At Civnet][Added 7/17/98]
- Clyde Warrior,
"We Are Not Free", 1967 [At Civnet][Added 7/17/98]
Speech by an American Indian activist.
- Maya Angelou,
"On the Pulse of Morning", 1993, introduction (text omitted) [At
Civnet][Added 7/17/98], text [At Norconnect][Added 7/22/98]
- United States v.
Nixon, 1974 [At Civnet][Added 7/17/98]
On Nixon's claims to executive privilege.
- Excerpts from
Presidential Debates, 1992 [At Civnet][Added 7/17/98]
- The Judiciary Act of 1789 [At Civnet][Added 7/17/98]
established federal judiciary.
- Marbury v. Madison, 1803
[At Civnet][Added 7/17/98]
The Supreme Court establishes its right to review laws passed by Congree.
- McCulloch v. Maryland,
1819 [At Civnet][Added 7/17/98]
Gave broad powers to the federal government under the constition.
- Thomas Jefferson: First
Inaugural, 1801 [At Civnet][Added 7/17/98]
- Black Hawk: Surrender
Speech, 1832 [At Civnet][Added 7/17/98]
- Alexis de Tocqueville: Democracy in America, 1835, excerpts [At Civnet][Added 7/17/98]
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882): Self-Reliance, 1841 [At
Civnet][Added 7/17/98]
- Dorothea Lynde Dix (1802-1887): Memorial to the
Massachusetts Legislature, 1843 [At Civnet][Added 7/17/98]
On social reform of prisons and facilities for the mentally ill.
- Horace Mann (1796-1859): Report No. 12 of the
Massachusetts School Board, 1848 [At Civnet][Added 7/17/98]
- Seneca Falls
Declaration, 1848 [At Civnet][Added 7/17/98]
- James Madison: The Federalist
No.10, 1787 [At Civnet][Added 7/17/98]
- The Northwest
Ordinance, 1787 [At Civnet][Added 7/17/98]
- Albany Plan of Union,
1754 [At Civnet][Added 7/17/98]
- Fundamental Orders of
Connecticut 1639 [At Civnet][Added 7/17/98]
- Mayflower Compact 1620 [At Civnet][Added 7/17/98]
- Rupert Brooke: War Sonnets [At this Site][Added 7/17/98]
- Johann Gottlieb Fichte: Address To The German Nation,
1807 [At this Site][Added 7/17/98]
- Rudyard Kipling: If [At this Site][Added 7/16/98]
- Frederick Jackson Turner: The Significance of the Frontier in
American History, 1893 [At this Site][Added 7/11/98]
- Queen Elizabeth I of England (b.1533, r. 1558-1603): Selected
Writing and Speeches [At this Site][Added 7/11/98]
- Thomas Paine (1737-1809): Essays on Religion [At
this Site][Added 7/11/98]
- Thomas Paine (1737-1809): Of the Religion of Deism Compared
with the Christian Religion [At this Site][Added 7/11/98]
- Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, October 22, 1685
[At this Site][Added 7/11/98]
- William Bradford: History of Plymouth Plantation, c.
1650 [At this Site][Added 7/11/98]
- Abraham Lincoln: First Inaugural Address,
March 4, 1861 [At this Site][Added 7/10/98]
- Abraham Lincoln: Second Inaugural Address,
March 4, 1865 [At this Site][Added 7/10/98]
- Frederick W. Taylor: The Principles of Scientific Management,
1911 [At this Site][Added 7/10/98]
- Baptist Confessions of Faith, 1644, 1655 [At this
Site][Added 7/10/98]
- The Fugitive Slave Act, September 18, 1850 [At this
Site][Added 7/10/98]
- John F. Kennedy: Address on the Cuban Crisis,
October 22, 1962 [At this Site][Added 7/10/98]
- Franklin D. Roosevelt: 'A Call for Sacrifice',
28 April, 1942 [At this Site][Added 7/10/98]
The speech indicates the tremendous increase in governmental power, and control over the
economy, needed to fight the war.
- Winston Churchill: "Their Finest Hour",
To the House of Commons, 18 June 1940 [At this Site][Added 7/10/98]
- Adolf Hitler: The Obersalzberg Speech [At this
Site][Added 7/10/98]
- Benjamin Disraeli: Utilitarian Follies [At this Site][Added 7/10/98]
- John Henry Newman (1801-1890): Who is to Blame? [At this Site][Added 7/10/98]
Newman on the nature of constitutional government.
- Thomas Carlyle: Signs of the Times: The "Mechanical
Age [At this Site][Added 7/10/98]
- Women Miners in the English Coal Pits, 1842 [At this
Site][Added 7/10/98]
- Francis Bacon: from First Book of Aphorisms [At
this Site][Added 7/9/98]
- David Hume: Of the Dignity or Meanness of Human Nature [At this Site][Added 7/9/98]
- Archbishops of England: Reply to Leo XIII [At this
Site][Added 7/8/98]
- Pope Leo XIII: On the Nullity of Anglican Orders, Apostolicae Curae, 1896 [At this Site][Added 7/8/98]
- Negating the 39 Articles [At this Site][Added 7/8/98]
- Archbishop William Laud: Visitation Articles, 1635 [At this
Site][Added 7/8/98]
- Oliver Cromwell: Letter to his Brother-in-Law after
the Battle of Marston Moor, 1644 [At this Site][Added 7/8/98]
- Thomas Macauley: On Oliver Cromwell [At this
Site][Added 7/8/98]
- The Thirty Nine Articles, 1571, 1662 [At this
Site][Added 7/8/98]
- James I: from Anglicanism, 1616 [At this Site][Added
7/8/98]
- Josiah Child: Brief
Observations Concerning Trade and Interest of Money, 1668 [At Yale][Added 7/5/98]
- Charter of the Dutch West India
Company, 1621 [At Yale][Added 7/5/98]
- Elizabeth I: Charter to Sir
Walter Raleigh, 1584 [At Yale][Added 7/5/98]
- Charles D'Avenant: An
Essay on the East-India Trade, 1697 [At Yale][Added 7/5/98]
- John Locke (1632-1704): Further
Considerations Concerning Raising the Value of Money [At Yale][Added 7/5/98]
- Theodor Herzl (1860-1904): The Jewish State, 1896
[At this Site][Added 7/4/98]
- John Locke (1632-1704): Two Treatises of Government,
1690, selections, [At this Site][Added 7/4/98]
- James Watt (1736-1819): The Steam Engine, c. 1769 [At this
Site][Picture][Added 7/4/98]
- Map: The Religious Division of Europe, [At this Site][Added
7/4/98]
- Map: Reconstruction and Reaction, [At this Site][Added
7/4/98]
- Map: US: Origin of Immigrants 1970-1990, [At this
Site][Added 7/4/98]
- Chart: Atlantic Slave Trade: Carriers and Destinations of
Enslaved People, [At this Site][Added 7/4/98]
- Image: Bar Chart: US Immigration 1820-1970, [At this
Site][Added 7/4/98]
- Image: Graph: US Immigration 1900-1990, [At this
Site][Added 7/4/98]
- Jean Jacques Rousseau: The Social Contract, 1762,
extended excerpts, [At this Site][Added 7/4/98]
- Jean Jacques Rousseau: A Dissertation On the
Origin and Foundation of the Inequality of Mankind, Parts 1 and 2, 1755, extended
excerpts, [At this Site][Added 7/4/98]
- Henry Demarest Lloyd: "The Lords of Industry," North
American Review 331 (June 1884) [At this Site][Added 7/4/98]
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