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DOCUMENT-BASED ACTIVITIES FOR WORLD HISTORY: Using Primary Sources and the Internet
Ordering Information
Titles in this Series:
Medieval Europe
Renaissance Art & Archictecture
Renaissance Politics and Economics
Medieval China
Shogun Japan
The Rise and Spread of Islam
The Industrial Revolution
World War I
World War II
The Holocaust
The Enlightenment
The French Revolution
Imperialism
Medieval Africa
The Reformation
The Scientific Revolution
The Age of Exploration
Nineteenth-Century Nationalism
The Rise & Fall of Soviet Communism
The United Nations
Related Title:
Document-Based Activities for U.S. History Series
Medieval Europe 
Lesson 1:
Einhard: The Life of Charlemagne
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/einhard.html
The Monk of Saint Gall: The Life of Charlemagne, 883/4
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/stgall-charlemagne.html
Illuminated manuscript "The Coronation of Charlemagne"
http://people.clemson.edu/~abmatth/123.jpg
The Song of Roland
http://omacl.org/Roland/
Lesson 2:
Feudal Oaths of Fidelity
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/feud-oath1.html
Charter of Homage and Fealty, 1110
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/atton1.html
French Book of Hours, the Trés Riches Heures
http://www.navigo.com/wm/rh/
French Book of Hours: March
http://www.navigo.com/wm/rh/img/march.jpg
French Book of Hours: August
http://www.navigo.com/wm/rh/img/august.jpg
Description of a Manor House
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/chingford.html
Lesson 3:
Evolution of Crusader Privileges, 1095–1270
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/cde-privs.html
Ekkehard of Aurach: On the Opening of the First Crusade
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/ekkehard-aur1.html
Annales Herbipolenses, s.a. 1147: A Hostile View of the Crusade
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/1147critic.html
Map of the Fourth Crusade and later Crusades
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/maps/4cde.jpg
Lesson 4:
Picture of the Magna Carta
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured_documents/magna_carta/images/magna
_carta.jpg
Text of the Magna Carta
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured_documents/magna_carta/translation.html
Magna Carta and Its American Legacy
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured_documents/magna_carta/legacy.html
The Bill of Rights
http://www.socialstudies.com/article.html?article@billofrights
"What Say the Reeds at Runnymede?"
http://www.britannia.com/history/kipling.html
Lesson 5:
Introduction to Boccacio's Decameron
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/decameronintro.html
Hans Holbein the Younger: The Dance of Death
http://www.image.pe.ca/index/woodcut/holbien.html
Mortality Rates in Florence 1348
http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/osheim/marchione.html
AIDS/HIV information
http://www.docguide.com/news/content.nsf/PatientResAllCateg/AIDS%2FHIV?Open
Document
Plague Simulation
http://www.mcn.org/ed/cur/cw/Plague/Plague_Sim.html
Related Web Sites:
Medieval Sourcebook
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.html
ORB: The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies
http://www.the-orb.net
History On-line
http://www.history.ac.uk/ihr/Resources/index.html
Historical Maps Collection
http://gate.henry-davis.com/MAPS/EMwebpages/201G.html
Overview of the History of Charlemagne
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/Blair/Courses/MUSL242/f98/charles.htm
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Renaissance Art & Archictecture
Lesson 1:
The Miracle of the Thirsty Man: Giotto
http://www.christusrex.org/www1/francis/SSF-thirsty-l.jpg
Mona Lisa: Leonardo
http://gallery.euroweb.hu/art/l/leonardo/04/1monali.jpg
The Life of Leonardo da Vinci: Giorgio Vasari, 1550
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/vasari1.html
The Last Supper: Leonardo
http://www.artchive.com/artchive/L/leonardo/lastsupp.jpg.html
Lesson 2:
The Enchanted Gardens of the Renaissance
http://www.bergerfoundation.ch/Jardin/index_english.html
The Sacred Grove, The Monsters' Grove, Bomarzo Garden
http://www.bergerfoundation.ch/Jardin/bois-sacre_english.html
Villa Lante—Bagnaia Garden
http://www.bergerfoundation.ch/Jardin/jardin-bagnaia_english.html
Villa d'Este's Tivoli Garden
http://www.bergerfoundation.ch/Jardin/tivoli-intro_english.html
Lesson 3:
Glossary
http://www.wga.hu/database/glossary/glossar3.html
The Web Gallery of Art—Visit to the Sistine Chapel
http://www.wga.hu/tours/sistina/index.html
The Ceiling Frescoes
http://www.wga.hu/tours/sistina/index_c.html
The Creation of Adam
http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/m/michelan/3sistina/1genesis/6adam/06_3
ce6.html
Prophets and Sybils
http://www.wga.hu/tours/sistina/index4.html
The Last Judgment
http://www.wga.hu/tours/sistina/index_d.html
Lesson 4:
Lives of the Artists: Giorgio Vasari, 1550
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/vasari/vasari5.htm
The Dome of the Cathedral of Florence: Exterior View
http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/giorgio.vasari/brunell/pic10.htm
The Pantheon, Rome: Exterior View
http://wings.buffalo.edu/AandL/Maecenas/pantheon/pan1_intro/ac880931.jpg
The Dome of the Cathedral of Florence: Interior View
http://www.virtourist.com/europe/florence/images/05.jpg
The Pantheon, Rome: Interior View
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/artsandmedia/dic/colls/arh102/images/twoW02.jpg
Geometry of the Dome
http://brunelleschi.imss.fi.it/genscheda.asp?appl=LIR&indice=63&xsl=modello&lingu
a=ENG&chiave=100510
Innovative Engineers of the Renaissance
http://brunelleschi.imss.fi.it/ingrin/
Brunelleschi's Secret in Constructing the Cupola of the Florence Cathedral
http://web.archive.org/web/19981207051555/vps.it/propart/mricci.htm
(Link is to an archive)
Lesson 5:
Christopher Marlowe, "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love"
http://www.rjgeib.com/thoughts/shepherd/shepherd.html
Sir Walter Raleigh, "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd"
http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/nymphsreply.htm
Edmund Spenser, "from Amoretti" (Sonnet 30)
http://www.shelterbelt.com/BRITISH/sonnetsameliza.html
William Shakespeare, Sonnet 18
http://www.albionmich.com/inspiration/shallicompare.html
William Shakespeare, Sonnet 116
http://www.albionmich.com/valentine.html
Elizabeth I: Biography
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/tudors/elizabeth_i_01.shtml
"When I Was Fair and Young" (attributed to Elizabeth I)
http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/wheniwasfair.htm
Passions in Poetry: Sir Walter Raleigh
http://www.netpoets.com/classic/biographies/051000.htm
Related Web Sites:
Geocentric vs. Heliocentric: Theory Comparison Study Sheet
http://online.chabotcollege.edu/shildreth/astronomy/geo.html
Geocentric Theory
http://abyss.uoregon.edu/~js/glossary/geocentric_theory.html
Innovative Engineers of the Renaissance—Brunelleschi
http://brunelleschi.imss.fi.it/ingrin/
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Renaissance Politics and Economics
Lesson 1:
Francis Petrarch: To Posterity Letters
http://petrarch.petersadlon.com/read_letters.html?s=pet01.html
Francis Petrarch: Selections from his Correspondences
http://history.hanover.edu/early/petrarch.html
Hanover (Indiana) College Historical Texts Project
http://history.hanover.edu/project.html
Francis Petrarch: Letter to Cicero 1
http://history.hanover.edu/texts/petrarch/pet09.html
Francis Petrarch: Letter to Cicero 2
http://history.hanover.edu/texts/petrarch/pet11.html
Lesson 2:
Medieval Sourcebook: Lorenzo de Medici: Paternal Advice To A Cardinal
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/lorenzomed1.html
Biographical information on Lorenzo de Medici
http://www.lucidcafe.com/library/96jan/lorenzo.html
Lesson 3:
Chapter 17 of The Prince
http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/publications/Projects/digitexts/machiavelli/the_prince/c
hapter17.html
Entire text of the The Prince
http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/publications/machiavelli.html
Institute for Learning Technologies
http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/publications/digitext.html
The Declaration of Independence: A Transcription
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/declaration_transcript.html
Lesson 4:
Medieval Sourcebook: Marco Polo: The Glories Of Kinsay [Hangchow]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/polo-kinsay.html
Medieval Internet Sourcebook
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.html
Internet History Sourcebooks Project
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/
Lesson 5:
Christopher Columbus: Extracts from Journal
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/columbus1.html
Internet History Sourcebooks Project
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/
Biographical resource on Columbus
http://www.millersville.edu/~columbus/columbus.html
Related Web Sites:
The Annenberg/CPB Renaissance Exhibits collection
http://www.learner.org/interactives/renaissance/
Medieval/Renaissance Food Homepage
http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/food.html
A Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Instruments
http://www.music.iastate.edu/antiqua/instrumt.html
The Medieval Internet Sourcebook: Renaissance
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook1x.html
"Rome Reborn: The Vatican Library & Renaissance Culture"
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/vatican/toc.html
The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
http://www.idbsu.edu/courses/hy309/docs/burckhardt/burckhardt.html
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Medieval China
Lesson 1:
Reproduction of Cell Used by Students Taking the Imperial Exams
http://www.csupomona.edu/~plin/ls201/images/scholar_cell_big.jpg
Background Information:
Tang Dynasty
http://www.paulnoll.com/China/Dynasty/dynasty-Tang.html
Confucian Exams
http://www.csupomona.edu/~plin/ls201/confucian3.html
Sung Dynasties
http://library.thinkquest.org/12255/library/dynasty/sung.html?tqskip1=1&tqtime=08
26
Lesson 2:
The Longmen Grottoes, Hene Province, China
http://goasia.about.com/library/weekly/blpic6-longmen.htm
The Crowned Buddha at the Southern Leigutaidong Cave
http://www.miho.or.jp/english/member/shangrila/vol8/eshan8_2.htm
Background Information:
Five Minute Introduction to Buddha
http://www.buddhanet.net/e-learning/5minbud.htm
A History of Chinese Buddhism
http://web.archive.org/web/20070304205701/http://villa.lakes.com/cdpatton/Buddha/
(Link is to an archive)
Longmen Grottoes
http://www.travelchinaguide.com/attraction/henan/luoyang/longmen.htm
http://www.chinaknowledge.de/Art/Grottoes/grottoes.html#longmen
Thomas Jefferson Memorial (for comparison)
http://www.nps.gov/thje/
Abraham Lincoln Memorial (for comparison)
http://www.nps.gov/linc/
Lesson 3:
Image of the Diamond Sutra
http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/themes/landmarks/diamondsutra.html
English Translation of the Diamond Sutra
http://community.palouse.net/lotus/diamond1-5.htm
Background Information:
Block Printing
http://www.fathom.com/feature/122327/
http://www.wavespring.com/justin/china/printing.html
The Diamond Sutra
http://www.silk-road.com/artl/diamondsutra.shtml
Lesson 4:
"Alone in her Beauty" by Du Fu
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/chinese/tangeng.html
Background Information on the "Golden Age of Arts and Literature":
Lesson 5:
Mau Yuan's Sung Dynasty work "Riding a Dragon"
http://www.npm.gov.tw/exhbition/song/english/art/selections.htm
Chen Haiqiang's 2001 work "Last Pray for the Living Environment"
Page no longer available. A thumbnail of the piece may be found at:
http://web.archive.org/web/20020923231702/http://www.chinese-art.com/Contemp
orary/volumefourissue5/images/125/shanghai/bianyuan/chenhaiqiang.jpg
(Link is to an archive)
Background Information on Medieval Chinese Art and Modern Chinese Art:
Related Web Sites:
Art and the Culture of the Sung Dynasty
http://www.npm.gov.tw/exhbition/song/english/cson0003.htm
Timelines of China
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ht/06/eac/ht06eac.htm
Emusuem: Chinese Dynasties
http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/prehistory/china/index.html
A Universal Guide for China Studies
http://www.chinaknowledge.de/History/Tang/tang.html
Back to the Top
Shogun Japan
Lesson 1:
Kawasaki: A Military Checkpoint
http://www.us-japan.org/edomatsu/Kawasaki/frame.html
"Questioned in detail" illustration
http://www.us-japan.org/edomatsu/Kawasaki/kowtow.jpg
Background on Tokugawa Ieyasu and the political structure of Tokugawa Shogun Japan:
Lesson 2:
Samurai Quotations
http://victorian.fortunecity.com/duchamp/410/quotes.html
Background on the social hierarchy of Shogun Japan and on the role of the samurai:
Lesson 3:
Photographs of scenes from Kanadehon Chushingura
http://www.bookmice.net/darkchilde/japan/asahi/kabuki3.jpg
Background on the Kabuki Theater and on Kanadehon Chushingura:
Lesson 4:
Woodcut by Toyokuni I depicting Act III from Chushingara
http://www.spencerart.ku.edu/collection/print/chushin/3.shtml
Or try this page (link is to an archive).
Woodcut by Hiroshige depicting "Scene XI, The Raid" from Chushingara
http://www.spencerart.ku.edu/collection/print/chushin/12.shtml
Or try this page (link is to an archive).
Background on Ukiyo-e Art
http://www.tokugawagallery.com/history.html
http://spectacle.berkeley.edu/~fiorillo/texts/ukiyoetexts/ukiyoe_intro.html
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/ukiyoe/ukiyoe.html
http://web.archive.org/web/20060219174812/http://www.cjn.or.jp/ukiyo-e/arts-ind
ex.html
(Link is to an archive)
Chushingara Prints
http://www.degener.com/1057.htm
http://www.spencerart.ku.edu/collection/print/chushin/index.shtml
Lesson 5:
Treaty of Kanagawa
http://web.jjay.cuny.edu/~jobrien/reference/ob25.html
Background on the international trade with Japan:
Related Web Sites:
A Virtual Tour of Edo, Japan
http://www.us-japan.org/edomatsu/
The Tokugawa Art Museum
http://www.tokugawa-art-museum.jp/english/index.html
Viewing Japanese Prints
http://spectacle.berkeley.edu/~fiorillo/
Schauwecker's Guide to Japan
http://www.japan-guide.com/
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The Rise and Spread of Islam (600-1200)
Lesson 1:
The Prophet Muhammad's Last Sermon
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/muhm-sermon.html
Jesus's Last Sermon (John 13–16)
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/KjvJohn.html
Buddah's Last Sermon
http://web.archive.org/web/20060822154236/http://home.flash.net/~cameron/texts
/parinirv.html
(Link is to an archive)
Lesson 2:
Medieval Sourcebook: Arabs, Franks, and the Battle of Tours, 732: Three Accounts
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/732tours.html
Medieval Sourcebook: Anon Arab Chronicler: The Battle of Poitièrs, 732
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/arab-poitiers732.html
Lesson 3:
Maps and the History of Jerusalem
http://www.usm.maine.edu/~maps/exhibit1/theme1.html
HIEROSOLIMA, first map of Jerusalem
http://www.usm.maine.edu/~maps/exhibit1/04large.jpg
The Capture of Jerusalem by Saladin, 1187
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/1187saladin.html
Some Medieval Accounts of Salah al-Din's Recovery of Jerusalem (Al-
Quds)
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/med/salahdin.html
Google Web search
http://www.google.com
Lesson 4:
Omar Khayyam: The Rubaiyat, c. 1120 CE
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/omarkhayyam-fitz2.html
Lesson 5:
Religious Architecture and Islamic Cultures
http://web.mit.edu/4.614/www/schedule.html
Related Web Sites:
A Brief Chronology of Muslim History
http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/history/chronology/
Introduction to Islamic Beliefs and Practices
http://www.iiie.net/node/16
Introduction to the Articles and Pillars of Islam
http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/pillars/intropillars.html
Islam 101
http://www.islam101.com/
IslamiClip Arabic Islamic Clip Art
http://www.sakkal.com/IslamiClip1.html
Islamic Texts and Resources
http://wings.buffalo.edu/sa/muslim/
The Metropolitan Museum of Art—The Collection: Islamic Art (Introduction)
http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_Of_Art/department.asp?dep=14
Islam: Empire of Faith-Educational Resources (PBS)
http://www.pbs.org/empires/islam/lesson2b.html
The Ten Commandments
http://www.whitestonejournal.com/tencommandments/index.html
Understanding Islam and Muslims
http://www.islamicity.com/Mosque/uiatm/un_islam.htm
Welcome to Isfahan!
http://www.isfahan.org.uk/
Women in Islam
http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/humanrelations/womeninislam/index.html
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The Industrial Revolution
Lesson 1:
Photograph of Hand Loom
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/handloom.jpg
Photograph of Power Loom
http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/history/core/pics/0253/img0053.jpg
Leeds Woollen Workers Petition, 1786
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1786machines.html
Letter from Leeds Cloth Merchants, 1791
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1791machines.html
Background On Inventors During the Industrial Revolution
http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventors/watt.htm
http://www.history.rochester.edu/steam/marshall/
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/IRarkwright.htm
http://www.grimshaworigin.org/WebPages/HargGrim.htm
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/SCcartwright.htm
Lesson 2:
"The Hand-Loom Weavers' Lament"
http://campus.murraystate.edu/academic/faculty/kevin.binfield/songs.htm
Lord Byron, speech in the House of Lords (27th February, 1812)
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/PRluddites.htm
Background on Luddites
http://www.usu.edu/sanderso/multinet/lud1.html
Lesson 3:
First-person narrative by Fanny Kemble
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RAkemble.htm
Graphs of the Spread of Railways in 19th Century
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/indrev6.html
Background on Railways
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/railways.htm
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RAbourne.htm
Lesson 4:
Chadwick's Report on Sanitary Conditions
http://www.victorianweb.org/history/chadwick2.html
The Sadler Committee's Report on Child Labor in England - 1832
http://web.archive.org/web/20030215014332/http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~benjami
n/316kfall/316kunit2/studentprojects/group2/sadler.html
(Link is to an archive)
Background on Child Labor in Great Britain
http://nhs.needham.k12.ma.us/cur/Baker_00/2002_p7/ak_p7/childlabor.html
http://www.victorianweb.org/history/hist8.html
Lesson 5:
Drawings of the Crystal Palace
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/english/Clayton/318visual_1851.htm
Click here to go straight to Western Entrance of the Great Exhibit
Click here to go straight to South Exterior of the Crystal Palace
Sermons preached by Reverend George Clayton
http://www.victorianweb.org/history/1851/clayton.html
Background on the Great Exhibition of 1851
http://www.victorianweb.org/history/1851/crystal1.html
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/speel/otherart/grtexhib.htm
http://www.victorianweb.org/history/1851/1851ov.html
http://www.victorianstation.com/palace.html
Related Web Sites:
Discover School: Industrial Revolution
http://web.archive.org/web/20011214010901/http://school.discovery.com/homewor
khelp/worldbook/atozhistory/i/275880.html
(Link is to an archive)
The Victorian Web
http://www.victorianweb.org/
The Industrial Revolution Lecture
http://www.ecology.com/archived-links/industrial-revolution/index.html
Kid Info Reference Resource: Industrial Revolution
http://www.kidinfo.com/American_History/Industrial_Revolution.html
The Internet Modern History Sourcebook: Industrial Revolution
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook14.html
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World War I
Lesson 1:
The "Willy-Nicky" Telegrams
http://wwi.lib.byu.edu/index.php/The_Willy-Nicky_Telegrams
Lesson 2:
The Role of Cavalry in Warfare
http://web.archive.org/web/19980205091530/http://www.hillsdale.edu/dept/History
/courses/469/IndWar/1895-cavalry.htm
(Link is to an archive)
Photos in lesson:
http://www.gwpda.org/photos/animals.htm#horses
http://www.gwpda.org/photos/bin03/imag0284.jpg
Photos from the Great War
http://www.gwpda.org/photos/greatwr2.htm
The Dragon and the Undying
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/8103/Sassoon1.html
In Flanders Field
http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/flanders.htm
Lesson 3:
Trenches on the Web: Posters from the Great War
http://www.worldwar1.com/posters.htm
"They Shall Not Pass" poster
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6d/On_Ne_Passe_Pas_1918.jpg
"Are YOU in this?" poster
http://www.pinetreeweb.com/bp-are-you-in-this-ww1.htm
World War I Posters in the Hyder Collection
http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/hyder/posters/
Lesson 4:
The First Lusitania Note to Germany
http://wwi.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Wilson%27s_First_Lusitania_Note_to_Germany
The Zimmerman Telegram
http://www.archives.gov/global-pages/larger-image.html?i=/education/lessons/zim
mermann/images/decoded-message-l.jpg&c=/education/lessons/zimmermann/ima
ges/decoded-message.caption.html
Lesson 5:
Woodrow Wilson: The League of Nations
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/ww38.htm
The Senate and the League of Nations
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/doc41.htm
Political Cartoon
http://www.socialstudies.com/article.html?article@alltiedup
Related Web Sites:
The World War I Document Archive
http://wwi.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Main_Page
PBS on the Great War
http://www.pbs.org/greatwar/
The Complete Text of the Treaty of Versailles
http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/text/versaillestreaty/vercontents.html
League of Nations: A Chronology
http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/WW2Timeline/1919League2.html
The Center for Legislative Archives
http://www.archives.gov/legislative/cla/index.html
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World War II
Lesson 1:
"Peace for Our Time" statement by Neville Chamberlain
http://eudocs.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Neville_Chamberlain%27s_%22Peace_For_Our
_Time%22_speech
The British Parliamentary Debate on the Munich Agreement
http://138.110.28.9/acad/intrel/munich.htm
Map of Czechoslovakia showing the Sudetenland
http://sorrel.humboldt.edu/%7Erescuers/book/Chlup/chlupgif/czechmap2.html
Lesson 2:
"Their Finest Hour": Churchill's address to the House of Commons of June18, 1940
http://www.winstonchurchill.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=418
Winston S. Churchill
http://www.winstonchurchill.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=1
FDR's request for a declaration of war against Japan after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/7-2-188/188-31.html
Click here for the audio version, or on the following links for the original, typewritten version (Page1, Page2, Page3).
Lesson 3:
Treaty of Non-Aggression Between Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/nazsov/nonagres.htm
Molotov: Reaction to German Invasion of 1941
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1941molotov.html
Map of the movements of Hitler's armies
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Cavern/2941/map.htm
Lesson 4:
A letter about D-Day by Robert Walker, an American soldier
http://web.archive.org/web/20030909152224/http://www.britannica.com/normandy
/pri/Q00273.html
(Link is to an archive)
An audio file of this transcript is available here in MP3 format.
Account of D-Day by war correspondent Ernie Pyle
http://web.archive.org/web/20030124064856/http://www.britannica.com/normandy
/pri/Q00233.html
(Link is to an archive)
Normandy: 1944
http://www.britannica.com/dday
Map of Normandy Invasion (June 6, 1944)
http://cache.eb.com/eb/image?id=47755
News coverage of the Gulf War (1991)
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/1998/iraq/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/fogofwar/fogofwar.htm
Lesson 5:
The Fire-bombing of Dresden: An eye-witness account
http://timewitnesses.org/english/~lothar.html
"Before" Photograph of Dresden
http://www.churchill-society-london.org.uk/Prewar.Jpeg
"After" Photograph of Dresden
http://www.churchill-society-london.org.uk/Dresden.gif
"After" Photographs of Hiroshima
http://web.archive.org/web/20040422174104/http://pegasus.phys.saga-u.ac.jp/pea
ce1e.html
(Link is to an archive)
Map of the Eastern front at the end of World War II
http://web.archive.org/web/20070406163828/http://baby.indstate.edu/gga/gga_cart
/ww_feb45.jpg
(Link is to an archive)
"Old City Bombed to Hell" 1995 AP story about Dresden
http://search.nizkor.org/ftp.cgi?places/germany/dresden/press/dresden.001
Culminating Activities:
Talk Show Framework and Rubric
http://www.pbs.org/pov/pov1999/wellfoundedfear/questions/lesson1.php3
Resources for comparing the Battle of Britain and the bombing of Dresden:
Related Web Sites:
The World at War
http://www.euronet.nl/users/wilfried/ww2/ww2.htm
WWII Documents
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/ww2.htm
Life and Times of Winston Churchill
http://www.winstonchurchill.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=1
The Battle of Stalingrad
http://web.archive.org/web/20031016052023/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/backgroun
d/52495.stm
(Link is to an archive)
WWII Codes and Ciphers
http://www.codesandciphers.org.uk/
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The Holocaust
Lesson 1:
Wannsee protocol
http://www.mtsu.edu/~baustin/wannsee.html
Lesson 2:
Mordecai Anielewicz's last letter to Yitzhak (Antek) Zuckerman, April 23, 1943
http://web.archive.org/web/20040404143502/http://motlc.wiesenthal.org/exhibits/di
gnitydefiance/13.html
(Link is to an archive)
Photograph of man lying dead in Warsaw photo
http://remember.org/courage/photo2.html
Extract from a Report by the "Delegatura" to London on the Warsaw Ghetto Revolt
http://www1.yadvashem.org/about_holocaust/documents/part2/doc146.html
Lesson 3:
Interview in which concentration camp survivor "Helen L." talks about her experiences in a concentration camp.
http://www.remember.org/witness/wit.sur.lazar.html
Paintings and drawings of Jan Komski
http://www.remember.org/komski/index.html
Click here to go straight to "Appell" (Role Call): A Painting by Jan Komski
Lesson 4:
Raoul Wallenberg
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005211
"Tell us who were there that it never happened"General Felix Sparks
http://www.remember.org/witness/sparks.html
1st. Lt. William Cowling: Report from the Dachau Liberation
http://www.remember.org/witness/cowling.html
Lesson 5:
Nuremberg Trial Proceedings Vol. 1: Charter of the International Military Tribunal
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/imt/proc/imtconst.htm
Nuremberg Trial Proceedings Vol. 1: Indictment
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/imt/proc/count.htm
Judgment of the International Military Tribunal for the Trial of German Major War Criminals
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/imt/proc/judcont.htm
Famous Trials
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/ftrials.htm
Related Web Sites:
Cybrary of the Holocaust
http://www.remember.org/
Holocaust Pictures Exhibition
http://www.phdn.org/histgen/schmitz/indexeng.html
The Nizkor Project
http://nizkor.org/
Simon Wiesenthal Center
http://www.wiesenthal.com/
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: Education
http://www.ushmm.org/education/
Yad Vashem
http://www.yadvashem.org/
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The Enlightenment
Lesson 1:
Condorcet: The Future Progress of the Human Mind
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/condorcet-progress.html
Lesson 2:
"Of the State of Nature," Chapter 2 of John Locke's An Essay concerning the true original, extent and end of civil Government (1690)
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1690locke-sel.html
Jean Jacques Rousseau: The Social Contract, 1763
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/rousseau-contract2.html
Lesson 3:
Montesquieu: The Spirit of the Laws, 1748
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/montesquieu-spirit.html
Lesson 4:
Thomas Paine: "Of the Religion of Deism Compared with the Christian Religion"
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/paine-deism.html
Thomas Jefferson's letter to Benjamin Rush
http://www.angelfire.com/co/JeffersonBible/jeffbsyl.html
"The Spacious Firmament" by Joseph Addison
http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/history/virtual/reading/core4-05r06.htm
Lesson 5:
Daniel Defoe: "(On) The Education Of Women, 1719"
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1719defoe-women.html
"The Prevailing Opinion of a Sexual Character Discussed," Chapter II from Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
http://www.bartleby.com/144/2.html
"Seneca Falls Declaration" by Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1848)
http://www.socialstudies.com/article.html?article@senecafalls_declaration
John Stuart Mill's On the Subjection of Women (1869)
http://www.constitution.org/jsm/women.htm
Related Web Sites:
Rousseau Association
http://www.rousseauassociation.org/
History of Western Philosophy from 1492 to 1776: John Locke
http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl302/philosophers/locke.html
Shaping of the Modern World: The Enlightenment
http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/history/virtual/core4-5.htm
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French Revolution
Lesson 1:
Political Cartoon on the Three Estates
http://www.socialstudies.com/gifs/threeestates.jpg
"What Is the Third Estate?": Abbe Sieyes
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/sieyes.html
Lesson 2:
A newspaper account of the fall of the Bastille
http://thecaveonline.com/APEH/frrevdocuments.html#anchorbatille
Lesson 3:
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen (1789)
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/rightsof.htm
The English Bill of Rights (1689)
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/england.htm
Lesson 4:
Maximilien Robespierre:"Justification of the Use of Terror"
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/robespierre-terror.html
St. Just: excerpts from Republican Institutes
http://history.hanover.edu/courses/excerpts/111just.html
Minh's Vietnamese Declaration of Independence,
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1945vietnam.html
Lesson 5:
French Revolution execution picture
http://web.archive.org/web/19990220005826/http://members.aol.com/agentmess/p
icts/killing.jpg
(Link is to an archive)
Marie Antoinette: Letter to Her Mother, 1773
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1773marieantonette.html
Edmund Burke: The Death of Marie Antoinette
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1793burke.html
La Marseillaise: The French National Anthem
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/marseill.html
Related Web Sites:
Internet Modern History Sourcebook: French Revolution
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook13.html
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution
http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/
HistoryWiz: French Revolution
http://www.historywiz.com/frenchrev.htm
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Imperialism
Lesson 1:
"The White Man's Burden" poem
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/Kipling.html
"The Brown Man's Burden" poem
http://www.socialstudies.com/article.html?article@brown-burden
BoondocksNet.com: "The White Man's Burden" and Its Critics
http://www.boondocksnet.com/ai/kipling/index.html (Web site no longer available.)
British Imperialistic Anthems: Rule Britannia
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/rulebritannia.html#Rule%20Britannia
Lesson 2:
Paul Leroy-Beaulieu on the Desirability of Imperialism, 1891
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/beaulieu.htm
John Hobson: Imperialism, 1902
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1902hobson.html
Lesson 3:
Dr. David Livingstone: Excerpt from Missionary Travels and Research in South Africa
http://www.socialstudies.com/article.html?article@livingstone
The British Missionary Letters Urging the Annexation of the South Sea Islands
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1883hebrides.html
Josiah Strong on Anglo-Saxon Predominance, 1891
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/protected/strong.htm
Lesson 4:
The People of Canton: Against the English, 1842
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1842canton.html
Dadabhai Naoroji: "The Benefits of British Rule"
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1871britishrule.html
Lesson 5:
The Earl of Cromer: Why Britain Acquired Egypt in 1882
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1908cromer.html
"The John Bull Octopus in Egypt" cartoon
http://www.boondocksnet.com/cartoons/mcc190.html
The cartoon used in this lesson is no longer available online. A similar cartoon may be found at this page.
Program of the Pan-German League, 1890–1898
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1890pangerman.html
Related Web Sites:
BoondocksNet.com: "The White Man's Burden" and Its Critics
http://www.boondocksnet.com/ai/kipling/index.html
Internet African History Sourcebook: European Imperialism
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/africa/africasbook.html#European%20Imperialism
Internet Indian History Sourcebook: The Western Intrusion
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/india/indiasbook.html#The%20Western%20Intrusion
Images of Colonial Africa
http://www.wheaton.edu/bgc/archives/exhibits/collins/colins15.htm
Imperialism in Africa Quiz
http://www.quia.com/quiz/100920.html
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Medieval Africa
Lesson 1:
African Proverbs
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_2/african_pr
overbs.html
Wood figure from Dogon culture in Mali
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/images/hb/hb_1985.422.2.jpg
Wood figure from Bamana culture of Mali
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/images/hb/hb_1983.600a,b.jpg
Bracelets and necklace from the Jennenke culture
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/images/hb/hb_1998.480.6,8_1999.jpg
African Recipes
http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Miscellany/African_Recipes.html
Lesson 2:
Excerpts from the Sundjata
http://www.sfusd.k12.ca.us/schwww/sch618/Sundjata/Sundjata2.html
http://www.sfusd.k12.ca.us/schwww/sch618/Sundjata/Sundjata3.html
Background to the epic of Sundiata Keita
http://courses.wcupa.edu/jones/his311/notes/sundiata.htm
Lesson 3:
Ibn Battuta: Travels in Asia and Africa 1325-1354
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/1354-ibnbattuta.html
Lesson 4:
Images of the Catalan Atlas
http://web.archive.org/web/20030801171158/http://www.bnf.fr/enluminures/image
s/jpeg/i8_0000m.jpg
http://web.archive.org/web/20030608142041/http://www.bnf.fr/enluminures/image
s/jpeg/i8_000dd.jpg
(Links are to an archive)
Ibn Battuta: Travels in Asia and Africa 1325-1354
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/1354-ibnbattuta.html
Leo Africanus: Description of Timbuktu
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_2/leo_africa
nus.html
The Catalan Atlas
http://web.archive.org/web/20000818213614/http://www.bnf.fr/enluminures/texte/a
tx2_
07.htm
(Link is to an archive)
Lesson 5:
Great Zimbabwe Ruins
http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~anthro/courses/306/Great%20Zimbabwe.html
Leo Africanus: Description of Timbuktu
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_2/leo_africa
nus.html
Mesa Community College: Great Zimbabwe
http://www.mc.maricopa.edu/dept/d10/asb/anthro2003/legacy/africa/zimbabwe/intr
o.html
Timbuktu: The Mythical Site
http://web.archive.org/web/20060717175400/http://whc.unesco.org/whreview/articl
e7.html
(Link is to an archive)
Related Web Sites
Introduction to African History and Cultural Life
http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/aoi/history/ao-guide.html
The Road to Timbuktu
http://www.pbs.org/wonders/fr_e5.htm
Background to the epic of Sundiata Keita
http://courses.wcupa.edu/jones/his311/notes/sundiata.htm
Smithsonian Natural History Web: African Voices
http://www.mnh.si.edu/africanvoices/
Mr. Bloch Salt Archive
http://www.salt.org.il/mission.html
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The Reformation
Lesson 1:
Grace for Sale through Indulgences—Johann Tetzel
http://www.aloha.net/~mikesch/tetzel.htm
Copy of an Inexpensive Indulgence Sold by Tetzel
http://www.prca.org/standard_bearer/volume78/2001oct15_inexpensive_indulgence
f.html
St. Peter's Basilica: Virtual Tour
http://www.ewtn.com/gallery/sp/sp1.htm
Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Sale of Indulgence
http://www.aisiministry.org/html/sale_of_indulgence.html
Vatican Museums Online
http://mv.vatican.va/3_EN/pages/MV_Home.html
Lesson 2:
The 95 Theses
http://www.luther.de/en/95thesen.html
Martin Luther—The Freedom of a Christian
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/REFORM/FREEDOM.HTM
Painting of Martin Luther
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/refo/hob_55.220.2.htm
From Pen to Printing Press
http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/2e.asp
Renaissance: What inspired this age of balance and order?
http://www.learner.org/interactives/renaissance/index.html
Lesson 3:
Condeming the Errors of Martin Luther
http://www.papalencyclicals.net/Leo10/l10exdom.htm
http://www.ewtn.com/library/PAPALDOC/L10EXDOM.HTM
The Imperial Edict of Worms
http://www.crivoice.org/creededictworms.html
Charles V's Coronation Oath
http://pirate.shu.edu/~wisterro/cdi/charles_v_coronation.htm
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Charles_V
Lesson 4:
Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion
http://www.reformed.org/books/institutes/books/book4/bk4ch03.html
Henry IV and the Edict of Nantes
http://www.french-at-a-touch.com/French_History/edict_of_nantes_%5B1589%5D.h
tm
The Act of Supremacy (1534)
http://tudorhistory.org/primary/supremacy.html
Tudor History
http://www.tudorhistory.org/
Lesson 5:
St. Ignatius Loyola: Spiritual Exercises
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/loyola-spirex.html
Satire on Popery, 1555
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/refo/hob_53.677.5.htm
Christ Blessing, Surrounded by a Donor and His Family (Triptych of a Protestant Family), ca. 1575–80
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ho/08/euwc/hob_17.190.13-15.htm
US Jesuit Conference
http://www.jesuit.org/
Related Web Sites
Project Wittenberg
http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/text/wittenberg/wittenberg-home.html
Society for Reformation Research
http://www.reformationresearch.org/
The Meeter Center
http://www.calvin.edu/meeter/
Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies
http://www.crrs.ca/
Life and Times of Martin Luther
http://www.reformation.org/luther.html
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
http://www.elca.org/
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The Scientific Revolution
Lesson 1:
René Descartes: Discourse on Method (1637)
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_2/descartes.
html
Francis Bacon—First Book of Aphorisms
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/bacon-aphor.html
Voltaire (1694–1778): On Francis Bacon
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1778voltaire-bacon.html
Lesson 2:
Nicolas Copernicus: From The Revolutions of the Heavenly Bodies,1543
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1543copernicus2.html
http://www.historyguide.org/intellect/copernicus.html
Thomas Digges—A Perfit Description of the Cælestiall Orbes
https://eee.uci.edu/clients/bjbecker/ExploringtheCosmos/week4a.html
Brief biography of Nicolas Copernicus
http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Copernicus.html
Johannes Kepler
http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Kepler.html
Lesson 3:
The Crime of Galileo: Indictment and Abjuration of 1633
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1630galileo.html
Vatican admits Galileo correct
http://christiangays.com/articles/galileo.shtml
Allocution of the Holy Father John Paul II
http://bertie.ccsu.edu/~dsb/naturesci/Cosmology/GalileoPope.html
Lesson 4:
Isaac Newton: Optics
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/newton-optics.html
Voltaire (1694–1778)—Letters on Newton from the Letters on the English or Lettres Philosophiques, c. 1778
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1778voltaire-newton.html
Isaac Newton: The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/newton-princ.html
Google: Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation
http://www.google.com/search?q=newton+law+of+inverse+proportion
Sir Isaac Newton: The Universal Law of Gravitation
http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/history/newtongrav.html
Gravity Experiments
http://education.usace.army.mil/clubhouse/science/list.cfm?Topic=gravity
More gravity Experiments
http://www.tamu-commerce.edu/physics/351/cg.html
Lesson 5:
William Harvey (1578–1657)—On The Motion Of The Heart And Blood In Animals, 1628
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1628harvey-blood.html
William Harvey Explains Blood Circulation
http://encarta.msn.com/media_461542386_761564029_-1_1/William_Harvey_Explai
ns_Blood_Circulation.html
About William Harvey
http://www.williamharvey.org/wm_harvey.htm
Related Web Sites
timelinescience
http://www.timelinescience.org/index.php
History Topics: Mathematics
http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Indexes/Hist_Topics_alph.html
Museum of History and Science
http://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/
ECHO: Exploring and Collecting History Online
http://echo.gmu.edu/
Newton's Principia
http://members.tripod.com/~gravitee/toc.htm
Nicolaus Copernicus
http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Copernicus.html
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The Age of Exploration
Lesson 1:
Portuguese Barca
http://www.abc.se/~m10354/bld/img/paolo/lisbporx.jpg
Portuguese Caravel
http://http-server.carleton.ca/~jmmiller/caravel.jpg
Navigation Methods
http://www.heritage.nf.ca/exploration/navigate.html
Mariner's Astrolabe
http://www.astrolabes.org/mariner.htm
Expanding Horizons
http://www.ibiblio.org/expo/1492.exhibit/b-Mediterranean/exp.horiz.html
Terrestrial Globe with Armillary Sphere
http://www.ibiblio.org/expo/1492.exhibit/full-images/globe.gif
Technical Advances in Shipbuilding and Navigation
http://www.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tutor/eurvoya/ship.html
Lesson 2:
Modern History Sourcebook: Vasco da Gama: Round Africa to India,
1497–1498 CE
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1497degama.html
The World Factbook: Map of India
https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/in.html
Vasco da Gama's route to India
http://www.mariner.org/educationalad/ageofex/images/dagama_map.gif
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/explorers/page/d/dagama.shtml
Portraits of Vasco da Gama
http://college.hmco.com/history/west/mosaic/chapter9/images/vasco_da_gama.jpg
http://images.encarta.msn.com/xrefmedia/sharemed/targets/images/pho/t012/T012
767A.jpg
Lesson 3:
Christopher Colombus—Extracts from Journal
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/columbus1.html
Columbus' letter to the King and Queen of Spain, 1494
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/columbus2.html
1492—An Ongoing Voyage
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/1492/
The Columbus Navigation Homepage
http://www.columbusnavigation.com/
Lesson 4:
Maps of Magellan's Route
http://www.mariner.org/educationalad/ageofex/images/magellan_map.gif
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Magellan%27s_voyage_EN.svg
Modern History Sourcebook—Ferdinand Magellan's Voyage Round the World, 1519–1522 CE
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1519magellan.html
Magellan's portrait
http://www.mariner.org/educationalad/ageofex/magellan.php
Lesson 5:
Expanding Horizons
http://www.ibiblio.org/expo/1492.exhibit/b-Mediterranean/exp.horiz.html
Map of the World: 1482
http://www.ibiblio.org/expo/1492.exhibit/full-images/world.gif
Portolan Charts: Martin Waldseemüller
http://bell.lib.umn.edu/map/WALD/WALL/indexww.html
Wytfliet World Map—"Vtrivsque Hemispherii Delineatio"
http://www.printsellers.com/antique_maps/worldmaps/pages/details_wytflietworld.h
tml
National Geographic Xpeditions Atlas
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/atlas/
Related Web Sites
The Mariner's Museum
http://www.mariner.org/
ROG: National Maritime Museum
http://www.nmm.ac.uk/server/show/nav.2857
Latitude: The Art and Science of Fifteenth-Century Navigation
http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~feegi/
1492: An Ongoing Voyage
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/1492/
The Columbus Navigation Homepage
http://www.columbusnavigation.com/
Navigation Methods
http://www.heritage.nf.ca/exploration/navigate.html
The Astrolabe
http://www.astrolabes.org/
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Nineteenth-Century Nationalism
Lesson 1:
Johann Gottlieb Fichte: To the German Nation, 1806
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1806fichte.html
J.V. Stalin, Marxism and the National Question
http://www.marx2mao.com/Stalin/MNQ12.html
ProEnglish: English Language Advocates
http://www.proenglish.org/
English Must Be The Official Language of The United States
http://web.archive.org/web/20041024063712/http://www.immigrantsforamerica.com
/english_official_language.html
(Link is to an archive)
The English-only Movement
http://www.answers.com/topic/english-only-movement
"English Only"
http://web.archive.org/web/20021127050758/http://archive.aclu.org/library/pbp6.h
tml
(Link is to an archive)
Lesson 2:
Prince Klemens von Metternich: Political Confession of Faith, 1820
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1820metternich.html
The Congress of Vienna, November 1, 1814 – June 8, 1815
http://www.victorianweb.org/history/forpol/vienna.html
Delegates to the Congress of Vienna of 1815
http://killeenroos.com/4/DELEGATE.htm
Lesson 3:
1848: Hugo's Description of the Barricades
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/rschwart/hist255/la/1848barricade.html
Political Cartoon
http://web.archive.org/web/20011223220317/http://zaurak.tm.informatik.uni-frankf
urt.de/1848/icons/Barikadenkaempfe-Berlin.jpg
(Link is to an archive)
Documents of the Revolution of 1848 in France
http://history.hanover.edu/texts/fr1848.htm
The Mannheim Petition
http://web.bham.ac.uk/1848/document/2a23-55.htm
1848 Documents
http://facstaff.bloomu.edu/hickey/1848%20documents.htm
Encyclopedia of 1848 Revolutions
http://www.ohiou.edu/~Chastain/
Lesson 4:
Giuseppe Mazzini—Instructions for the Members of Young Italy
http://users.dickinson.edu/~rhyne/232/Four/Mazzini_instructions.html
Documents of German Unification, 1848-1871
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/germanunification.html
Map of the 19th Century Unification of Italy under Piemontese Rule, showing the Route taken by Garibaldi's soldiers
http://www.roangelo.net/valente/garibald.html
Europe After the Congress of Vienna, 1815
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wggerman/map/vienna1815.htm
Map of Germany, 1815 showing the members of German Confederation
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wggerman/map/germanconf.htm
Deutschland, Deutschland ueber Alles...
http://www.brandenburghistorica.com/page5.html
Das Lied der Deutschen
http://www.ingeb.org/Lieder/deutschl.html
Italy National Anthem
http://www.whitehouse.gov/national-anthem/rome-full.html
Lesson 5:
J.M.W. Turner, Vale of Ashburnham
http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/pd/j/jmw_turner,
_vale_of_ashburn.aspx
Jean-Louis-André-Théodore Gericault, Evening: Landscape with an Aqueduct
http://www.metmuseum.org/works_of_art/collection_database/european_paintings/
Evening_Landscape_with_an_Aqueduct/viewObject.aspx?&OID=110000897&PgSz=1
Eugène Delacroix, Christ Asleep during the Tempest
http://www.metmuseum.org/works_of_art/collection_database/european_paintings/
Christ_Asleep_during_the_Tempest/viewObject.aspx?&OID=110000616&PgSz=1
Honoré Daumier, Rue Transnonain, le 15 Avril 1834
http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/pd/h/honor%c3
%a9_daumier,_rue_transnonai.aspx
Lord Byron: The Isles of Greece
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/byron-greece.html
Lord Byron: Selected Poetry
http://www.englishhistory.net/byron/poetry.html
Related Web Sites
European Nationalism
http://www.historyteacher.net/APEuroCourse/WebLinks/WebLinks-EuropeanNationali
sm.htm
Nation Planet
http://web.inter.nl.net/users/Paul.Treanor/plana.html
The Nationalism Project
http://www.nationalismproject.org/
Nationalism Links: Sociological Research Online
http://www.socresonline.org.uk/2/1/natlinks.html
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The Rise & Fall of Soviet Communism
Lesson 1:
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: The Communist Manifesto (1848)
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_2/marx.html
V.I. Lenin: Our Programme, 1899
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1899lenin-program.html
Lesson 2:
The Tasks of the Proletariat in the Present Revolution
http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/apr/04.htm
Primary Documents: Lenin's Call to Power, 24 October 1917
http://www.firstworldwar.com/source/calltopower.htm
Lenin's ordering of the establishment of an "Extraordinary Commission to Fight Counter-Revolution"
http://www.dur.ac.uk/a.k.harrington/cheka.html
Lesson 3:
Joseph V. Stalin: On the Industrialization of Russia
http://artsci.shu.edu/reesp/documents/Stalin--industrialization.htm
Letter to Bolshevik
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/archives/d2presid.html
Hymn to Stalin
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/stalin-worship.html
Lesson 4:
Sakharov's Telegram
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/archives/ac2sakh.html
Note by the Procurator-General of the USSR N Trubin on Events in Novocherkassk, June 1962
http://www.uea.ac.uk/his/webcours/russia/documents/novocherkassk.shtml
Petition on the Legality of the Trial of Ginzburg, Galanskov, Dobrovol'skii and Lashkova
http://teachers.sduhsd.k12.ca.us/ltrupe/sources/coldwar/dissidents.htm
Lesson 5:
Perestroika: As Defined by the Communist Party Plenum of Jan 1987
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/archives/pere.html
Resolution: Soviet Unity for Leninism and Communist Ideas
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/archives/ab2unity.html
Excerpts of Address by Mikhail Gorbachev: 43rd U.N. General Assembly Session, December 7, 1988
http://edition.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/23/documents/gorbachev/
Related Web Sites
Marxist Internet Archive
http://www.marx.org/
The Museum of Communism
http://www.gmu.edu/departments/economics/bcaplan/museum/musframe.htm
The Russian Revolution: A Gallery Of Photos
http://www.nevsky88.com/SaintPetersburg/Revolution/default.asp
From Marx to Mao
http://www.marx2mao.com/
Mikhail Gorbachev
http://www.mikhailgorbachev.org/
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The United Nations
Lesson 1:
League of Nations Charter
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Valley/8920/European/leachart.html
Henry Cabot Lodge: Reservations with Regard to the Treaty
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/doc41.htm
Telegram from the Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs to the Secretary- General of the League of Nations, Regarding Japan's Withdrawal from the League of Nations, March 27, 1933
http://web.archive.org/web/20010501142709/http://www.unog.ch/frames/library/arc
hives/lon/library/Docs/kjap-out.html
(Link is to an archive)
Lesson 2:
The Atlantic Charter
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/wwii/atlantic.htm
Dumbarton Oaks Agreement
http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/policy/1944/441007a.html
The Terms of Power
http://www.fpif.org/commentary/2002/0211power_body.html
Declaration by United Nations: Subscribing to the Principles of the Atlantic Charter, January 1, 1942
http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/policy/1942/420101a.html
Lesson 3:
Eleanor Roosevelt: The Struggle for Human Rights
http://www.edchange.org/multicultural/speeches/eleanor_roosevelt_rights.html
UN General Assembly, 183rd Plenary Meeting, December 10, 1948
http://www.un.org/Depts/dhl/landmark/pdf/a-pv183.pdf
This link is to a Adobe Acrobat pdf file. Download the Reader for free here.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html
The UN Charter
http://www.un.org/aboutun/charter/index.html
Eleanor Roosevelt: Adoption of the Declaration of Human Rights
http://www.edchange.org/multicultural/speeches/eleanor_roosevelt_adoption.html
Lesson 4:
UN Resolution of 27 June 1950
http://web.archive.org/web/20010114072100/http://www.3ad.net/un_resolution.htm
(Link is to an archive)
Report of The United Nations Commission on Korea, 1950
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1950-korea-un1.html
Andrei A. Gromyko: On American Intervention In Korea, 1950
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1950-gromyko-korea.html
Korea, the forgotten war
http://www.sptimes.com/2003/07/20/Korea/Korea__the_forgotten_.shtml
Lesson 5:
Lester Bowles Pearson, Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1957
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1957/pearson-lecture.html
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, Nobel Lecture, January 9,1989
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1988/un-lecture.html
UNMEE Kenyan Peacekeeper in ASSAB Team Site, May 2001
http://www.un.org/av/photo/subjects/images/207019.jpg
The Power of Persuasion Backed by Force
http://www.un.org/Depts/dpko/dpko/intro/3.htm
United Nations Peacekeeping
http://www.un.org/Depts/dpko/dpko/index.asp
Related Web Sites
The United Nations
http://www.un.org/english/
The League of Nations and the United Nations
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwone/league_nations_01.shtml
United Nations Peacekeeping
http://www.un.org/Depts/dpko/dpko/index.asp
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
http://www.ohchr.org/english/
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