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Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook
A rich Fordham University site of primary source material that include full-text, and multimedia sites. There are additional study and research guides such as Modern History in the Movies.
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Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: Colonial North America
Scroll through this site from the Modern History Sourcebook of Fordham University to New England and click on the primary source documents concerning Edmund Andros. This site contains dozens of links related to colonial America. Sections...
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Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: Nationalism
This article from the Fordham University describes nationalism and its political force in the 19th century. Includes a variety of multimedia links.
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Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: "The Spirit of Laws" (Excerpts) (1748)
Fordham University provides excerpts from the 1748 book of political philosophy by Montesquieu; "The Spirit of Laws".
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Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: Music and Nationalism
Fordham University provides college-level reading on how the Nationalism of the 19th Century affected the music of the 20th, especially Classical music. These composers lived most of their lives in the 1800's, but are often classified...
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Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: Thomas Paine
Some of Thomas Paine's essays on religion can be found at this site.
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Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: Peter I
This site from the Fordham University presents first-hand accounts of tsar Peter I. It contains four separate accounts of the tsar at different periods during his reign.
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Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: The Social Gospel, 1908
An excerpt from Walter Rauschenbusch's "Christianity and the Social Crisis." Rauschenbusch was a Baptist minister and proponent of The Social Gospel movement.
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Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: The Iron Law of Wages, 1817
Text written by David Ricardo, an English banker and an important early economist, on the nature of wages.
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Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: Maximilien Robespierre: Cult of Supreme Bein
An essay written by Maximilien Robespierre in 1794, during the period known as the Reign of Terror in the French Revolution.
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Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: Justification of the Use of Terror
This site has an essay written by Maximilien Robespierre in 1794, during the tumultuous years of the French Revolution. A brief historical background of the essay is also included in this site.
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Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: "Lowell Mill Girls" by Harriet Robinson
Archived news article. A personal account of young female cotton mill workers in Massachusetts during the mid-1800's.
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Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: The Declaration of Sentiments
This resource gives an introduction to "The Declaration of Sentiments" from the Seneca Falls Conference in 1848, which demanded rights for women, as well as a full text accompanying it.
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Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: The Taiping Rebellion
An article specifically about the way land was distributed in the Heavenly Kingdom.
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Fordham University: Internet Medieval Sourcebook: Internet Medieval Source Book
The Fordham University Center for Medieval Studies provides excerpted and full-text Medieval documents in English translation and in original languages as well, such as Beowulf and the Song of Roland, the lives of the saints, and so on.
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Fordham University: Internet Medieval Sourcebook: Medieval Jewish Life
This site, which is provided for by the Fordham University, gives links to Maimonides 613 Mitzvot, his laws of the Torah and Mashiach, and the Oath of Maimonides.
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Fordham University: Medieval Sourcebook: Internet Medieval Sourcebook
The Fordham University Center for Medieval Studies provides full-text medieval sources. For example, the full text of "Beowulf" can be found here.
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Fordham University: Medieval Sourcebook: Granting of Fiefs
Copy of a land grant by a Scandinavian king during the Middle Ages.
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Fordham University: Medieval Sourcebook: Crusade of Frederick Barbarossa
This is a primary source document from the Fordham University of letters written between Christian monarchs during the Third Crusade.
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Fordham University: Medieval Sourcebook: Ibn Rushd Religion & Philosophy
Online text by Ibn Rushd. "This text is known in English as 'On the Harmony of Religions and Philosophy,' in Arabic 'Kitab fasl al-maqal,' with its appendix Damina). Also appended is an extract from Kitab al-kashf`an manahij al-adilla."...
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Fordham University: Medieval Sourcebook: The Siege and Capture of Acre
Fordham University provides an account of the siege and capture of Acre by Richard I and Philip II Augustus.
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Fordham University: Medieval Sourcebook: Richard Conquers Cyprus
This site from the Modern History Sourcebook which is provided for by the Fordham University gives an account of Richard I's conquest of Cyprus, in the year 1191.
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Fordham University: Medieval Sourcebook: Muslim Hostages Slain at Acre
Fordham University provides an account of the killing of 2700 Turkish hostages at the command of Richard I.
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Fordham University: Medieval Sourcebook: Charter Granted to Men of Dunwich
This site from the Fordham University presents the full text of a town charter granted by England's King John.