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Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: "Iron Curtain Speech"

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the Modern History Sourcebook which is provided for the the Fordham University gives excerpts from Winston Churchill's famous speech where he coined the term "Iron Curtain."
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Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: Documents of German Unification

For Students 9th - 10th
Fordham University provides a series of excerpts of primary source documents about the Unificatoin of Germany from 1848 to 1871.
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Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: Khrushchev's Secret Speech

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides some excerpts from a translation of Khrushchev's famous Secret Speech denouncing Stalin policies.
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Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: La Marseillaise

For Students 9th - 10th
Fordham's Modern History Sourcebook offers text to the French national anthem along with some background information on it.
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Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook

For Students 9th - 10th
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

For Students 9th - 10th
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

For Students 9th - 10th
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)

For Students 9th - 10th
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

For Students 9th - 10th
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

For Students 9th - 10th
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

For Students 9th - 10th
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

For Students 9th - 10th
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

For Students 9th - 10th
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

For Students 9th - 10th
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

For Students 9th - 10th
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

For Students 9th - 10th
Archived news article. A personal account of young female cotton mill workers in Massachusetts during the mid-1800's.
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Article
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Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: The Declaration of Sentiments

For Students 9th - 10th
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

For Students 9th - 10th
An article specifically about the way land was distributed in the Heavenly Kingdom.
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Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: Alexis De Tocqueville: Democracy in America

For Students 9th - 10th
Excerpts from Democracy in America, a book by Alexis de Tocqueville published in 1898.
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Fordham University: Internet Medieval Sourcebook: Internet Medieval Source Book

For Students 9th - 10th
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

For Students 9th - 10th
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

For Students 9th - 10th
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

For Students 9th - 10th
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

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a primary source document from the Fordham University of letters written between Christian monarchs during the Third Crusade.