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Thank you for your understanding. Have a nice day! WOMEN IN WORLD HISTORY. Historical Text Archive: Electronic History Resources, online since 1990. Mapping the Nation - A Companion Site to Mapping the Nation by Susan Schulten. The Gilded Age and Progressive Era: A Documentary Reader - William A. Link, Susannah J. Link. World History for the Relaxed Historian. Readings in European history : a collection of ... Book Series: The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe. Originally founded by series editors Margaret King and Albert Rabil and the Press in 1993 as a modest proposal to make available in English translation perhaps a dozen key texts by women writers who contributed to the development of humanism during the European Renaissance (ca. 1300-1800), the Other Voice in Early Modern Europe series began publishing books in 1996.

Book Series: The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe

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History Web Sites Library of Congress An outstanding and invaluable site for American history and general studies. Contains primary and secondary documents, exhibits, map collections, prints and photographs, sound recordings and motion pictures. The Library of Congress American Memory Historical Collections, a must-see, contains the bulk of digitalized materials, but the Exhibitions Gallery is enticing and informative as well.

The Library of Congress also offers a Learning Page that provides activities, tools, ideas, and features for educators and students. The Library of Congress American Memory in particular is an outstanding resource for American history and general studies. Teaching American History This is a wonderful collection of thoughtful and thorough lesson plans and other resources on teaching American history. UH - Digital History. Newspapers by State - Historical Newspapers Online - Guides at Penn Libraries. Rophoto. Primary Sources by Type - History: Britain & Ireland.

Primary Sources - West - History: Europe. World War I Postcards from the Bowman Gray Collection. Social History Collections. EUscreen - Providing online access to Europe's television heritage. About - Digital National Security Archive (DNSA) - LibGuides at ProQuest. Electronic Briefing Books: compilations of declassified documents. Srebrenica conference documents detail path to genocide from 1993 to 1995.Documents show contradictions between New York UN declarations and ground realities, resistance from member states to back up resolutions with troops and planes, constant reluctance to use air strikes abetted by divisions within U.S. government, allies.

Electronic Briefing Books: compilations of declassified documents

Anatoly S. Chernyaev Diary, 1975 The Uncertain Future of De'tente Perestroika in the Soviet Union: 30 Years On Documents show extraordinary achievements, Spectacular missed opportunities. Project Sapphire 20th Anniversary More than a half-ton of weapons-grade uranium removed from Kazakhstan in 1994. The Fall of the Berlin Wall, 25th Anniversary Documents show accident and contingency, anxiety in world capitals The Yuri Orlov File Human Rights Legend and Distinguished Physicist Turns 90. Anatoly S. Anatoly S. The 1983 War Scare: "The Last Paroxysm" of the Cold War Part II Part II: "Blue's use of nuclear weapons did not stop Orange's aggression.

" SCETI Home Page. The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Jewish State, by Theodor Herzl. Famous Trials - UMKC School of Law - Prof. Douglas Linder. The European Library - Connecting knowledge. ECHO. Primary Sources for the Humanities: Europe & UK. Check the A-Z list of Primary Sources for additional resources.

Primary Sources for the Humanities: Europe & UK

If you need help, please contact Rebecca Dowson, Liaison Librarian: English Literature and History at 778.782.4304 or rda26@sfu.ca or Ask a librarian. This digital library contains some of the core printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles. A collection of links to European primary historical documents that are transcribed, reproduced in facsimile, or translated. They shed light on key historical happenings within the respective countries and within the broadest sense of political, economic, social and cultural history. Read National Music and Other Essays - 2nd by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Lord Vaux . Read Nationalism and Ethnosymbolism: History, Culture and Ethnicity in the Formation of Nations - 2007 by Daniele Conversi, John Stone, Polly Rizova, John Hutchinson, Jim Samson, David Martin, David Aberbach, Steven Grosby, Sebastian Garman, Joanna B. Mic.

European History Primary Sources. World Digital Library Home. Women in World History: PRIMARY SOURCES. Vintage Ad Browser.