Primary History - Indus Valley - Food and Farming. World Digital Library Home. Internet History Sourcebooks. Internet Modern History Sourcebook The Internet Modern History Sourcebook now contains thousands of sources and the previous index pages were so large that they were crashing many browsers. See Introduction for an explanation of the Sourcebook's goals. Explanation of Sources of Material Here. See the Help! Page for all the help on research I can offer. Although I am more than happy to receive notes if you have comments on this web site, I cannot answer specific research enquiries [and - for students - I cannot, or rather will not, do your homework.]
The Modern History Sourcebook now works as follows: This Main Index page has been much extended to show all sections and sub sections. Additional Study/Research Aids In addition to the above structure, there are a series of pages to help teacher and students. Modern History in the Movies Older Style Big Indices Still Available Subjects covered by the source texts in each Section. Studying History The Early Modern World Reformation Early Modern World. Ancient Documents Can't be Trusted for The Historical Reliability of the New Testament. How to Read a Primary Source | Department of History | College of Liberal Arts & Sciences | The University of Iowa. Good reading is about asking questions of your sources. Keep the following in mind when reading primary sources. Even if you believe you can't arrive at the answers, imagining possible answers will aid your comprehension.
Reading primary sources requires that you use your historical imagination. This process is all about your willingness and ability to ask questions of the material, imagine possible answers, and explain your reasoning. As a historian, you will want to ask: What can I know of the past based on this material? Evaluating primary source texts: I've developed an acronym that may help guide your evaluation of primary source texts: PAPER. Purpose and motives of the authorArgument and strategy she or he uses to achieve those goalsPresuppositions and values (in the text, and our own)Epistemology (evaluating truth content)Relate to other texts (compare and contrast) Ask the questions that come under each of these headings. Purpose Argument How does the text make its case? Epistemology. College Writing Guide - Patrick Rael.
Primary Source Documents. Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States. 1989. Martin Luther King’s Ideas Reverberate In Egypt. Today we’re hearing about the influence of Martin Luther King. But did you know, it stretches from the streets of Montgomery, Alabama to Cairo, Egypt? All through a comic book. At the height of the protests in Tahrir Square last year, 29-year-old human rights activist Dalia Ziada handed out an Arabic version of the 1950′s comic book, “Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story,” which told the story of the famed bus boycott.
Dalia had never even heard of King until she attended a civil rights conference in 2006. After that, she told Here & Now‘s Robin Young, she modeled everything she did after the African American civil rights pioneer: “The most inspiring thing for me about MLK was that he was a young man when he started the movement that changed the history of the us and probably the whole world. Dalia works in Cairo for the American Islamic Congress and they asked her to translate the Montogomery comic book into Arabic. Dalia Ziada is hoping to spread king’s influence further. Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story - Arabic Edition. Internet History Sourcebooks. Internet Ancient History Sourcebook: Full Texts See Main Page for a guide to all contents of all sections. Links to full texts of books available at this and other sites will be listed here. The texts are also integrated within the overall structure of the Sourcebook. This listing is to aid compilers of web guides to online books, etc.
The books that tend to have been put online here, or those that have been linked, tend to be those entire books that are often assigned to students in college classes to be read along with the more usual excerpted texts. Human Origins Full texts here Full texts elsewhere Back to Index Mesopotamia Full texts here Code of Hammarabi c.1780 BCE Full texts elsewhere Epic of Gilgamesh, entire text [At Near Eastern Resources/piney.com] Somewhat hard to read in this format.
Egypt Full texts here Full texts elsewhere The Memphite Theology [At Internet Archive, from Creighton] Ptah as creator god. Israel. Papyrus Archive. [ Browse | Search ][ Information about papyri | Information about the Duke Papyrus Archive | Links to other sites ] Search the Duke Papyrus Archive Enter your search terms here or see our search page for help and more information on searching. Browse the Duke Papyrus Archive Browse by selected topics: Browse by language: Information about papyri Information about the Duke Papyrus Archive The Duke Papyrus Archive provides electronic access to texts about and images of nearly 1400 papyri from ancient Egypt. Links to selected other resources relating to papyrology Checklist of Editions Checklist of Editions of Arabic Papyri Duke Data Bank of Documentary Papyri (searchable via the Perseus Project) Material Not Yet Entered Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS) Partners: Other collections: Useful lists of papyrological resources on the web: American Society of Papyrologists ABZU: Papyrology Index at The University of Chicago, The Oriental Institute Fonti papiracee at Università di Bologna.
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