History 113 Modern History

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Course Texts:

Donald Kagan, et. al.,The Western Heritage, Pearson Longman (Ninth Editon, 2007)

Merry Wiesner, et. al. editors, Discovering the Western Past: A look at the evidence, Volume II. Houghton Mifflin (Sixth Edition, 2008)

Paul Halsall, editor, Modern History Sourcebook (Fordham U)

  • Modern European History: A Research Guide NY Public Library
  • Internet Resources NYU

    Age of Revolutions

  • Resources for 18th-century studies
  • DRY DRUNK: The Culture of Tobacco in 17th- and 18th-century Europe (NY Public Library)

    The French Revolution and Napoleon

    French Revolution

  • The French Revolution (David Cody, Associate Professor of English, Hartwick College)
  • The French Revolution in the Popular Imagination: A Tale of Two Cities (Meltem Kiran-Raw, Lecturer in English, Department of American Literature and Culture,Baskent University)
  • Lectures on the French Revolution (Prof. Steven Kreis)
  • French Revolutionary Pamphlets

    Reform and Reaction

  • Reform Acts in Britain(Victorian Web)
  • Reform Act Crisis(Victorian Web)
  • Terms of the Reform Act(Victorian Web)
  • Religious Revival and the Transformation of English Sensibilities in the Early Ninteeenth Century(Victorian Web)
  • Metternich's Memoirs
  • Carlsbad Decrees
  • Prince Klemens von Metternich: Political Confession of Faith, 1820

    Industrial Revolution and Marxism

    Industrial Revolution

  • Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776)
  • Dr. James Kay, The Moral and Physical Condition of the Working Classes in Manchester (1832)
  • Dr. Andrew Ure, The Philosophy of Manufactures (1835)
  • Friedrich Engels, The Condtion of the Working Class in England in 1844
  • Charles Dickens, Hard Times (1868)
  • Arnold Toynbee, Lectures on The Industrial Revolution in England (1884)

    Marxism

  • Manifesto of the Communist Party

  • Marx and Engels Online Library
  • The Marx/Engels Archive
  • Marxism Page
  • Marx and Engels' Writings
  • Index - Marxist Sites on the Web

    Nationalism

  • Heinrich von TreitschkePolitics

    Political Unification (Round I)

    Ideology and Imperialism

    Imperialism

  • Albert J. Beveridge,"The March of the Flag"
  • Anti-Imperialism in the United States, 1898-1935(Jim Zwick, ed.)

    William Jennings Bryan

  • A Righteous Cause (the life of William Jennings Bryan)
  • Imperialism by William Jennings Bryan
  • The Cross of Gold by William Jennings Bryan (audio recording)

    Total War and Afterward

    World War I

  • The World War I Document Archive
  • Trenches on the Web
  • Mississippi State U History Archives
  • GCSE Study Guide for First World War
  • Isaac Rosenberg's "Break of the Day in the Trenches"
  • Treaty of Versailles

    The Great Depression and Totalitarianism

    Totalitarianism & World War II

  • World War II Resources on the Internet
  • World War II documents
  • World War II, the Traditional Family,and Classical Hollywood Cinema
  • World War II Archive (NARA)
  • D-Day and World War II Sites
  • Weimar Republic Page

    Nazis

  • Frontline: Nazi Gold (PBS)
  • German Propaganda Archive (Calvin College)
  • Leni Riefenstahl: Triumph of the Will (1934)
  • Berlin Olympics 1936
  • Hitler Speech (Hanover)
  • Wannsee Protocol (Cybrary of the Holocaust)
  • Wannsee Protocol (Hanover)

    Holocaust

  • NewsHour Online: Interview with Prof. Daniel Goldhagen
  • FILM: Memory of the Camps
  • Responses to the Holocaust
  • Litterature of the Holocaust Web links(University of Pennsylvania)
  • Holocaust documents

    War Crimes

  • Nuremberg Trials (Yale)
  • Nuremberg Trials (Court TV)

    Post War Europe

    The Cold War

    Documents
  • Winston Churchill "Iron Curtain Speech" (Modern Sourcebook)
  • Stalin's Response to Churchill (Modern Sourcebook)
  • Truman Doctrine (Modern Sourcebook)
  • NATO Treaty (Yale)
  • CNN Cold War  
  • Cold War Hot Links (St. Martin's College)
  • Cold War International History Project
  • "CONFLICT SEEMS VAGUELY UN-AMERICAN": TEACHING THE CONFLICTS AND THE LEGACY OF COLD WAR by Alan Filreis
  • The Diefenbunker - Canada's Cold War Museum
  • Berlin Airlift Veterans Association

    Nuclear Arms Race

  • The Atomic Archive
  • Seattle Times Trinity Web

    Political Unification (Round II)

    Other Document Collections

  • Reading About the World, Vol. I
  • EuroDocs: Primary Historical Documents from Western Europe
  • The Tech: Classics Archive at MIT

    Other Courses

  • Exploring Ancient World Cultures (The University of Evansville)
  • World Cultures to 1500 (Washington State University)
  • Electric Renaissance (Boise State University)

    Maps

  • Classical Atlas Project
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