Bookmarks

Collapse of Communism & Modern Europe

1989  The Walls Came Tumbling Down
Central Europe Online
Chernobyl - World Nuclear Association
Chronology of Russian History  The Post-Soviet Period (1991-)
Documents on Global Economic Issues
The European Union - Major list of document links
The Failure of Balkan Communism and the Causes of the Revolutions of 1989 - lecture by Stephen W. Soward
German Unification Slides
Gorbachev and Perestroika
Kosovo  A CICS Web Focus
Links to Sites on the European Union
Map--The 30 Worst Atrocities of the 20c
Map--Collapse of the Soviet Union
Map--Europe at the End of the 1990s
Map--Governments of the World During the 1990s
Map--Political Map of Europe 1995
Map--Successor Republics of the Soviet Union
Map--Yugoslavia After the Breakup
NATO Official Page
NEw York Times Articles on French Politics - late 1990s
New York Times Articles on German Politics - late 1990s
People of Action during the Second Half of the 20c
PoliticalCartoons.com - current cartoons by major cartoonist
Radio Free Europe
Revolutions in Eastern Europe  1989 - good, brief overview
The Russian Economy
Russia  How Has Change Affected the Former USSR - Annenberg-CPB Project
The Second Industrial Revolution (or the Post-Industrial Era)
The Simon Wiesenthal Center
The Triumph of Solidarity
War, Peace, and Security  Contemporary Conflicts
Who is Vladimir Putin
The Yugoslav Civil War - lecture by Stephen W. Soward
Yugoslavia Disintegrates
Photo of the Chernobyl Nuclear Reactor Meltdown
U. N. Convention on the Rights of the Child 1989
1990-2000 GDP Chart for Countries of Eastern Europe (World Bank)
Gorbachev's Address After the Coup (8-22-91)
Yeltsin Denounces the Coup (8-19-91)
Maastricht Treaty
The Dayton Accords
Gorbachev Interview by CNN on the End of the Cold War (Sept.)
Tony Blair on his meeting with Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams 1997 (sound file)
We Now Know Rethinking the Cold War - John Lewis Gaddis (Ch. 1--Dividing the World)
The Perils of Indifference (Elie Wiesel)
Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's address to the nation (6-10-99)
U. N. Security Council Resolution 1333 imposing sanctions on Afghanistan 2000
Anti-Terrorism Crime and Security Bill - British House of Commons 2001
Joint Statement by Presidents Bush and Putin on Counter-Terrorism 2001
Opening statement of the press conference by the Secretary General of NATO, Lord Robertson 2001
Statement to the Press by NATO Secretary General, Lord Robertson, 2001

Cold War

1968  The Year of the Barricades
The Adenauer Era in West Germany  1949-1963
Anthony Eden (Spartacus Site)
Balkan Politics in the Cold War Years - lecture by Stephen W. Soward
The Berlin Airlift of 1948
The Berlin Wall
British House of Commons Election Results  1832-1983 (Spartacus Site)
Chronology of Russia History  The Soviet Period
Clement Atlee (Spartacus Site)
The Cold War and Korea - lecture outline from MIT
Cold War Documentary Library
The Cold War Museum
Cold War International History Project Bulletins Online
Cold War International History Project - Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
A Concrete Curtain  The Life and Death of the Berlin Wall
The Creation of Two Germanies
The Cold War Interactive (CNN)
Cold War International History Project
The End of the Soviet Union and the Cold War
The Eric Honeker Era in East Germany
European Unification
Extremists in Europe and Japan (1968)
Forging the Iron Curtain in the Balkans  1944-1956 - lecture
For European Recovery  The Fiftieth Anniversary of the Marshall Plan
The Great Powers and the Division of Europe  1945-1949 - tutorial with documents and other resources
Helmut Kohl and Germany Identity
Helmut Schmidt's Government  1974-1982
The House of Saxe-Coburg-Windsor Genealogical Chart (England)
The Hungarian Revolution of 1956
A Look at the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials (Court TV)
Map--Aftermath of the Second World War
Map--Cold War Alignments 1945-1960
Map--Cold War Alignments 1960-1991
Map--Cold War Alliances
Map--The Division of Germany
Map--Dumping the Colonies
Map--The United Nations 1945
National Health Service Act (1948) - England (Spartacus Site)
NATO Official Page
The Nuclear Revolution - lecture outline from MIT
The Nuremberg Trials
Origins of the Cold War - good review sheet
The Origins of the Cold War
Paris  May, 1968
People of Action during the Second Half of the 20c
People of the Cold War
People of Ideas-- Philosophers  The 2nd Half of the 20c
People of Ideas--Scientists  The 2nd Half of the 20c
People of Ideas--Theologians  The 2nd Half of the 20c
The Prague Spring of 1968
Radio Free Europe
Remembering Bloody Sunday, January 30, 1972 (Ireland)
Revelations from the Russian Archives
The Rise Khrushchev
The Simon Wisenthal Center
Social and Economic Change in the Balkans - lecture by Stephen W. Soward
Soviet Archives Exhibit
The Soviet Union Factbook
The Supreme Soviet - organizational flowchart
The Trial of Adolf Eichmann - PBS
The Trial of Adolf Eichmann - Simon Weisenthal Center
United Nations Resolutions List
Willy Brandt  1969-1974
Winston Churchill (Spartacus Site)
U. N. Charter
Churchill's Zurich Speech - calls for a United States of Europe
Churchill's Sinews Speech, Westminster College (Fulton, MO) - Iron Curtain
J. F. Byrne's Stuttgart Speech and the U. S. restatement of policy on Germany (9-6)
George Kennan's Moscow Embassy Telegram #511 (Long Telegram)
The Novikov Telegram (Sept.)
Nuremberg War Crimes Trials Documents
Stalin's Response to Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech
Testimony at Nuremburg - Rudolph Hess
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
George Marshall's speech on Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan
Truman Doctrine
U. N. General Assembly Resolution 181 - on the partition of Palestine (11-29)
Zhdanov's Report to the Cominform (9-22)
Israeli Declaration of Independence
Treaty of Brussels
U. N. Resolution 260 - On Genocide
Universal Declaration on Human Rights
The N. A. T. O. Treaty
The UK, European Integration and the Hoffman Speech
Why Socialism
Lavender Mist, Number 1 - painting by Jackson Pollock
Stikker Plan
US-USSR Diplomatic Exchange on Korea
Crucifixion - painting by Salvador Dali
The Warsaw Pact
CPSU Working Notes on Hungary (10-23)
Irme Nagy's Last Message (11-4)
Khrushchev's Indictment of Stalin
Statement of the Soviet Government on the Hungarian Uprising
United Nations Statement on Slavery (9-7)
EU Charter of Rome
All-African People's Conference Resolution on Imperialism and Colonialism, Accra (12-5-13)
The Nixon-Khrushchev Kitchen Debate (7-24)
Khrushchev-Ulbricht Meeting (11-30)
Nikita Khrushchev's Address to the General Assembly of the U. N.
Oleg Penkovsky Letter (Aug.)
Soviet Statement to U.S. on U-2 Incident (5-10)
Khrushchev's Response to Kennedy Speech (8-4)
Kennedy-Khrushchev Letters Concerning the Cuban Missile Crisis (10-26-27)
Khrushchev's Message to Kennedy (10-28)
France's View of the Atlantic Alliance and NATO - Maurice Couve de Murville, Foreign Minister
KGB Annual Report
Brezhnev Doctrine
Brezhnev-Dubcek phone call (8-13)
Czech Communist Party Leaders' Letter to Brezhnev
Posters of the Paris Student Uprisings of 1968
Treatment of Dissidents in the 'Years of Stagnation' - Petition on the Legality of the Trial of Ginzburg, Galanskov, Dobrovol's
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (3-5-70)
Salt I Treaty (5-26)
Brezhnev - Kissinger Talks (3-25-74)
Helsinki Accords
Documents on the Russian-Afghan War
Carter-Brezhnev Correspondence
Manifesto of Charter 77
United Nations Statement on Minimum Age for Child Labor (6-26-73)
Transcript of Honecker-Castro Meeting (9-3-77)
Camp David Accords
Brzezinski Memos to Carter on Afghanistan (Dec. 1979)
Moscow-Kabul Exchange (March 1979)
SALT II Treaty (6-18-79)
Soviet Report on Afghanistan (12-31-79)
The 'Twenty-One Demands'- A Call for Workers' Rights and Freedom in a Socialist State - Solidarity Union
Brezhnev-Jaruzelski Correspondence (Oct-Nov 1981)
Man of the Year - Lech Walesa
President Reagan's Star Wars Speech 1983
Gorbachev and Reagan Reykjavik Talks (10-11-86)
Single European Act
Perestroika as defined by the Communist Party Plenum (Jan. 1987)
Man of the Year - Mikhail Gorbachev
Bruges Speech by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (U. K.) - 9-20-88
Christianity and Wealth - Margaret Thatcher
Gorbachev's Speech to the United Nations (12-7-88)
Transcripts from the Malta Summit (Dec. 1989)

World War II

1944  Normandy
The Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain - British Imperial War Museum
Battleship Row  A Photographic History of Pearl Harbour
British House of Commons Election Results  1832-1983 (Spartacus Site)
British Songs of World War II
Churchill  The Evidence (The Life & Times of Winston Churchill)
Documents of World War II
Documents on the Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb
Enfranchising Women The Politics of Women's Suffrage in Europe 1789-1945 - tutorial with documents and other resources
Enigma  The Code Breakers
George VI of England (Spartacus Site)
German Diplomacy Files Folder Titles List - FDR Library
Great Britain Diplomacy Files Folder Titles List - FDR Library
The Home Front  1939-1945 (Britain)
The Hiroshima Archive
The Hiroshima Photo Gallery by Hiromi Tsuchida
Hitler and World War Two
The Holocaust Timeline
The House of Saxe-Coburg-Windsor Genealogical Chart (England)
Japanese War Crimes Page
Learning About the Holocaust Through Art
The Life and Times of Winston Churchill
Map--Europe Before World War II 1939
Map--Europe in the Summer of 1939
Map--Farthest Limits of Japanese Conquest
Map--Losses in World War II
Map--The Second World War 1939-1945
Map--World War II in Europe
Memorial Museums for the Victims of National Socialism
Newly Released Documents from British MI5 of Materials Relating to World War II
Paris' Liberation Page
People of Action During the First Half of the 20c
Revelations from the Russian Archives
The Rutgers Oral History of World War II
The Simon Wisenthal Center
To Save a Life Stories of Holocaust Rescue
Soviet Archives Exhibit
The Third Reich Factbook
Trinity Atomic Web Site
The U-Boat War in the Atlantic  1939-1945
Vatican Diplomacy Files Folder Titles List - FDR Library
The Wannsee Conference in the Development of the 'Final Solution'
The Wannsee Conference and the Genocide of the European Jews
Winston Churchill (Spartacus Site)
The World At War  World War II
World War II - lecture outline from MIT
World War II  1939-1945
World War II Causes - essay with photos
World War II Factbook
World War II List of Propaganda Posters
World War II Photo Gallery
World War II Resources on the Web
World War II Timeline  1917-1945
Order Authorizing Euthanasia - Adolf Hitler
Neville Chamberlain's Speech on the German Invasion of Poland
Neville Chamberlain's Speech to the British People Declaring War on Germany - audio file
Order Authorizing Involuntary Euthanasia in Germany - Hitler
Speech to the German People - Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain
Air Battle Over London - Pilot Office John Beard (R. A. F.)
Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat speech - Winston Churchill
Edouard Daladier, Premier of France Nazis' Aim is Slavery - radio address a few months before the German attack on France (1
Franco-German Armistice
Labour Party Pamphlet
Their Finest Hour speech - Winston Churchill
Three Power Pact (9-27)
The War Situation House of Many Mansions speech by Winston Churchill (1-20)
We Shall Fight on the Beaches speech by Winston Churchill
The Atlantic Charter
Cardinal Clemens von Galen Against Nazi Euthenasia
Four Freedoms Speech - President Franklin D. Roosevelt
German Declaration of War on the US (12-11)
Letter to Heydrich on the Final Solution
Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor
The Manifesto of Ventotene
Marxism, Capitalism, and Non-Alignment
Nazi Soldiers Letters from Russia
Never Give In--Never! Never! speech by Winston Churchill (10-29)
Night and Fog Decree (12-7)
Pact Between the Axis Powers Barring a Separate Peace Between the U. S. or Britain
Women's Place in the 'Maximum National Effort' - Edith Summerskill
An Account of Holocaust Mass Shooting - Hermann Friedrich Grabbe
From the Supreme Teachings of Nazi Ideology to the Ramifications of Unprecedented Betrayal - Ursula Grosser-Dixon (a personal a
Mutual Aid Agreement [Lend-Lease] between the U. S. & the U. S. S. R.
The Myth of Sisyphus - Albert Camus
The Wansee Protocol
The Casablanca Conference
Living Through the Götterdämmerung of the Third Reich -
The Price of Greatness is Responsibility - speech by Winston Churchill at Harvard University
Racial Policy - SS pamphlet
Speech to S. S. Group Leaders at Posen - Heinrich Himmler (with sound file
Tehran Declaration (12-1)
The Bretton Woods Agreements (July)
FDR Memorandum to the Secretary of State on Germany (9-29)
The International Labor Organization Declaration Concerning Aims and Purposes (5-10)
Invasion of Normandy - Marie-Louise Osmont (French women eyewitness)
A Schutspasse {protective passes} issued by Raoul Wallenberg to Budapest Jews
The Soviet Hymn-Anthem (lyrics and WAV file)
Speech by Winston Churchill on the Allied invasion of France
The Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima - eyewitness account by Father P. Siemes, a German Catholic priest
The Crimea Protocol
Draft Letter about the Soviet Union & Eastern Europe - George Kennan
Emperor Hirohito Announces Japan's Surrender
The Fire Bombing of Dresden - a personal account by Lothar Metzger
German Surrender Documents
Hitler's Last Will and Testament
Japanese Surrender Documents
Labour Party Manifesto (Eng.)
The Last Broadcast of Lord Haw Haw - audio file
The Potsdam Declaration
Rapprochement between The Orthodox Church and Soviet Government - speech of M. G. Karpov at Council of the Orthodox Church
Speeches by Winston Churchill on V-E Day
Surviving the A-bomb Attack on Hiroshima - Dr. Michihiko Hachiya, eyewitness
U. S. War Department Press Release on New Mexico A-Bomb Test
The Yalta Declaration

Midwar Years

1926 General Strike in England (Spartacus Site)
The Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives
Adolf Hitler - Biography (Jewish Virtual Library)
The Age of Anxiety  Europe in the 1920s (1)
The Age of Anxiety  Europe in the 1920s (2)
The Age of Totalitarianism  Stalin and Hitler
The A. J. P. Taylor Thesis on the Origins of World War II
Albert Einstein(biography)
Art Deco (Artcyclopedia) - large list of artists and their works
British House of Commons Election Results  1832-1983 (Spartacus Site)
Chamberlain and Hitler  What Was Chamberlain Trying To Do
Churchill  The Evidence (The Life & Times of Winston Churchill)
The Collapse of the Weimar Republic
Collectivization in the Soviet Union
Crisis and War in Europe  1937-1940
Dadaism (Artcyclopedia)
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (biography)
Diplomacy of the Third Reich
Emmeline Pankhurst (Spartacus Site)
Enfranchising Women The Politics of Women's Suffrage in Europe 1789-1945 - tutorial with documents and other resources
The Ethiopian War 1935-41 - succinct outline
The Existential Frame of Mind
Expressionism (Artcyclopedia) - large list of artists and their works
Fascism and the Nazis (Spartacus)
Fascism in Italy (BBC)
From Intervention to Munich  The Inter-War Years (The Millennial Files)
George Orwell (Spartacus Site)
George Orwell and the Last Man in Europe
German Diplomacy Files Folder Titles List - FDR Library
German Propaganda Archives (Warning--some severe anti-Semitic materials included!)
Germany, Hitler, and the Prospect for Peace
The Great Crash and the Great Slump - lecture by J. Bradford DeLong (UC Berkeley)
The Great Depression
The History of the Swastika
Hitler and Economic Recovery in Germany
Hitler's Beer Hall Putsch
The House of Saxe-Coburg-Windsor Genealogical Chart (England)
The Inter-War Years  1919-1939
Italian Life Under Fascism
Lights in the Darkness  Resisters to the Nazi Regime
Europe After the Treaty of Locarno  1925
Map--The Dismemberment of the Ottoman Empire  the 1920s
Map--The European Democracies  1919 to the 1930s
Map--Governments During the 1930s (world map)
Map--The Growth of Japan in the 20c
Map--League of Nations 1920-1946
Map--The Middle East in the 1920s
Map--New Nations After World War I
Map--The Partition of Czechoslovakia
Map--The Peace Settlement in Europe  1919
Map--Spanish Civil War
Map--Totalitarian Regimes in the 1930s
Map--Zones of Conflict and the Polish Frontier as of 1921
Nazi and Soviet Art
Nazi Germany (BBC)
Nazi Germany - Picture Gallery
The Nazi Olympics  Berlin, 1936
Nazi Posters  1933-1945
The Nazi Road to Power
The Nazi Seizure of Power
The Nazi-Soviet Pact
Nazi-Soviet Relations  Documents from 1939 - 1941 (The Avalon Project)
Neville Chamberlain (Spartacus Site)
The Nizkor Project - The Office of Strategic Services - Adolf Hitler Source Book & Psychological Profile
Nietzsche and Hitler - from William Shirer's
The Origins of the Nazi Party
People of Action During the First Half of the 20c
People of Ideas  The 1st Half of the 20c
The Political System of the Third Reich
The Posters of the Spanish Revolution
Purges and Hysteria in the Soviet Union
Ramsey McDonald (Spartacus Site
Revelations from the Russian Archives
The Rise of Adolph Hitler - book written for The HistoryPlace (24 short chapters)
The Rise of Hitler (BBC)
Salvador Dali Art Gallery
The Soviet Union - Map (1918-1939)
The Soviet Union Factbook
The Spanish Bourbons  Genealogical Chart
Spanish Civil War Oral History Project
The Spanish Revolution
The Spanish Revolution and Civil War
Stalin - CNN Biography Series
The Stalin Internet Library
Surrealism (Artcyclopedia)
Then and Now Prices (1930s prices for Common Items)
The Third Reich Factbook
Upheaval in Germany, the Peace Treaty, and Imperialism
The Visual Front  Posters of the Spanish Civil War
The Wall Street Crash (BBC
Weimar Republic  Economic and Political Problems
Weimar Republic  Foreign Policy Problems
Weimar Republic  The Good Years
Weimar Republic Links
World War II Timeline  1917-1945
Chart of Elections in Weimar Germany
'Equal Pay for Equal Work' Report of the War Cabinet on Women in Industry (H.M.S.O, 1919), paras. 10 & 11 - Great Britain
Hitler's First Anti-Semitic Writing
Post War Employment of Women - Aberdeen Free Press (2-4)
The Constitution of the Weimar Republic
Ink Drawings of George Grosz - click on several of those listed at the bottom
Postage Stamps of the Weimar Republic and chart (at bottom of page) on the value of the Mark
Program of the National Social German Workers' Party
Comrade Lenin Sweeps the World Clean - political poster
The Economic Consequences of the Peace - John Maynard Keynes
March 8--Women's Emancipation - Soviet political poster
The Twenty-Five Points - an early Nazi program
New Economic Policy - Lenin
Our Disagreements - J. V. Stalin in Pravda (1-19)
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Setting to Work  Keep Your Rifle at Hand - Soviet political cartoon
American-Anglo Agreement on Palestine
British Mandate in Palestine - League of Nations
British White Paper on Palestine
Lenin's Testament
On Overcoming the Consequences of the Lost War - General Erich Ludendorff
Stock Market Chart
Entering King Tut's Tomb - Howard Carter
My Disillusionment in Russia--Afterward - Emma Goldman
The Treaty of Lausanne
League of Nations Covenant
- Adolph Hitler (full text)
On the Death of Lenin - Joseph Stalin
Jean Rennie, scullery-maid kitchen-maid and cook-housekeeper
Mein Kampf
Trotskyism or Leninism - Joseph Stalin
The Discovery of Anti-semitism in Vienna
The Geneva Protocol Poisonous or other Gases, Bacteriological Warfare
Hitler on the Discovery of Antisemitism in Vienna
A Surrealist Manifesto
The Treaty of Locarno
The Fascist Symbol (leaflet)
Speech at the 1927 Nuremberg Rally - Adolf Hitler
We Demand
Civilization and Its Discontents
Equal Franchise Act (Britain)
Kellogg-Briand Pact
Knowledge and Propaganda - Joseph Goebbels
Why Do We Want to Join the Reichstag - Joseph Goebbels
Caricatures from Der Stürmer
- Joseph Goebbels (an early anti-Semitic Nazi piece of propaganda)
Briand Plan (5-19)
Propaganda in Postage Stamps (Nazi Germany)
Meet the Five-Year Target Figures for the Production of Coal in Three Years - Soviet political poster
On the Industrialization of Russia - Joseph Stalin
Persistence of Memory - Surrealist painting by Salvador Dali
Statute of Westminster
Will and Way - Joseph Goebbels
Background to the German Crisis - Franz von Papen
The Storm is Coming
What is Fascism - Benito Mussolini
Several postcards of Nazi Propaganda
Hitler's Concordat with the Catholic Church
Law for the Protection of Hereditary Health The Attempt to Improve the German Aryan Breed (Nuremberg Racial Law)
Letters on Jews Who Served in German Military - Adolf Hitler and Paul von Hindenberg
Nazi Enabling Act
The Results of the First Five-Year Plan - Joseph Stalin
Sterilization for 'The Unfit'- The Hitlerian Nightmare Begins
The Structure of the Unconscious - Sigmund Freud
National Socialist Racial Policy  A Speech to German Women
The Oath to Adolph Hitler
Triumph of the Will
Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor
Mussolini Justifies the Invasion of Ethiopia
Nuremberg Laws on Citizenship and Race
Nuremberg Laws for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor
Anti-Comintern Pact
Broadcast After His Abdication - King Edward VIII of England
Posters of the Spanish Civil War
The Rhineland Crisis  The French Reaction - M. P.-E. Flandin, French Minister of Foreign Affairs
The Rhineland Crisis  The British Reaction - Policy Memorandum of the Foreign Secretary, Anthony Eden
Stalin's Purges - the official explanation
Soviet Constitution (full text)
Guernica - painting by Pablo Picasso
The Nanking Massacre
On National Socialism and World Relations - speech by Adolf Hitler
The Ugly Jew - a piece of Nazi propaganda (book cover)
The British Reaction to the German-Austrian Anschluss - Neville Chamberlain
Crystal Night at the Dinslaken Orphanage
Declaration of members of the historic nobility, delivered 9-17 to President Edvard Benes of Czechoslovakia
Dialectical and Historical Materialism - J. V. Stalin
Krystallnacht Order - Reinhard Heydrich
Manifesto of the Racist Scientists
Munich Agreement
On the Sudetenland Crisis - speech by Adolf Hitler (sound file)
Peace in Our Time - Neville Chamberlain
Time Magazine's
Why the German Republic Fell - Bruno Heilig
Britain's Response to Germany's Invasion of Poland
France's Response to Germany's Invasion of Poland
Letter from Hitler to Mussolini (Aug. 25)
Letter from Mussolini to Hitler (Aug. 25) - in response
Letter to Hitler from President Franklin D. Roosevelt (4-14)
Mussolini's Call to Arms
Pact of Steel (5-22)
Proclamation to the German Army - Adolf Hitler
Chamberlain on the Nazi Invasion of Poland
Speech to Reichstag - Adolf Hitler (9-1)
Man of the Year - Joseph Stalin
Treaty of Non-Aggression between Germany and the U. S. S. R.
Treaty of Non-Aggression between Germany and the U. S. S. R. - Secret Protocol
Western Guarantees of Poland's Independence

WWI and Russian Revolution

1918--Chaos in Russia and Germany's Last Offensive
The Aftermath of the Russian Revolution
The Annexation of Bosnia-Herzegovina, 1908
Anthem for Doomed Youth--Writers & Literature of the Great War 1914-1918
Art of the First World War
The Balkan Causes of World War I - lecture by Stephen W. Soward
The Bosnian Crisis of 1908-1909
British House of Commons Election Results  1832-1983 (Spartacus Site)
Causes of World War I
The Collections of the German Historical Museum
Documents on Bosnia and the Rest of the Balkans
The Emancipation of British Women  1750-1920 (Spartacus)
The Empire That Was Russia
Enfranchising Women The Politics of Women's Suffrage in Europe 1789-1945 - tutorial with documents and other resources
Events and Issues in Russia 1914-25 (Spartacus)
The Fall of the Eagles The Collapse of European Monarchy in 1918
France at War--A Gallery of Rare Stereo Photographs
Gallipoli  The Drama of the Dardanelles
The German Revolution of 1918
Germany's High Sea Fleet in the World War
German Policy in Occupied Belgium, 1914-1918 - essay by David Menichetti in Essays in History
The Great War
The Great War and the Shaping of the 20c (PBS)
The Great War in a Different Light--Accounts from Contemporary Books & Magazines
The Great War in Numbers - statistics on World War I
The House of Habsburgs - Lorraine  Genealogical Chart
The House of Saxe-Coburg-Windsor Genealogical Chart (England)
Images of World War I- French Posters, 1914-1920
Images of World War I  The Western Front
A Joyful Leap into War
The July Crisis  Austria's Viewpoint
The July Crisis  Britain's Viewpoint
The July Crisis  France's Viewpoint
The July Crisis  Germany's Viewpoint
The July Crisis  The German General Staff's Viewpoint
The July Crisis  Russia's Viewpoint
The July Crisis  Serbia's Viewpoint
The Legacy of Versailles
The Lost Generation of 1914
Lost Poets of World War I
Map--Diplomatic Crises 1905-1914
Europe After the October Revolution  1917
Map--Europe Before World War I
Map--Losses in World War I
Map--The Peace Settlement in Europe 1919
Map--Principle European Alliance 1914
Map--Russia after Brest-Litovsk 1918
Map--World War I
Maps(2)--Southeastern Europe 1911 & 1914
The Morocco Crisis of 1911
October 1917--A Lost Opportunity for Socialism - many links to articles - a libertarian communist's view
Peace!  Land!  Bread!
People of Action During the First Half of the 20c
Photos of World War I
Political Leaders of World War I
Propaganda Posters of World War I
Publications of the War
The Red Fighter Pilot--Manfred von Richtofen (The Red Baron)
Remembering and Understanding the Armenian Genocide
Revelations from the Russian Archives
Revolution and Revanchism 1917-1929
The Road to War (BBC)
The Romanov Dynasty  Genealogical Chart (Russia)
A Russian Revolution (The Millennial Files) - a different perspective

New Imperialism

The Anglo-Boer War
The Berlin Treaty, 1878 
The Boer War
The Boer War Remembered
Britain-India  Appropriation, Expansion, and Colonization

2nd Industrial Revolution

1900  A Preview of the 20c
Albert Einstein (biography)
Alexander Palace Time Machine  Everyday Life in a Romanov Palace
Amedeo Modigliani (WeMuseum)
Art Nouveau (Artcyclopedia) - large list of artists and their works
Beatrice Potter Web (Spartacus Site)
Benjamin Disraeli (Spartacus Site)
Bloody Sunday  The Political Progression of the Workers' Movement in Early Twentieth Century Russia
Bosnia-Hercegovina and the Failure of Reform in Austria-Hungary - lecture
British House of Commons Election Results  1832-1983 (Spartacus Site)
Creating French Culture  Treasures from the Bibliothčque Nationale de France
The Crystal Palace Exhibit
Cubism (Artcyclopedia)
Dickens' London  The East End
Domestic Life in 19c England
Early Modern Art
Edvard Munch
Edward VII of England (Spartacus Site)
The Emancipation of British Women  1750-1920 (Spartacus)
The Empire That Was Russia  Ethnic Diversity
The Empire That Was Russia  People at Work
Enfranchising Women The Politics of Women's Suffrage in Europe 1789-1945 - tutorial with documents and other resources
Evolution Darwin (PBS)
Extracts from the Times of London (1850-1851) on the culture of Victorian London
The Fabian Society (Spartacus Site)
Fauvism (Artcyclopedia) - large list of artists and their works
Futurism
Georges Braque
H. G. Wells (Spartacus Site)
High Victorian Gothic Architecture in England - many photos
The House of Romanov  Geneological Chart
The House of Saxe-Coburg-Windsor Genealogical Chart (England)
Images of Black Victorians in Britain
Impressionism (Artcyclopedia) - large list of artists and their works
Impressionism (Web Museum)
The Impressionists (Biography.com)
Jack the Ripper As the Threat of Outcast London - Robert F. Haggard in
Two Solutions to the Eastern Question The Treaty of San Stefano; The Congress
Monuments and Dust  The Culture of Victorian London
Nietzsche, Freud, and the Thrust Toward Modernism (1)
Nietzsche, Freud, and the Thrust Toward Modernism (2)
Pablo Picasso
People of Action During the 19c
People of Ideas During the 19c
The Perspectives of Nietzsche
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon's Collected Works
Post-Impressionism - large list of artists and their works
The Posters of Toulouse-Lautrec
Queen Victoria (Spartacus Site)
Random Thoughts on the Intellectual History of 20c Europe
The Revolution of 1905 in Russia
The Second Industrial Revolution
The Second Reich
Socialism  Venn Diagram
The Stolypin Agrarian Reform, 1906
Symbolism Art Movement (Artcyclopedia) - large list of artists and their works
Victoria's London
Victoria Station
The Victorian Census Project
The Victorian Era - articles in the magazine, History in Focus
The Victorian Web
Vienna 1900
Wassily Kandinski
William Gladstone (Spartacus Site)
William Morris (Spartacus Site)
Women and Birth Control (Spartacus Site)
The Spread of Railways in the 19c - charts
Social Darwinism
Women and Work - Barbara Leigh Smith
A House of Mercy - Bessie Rainer Parkes
- Charles Darwin
Medicine as a Profession for Women - Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell
Czar Alexander II's Address in the State Council Emancipating the Russian Serfs
The Case for Equal Education - read at the National Assoc. for the Promotion of Social Science
The Exclusion of Women from the Franchise - John Stuart Mill in the House of Commons (7-17)
'A Reform Letter from a Single Lady', Punch (5-5)
The Claim of Englishwomen to the Suffrage Constitutionally Considered - Helen Taylor
A Leap in the Dark - political cartoon on the 1867 Reform Bill - John Tenniel in Punch  (8-3)
The right of women to vote under the Reform Act - R. M. Pankhurst
The Enfranchised Washerwoman - poem in Punch 9-19
Reasons for and against the Enfranchisement of Women - Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
The Subjugation of Women
The Ladies Protest - Josephine Butler
Tables Illustrating the Spread of Industrialization in the Western World
The Internationale
Less Than Justice for Women - Women's Suffrage Journal (7-1)
Secret Ballot Act (Britain)
Liberalism Evaluated - John Stuart Mill
On the Use and Abuse of History for Life -  Friedrich Nietzsche
Why Women Desire the Franchise - Frances Power Cobbe
Speech on the Women's Disabilities Removal Bill - John Bright, M.P. (4-26)
Léon Richer
What is to be Done with the Slums - W. M. Torrens in Macmillan's Magazine (April)
Common Sense and the Dwellings of the Poor  Part I -- Improvements Now Practicable - Octavia Hill in The Nineteenth Century
Common Sense and the Dwellings of the Poor  Part II -- The Mischief of State Aid - Lord Shaftsbury in The Nineteenth Century
Common Sense and the Dwellings of the Poor  Part III -- The Existing Law - H. O. Arnold-Forster in The Nineteenth Century (D
Common Sense and the Dwellings of the Poor  Part IV -- A Workman's Reflections - William Glazier in The Nineteenth Century (
Corrupt Practices Act (Britain)
Homes of the London Poor - Octavia Hill
Labourers' and Artisans Dwellings - Joseph Chamberlain in the Fortnightly Review (12-1)
- William Morris
-  Emile Zola
Methodism and 'The Bitter Cry of Outcast London' - Forster Crozier
Redistribution Act (Britain)
Observations of Bloody Sunday Riots in London
An Appeal Against Female Suffrage (June) - Mrs. Humphry Ward, et. al.
The Development of the Democratic Ideal
The Historic Basis of Socialism - Sydney Webb
Evolutionary Socialism
On the Condition of the Working Classes [Rerum Novarum]
Female Suffrage - A Letter to Samuel Smith, M. P. from William Gladstone (4-11)
The Warfare of Science and Theology in Christendom - Andrew White
- Captain Alfred Dreyfus
The Interpretation of Dreams
Sergei Witte on the Tasks for Economic Policy
The Suffrage Movement Radicalized - from Emile Pankhurst's memoirs
The Social Gospel
Women's National Anti-Suffrage League - Speech by Mrs. Humphry Ward (7-21)
From Liberalism - L. T. Hobhouse
An Exposition of Darwinism by a Contemporary Naturalist - Alfred Wallace
The New Liberalism - W. L. Blease
Speech by Emily Pankhurst
My Own Story

Unification

Bismarck Memorial
A Chronology of Russian History  The Imperial Period (1689-1917)
The Crimean War
The Crimean War - lecture outline from MIT
Enfranchising Women The Politics of Women's Suffrage in Europe 1789-1945 - tutorial with documents and other resources
Europe After the Congress of Berlin - Map (1878)
The Great Powers and the 'Eastern Question' - lecture by Stephen W. Soward
Great Power Politics  1870s
The Heritage of Bismarck
The Hohenzollerns  Genealogical Chart (Brandenburg-Prussia)
The House of Habsburgs - Lorraine  Genealogical Chart
The House of Saxe-Coburg-Windsor Genealogical Chart (England)
Louis Napoleon III (biography)
Map Labeling Self-Quiz--Central Europe - Kagan text site
Music and Nationalism
Nationalism in Hungary, 1848-1867 - lecture by Stephen W. Sowards
Nationalism Links
People of Action During the 19c
The Process of German Unification
The Prussian Wars of Unification - lecture from MIT
The Risorgimento
The Romanov Dynasty  Genealogical Chart (Russia)
The Siege and Commune of Paris  1870-1871
The Spanish Bourbons  Genealogical Chart
Toward the Unification of Germany - Map (1740-1871)
The Unification of Italy - Map (1850s-1870s)
G. W. F. Hegel On the State
Impact of the Great Man - Thomas Carlyle
- Johann Gottlieb Fichte
The Shootings of May 3, 1808 - painting by Goya
General Instructions for the Members of Young Italy - Giuseppi Mazzini
- Daniel O'Connell
Deutschland, Deutschland über alles - German national anthem (Germany, Germany, Over All)
Documents on Italian Unification
Allocution of Pope Pius IX - about Italian Unification
National Song of Hungary - lyrics
Statuto of 1848
Documents of German Unification
Hungarian Declaration of Independence
Giuseppi Mazzini and the Italian Nation
Louis Napoleon's Speech at Bordeaux Establishing the Second French Empire
On Nationality as a Key to Social Development
The Charge of the Light Brigade - poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson
Granny Scenes from Country Life - Bozena Nemcova - Czech Nationalism Finds a Literary Outlet
Speech in the House of Lords Defending His Conduct at Balaklava - Earl of Luccan
Excerpts from the Diaries of Queen Victoria - on the Opening of the Great Exhibition-Crystal Palace
Crystal Palace - drawing
Plombičres Agreement - Cavour to Napoleon III
Plombičres Agreement - Cavour to Victor Emmanuel II
Armistice of Villafranca - between Napoleon III & Franz-Joseph II
Franco-Sardinian Alliance
Giuseppi Garibaldi Encourages His Soldiers
The Emancipation Manifesto - Tsar Alexander (3-3)
The Austrian Constitution
Memoirs of the Ausgleich - Count von Beust
The Hungaro-Croatian Compromise of 1868 (Nagodba)
The Ems Telegram
The Watch on the Rhine - song lyrics by Max Schneckenberger
King Victor Emmanuel's Speech to the Italian Parliament
The Marxist Analysis of The Civil War in France- The Paris Commune - Karl Marx
The Paris Commune and the Idea of the State
The Treaty of Berlin - Excerpts on the Balkans
What is Communism ... - from the Irish World (6-1)
The Commune of Paris
The Three Emperors League
The Triple Alliance
Bismarck's speech to the Prussian Parliament on the Polish Question
Speech to the German Reichstag - Otto von Bismarck
Fall From Power - Otto von Bismarck
Program of the Pan-German League
The Erfurt Program - Program of the Social Democratic Party in Germany
Russia's Imperial Destiny -
Kaiser Wilhelm II Speaks
On the Jewish State
- Emile Zola
Opinion Poll, Berliner Illustrierte Zeitung
The German Fatherland - song lyrics by Ernst Moritz Arndt
to the North German Regatta Association (A Place in the Sun) - Kaiser
Programme of the Union of the Russian People
Russian Fundamental Law (4-23)
Interview with Kaiser Wilhelm II in The London Daily Telegraph (10-28)
- Mohandas Gandhi
If I Were Kaiser - Heinrich Class

Early 19th Century

The Age of Ideologies (1)  General Introduction - from the Lectures on Modern European Intellectual History
The Age of Ideologies (2)  Reflections on Karl Marx - from the Lectures on Modern European Intellectual History
The Age of Ideologies (3)  The World of Auguste Comte - from the Lectures on Modern European Intellectual History
The Bentham Project
The Bourbons  A Genealogical Chart (France)
British House of Commons Election Results  1832-1983 (Spartacus Site)
British Parliamentary Reforms (1802-1918) - list of major laws in chart form
British Women Romantic Poets  1789-1832
Caspar David Friedrich
Cato Street Conspiracy (Spartacus Site)
Charles Dickens (Spartacus Site)
A Chronology of Russian History  The Imperial Period (1689-1917)
The Congress of Vienna
The Congress of Vienna and the Congress System  1814-1848
Costumes Françaises  The Reign of Louis XVIII
Daniel O'Connell (Spartacus Site)
The Encyclopedia of the 1848 Revolutions
Enfranchising Women The Politics of Women's Suffrage in Europe 1789-1945 - tutorial with documents and other resources
Europe  1815-1852
The France of Victor Hugo
The French Revolution and the Socialist Tradition  Early French Communists (1) - from the Lectures on Modern European Intell
The French Revolution and Democratic Socialist Tradition  English Democratic Socialists (2) - from the Lectures on Modern Eu
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (biography
The Great Irish Famine
The Great Starvation and British Imperialism in Ireland
The Greek Revolution and the Greek State - lecture by Steven W. Sowards
Hegel Online - Hypertext
A Historian Looks at Hegel Philosophically - David Burrell
History of the Irish Famine
The Hohenzollerns  Genealogical Chart (Brandenburg-Prussia)
The House of Habsburgs - Lorraine  Genealogical Chart
The House of Saxe-Coburg-Windsor Genealogical Chart (England)
An Introduction to Marxism
The Irish Potato Famine - 8-part history with period illustrations
Jeremy Bentham (Spartacus Site)
John Stuart Mill (Spartacus Site)
Journeys in Time  1809-1822 - the Journals of Lachlan and Elizabeth Macquarie (New South Wales, Australia)
Liberalism (Classical)  A Historical Perspective
Map--The Americas  1800-1836
Map--Centers of Revolution  1848-1858
Map--Europe in the Mid-19c
Italy in 1815
Mary Wollstonecraft (Spartacus Site)
Marx & Engels' Writings
Marx and History
Marxism Page
The Peel Web
Penny Magazine
People of Action During the 19c
People of Ideas During the 19c
A Perverse and Ill-Fated People English Perceptions of the Irish, 1845-52  - Ed Lengel in
The Pre-Raphaelite Movement (Artcyclopedia) - large list of artists and their works
Prince Metternich and the New Social Order  1815-1848
The Principles of Communism - Frederick Engels
Queen Victoria (Spartacus Site)
Realism (Artcyclopedia) - large list of artists and their works
The Regency Fashion Page
Revolution and Reaction  1848
The Revolutions of 1848
Revolutions of 1848 in Europe and Italy
Robert Peel (Spartacus Site)
The Romantic Art Movement (Artcyclopedia) - large list of artists and their works
The Romantic Chronology
Romantic Circles
The Romanov Dynasty  Genealogical Chart (Russia)
The Romantic Era  A Critique on the Enlightenment - from the Lectures on Modern European Intellectual History
Romantic Links, Electronic Texts, & Home Pages
Schools of Economic-Political Thought
Slavery  How did the Abolition Acts of 1807 and 1833 Affect Slavery
Socialism, Marxism, and Trade Unionism - crib sheet
Soren Kierkegaard - biography
The Spanish Bourbons  Genealogical Chart
The Springtime of the Peoples - articles on the 1830 and 1848 revolutions by Carlos Acuna-Dunn
Tallyrand and the Congress of Vienna - essay
Utilitarianism - Powerpoint presentation online (20 slides)
Utilitarianism Resources
The Utopian Socialists  Charles Fournier (1) - from the Lectures on Modern European Intellectual History
The Utopian Socialists  Robert Owen and Saint-Simon (2) - from the Lectures on Modern European Intellectual History
William Blake (Spartacus Site)
Women Romantic-Era Writers
Accounts of the Potato Revolution
Essay on Population
The Tables Turned
Tintern Abbey
An Assortment of Grimms' Fairy Tales
Immortal Beloved love letter - Beethoven
Address To the German Nation - Johann Gottlieb Fichte
On Censorship - Prinz Klemens von Metternich
Abbey in an Oak Forest - painting by Caspar David Friedrich
- Joseph DeMaistre
The Frankfurt Declaration
Documents upon the Transition to the Restoration of the French Monarchy
French Constitutional Charter of 1814 (6-4)
The Holy Alliance
Kubla Khan or, a Vision In a Dream A Fragment - poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Robert Owen's Appearance Before Robert Peel's House of Commons Committee
Song of the Luddites - poem by Lord Byron
Abbey Graveyard in the Snow - painting by Caspar David Friedrich
The Iron Law of Wages - Thomas Malthus
The Principles of Political Economy -
The Call to Freedom & The Mask of Anarchy - poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Carlsbad Decrees-Resolutions
Eyewitness Accounts of the Peterloo Massacre
The Mask of Anarchy - poem by Percy Byssche Shelley
Press Laws and Ordinances of the Restoration of the French Press
Four Letters on Liberty of the Press and Public Discussion - Jeremy Bentham
Philosophy of Right
Prinz Klemens von Metternich's Political Confession of Faith
The Isle of Greece - poem by Lord Byron
Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation - Jeremy Bentham (full text)
The Case for Immediate, Not Gradual Abolition - Elizabeth Heyrick
Renewal of the Carlsbad Decrees (7-18)
Appeal of One Half of the Human Race, Women, against the Pretensions of the Other Half, Men - William Thompson (and Anna Doyle
Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi - painting by Delacroix
The Address of Female
Sir Robert Peel's letter to Henry Hobhouse, Home Secretary about establishing a Metropolitan Police
Aboard a Slave Ship
Catholic Emancipation Act
The Constitutional Code
Liberty Leading the People - painting by Delacroix
Désirée Veret to Father Enfantin Letter to Le Globe (9-11)
The Metamorphosis of King Louis-Philippe into a Pear - sketch by Charles Philipon
The Narrative of Mary Prince - a black slave from the West Indies
Debates Amongst Lyonnais Weavers and Republicans
Jewish Disabilities -  A speech delivered in A Committee of the Whole House of Commons by Thomas Babington Macaulay 
Daniel O'Connell on Justice for Ireland
Extract is from the first report of the Prison Inspectors taken from Parliamentary Papers writing about Newgate Gaol in London
Education and Capacities of Women
Aims and Rules of the National Charter Association
The Organization of Labor -
Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On [The Slave Ship) - painting by Joseph Turner
'Address to the Women of England' - English Chartist Circular
Chartism and Temperance
Account of the Strikes of 1842 (England)
 Principles of International Law - Jeremy Bentham
Scientific Socialism - Karl Marx
The condition of the labourers in Ireland
'Le Prętre...' - Jules Michelet
English Views of the Irish Potato Famine (several different links)
Letter of Alexander Somerville on the Irish Potato Famine
The Misery That Was Ireland- The Potato Famine - W. Stewart Trench
Narrative of a Recent Six Weeks Journey in Ireland
Account of the Events of April 10th, 1848 in London - Chartist Demonstration
Anti-Republican Catechism for the People - a counter-revolutionary pamphlet distributed in Berlin
Chartism and the State, April 1848 - J. Saville
The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels
Condition of the July Monarchy, 1830-1848
Constitutional Proposals of the Vienna Reading Club
Documents of the 1848 Revolution in France
An English eye-witness's account of the June days - Sir Edmund Frankland
February Days in Paris - assorted documents by observers of the event
The French Revolution in 1848 - Percy B. St. John
The Heidelberg Declaration
The June Uprising - Alexis de Tocqueville
The June Uprising - Karl Marx
Louis Blanc's Program (3-20)
The Mainz Petition
Manifesto of the Berlin People's Election Committee
The Manifesto of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
The Mannheim Petition
The March Insurrection in Berlin
The Chartist Procession according to the Signatures of the Petition - cartoons from Punch (4-15)
Popular Disorder in the Provinces (France)
Proclamations of the Provisional Revolutionary Committee of Palermo, Italy
Rules for the Election of a German National Assembly (Frankfurt Parliament)
Street Barricade Scene, Milan, March 1848 - G. Mazzola
To the Electors of the Seine - Citizen Etienne Arago
Various Governments' Concerns about the 1848 Revolutions
Victor Hugo's Description of the Barricades - from Les Miserables
Women on the Barricade, Near the Porte St. Denis - drawing in The Illustrated London News (7-1)
The Frankfurt Constitution
History of the Revolution of 1848 in France - Alphonse de Lamartine
Hungarian Declaration of Independence
The Law - Frederic Bastiat  (part I)
1848 and the Movement for Women's Rights - Jeanne Deroin and Pauline Roland
Woman's Rights and Chartism a verdict in 1851
The Peasants War in Germany (excerpt) - Friedrich Engels
From On Liberty - John Stuart Mill

Industrialization

The 1833 Factory Act Page
The 1834 Poor Law Page
The Anti-Corn League
British History of Child Labor in the 19c (Spartacus)
British House of Commons Election Results  1832-1983 (Spartacus Site)
British Industrial Growth - tutorial with documents and other resources
Chartism
Chartist Newspapers (Spartacus Site)
Child Labor in  19c England - primary documents of reformers, supporters, etc.
The Emancipation of British Women  1750-1920 (Spartacus)
Enfranchising Women The Politics of Women's Suffrage in Europe 1789-1945 - tutorial with documents and other resources
England  Young Workers in the 19th Century - Interview (The Life of the Industrial Worker in 19th-Century England)
The Industrial Revolution and the Railway System
Inventions of the Industrial Revolution (BBC)
Lectures on the Industrial Revolution in England - Arnold Toynbee (1884)
The Luddites  1811-1812 (Spartacus Site)
Map--English Common Lands Enclosed by Acts of Parliament  1700-1850
Map--Industrial England  Early 19c
Map--Industrialization in Western Europe  1850
The Origins of the Industrial Revolution in England - from the Lectures on Modern European Intellectual History
The Peel Web
People of Action During the 19c
The Plight of Women's Work in the  Early Industrial Revolution in England and Wales
Queen Victoria (Spartacus Site)
The Social Aspects of Industrialization - tutorial with documents and other resources
Songs of Innocence
Tables Illustrating the Spread of Industrialization
Women and Chartism (Spartacus Site)
The Workhouse
Leeds Woolen Workers Petition
Letter from Leeds Cloth Merchants
Observations on the Loss of Woollen Spinning
Manchester Becomes a Thriving Industrial City - John Aikin
An Essay on the Principle of Population
Images of the Industrial Revolution in England
Table Showing the Comparative Weight of Factory & Non-Factory English Children
Petition for Poor Relief
The Health and Morals of Apprentices Act
House of Commons Select Committee on The Woollen Industry
Child Labor in Cotton Factories - Robert Southey,
A Luddite attack on a Yorkshire mill
Luddite Oath
Various Descriptions of Workhouse Children, England
The English Corn Laws
Evidence of James Pattison (on
Observations on the Effects of the Manufacturing System - Robert Owen
Opposition to the Chimney Sweepers' Regulation Bill
The Six Acts
The Steam Loom - Richard Guest
Wages of Factory Workers in Leeds - statistical chart
Various Comments on the London Reform Riots of 1831
Transcripts from the Sadler Commission Investigation
Sadler Commission Report on Child Labor - testimony of Joseph Habergam, 17 years of age
Debates Amongst Lyonnais Weavers and Republicans
Dr. Samuel Smith's Testimony to the House of Commons
Health in the Factory and in the Mine - John Rule
Macauley On Parliamentary Reform
The Moral and Physical Conditions of the Working Classes of Manchester in 1832 - Sir James Kay-Shuttleworth
Reform Act (Britain)
Speech of Michael Sadler in the House of Commons on the second reading of the Factories Regulation Bill
The Life of the Industrial Worker in 19c England - several docs.
Age of Workers in Cotton Mills in Lancashire, England - statistical chart
An Act Abolishing Slavery Throughout the British Colonies
The Factory Act
Minutes of Mark Best's evidence taken before the Committee on the Factories Bill
The People's Charter
Report of the Commissioners on the employment of children in factories
A Well Conducted Factory - article in The Penny Magazine
The Lyon Uprising
The Poor Laws Amendment Act
To the Straw Bonnet Makers - in the Owenite journal, The Pioneer
Notes on a Journey to the Mines of Cornwall and Wales - article in The Penny Magazine
The Philosophy of the Manufacturers - Andrew Ure
The Barnsley Manifesto
The First National Petition (England)
Leonard Horner, Inspector of Factories for the British government, commenting on the implementation of the 1833 Factory Act
The view of a soldier on Chartist activity in the north of England - from the diaries of Sir Charles Napier
Conditions in Nottingham in 1840 - General Sir Charles Napier
Condition of the Poor in Manchester - John Layhe
Robert Peel's Speech on the Corn Laws
Splinter movements from Chartism - criticism by Feargus O'Connor, Northern Star (4-3)
Chadwick's Report on Sanitary Conditions
The Debate on the 1842 Charter
Duncombe's Speech Introducing the 1842 Charter
The Factory System Illustrated -
Public Reaction to the Disclosure of Conditions in the Coal Mines - Conservative Party's periodical, the
Shaftesbury's Speech in Commons on Conditions in the Mines
Testimony Gathered by Ashley's Mines Commission
Thomas Macaulay's speech against Chartism
Agricultural Conditions in Ireland - reported by Captain Kennedy, Secretary to the Devonshire Commission
Industrial Manchester - Friedrich Engels
Introduction to The Condition of the Working Class in England - Friedrich Engels
Shaftesbury's Speech in Commons on the Ten-Hour Act
Cheap Clothing - political cartoon by John Leach in Punch
Conditions in Manchester - Charles Cavendish Greville's
An extract from Lord John Russell's Edinburgh Letter of 11-22 to support Peel's repeal of the Corn Laws
Industrial Conditions in Manchester, England
Prince Albert's memorandum on the Corn Laws (12-25)
A Wise Factory Owner - Parliamentary Papers 1845, XXV, pp. 456-7 (Britain)
Sir Robert Peel's Speech on the Repeal of the Corn Laws
Sir Robert Peel's speech resigning from the House of Commons
English Views of the Irish Potato Famine
A Letter in Reply to a Hand-Bill published by the Curate of Rotherham, criticizing Chartism
Cripples in the Yard of Children's Home in London - picture
- Samuel Smiles
Study of London Labour and the London Poor, Volume I - Henry Mayhew
Utilitarianism (Chapter 1 - General Remarks)- John Stuart Mill
Tables Illustrating the Spread of Industrialization in the Western World

Napoleonic Era

The Bourbons  A Genealogical Chart (France)
The Correspondence of Napoleon I
Creating French Culture  Treasures from the Bibliothčque Nationale de France
Early 19c Empire Style of Clothing
The Empire Between Dictatorship and Monarchy - lecture
Enfranchising Women The Politics of Women's Suffrage in Europe 1789-1945 - tutorial with documents and other resources
England Expects  Lord Nelson Home Page
Europe and the Supreme Being  Napoleon - from the Lectures on Modern European Intellectual History
Goya's Disasters of War - his paintings about the Peninsular War
The Hohenzollerns  Genealogical Chart (Brandenburg-Prussia)
The House of Habsburgs - Lorraine  Genealogical Chart
The Letters and Dispatches of Horatio Nelson
Map--Napoleonic Europe
Napoléon
Napoleon Bonaparte Internet Guide
Napoleon Series.org
Napoleon  Tyrant or Hero
The Napoleonic Collection
The Napoleonic Guide
The Napoleonic Revolution
Napoleonic Wars Series
Napoleonica.org - Napoleonic Primary Sources (most in French)
The Peel Web
The Regency Fashion Page
The Romanov Dynasty  Genealogical Chart (Russia)
The Spanish Bourbons  Genealogical Chart
Tallyrand and the Congress of Vienna - essay
Wellington's Dispatches  1808-1815
Love Letter from Napoleon to Josephine
Proclamations to the Troops - Napoleon Bonaparte
Brumaire Decree (11-10)
Constitution of the Year VIII
Napoleon's Proclamation to the French People on Brumaire
Order from the Minister of General Police to the Theatres of Paris (11-17)
Law for Reorganizing the Administrative System in France
Law for Reorganizing the Judicial System in France
Napoleon at St. Bernard - painting by Jacques-Louis David
Order for Suppressing the Newspapers
The Concordat of 1801
The Constitution of the Batavian Republic (9-14)
Constitution of the Italian Republic
Decree on Émigrés (4-27)
Documents upon Napoleon and Education (5-1)
Law for Organizing the Legion of Honor (5-19)
Law for Re-establishing Slavery in the French Colonies (5-20)
Napoleon's Decree on Émigrés
Madame de Rémusat Remembrances of Napoleon
The Louisiana Purchase
Constitution of the Year XII
The Napoleonic Civil Code
Napoleon's Account of the Situation in France
Restoration of the Gregorian Calendar
The Berlin Decree - Napoleon (the Continental System)
The Confederation of the Rhine and the Dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire
The Imperial Catechism
Senatus-Consultum for Suppressing the Tribunate (8-19)
Decree for Raising Conscripts (1-23)
Napoleon on the Battlefields of Elyad - painting by Antoine-Jean Gros
The Shootings of May 3, 1808 - painting by Goya
Decree upon Printing and Bookselling (2-5)
The Battle of Borodino - Baron Lejeune
Napoleon in His Study - painting by Jacques-Louis David
The Constitutional Charter of 1814
A Farewell to the Old Guard - Napoleon
The Treaty of Paris, 1814 (May 30)
The Holy Alliance Treaty
Proclamation of Napoleon
The Treaty of Paris, 1815 (Nov. 20)
Letter of Lord Londonderry to Richard Rush - about the death of Napoleon
To the Column - a poem by Victor Hugo about Napoleon
The Coronation of Napoleon - painting by Jacques-Louis David

French Revolution

A Tale of Two Cities
Accomplishments of the French Revolution - review chart 
The Bastille
The Bourbons  A Genealogical Chart (France)
The Bourgeois Revolution - Georges Lefebvre
Chronology of the French Revolution
Comparison Sheet  French and Russian Revolutions
Constitutional Amazons Jacobin Women's Clubs in the French Revolution - essay by Suzanne Desan
The Execution of Louis XVI of France
Fashion Plates of the French Revolution
The French Revolution - by Thomas Carlyle (full text of his book)
The French Revolution  Liberalism and Radicalism - detailed outline notes
The French Revolution  The Moderate Stage, 1789-1792 - from the Lectures on Modern European Intellectual History
The French Revolution  The Radical Stage, 1792-1794 - from the Lectures on Modern European Intellectual History
The French Revolution  The Start of the Decline of Western Civilization - Philip
The French Revolution  The Terror
The French Revolution in the Popular Imagination  A Tale of Two Cities
French Revolutionary Political Groupings - chart
The Ideology of the French Revolution -  from Europe in
The Language of Politics  England and the French Revolution - from the Lectures on Modern European Intellectual History
Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité
Map--Revolutionary France
Marie Antoinette
Mary Wollstonecraft (biography)
The Origins of the French Revolution - from the Lectures on Modern European Intellectual History
The Peel Web
The People and the French Revolution - lecture notes
The Phases of the French Revolution - nice pie graph
Philosophers of the Revolution - chart
Recipe for a Revolution
Teroristes - G. A. Williams
Text Resources on the French Revolution
Tuileries Gardens- A Short Dark History
Women and the Family in France in the 18c - essay by O. Hufton
Women in Revolution 1789-1796
Women in the French Revolution  The Failure of the Parisian Women's Movement in Relation to the Theories of Feminism of Rouss
Women in the French Revolution - symbols in art
Concerning the Abuses of the Guilds, Regensburg (8-16)
Remonstrance of the Parlement of Paris
Remonstrances against Turgot's Edict Suppressing the Guilds
On the Origins of the French Monarchy - Jacob-Nicolas
Turgot's Memorandum on Local Government
Remonstrance of Court of Excise Taxes
4 August Decrees 
Cahier of 1789, The Clergy of Blois and Romorantin
Cahier of 1789, The Nobility of Blois
Cahier of 1789, The Third Estate of Versailles
The Decree Abolishing the Feudal System [in France]
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
Food Problems in Paris - from the diary of the Major of Paris, Bailly
The King's Acceptance of the July 14 Revolution - a journalist's comments
Petition of Women of the Third Estate to the King
The State of the French Economy -
The Storming of the Bastille - an eyewitness account
Specific Grievances of the Merchant Flower Sellers of the City and Faubourgs of Paris
The Tennis Court Oath
Travels in France and Italy - Arthur Young
What is the Third Estate - Abbé Sieyes
A Woman's Cahier
Women's Petition to the National Assembly
Prices and Wages in Paris - statistical chart
Excerpts from a Diary of a French Nobleman
Marat Attacks the Nobility
Abolition of the Nobility
The Civil Constitution of the Clergy
The Decree Establishing the French National Guard
A Left-Wing Newspaper Links the Revolution to the Abolition of Slavery
A Left-Wing Newspaper Continues the Attack on Slavery
Edmund Burke on Queen Marie Antoinette
 Letters on Education- Catharine Macaulay
On the Admission of Women to the Rights of Citizenship - Condorcet
Reflections on the Revolution in France
Declaration on the Rights of Women
The Influence of the Jacobin Club - from Camille Desmoulins' weekly paper
King Louis XVI's Views on the Revolution
Marie Antoinette's Instructions to Fersen
Order for the Arrest of the French Royal Family
Placard Advocating Republicanism
The Tennis Court Oath - drawing by Jacques-Louis David
The Brunswick Manifesto
Decree Concerning the Death Penalty - the guillotine
Decree Concerning the Election of a National Convention
Documents of the National Convention
A Girondin View - Jean-Marie Roland de la Platičre Calls on the King to Declare War
The Indictment of Louis XVI
(a Real Audio file is included)
The Proclamation of the Duke of Brunswick
The Rights of Man -
September Massacres
September Massacres - coverage by the London Times
Vindication on the Rights of Woman
Women's Participation in Riots Over the Price of Sugar
The Aristo Report on the Death of the King
The Cult of the Supreme Being
The Death of Marat - painting by Jacques-Louis David
The Death of Marat - covered by The London Times
The Death of Marie Antoinette - Edmund Burke
Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizens
A Deputation of Women Citizens Demands Action on Food Prices
The Execution of Louis XVI - newspaper coverage in The London Times (1-25)
The Law of Suspects
The Levée En Masse
Manifesto of the Enragés
Marat's Impeachment
The Maximum
The National Convention outlaws Clubs and Popular Societies of Women
Proclamation of the Convention to the French People - The Execution of Louis XVI
The Queen's Defense
Chronological Chart of Executions
The Trial of Olympe de Gouges
Women at the Cordeliers
The Zenith of French Glory - political cartoon
- Maximilien Robespierre
9 Thermidor - Account of the proceedings in the Convention Hall
On the Festival of the Supreme Being
On the Principles of Public Morality
Charles Fourier on the French Revolution
Constitution of the Year III
Law Against Public Enemies
Law Upon British Products
Alien and Sedition Acts (U. S.)
Law of Hostages

Ancien Regime

18c Art - many links and pictures
18th-Century Food- An Upper-Class English Dining Experience
18c Social Order  Peasants and Aristocracy
The 18c Town and Its Inhabitants
The Art of William Hogarth
Bourbon France--Spain's Colonial Allies and Antagonists 1699-1781
The Bourbons  A Genealogical Chart (France)
Creating French Culture  Treasures from the Bibliothčque Nationale de France
The Damn'd South Sea Britain's Greatest Financial Speculation and its Unhappy Ending - Harvard Magazine
Early Russian Tsars  1462-1725 - Genealogical Chart
The English Bride- An 18th-Century Gentlewoman's Guide to Marriage
France During the Ancien Regime - map (1780)
Fredericus Rex  Prussia's King Frederick the Great
The French and English Colonial Empires of the 17c-18c
French Old Regime Bureaucrats  Intendants de Province, 1661-1790
Hanoverian Genealogical Chart (England)
Jesuits and the Sciences   1720-1773
John Harrison and the Longitude Problem
Last Mile Tours Capital Punishment in 18th-Century England
Late 18c Clothes
Madrid of the Bourbons
Map--Urban Populations of Western Europe  1700
Map Labeling Self-Quiz--18c Russia - Kagan text site
Map Labeling Self-Quiz--Prussia-Habsburg Lands Early 18c - Kagan text site
Map of the Atlantic Economy (animated)
Mercantilism
Neo-Classicism (Artcyclopedia) - large list of artists & their works
The New Child  British Art & the Origins of Modern Childhood (1730-1830)
The Rococo  1715-1774
The Rococo Style (Artcyclopedia) - large list of artists & their works
The Romanov Dynasty  Genealogical Chart (Russia)
The South Sea Bubble
Slave Trade Statistics in the 18c
The Town Hill Enclosure Act of 1762
The Trans-Atlantic Economy in 1800
William Hogarth - massive number of his engravings & plates
William Hogarth and 18c Print Culture
William Pitt (Spartacus Site)
Beer Street - engraving by William Hogarth
Gin Lane - engraving by William Hogarth
The Second Part of the South Sea Bubble
Selected Sources on the Organisation of Work and the Guilds - Imperial Law
Battle at Calcutta - Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Clive to the Lord Chancellor (2-23)
The Battle of Plassey - Robert Clive to the East India Company (7-26)
Peter III's Manifesto Freeing Nobles from Obligatory Service
Catherine the Great's Instruction to the Legislative Commission
Summa Quae - Pope Clement XIII's Encyclical on the Church in Poland (1-6)
The Death of Wolfe - painting by Benjamin West
Speech on India in the House of Commons - Robert Clive
A Letter to Her Mother - Marie Antoinette
India Regulating Act
Pugachev's last ukaz (June)  and   Petition of Serfs in Kungur District, Perm' Province, to Peter III
Anecdotes on the Countess du Barry
Proclamation of Rebellion - King George III of England responding to increasing
The Cost of Empire - from Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations
Of Colonies - from Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations
The Principle of the Mercantile System
Letter on the Loss of America - King George III of England
Account to the Kind - Jacques Necker
Memorandum Against Necker - Count Charles Gravier de Vergennes
Contract between the King and the Thirteen United States of North America (2-25)
Speech in the House of Commons by Sir Edmund Burke
Louis XVI's Reply to the Parlement of Paris
Cahier of 1789, The Clergy of Blois and Romorantin
Cahier of 1789, The Nobility of Blois
Cahier of 1789, The Third Estate of Versailles
What is the Third Estate - Abbé Sieyes
British Act of Union (7-2)
Aboard a Slave Ship

Enlightenment

17c Enlightenment Thought
The Age of Enlightenment
The Age of Enlightenment in the Paintings of France's Museums
Benedict (Baruch) Spinoza (biography)
The Bourbons  A Genealogical Chart (France)
The Continental Enlightenment  Jean Jacques Rousseau
Creating French Culture  Treasures from the Bibliothčque Nationale de France
David Hume (biography)
The Triumph of Science and the Heavenly City of the 18c philosophe - from the Lectures on Modern European Intellectual History
The Encyclopčdie
Europe and the Enlightenment  The Philosophes
The Hohenzollerns  Genealogical Chart (Brandenburg-Prussia)
The House of Habsburgs - Lorraine  Genealogical Chart
Immanuel Kant (biography)
Jean Jacques Rousseau - the Rousseau Association
John Locke (biography)
John Locke  The Philosopher of Freedom
Map--Science and the Enlightenment
The New Intellectual Order--Man, Nature, and Society - from the Lectures on Modern European Intellectual History
The Philosophes
People of Ideas  The Enlightment
The Political Movers and Shakers of the Enlightenment
The Racism of the 18c Social Sciences
René Descartes (biography)
Rococo Art Notes
The Spanish Bourbons  Genealogical Chart
The Spanish Habsburgs  Genealogical Chart 
Thomas Hobbes (biography)
The Vision of Human Progress  Vico, Gibbon, and Condorcet - from the Lectures on Modern European Intellectual History
Who Was Voltaire
A Letter Concerning Toleration - John Locke
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding - John Locke
Two Treatises on Government
Some Thoughts on Education - John Locke
The Persian Letters (No. 13)
The Spirit of Laws
A Discourse on the Origins of Inequality - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Natural History of Education - David Hume
- Voltaire
The Social Contract
A Treatise on Toleration - Voltaire
Essays on Crime and Punishment
Religion from A Philosophical Dictionary - Voltaire
Declaration of Independence
Voltaire's Letters on Sir Isaac Newton
The Critique of Pure Reason
The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
What is Enlightenment
On the Future Progress of the Human Mind
The Salon (excerpts from several observers of the period on the women)

Scientific Revolution

Antony van Leeuwenhoek
Blaise Pascal
Cartesianism
The Copernican System
The Essays of Francis Bacon 
Galileo Galilei (biography)
The Galileo Project
Galileo's Villa
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz (biography)
Institute and Museum of the History of Science of Florence, Italy -- Multimedia Catalogue - Room IV Galileo Galilei
Isaac Newton (biography)
Isaac Newton-1 (biography)
Isaac Newton  The First Physicist
Jesuits and the Sciences  1620-1659
1660-1719
Johannes Kepler (biography)
John Harrison and the Longitude Problem
Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion (animation)
Latitude  The Art and Science of 15c Navigation
Map--Science and the Enlightenment
Mathematicians of the 17c and 18c
The Measurers  A Flemish Image of Mathematics in the 16c
The Medieval Synthesis and the Secularization of Human Knowledge  The Scientific Revolution, 1543-1687 (1) - from the lecture
The Medieval Synthesis and the Secularization of Human Knowledge  The Scientific Revolution, 1642-1750 (2) - from the Lecture
The Poems of Sir Francis Bacon
A Revolution in Timekeeping  A Walk Through Time
Robert Hooke
The Scientific Revolution (1)
The Scientific Revolution (2)
The Scientific Revolution - Professor Knox's site
The Scientific Revolution  Paradigm Lost - a historiographic essay
Sir Francis Bacon's New Advancement of Learning
Tycho Brahe
Tycho Brahe-1 (biography)
The Ptolemaic System (picture)
A Geocentric Explanation- The Earth Must Be Stationary Existence
Dedication to The Revolutions of the Heavenly Bodies - Nicolaus Copernicus
Tycho Brahe's System (picture)
The Essays - Francis Bacon
Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina of Tuscany
Letter on Galileo's Theories - Robert Bellarmine
- Francis Bacon
The Crime of Galileo  Indictment and Abjuration of 1633
Discourse on Method
Blaise Pascal's Famous Wager on God's Existence
Principia Mathematica - Sir Isaac Newton (full text)
The Origin of the Royal Society from Account of Some
The Astronomer - painting by Johannes Vermeer
The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy

Absolutism

17c English Literature  1603-1660 (Luminarium site)
Absolute Monarchy & Enlightened Despotism
A Day in the Life of King Louis XIV
Amsterdam Heritage  Historical Buildings
Bourbon France--Spain's Colonial Allies and Antagonists 1699-1781
The Bourbons  A Genealogical Chart (France)
Catherine the Great
Charles I of England
The Château de Versailles
A Chronology of Russian History  The Imperial Period (1689-1917)
Creating French Culture  Treasures from the Bibliothčque Nationale de France
Documents on the English Civil War
Early Russian Tsars  1462-1725 - Genealogical Chart
The East India Company
The English Civil War - Professor Knox's site
The English Civil War  Royalist or Parliamentarian
Europe During the Age of Absolutism - map
  Prussia's King Frederick the Great
Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia  The Soldier King (biography)
The Glorious Revolution of 1688
The Great Catherine (of Russia) Palace
The History of the Habsburg Dynasty
The History of St. Petersburg
The Hohenzollerns  Genealogical Chart (Brandenburg-Prussia)
The House of Habsburgs - Lorraine  Genealogical Chart
The House of Romanov  Geneological Chart
Huguenot HIstory
The Imperial House of Hapsburg
Instead of a Constitution - an explanation of Britain's political system
King Louis XIV masterminded the rise of France to a world power - essay by K. K. Campbell
Laws in Ireland for the Suppression of Popery, commonly known as the Penal Laws
Wrong Side of the River London's disreputable South Bank in the sixteenth and seventeenth century - Jessica A. Browner in
Louis XIV
Louis XIV - a detailed site
The London Gazette
Map Labeling Self-Quiz--(1)The English Civil War  &  (2)The Wars of Louis XIV - Kagan text site
Map--Europe After the Peace of Utrecht
Map--The Partition of Poland
Map--The Rise of Prussia
Map--Russia Under Peter the Great
Oliver Cromwell  Constitutional Crisis in England
Oliver Cromwell's Internet Portal
The Pamphleteers Protestant Champion Viewing Oliver Cromwell Through the Media of his Day - essay by Kevin A. Creed
Peter the Great's Russia
The Prussian Tradition
The Rise and Fall of the Absolute Monarchy
The Rise of Prussia
Rivals to Rome  The Ottoman Sultans
The Romanov Dynasty  Genealogical Chart (Russia)
Russia in the Age of Enlightenment
Russia's Reforming Czar--Peter the Great
The Oliver Cromwell Song - by Monty Python
The South Sea Bubble
The Spanish Bourbons  Genealogical Chart
The Spanish Habsburgs  Genealogical Chart
The Spanish Succession  Genealogical Chart
The Stuart Puritans
Stuarts Genealogical Chart (England)
Thomas Hobbes
Tulipmania
Versailles
The War of the Fronde 1649-1652
True Law of Free Monarchies
Cardinal Richelieu
Triple Portrait of Richelieu
Observations Upon the United Provinces of the Netherlands - William Temple
Social Conditions in 17c France
Opening Address at the Hampton Court Conference - King James I
Political Testament - Cardinal Richelieu
Edict Ordering the Demolition of the Feudal Castles in France
The Petition of Rights (England)
Protests of the House of Commons - documents showing the growth of Parliament's hatred for King Charles I, first complaining ag
Letters Patent Establishing the French Academy
First-Hand Military Accounts of the English Civil War
A Bust of Cardinal Richelieu - Gianlorenzo Bernini
The Elements of Law Natural and Politics by Thomas Hobbes
The Diggers Song - lyrics and downloadable sound file
England's Woes - lyrics of a ballad from the English Civil War
The Citizen by Thomas Hobbes - a discussion of the natural law foundations of government
Declaration to Justify Their Proceedings and Resolutions to Take Up Arms (Eng.)
England's Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance
The Execution of Charles I
Letters From a Parliamentarian Soldier (English Civil War)
The Solemn League and Covenant - allied the Scotch Presbyterians and the Puritans in their struggle against Charles I
- John Milton
The Battle of Marston Moor - letter by Oliver Cromwell
An Arrow Against All Tyrants - Richard Overton (Leveller)
The Execution of Charles I - in the newspaper, The
A Leveller Petition
Excerpts from the Code of Law (Ulozhenie) - Russia
Extracts From His Own Defense at His Trial for Treason - King Charles I of England
A Letter to Lord Halifax - Diggers pamphlet
Statement of the Levellers
Womens' Petition (London)
(chapters 13-14) - Thomas Hobbes
Instrument of Government
The Death of Oliver Cromwell - in the newspaper, The
Declaration of Breda
The Restoration of Charles II to the Throne of England
On the Financial Disorders in France - Colbert's
The Book of Common Prayer
- lyrics to a song satirizing Olive Cromwell
Syndics of the Cloth Guild - painting by Rembrandt van Rijn
Vive Le Roy - lyrics to a Royalist recruiting song
Letter to the Town Officers and People of Marseilles - Colbert
Memorandum on Trade - Jean-Baptiste Colbert
A Detailed Account of the Great Fire of London - in the newspaper, The London
Brief Observations Concerning Trade and Interest of Money - Josiah Childs
Toleration Act
Madame Savigne's Portrait of Louis XIV and His Court
Declaration of Indulgence
Habeas Corpus Act
Politics Drawn from the Very Words of Holy Scripture - Bishop Jacques-Benigne Bousset
Peter the Great and the Rise of Russia - several assorted documents
Laying the Seige to Vienna - John III Sobieski
The Secret History of the Reign of Jan Sobieski
The Treaty of Fontainebleau-Revocation of the Edict of Nantes
Declaration of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal - Parliament pledges its loyalty to William and Mary
Parliament Invites William of Orange to England
The English Bill of Rights 
The King's Oath - established the requirement that the monarch uphold the Protestant reformed religion
Toleration Act of William and Mary
The Re-Establishment of the Presbyterian Church in Scotland
Reverend Rowland Davies' (Cavalry Chaplain) Account of the Battle of the Boyne
On Social Order and Absolute Monarchy - Jean Domat
Proclamation on the Introduction of a New Calendar - Peter the Great
Silver Medal of Louis XIV
Portrait of Louis XIV - painting by Hyacinth Rigaud
The Dutchess of Orleans  Versailles Etiquette
The Act of Union
Peter the Great's Table of Ranks
Portrait of Louis XIV - Saint-Simon
A Description of the Empress Maria Theresa - Luise Gottsched
Essay on Forms of Government - Frederick II
Treaty of Paris (ended the French & Indian War)
Proposals for a New Law Code - Catherine the Great
A Description of the Daily Routine of Louis XIV - Saint-Simon
The Vanity of Louis XIV - Saint-Simon
Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow - Alexander Radishchev

Religious Wars

16c Daily Life
Diego Velázquez
Dutch Classicism  Amsterdam in the 17c
The Dutch Royal Family
Early Russian Tsars  1462-1725 - Genealogical Chart
The Hohenzollerns  Genealogical Chart (Brandenburg-Prussia)
The Huguenots
The Life and Times of William Shakespeare
Life in Elizabethan England
Map--Europe in 1560
Map-- Ireland 1500
Map--Religious and Political Divisions of France 1585-1598
Map Labeling Self-Quiz--The Religious Wars (Kagan text site)
The Religious Situation in Europe - map (1560)
The Revolt of the Spanish Netherlands
The Romanov Dynasty  Genealogical Chart (Russia)
The Spanish Armada (1)
The Spanish Armada (2)
The Spanish Succession  Genealogical Chart
The Thirty Years' War (1)
The Thirty Years' War (2)
The Thirty Years' War (3)
The Thirty Years' War (4)
The Thirty Years' War Outline Notes
Tudor England  1495-1603
Wars of Religion
Witchcraft Documents (including an excerpt from the
Four Witches - engraving by Albrecht Dürer
Queen Mary I's (Tudor) Will
Elizabeth I's Supremacy Act
Elizabeth I's Marriage Speech to Parliament
Pope Pius V's Bull Against Elizabeth I
The Thirty-Nine Articles
Treasons Act (Elizabeth I's reign)
The St. Bartholomew Day's Massacre
The Dutch Declaration of Independence
The Execution of Mary of Scotland - recorded by Robert Wynkfielde
Queen Elizabeth I's Letter to Mary of Scotland
Queen Elizabeth I's Letter to King James VI of Scotland
Spanish Armada Map
Queen I Speaks Out Against the Spanish Armada
Sir Francis Drake Vice-Admiral, and the Rear Admirals Hawkins and Frobisher versus the Spanish Armada - in the newspaper, The
Letters of Philip II of Spain  1592-1597
A Description of Elizabeth I & Her Court at Greenwich - Paul Hentzner in Journey
The Edict of Nantes
Act Against Papists (Elizabeth I's reign)
A Private Audience with Elizabeth I
A German Peasant Describes the Thirty Years' War
An Assembly of Witches - painting by Franz Francken
The Protestant Union
Court Records of a Witch Trial at Bamberg
Edict of Restitution
The Ecstasy of St. Theresa of Avila - sculpture by Gianlorenzo Bernini
The Treaty of Westphalia
The Tryal of Amy Duny - Witch

exploration

1492  An Ongoing Voyage
Should the Ming End the Treasure Ship Voyages
Admiral Zheng He's Fleet
The African Slave Trade (Spartacus Site)
The African Slave Trade and European Imperialism
Ancient Chinese Explorers  Zheng He (NOVA)
Cities of Gold - The Search for El Dorado (PBS series on The West)
Colonization & Print in the Americas
The Columbian Exchange - chart
Columbus & the Age of Discovery
Columbus and the Spanish Reconquista - 43 slide Powerpoint presentation
The Columbus Navigation Home Page
The Conquistadors (PBS)
Cultural Readings  Colonization and Print in the Americas
Discoverers Web
Dutch Classicism  Amsterdam in the 17c
The Dutch Royal Family
The Era of the Spanish Galleons
Explorers Web Site (massive links)
The French Monarchy  Genealogical Chart of the House of Valois
The Great Food Migration - Newsweek, 1991 (special issue)
The High Price of Sugar - Newsweek, 1991 (special issue)
The House of Castile-Genealogical (Spain)
Internet Modern History Sourcebook  The Early Modern West
John Harrison and the Longitude Problem
Latitude  The Art & Science of 15c Navigation
Letters of Philip II of Spain  1592-1597
Map--The African Diaspora
Map--The Americas Before Columbus 1450
Map--The Atlantic Slave Trade
Map--Audiencias of the Viceroyalty of New Spain 1650
Map--Audiencias of the Viceroyalty of Peru 1650
Map--The Dutch Empire and Trade Routes
Map--European Empires-1660
Map--European Trade Routes 14c-15c
Map--The First Voyage of Columbus
Map--Ming China 1368-1644
Map--Portuguese Empires in Asia 1600s
Map--Spanish & Portuguese Exploration, 1400-1600
Measles and Smallpox as an Allied Army of the Conquistadors of America
New Spain  The Frontiers of Faith
Pictorial Images of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
Plagues & Peoples  The Columbian Exchange - essay by Dr. Ian Carr
Primary Source Documents on The Age of European Discovery - huge list
Prince Henry, the Navigator
Should the Ming End the Treasure Ship Voyages - essay by Jean Johnson
Spanish Colonial Administration (web chart)
Spanish Exploration & the Conquest of Native America
The Spanish Habsburgs  Genealogical Chart 
The Spanish Succession  Genealogical Chart
Trade Products in Early Modern History
The Transformation of Europe in the 15c and Early 16c
Where Food Crops Origniated  Seeds of Change Garden
Zheng He's Ship v. Columbus' Santa Maria
15c Slave Trade-The Portuguese in West Africa
The Bull of Grenada issued by Innocent VII to Ferdinand and Isabella
Privileges and Prerogatives Granted by Their Catholic Majesties to Christopher Columbus
Columbus' Letter to the King and Queen of Spain
The Treaty of Tordesillas
Vasco da Gama Round Africa to India
The Requerimiento
Theodore De Bry's Copper Engravings
Various documents on the Conquest of Mexico by the Spanish
Venetian Portolan Chart of Greece and the Aegean area
Partial Draft of Antonio Montesinos’ Sermon
King Ferdinand's Letter to the Tainos
Laws of Burgos
An Aztec Account of the Spanish Conquest of America
Ferdinand Magellan's Voyage Round the World
Cortez' Second Letter to Charles V
Letters to the King of Portugal - Nzinga Mbemba (Afonso I)
Sublemus Dei
The New Laws of the Indies
Letter from India, to the Society of Jesus at Rome - St. Francis Xavier
Letter of a Seville Merchant to His Agent in Lima, Peru
Decades of the New World
Bartolome de Las Casas on the Five Kings of Hispaniola
In Defense of the Indians-The Sermon of Father Montesinos - Bartolome de Las Casas in his book, History of the Indies
various engravings of Theodor De Bry - click on each title midway down the page
On Cannibals - Michel de Montaigne
The Natural History and Moral of the Indians - José de Acosta (1)
Letter from a Basque Miner in Potosí to a Merchant in Seville
A Voyage into the Levant
The Black Legend - Bartolome de Las Casas
England's Treasure by Foreign Trade - Thomas Munn
The Repartimiento de Beinas  From Labor to Cash Demands
An Eyewitness Describes the Slave Trade in Guinea
The Geographer - painting by Johannes Vermeer

Reformation

The Anabaptists
The Baroque - massive links & pictures
Baroque Art Notes 
Italian Baroque Sculpture
Bloody Mary & the Counter-Reformation
A Brief History of the Inquisition
The Bourbons  A Genealogical Chart (France)
Catholics versus Huguenots Distinct Viewpoints of Religious Discord in France 1560-1572 - essay
Caravaggio
The Catholic Reformation
The Center for Reformation and Renaissance Studie
The Council of Trent - major documents
Discovery & Reformation
Early Russian Tsars  1462-1725 - Genealogical Chart
Edward IV (of England) -- Protestantism
El Greco
El Greco Paintings - a myriad of paintings for viewing
The French Monarchy  Genealogical Chart of the House of Valois
The Gunpowder Plot
The Gunpowder-Plot of 1605 The Trial of Guy Fawkes and Others
The Gutenberg Bible
History of Baroque Architecture
The Hohenzollerns  Genealogical Chart (Brandenburg-Prussia)
The House of Castile
The House of Aragon
Internet Modern History Sourcebook  The Early Modern West
Jesuits and the Sciences  1540-1619
John Calvin (biography)
John Knox (biography)
Laws in Ireland for the Suppression of Popery (Penal Laws)
The Life and Times of William Shakespeare
The Life & Times of Queen Elizabeth I
Luther and English Apocalypticism The Role of Luther in Three Seventeenth-Century Commentaries on the Book of Revelation - B
Lutheran Hymnal Songs
Map--Europe After the Peace of Augsburg
Map-- Ireland 1500
Map--The Reformation & Counter-Reformation
Map--Religious Differences in 16c Europe
Map Labeling Self-Quiz-The Reformation (Kagan text site)
The Medieval Synthesis Under Attack Savonarola and the Protestant Reformation - Lectures on Modern European Intellectual His
Martin Luther
People of Ideas  The Renaissance & Reformation
Printing  The Renaissance & Reformation
Political Movers and Shakers of the Renaissance and Reformation
Protestant England
Readings from the Protestant & Counter Reformations
The Reformation - general overview with a nice chart at the bottom comparing Protestant and Catholic beliefs
The Reformation Guide
Reformation Ink - classic Reformation documents
Reformation Picture Gallery (people)
The Religious Situation in Europe - map (1560)
The Romanov Dynasty  Genealogical Chart (Russia)
Selected Works of Martin Luther
The Six Wives of Henry VIII of England
The Society of Jesus
The Spanish Habsburgs  Genealogical Chart 
Suppression of the English Monasteries under Henry VIII
Tudor England  1495-1603
Tudor Geneaology Chart (England)
Tudor History
The Wars of Religion
Diabolical Seduction - A Witch on Trial
Witchcraft Documents (including an excerpt from the Malleus Maleficarum)
The Malleus Maleficarum
Letters of the Six Wives of Henry VIII
The Lyrics of Henry VIII - some examples of his poetry
95 Theses - Martin Luther
The Imperial Edict of Worms
Address to the Christian Nobility of the German Nation
Martin Luther's Definition of Faith
On Secular Authority - Martin Luther
The Twelve Articles
On the Bondage of Will - Martin Luther
Luther's Response to the Twelve Articles
Against the Murderous and Thieving Hordes of Peasants - Martin Luther
The Execution of Michael Sattler
A Might Fortress is Our God - hymn written by Martin Luther with actual music
The Augsburg Confession - Martin Luther (full text)
On Predestination - John Calvin
The Coronation of Anne Boleyn - recorded by Edward Hall
Letter of Thomas Cranmer on Henry VIII's Divorce
The Works of Elizabeth I
Act of Supremacy (Henry VIII of England)
The Last Letter of Sir Thomas More
Anne Boleyn's Speech at Her Execution
Draft of a Poor Law - England - William Marshall
Letter of Princess Mary to Her Father, King Henry VIII
- St. Ignatius Loyola
The Suppression of Glastonbury Abbey
Institutes of the Christian Religion
The Jews and Their Lives - Martin Luther
The Necessity of Reforming the Church
Decree on Justification (6th. Session) - Council of Trent
The Magdeburg Confession
Letter of Edward VI to His Sister Mary
Peace of Augsburg - select documents
Excerpts from the Index of Prohibited Books
Faith and Justification from The Christian Faith - Theodore Beza
The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women
Elizabeth I's Supremacy Act
Ecclesiastical Ordinances
History of the Reformation of Religion Within the Realm of Scotland (
first interview with Queen Mary - John Knox
Acts of the Council of Trent
The Harvesters - painting by Pieter Brueghel, the Elder
The Peasant Dance - painting by Pieter Brueghel, the Elder
The Thirty-Nine Articles
Treasons Act (Elizabeth I's reign)
The Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Day - by the historian De Thou (1553-1617)
Court Records of a Witch Trial at Bamberg
The English Book of Common Prayer
The Protestant Reformation
AP European History Web Links & Primary Source Documents Page
Reformation
CRRS Renaissance-Reformation web resources
Essays in History -- University of Virginia

Renaissance

The 15c and the Italian Renaissance
16c Northern Renaissance Art - massive links and pictures
16c Renaissance Art - massive links and pictures
16c Renaissance English Literature  1485-1603 (Luminarium site)
The Age of Charles V (1338-1380)
The Art of Invention  Leonardo & Renaissance Engineers
Art History on the Web  15c Renaissance Art - huge numbers of links
Boticelli, Sandro (Web Museum)
The Black Death Website (Discovery Online)
Breughel, Pieter the Elder (Web Museum)
The Byzantines in Renaissance Italy
Caravaggio (Web Museum)
The Center for Reformation and Renaissance Studies
Cervantes-Related Website on the Internet
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Dante in Print
The Decameron Web
Early Renaissance Art (Artcyclopedia) - large list of artists & their works
The Early Renaissance in Florence (National Gallery of Art)
Elizabeth I
Exploring Leonardo
Exploring the Sistine Chapel Ceiling
The Florence Art Guide  Index
Fra Angelico
Francesco Petrarch's Familial Letters
The French Monarchy  Genealogical Chart of the House of Valois
Giotto
High Renaissance Art (Artcyclopedia) - large list of artists & their works
The History of Renaissance Architecture - many photos
Humanism
The Influence of Islam on the Renaissance
Important Events of the 14c
Internet Modern History Sourcebook  The Early Modern West
Italian Renaissance Art Notes
Jacob Burkhardt's The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (entire text of the book)
Leonardo da Vinci  Man of Both Worlds
The Life and Times of William Shakespeare
Life in Elizabethan England
The Medici Family Tree
The Medieval Synthesis and the Discovery of Man The Renaissance - Lectures on Modern European Intellectual History
Machiavelli Online
Mannerism (Artcyclopedia) - large list of artists & their works
Map--European Trade Routes 14c-15c
Map--Muslim and Mongol Empires 1000-1500
Map--Renaissance Europe
Map--Renaissance Italy 1494
The Medici Archive Project
Neo-Platonism
Northern Renaissance Art (Artcyclopedia) - large list of artists & their works
Outline of the Literature of the Renaissance
Piero della Francesca (Web Museum)
People of Ideas  The Renaissance & Reformation
Political Movers and Shakers of the Renaissance and Reformation
Printing  The Renaissance & Reformation
The Renaissance - Professor Knox's site
The Renaissance  What Inspired This Age of Balance and Order (PBS-Annenberg Project)
Renaissance Art - a compendium of individual paintings-sculptures
Renaissance and Baroque Architecture
Renaissance Italian Sculpture
Renaissance Maps  1500-1700
Renaissance Paintings Gallery
Renaissance Sites
Renaissance Women Online
Rome Reborn The Vatican Library & Renaissance Culture
Selected Essays by Michel de Montaigne
Thomas More
The Thomas More Society
Titian
Tudor England 1495-1603
The Turks and the Rise of the Ottoman Empire
Virtual Renaissance  A Journey Through Time
Women Philosophers of the Renaissance
The Works of William Shakespeare (full texts of all plays!)
World Art Treasures
The Donation of Constantine
Oration on the Dignity of Man
Plague & Public Health in Renaissance Europe
Day 10 - Griselda story - Boccaccio's Decameron
The Plague Hits Florence - Boccaccio
The New Education - Petrus Paulus Vergarius
- Leonardo da Vinci
The Holy Trinity with the Virgin and St. John - painting by Masaccio
The Arnolfini Marriage - painting by Jan van Eyck
David - bronze sculpture by Donatello
The Dutchess of Urbino
The Duke of Urbino
portrait paintings by Piero della Francesca
 The Birth of Venus - painting by Sandro Boticelli
Bust of Lorenzo de Medici by Veroccio
Paternal Advice to a Cardinal - Lorenzo de' Medici
Lament on the Death of Lorenzo de' Medici - Angelo Poliziano
Compact between Spain and Portugal, signed by the Catholic Sovereigns at Madrid
The Last Supper - painting by Leonardo da Vinci
The Pietŕ - sculpture by Michelangelo
The School of Athens - painting by Raphael --
The Mona Lisa - painting by Leonardo da Vinci
The Small Cowper Madonna - painting by Raphael
David - sculpture by Michelangelo(1)
- Niccolo Machiavelli (full text)
The Sistine Chapel - frescoes by Michelangelo
Last Judgment
The Creation of Man
The Creation of the Heavens
- Desiderius Erasmus
The Handbook of the Courtier
Leonardo's Notes on the Cosmos
Sir Thomas More (full text)
Several of Michelangelo's Sonnets
Letter from Gargantua to his Son Pantagruel
Michelangelo - Giorgio Vasari
The First Set of English Madrigals
Of the good fortune which the valiant Don Quixote had in the Terrible and Undreamed-of Adventure of the Windmills, with Other
Fitly Recorded - from Cervantes' Don Quixote
Michelangelo