World History from 1500 to the Present
European Exploration and Colonization
Columbus’ letter to the King and Queen of Spain, 1494
Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico
Hernan Cortes: From Second Letter to the Emperor Charles V, 1520
Sir Walter Raleigh (1554-1618): The Discovery of Guiana, 1595
Magellan’s Voyage Round the World, 1519-1522 CE
The Reformation and Wars of Religion
Letter of Thomas Cranmer, on Henry VIII’s Divorce
Map showing religious division in Europe
Witchcraft Documents [15th Century]
Early Modern Europe
The First English Coffee-Houses, c. 1670-1675
Bossuet: Politics Derived from Holy Writ
The Islamic Empires
A Visit to the Wife of Suleiman the Magnificent (Translated from a Genoese Letter), c. 1550
Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq: The Turkish Letters, 1555-1562
The Status of Jews and Christians in Muslim Lands, 1772 CE
East Asia in the 16th through 18th Centuries
The Enlightenment
U.S. Declaration of Independence (1776)
French Declaration of Rights (1789)
Hume- An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
Voltaire- The Philosophical Dictionary
The Scientific Revolution
The Age of Conservatism
Metternich, political confession of faith
The Age of Revolution
Marx & Engles- communist manifesto
The Industrial Revolution
Report of the Sadler Committee
Nationalism
Mazzini- Essay on the Duties of Man
The Western Hemisphere in the 19th Century
Imperialism
The Earl of Cromer: Why Britain Acquired Egypt in 1882, 1908
England, India, and The East Indies, 1617 A.D.
Asia in the 19th Century
Lin Cixu- Letter to Victoria, 1839
Birth of the Modern
The Young Turks: Proclamation for the Ottoman Empire, 1908
The Great War
Anglo-French Joint Statement of Aims in Syria and Mesopotamia – World War I Document Archive
China and Japan in the early 20th Century
The Rise of Totalitarianism
V.I. Lenin- state and revolution
Stalin, Industrialization of the Country, 1928
World War II
The Cold War
The Post War West
Asia since 1945
Africa since 1945
The Middle East since 1945
The Eisenhower Doctrine, A Message to Congress, January 5, 1957