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Internet History Sourcebooks Project

Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: Thomas Carlyle on Sir Walter Scott

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from Fordham University provides Thomas Carlyle's (1795-1881 CE) comments on Walter Scott (1771-1832 CE). This site includes biographical information.
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University of California

The History Project: South African Diamond Mines, 1870s

For Students 9th - 10th
The Dutch East India Company established a colony at the Cape of Good Hope in 1652 and administered it until 1795 when it fell into British hands. The British returned Cape Colony to the Company for a three-year period before finally...
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Victorian Web

The Victorian Web: Thomas Carlyle

For Students 9th - 10th
This Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) portal gives access to biographical information about this Victorian social and polticial historian's life and work, such as his importan history of the French Revolution.