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Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: John Cabot: Voyage to North America, 1497
Letters from Cabot to different people in his life that explain his exploration and his discoveries.
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Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: Sir Francis Drake's Famous Voyage 1580
Fordham University provides this primary source document that was written by Sir Francis Drake's Gentlemen at Arms, Francis Pretty. It is his personal records of the voyage Drake took around the world in 1577, which began in the South...
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Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: Revocation of the Edict of Nantes
Full text of the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes.
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Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: The People's Petition
Fordham University provides the text of a British petition given to the Parliament asking that radical reforms be made.
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Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: Documents of Italian Unification
This site, which is provided for by the Fordham University, contains excerpts from some of the original documents formalizing Italian Unification.
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Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: Joseph Lister Antiseptic Principle
Mostly told in first person, this site from the Fordham University gives an account of Joseph Lister's work on the principle of the practice of antiseptic surgery and a brief overview of his contributions to science and medicine. A very...
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Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: Leon Gambetta: The Belleville Manifesto
This is the manifesto that gives Gambetta's reply to the electors demands and his opposition to the Second Empire.
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Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: Albert Beveridge
This site from the Fordham University provides the text of 1898 campaign speech of Senator Albert Breveridge expressing his support of U.S. imperialism.
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Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: An Aztec Account of the Spanish Conquest
Fordham University provides an excerpt of an Aztec account of the initial encounter of Montezuma and the Spanish conquistador Hernando Cortes, as published by noted anthropologist Miguel Leon-Portilla. The meeting-turned-massacre,...
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Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: Fidel Castro
This site contains the text of Castro's speech "On the Export of Revolution." Castro talks about what he believes the Cuban revolution has taught the world.
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Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: French Revolution
This Fordham University site provides links to various documents that pertain to the French Revolution. (Note: a lot of the content is in French.)
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Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: Romanticism
This site from the Internet Modern History Sourcebook provides great information on the Renaissance. No text on this page, but a series of links from roots of Romanticism, to Romantic philosophy, to Romanticism in the Arts.
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Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: Fascism in Europe
This site from the Modern History Sourcebook of Fordham University provides links to many scholarly articles on elements of fascism and on how fascism has been manifested in Italy, Spain and other countries.
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Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: Benito Mussolini What Is Fascism
This site from the Modern History Sourcebook of Fordham University provides the text of Mussolini's definition of fascism which he wrote for the Italian Encyclopedia.
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Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: Education in Japan 1860
Fordham University gives a short selection from Francis O. Adams' account of Japanese schools in 1860.
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Fordham University: Medieval Sourcebook: History of Florence
This site from the Fordham University provides a text by Niccolo Machiavelli about the history of Florence and Lorenzo de'Medici. It contains a biography about the great Florentine and how his life influenced the great Renaissance city.
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Fordham University: Medieval Sourcebook: Edicts Against Christians
This site from the Fordham University provides some primary source documents on Emperor Diocletian. Great information, and it shows the level of persecution against the Christians in ancient Rome.
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Fordham University: Medieval Sourcebook: Al Farabi,avincenna, Averroe
This is an essay on the role of philosophy in Islam according to Al-Farabi, Avicenna, and Averroes, who are Islamic philosophers and writers from the Middle Ages.
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Fordham University: Ancient History Sourcebook: Juvenal: Satire Vi
The text of Juvenal's Satire VI.
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Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: Dutch Declaration of Independence, 1581
This site from Fordham University provides the first Declaration in modern times which Jefferson read and used as a model for writing the Declaration of Independence - the Dutch Revolution encouraged the Continental Congress to act. Read...
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Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: Joseph Stalin
This site from the Fordham University gives the original text of a reply from Stalin to Churchill in 1946. This text deals with England's view of communism in Europe.
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Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: Mario Savio
This site from the Fordham University offers bio and obituary of Mario Savio, 1960's leader of the Free Speech movement.
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Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: Viet Cong Program, 1962
This site from Fordham University's Modern History Sourcebook provides the Viet Cong Party Program from 1962. Includes a list of ten goals that are to be accomplished by the people's revolutionary party of Vietnam.
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Fordham University: Medieval Sourcebook: Life of Leonardo Da Vinci by Giorgio Vasari
An exerpt from "Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects," which was written in 1550 by Giorgio Vasari, Leonardo da Vinci's first biographer.