This sites provides a copy of the complete text of Ronald Reagan's Evil Empire Speech, June 8, 1982.

This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book The Boy Travellers in the Russian Empire by Thomas W. Knox (1886). It is an illustrated novel relating the adventures of two youths in a journey in European and...

The full text of President Ronald Reagan's "Evil Empire" speech delivered in Orlando, Florida, which stated U.S. policy vis-a-vis the Soviet Union during its last years.

This is the text and audio of William Jennings Bryan's speech "Imperialism" (Flag of an Empire) delivered on August 8, 1900, in Indianapolis, Indiana.

A collection of primary resources, timeline, questions for discussion, and links to supplementary materials on America's westward expansion and the response to shifting roles and policies at home and abroad.

The complete text of "The Discovery of the Large, Rich, and Beautiful Empire of Guiana" by William Penn.

This Fordham University site offers a primary source from a British Captain stating the argument for British imperialism of East Africa.

A collection of primary source materials linked to a map that showcase the state of the Russian Empire in the 1800s. Click on any numbered circle and a popup appears showing one or more thumbnails of cards that highlight the unique...

This website contains links to the following Ronald Reagan speeches: Inaugural Addresses, State of the Union Addresses, The 1964 Speech, The Challenger Disaster Speech, The Evil Empire Speech, Pointe de Hoc Normandy, Speech at Omaha...

This is an online photocopy of the original of the children's book Royal Geographical Readers by Thomas Nelson and Sons (1884), a collection of maps and information for the countries in the British Empire.

This is the text, audio, and video [30:05] of President Reagan's speech " Evil Empires" at the Annual Convention of the National Association of Evangelicals on March 8, 1983, in Orlando, Florida.

Text of speech by George Hoar denouncing U.S. involvement in the Philippines.

This is the manifesto that gives Gambetta's reply to the electors demands and his opposition to the Second Empire.

John Adams' response in this critical essay to the definition of the "British Empire", not an empire as other European monarchies, but a republic by constitution. Link to "Massachusettensis" for a Biography of Daniel Leonard.

Clayton M. Hall's 1923 translation of a very detailed biography of Augustus by Nicolaus of Damascus.

Fordham University provides this site with a letter from Sir Robert Clive discussing the Battle of Plassey. Primary source document from the Modern History Sourcebook.

Read a letter written to a lord in 1697 discussing the state of trade with the East, India's riches, and the impact of trade upon the West.

Here are hundreds of excerpts from Gibbon's famous history of Rome, chosen "because of the literary wit and beauty that they contain."

This online catalog offers thousands of primary source photographs and prints from around the world.

Fordham's Medieval Sourcebook contains the text of a decree providing minting rights and protection, issued by Holy Roman Emperor Otto I to the merchants of Bremen, 965 A.D..

Click here to read excerpts from the "Alexiad", a historical account written by the daughter of Byzantine Emperor Alexius I, that chronicles the arrival of the first Crusaders.

On this website from the Texas State Library you can read about an early attempt by Americans, led by James Long, to establish a "Republic of Texas." Click on the document to see an enlargement of the list of men captured by the Mexican...

A reprinting of the Constitution of the Mexican United States written in 1824 following the overthrow of the Mexican Empire of Agustin de Iturbide in the Mexican War of Independence.

Around the time of WWI, the KKK made a big comeback, and in the 1920s, around 150,000 Texans were part of the Klan's "invisible empire." Read about the rise and fall of the KKK in Texas, and see the front cover of a KKK pamphlet.