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162 sources across 81 topics.
Contemporary
Weimar and Nazi Germany, 1918–1939European
The Reichstag Fire Decree
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Hitler's Speech to the Reichstag Requesting the Enabling Act
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The Cold War, c1945–1991Global
The Truman Doctrine
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Khrushchev's Secret Speech
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Civil Rights in America, 1865–2009American
Martin Luther King Jr. β€” Letter from Birmingham Jail
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The Southern Manifesto
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The Road to War: International Relations, 1919–1939European
The Hossbach Memorandum
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Chamberlain on the Munich Agreement
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The American Dream: Reality and Illusion, 1945–1980American
Betty Friedan β€” The Feminine Mystique
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The Kitchen Debate: Nixon and Khrushchev
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The First World War, 1914–1918European
Siegfried Sassoon β€” A Soldier's Declaration
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Haig's Despatch on the Battle of the Somme
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Britain in the Second World War, 1939–1945British
Churchill β€” We Shall Fight on the Beaches
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Mass Observation β€” Blitz Diary, September 1940
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Post-War Britain, 1945–1979British
Aneurin Bevan on the National Health Service
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The Winter of Discontent β€” Trade Union Leader Jim Callaghan
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Decolonisation in Africa, 1945–1980Global
Kwame Nkrumah's Independence Speech, Ghana
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Harold Macmillan β€” Wind of Change Speech
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The HolocaustEuropean
Minutes of the Wannsee Conference
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Testimony of Rudolf HΓΆss at the Nuremberg Trials
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The Vietnam WarAmerican
President Johnson's Address to Congress on the Gulf of Tonkin
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John Kerry's Testimony to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
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The Chinese Communist RevolutionGlobal
Mao Zedong: Proclamation of the People's Republic of China
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General George Marshall's Report on the Chinese Civil War
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Apartheid in South AfricaGlobal
Nelson Mandela's Statement from the Dock at the Rivonia Trial
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Hendrik Verwoerd Defends Apartheid Before the Senate
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The Troubles in Northern IrelandBritish
The Widgery Report on Bloody Sunday
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The Good Friday Agreement
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Thatcherism and the New RightBritish
Margaret Thatcher: 'The Lady's Not for Turning'
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Arthur Scargill's Address to the NUM Conference
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The Welfare State and Attlee's BritainBritish
The Beveridge Report: Social Insurance and Allied Services
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Churchill's 1945 Election Broadcast: the 'Gestapo' Speech
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The Rise of Fascism in EuropeEuropean
Mussolini: The Doctrine of Fascism
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Mussolini's Speech Following the March on Rome
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The Fall of the Soviet UnionEuropean
Gorbachev's Resignation Address
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Boris Yeltsin's Statement During the August Coup
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The Iranian RevolutionGlobal
Ayatollah Khomeini's Address on Returning to Iran
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President Jimmy Carter's Toast to the Shah of Iran
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The Korean WarGlobal
President Truman's Statement on the Korean Crisis
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General MacArthur's Letter to Congressman Joseph Martin
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The Israeli-Palestinian ConflictGlobal
The Balfour Declaration
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Yasser Arafat's Address to the United Nations General Assembly
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The Rwandan GenocideGlobal
General Dallaire's 'Genocide Fax' to UN Headquarters
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Radio Milles Collines: Broadcast Transcripts, April 1994
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The Cold War in AsiaGlobal
Ho Chi Minh's Declaration of Independence of Vietnam
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President Eisenhower's Domino Theory Press Conference
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The Partition of IndiaGlobal
Jawaharlal Nehru: 'Tryst with Destiny'
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Muhammad Ali Jinnah's Address to Pakistan's Constituent Assembly
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Modern
Tsarist and Communist Russia, 1855–1964European
The October Manifesto
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Lenin's April Theses
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Industrialisation and the People: Britain, c1783–1885British
Testimony to the Sadler Committee on Child Labour
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Friedrich Engels on the Condition of the Working Class
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Challenge and Transformation: Britain, c1851–1964British
The People's Charter
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Emmeline Pankhurst's 'Freedom or Death' Speech
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The British Empire, c1857–1967Global
Lord Lugard on the Dual Mandate
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Gandhi's Letter to the Viceroy Before the Salt March
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The Making of a Superpower: USA, 1865–1975American
The Monroe Doctrine
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Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points
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The Quest for Political Stability: Germany, 1871–1991European
Bismarck's 'Blood and Iron' Speech
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The Wannsee Conference Protocol
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The Birth of the USA, 1760–1801American
The Declaration of Independence
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Alexander Hamilton β€” Federalist No. 1
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The French Revolution, 1789–1799European
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
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Robespierre on the Principles of Political Morality
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The American Civil War, 1861–1865American
Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
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Alexander Stephens β€” The Cornerstone Speech
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The Indian Rebellion, 1857Global
Queen Victoria's Proclamation to the Princes and People of India
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Seer-i-Kothi β€” An Indian Account of the Rebellion
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Women's Suffrage in BritainBritish
Emmeline Pankhurst: 'Freedom or Death'
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Herbert Asquith's Statement on Women's Suffrage
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The Scramble for AfricaGlobal
Cecil Rhodes: Confession of Faith
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Chief Lobengula's Letter to Queen Victoria
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Reconstruction and Jim CrowAmerican
Frederick Douglass: 'What the Black Man Wants'
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Justice Henry Brown: Majority Opinion in Plessy v. Ferguson
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Ireland under British RuleBritish
Charles Trevelyan on the Irish Famine
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The Proclamation of the Irish Republic, Easter 1916
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The Meiji RestorationGlobal
The Charter Oath of the Emperor Meiji
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Fukuzawa Yukichi: An Encouragement of Learning
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The British Raj and Indian NationalismGlobal
Macaulay's Minute on Indian Education
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Gandhi's Quit India Speech
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The Boer WarGlobal
Emily Hobhouse's Report on the Concentration Camps
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Lord Kitchener's Despatch Defending the Camp Policy
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The Unification of ItalyEuropean
Giuseppe Mazzini: The Duties of Man
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Garibaldi's Proclamation to the People of Sicily
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The Gilded Age and American CapitalismAmerican
Andrew Carnegie: The Gospel of Wealth
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Jacob Riis: How the Other Half Lives
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Bismarck and German UnificationEuropean
Bismarck's 'Blood and Iron' Speech
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The Ems Dispatch
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The Haitian RevolutionGlobal
Toussaint L'Ouverture's Constitution of Saint-Domingue
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Jean-Jacques Dessalines: Haitian Declaration of Independence
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The Decline of the Ottoman EmpireGlobal
The Tanzimat Edict: Hatt-i Sharif of Gulhane
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Mustafa Kemal's Speech Proclaiming the Turkish Republic
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The American Suffrage MovementAmerican
Elizabeth Cady Stanton: The Declaration of Sentiments
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President Woodrow Wilson's Address to the Senate on Women's Suffrage
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The Congress of Vienna and European OrderEuropean
Prince Metternich: The Confession of Faith
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The Final Act of the Congress of Vienna
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The Russian RevolutionEuropean
Tsar Nicholas II's Abdication Manifesto
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Lenin's Decree on Peace
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Early Modern
The Tudors: England, 1485–1603British
The Act of Supremacy
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Elizabeth I's Speech to the Troops at Tilbury
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Stuart Britain and the Crisis of Monarchy, 1603–1702British
Charles I at His Trial β€” Refusal to Plead
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The Bill of Rights
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Spain in the Age of Discovery, 1469–1598European
Columbus's Letter Describing the First Voyage
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Las Casas on the Treatment of Indigenous People
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Russia in the Age of Absolutism and Enlightenment, 1682–1796European
Peter the Great's Table of Ranks
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Catherine the Great's Instruction to the Legislative Commission
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The Reformation in Europe, c1500–1564European
Martin Luther β€” Address to the Christian Nobility of the German Nation
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John Calvin on Predestination
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Religious Conflict and the Church in England, c1529–c1570British
The Six Articles
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Hugh Latimer at the Stake
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The English Revolution, 1625–1660British
The Agreement of the People
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Cromwell Dissolves the Rump Parliament
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The Spanish Conquest of Mexico, 1519–1521American
HernΓ‘n CortΓ©s β€” Second Letter to Charles V
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The Aztec Account of the Spanish Arrival β€” Florentine Codex
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The Salem Witch Trials, 1692Americas
Cotton Mather β€” Wonders of the Invisible World
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Thomas Brattle's Letter Against the Trials
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The Ottoman Empire, 1453–1683Global
Kritoboulos on the Fall of Constantinople, 1453
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Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq on Suleiman's Army
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The Transatlantic Slave Trade, c1500–1807Global
Olaudah Equiano β€” The Interesting Narrative
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Evidence to Parliament from a Slave Ship Surgeon
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The Mughal EmpireGlobal
Abu'l-Fazl on Akbar's Policy of Universal Tolerance
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Aurangzeb's Letter Justifying the Reimposition of the Jizya
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Colonial AmericaAmerican
John Winthrop: A Model of Christian Charity
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Benjamin Franklin's Testimony Before the House of Commons on the Stamp Act
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The Thirty Years WarEuropean
The Peace of Westphalia: On the Liberty of Religious Practice
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Hans Heberle's Chronicle: The Sack of Magdeburg
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The Aztec EmpireGlobal
The Founding of Tenochtitlan β€” The Mexica Origin Account
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The Codex Mendoza: Aztec Tribute Lists
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The Glorious RevolutionBritish
William of Orange's Declaration of Reasons
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The Bill of Rights
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Louis XIV and Absolute MonarchyEuropean
Louis XIV: Memoirs for the Instruction of the Dauphin
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The Duke of Saint-Simon on Life at Versailles
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The English Civil WarBritish
Charles I's Speech at His Trial
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Oliver Cromwell's Speech Dissolving the Rump Parliament
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The Ming DynastyGlobal
Zheng He's Changle Inscription
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The Hongwu Emperor's Proclamation Founding the Ming Dynasty
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The Scientific RevolutionEuropean
Galileo's Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina
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Francis Bacon: The Novum Organum
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The Age of Exploration: PortugalGlobal
Vasco da Gama's Fleet Journal: Arrival in Calicut
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Gomes Eanes de Zurara: Chronicle of Guinea
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Medieval
The Age of the Crusades, c1071–1204European
Pope Urban II's Speech at Clermont
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Ibn al-Athir on the Fall of Jerusalem to Saladin
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Royal Authority and the Angevin Kings, 1154–1216British
Magna Carta β€” Selected Clauses
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The Constitutions of Clarendon
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The Wars of the Roses, 1450–1499British
John Paston III on the Siege of Caister Castle
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Richard III's Proclamation Against Henry Tudor
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The Black Death in Europe, c1347–1353European
Boccaccio on the Plague in Florence
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Henry Knighton on the Aftermath of the Plague in England
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The Mongol Empire, 1206–1368Global
The Secret History of the Mongols β€” Genghis Khan's Rise
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John of Plano Carpini at the Court of the Great Khan
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The Mali Empire, c1235–1600Global
Ibn Battuta on the Court of Mali
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Al-Umari on Mansa Musa's Pilgrimage to Mecca
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The Norman ConquestBritish
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle on the Battle of Hastings
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The Domesday Book: Survey of Cambridgeshire
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The Byzantine EmpireEuropean
Procopius: The Secret History
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Anna Komnene: The Alexiad β€” On the Crusaders
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The Hundred Years WarEuropean
Jean Froissart: Chronicles β€” The Battle of CrΓ©cy
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Joan of Arc's Letter to the English
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20th Century
The New Deal and the Great DepressionAmericas
Franklin D. Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address
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Herbert Hoover Defends Voluntarism Against Federal Relief
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Cold War
Watergate and the Crisis of American DemocracyAmericas
The White House Tape: Nixon and Haldeman's Cover-Up Conversation
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Nixon's Resignation Address to the Nation
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