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Library of Congress source on India. Clear table of contents, covers all of Indian history along with specific sections on Economic, Geography, Religion, Language, Society, Government and Foreign Relations.

Pakistan's highest court escalated its clash with the government on Monday by initiating contempt of court proceedings against Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani for failing to pursue corruption charges against his boss, President Asif Ali Zardari.

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"A Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico In 1519 Hernan Cortés sailed from Cuba, landed in Mexico and made his way to the Aztec capital. Miguel Leon­Portilla, a Mexican anthropologist, gathered accounts by the Aztecs, some of which were written shortly after the conquest. Speeches of Motecuhzoma and Cortés When Motecuhzoma [Montezuma] had given necklaces to each one, Cortés asked him: "Are you Motecuhzoma? Are you the king? Is it true that you are the king Motecuhzoma?" And the king said: "Yes, I am Motecuhzoma." Then he stood up to welcome Cortés; he came forward, bowed his head low and addressed him in these words: "Our lord, you are weary. The journey has tired you, but now you have arrived on the earth. You have come to your city, Mexico. You have come here to sit on your throne, to sit under its canopy. "The kings who have gone before, your representatives, guarded it and preserved it for your coming. The kings Itzcoatl, Motecuhzoma the Elder, Axayacatl, Tizoc and Ahuitzol ruled for you in the City of Mexico. The people were protected by their swords and sheltered by their shields. "Do the kings know the destiny of those they left behind, their posterity? If only they are watching! If only they can see what I see! "No, it is not a dream. I am not walking in my sleep. I am not seeing you in my dreams.... I have seen you at last! I have met you face to face! I was in agony for five days, for ten days, with my eyes fixed on the Region of the Mystery. And now you have come out of the clouds and mists to sit on your throne again. "This was foretold by the kings who governed your city, and now it has taken place. You have come back to us; you have come down from the sky. Rest now, and take possession of your royal houses. Welcome to your land, my lords! " When Motecuhzoma had finished, La Malinche translated his address into Spanish so that the Captain could understand it. Cortés replied in his str

The Israeli government will remove references to what Palestinians call the "catastrophe" of Israel's creation from textbooks for Arab schoolchildren, the education minister said Wednesday.

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Good site to see where the candidates stand.

a map-collection of great archeological sites in France. Interactive. Published by french government

A large bank of sites with sources and resources for history research.

"The LBC/IRN Audio Archive, (London Broadcasting Company / Independent Radio News audio archive) consists of 7,000 reel-to-reel tapes in a collection that runs from 1973 to the mid-1990s. It is the most important commercial radio archive in the UK and provides a unique audio history of the period. This digitised collection focuses on the most noteworthy content - approximately 3,000 hours of recordings relating to news and current affairs. The digitised archive contains invaluable recordings of a wide range of broadcasts including coverage of the Falklands war, the miners' strike, Northern Ireland, the whole of the Thatcher period of government and recordings of the first hour of UK commercial radio including the first commercial radio news bulletin."

You can only listen if you are part of a tertiary institution which has a paid subscription through the Athens ID system (v. annoying!) however you're able to read the transcripts for free.

Learn about Native American history on the Internet. Discover Native American history including influences, culture and customs of various Indian tribes. Links to government & legal documents, and exhibits & collections.

Primary source material-such as journals, speeches, letters, contemporary news reports, government documents, photographs, artifacts and maps-is an invaluable resource in understanding history. Primary sources provide a window into the past-unfiltered access to the record of artistic, social, scientific and political...

History, government, Civicc, etc. teachers come and join the newly developed Ning for Social Studies teachers.

The Project supports the full and prompt release of historical materials by governments on all sides of the Cold War, and seeks to accelerate the process of integrating new sources, materials and perspectives from the former "Communist bloc" with the historiography of the Cold War which has been written over the past few decades largely by Western scholars reliant on Western archival sources. It also seeks to transcend barriers of language, geography, and regional specialization to create new links among scholars interested in Cold War history.

simulation of budgeting process to understand government and history

O texto abaixo foi escrito pelo líder vietcong Ho Chi Minh que liderou o exército comunista contra os Estados Unidos na guerra do Vietnã. A preocupação e o ativismo de Lênin na luta contra o imperialismo fez com que Ho Chi Minh aceitasse a teoria leninista como política de governo. The following was written by the Viet Cong leader Ho Chi Minh Communist who led the army against the United States in the Vietnam War. The concern and activism of Lenin in the struggle against imperialism has made Ho Chi Minh to accept the Leninist theory as government policy.

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An excellent site for primary sources on United States history. Run by those lovely people at the US National Archives.

A great find! Well-organised collection of official and primary source documents related to the USA, Canada, Europe and the United Nations.

"Confucius (551-479 BCE), according to Chinese tradition, was a thinker, political figure, educator, and founder of the Ru School of Chinese thought. His teachings, preserved in the Lunyu or Analects, form the foundation of much of subsequent Chinese speculation on the education and comportment of the ideal man, how such an individual should live his live and interact with others, and the forms of society and government in which he should participate. Fung Yu-lan, one of the great 20th century authorities on the history of Chinese thought, compares Confucius' influence in Chinese history with that of Socrates in the West."