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Internet History Sourcebooks

This is the modern history sourcebook. Just as good as the medieval and ancient, it's a must for anyone researching the modern period. Excellent collection and wonderfully organised.

"The Internet Modern History Sourcebook now contains thousands of sources and the previous index pages were so large that they were crashing many browsers."

The king (or queen!) of primary source sites on the middle ages. These sourcebooks are the best sites I've found for primary documents.

Has links to different sections of the excellent Sourcebooks project run by Paul Halsall at Fordham.

Another brilliantly organised collection from the History Sourcebooks.

How good are the History Sourcebooks? Mr Paul Halsall, you are a legend. Here is another fine offering.

Another one of the excellent history sourcebooks. Contains an extensive collection of Asian sources.

Report of Mission to Constantinople

good source for medieval primary sources

Gotta love the Sourcebooks!

I'm still looking for quality source sites relating to indigenous history and although this site is still under construction it looks like it will be a valuable contribution. Blessed be Paul Halsall and his History Sourcebooks project, the bane of textbook tyranny everywhere!

"Tuesday, February 22. The journals of the opposition appeared with the notice, in large letters, at the head of their papers, that the banquet was given up, and an appeal to the population of Paris to keep order, formed a very prominent part of the announcement. The Left were evidently alarmed, while ministers were confident and their journals sang a triumphant song of victory"

I'm teaching historiography at the moment to my students. Yet again the Sourcebooks come to the rescue. Where would we be without them?

Another of the excellent sourcebooks run by those Jesuits at Fordham Uni. This is the best online primary source research for the ancient world I've found.

A very interesting arrangement - a Science Sourcebook which goes back to ancient Egypt & Greece and includes China & India. How Enlightened!

Gotta love these Sourcebooks. Wonder when they'll do an Australian one...?

Robespierre's discussion on the use of Terror in the French Revolution. Gives a little background, then parts of his speech

"Amerigo Vespucci (1452-1512): Account of His First Voyage, 1497 Amerigo Vespucci (born in Florence in 1452), whose name was given to the American continents by Waldsmuller in 1507, worked in Seville (where he died) in the business house which fitted out Columbus' second expedition. Here he gives an account of the first of his own four voyages. If his claims are accurate he reached the mainland of the Americas shortly before Cabot, and at least 14 months before Columbus. Letter of Amerigo Vespucci To Pier Soderini, Gonfalonier of the Republic of Florence"

"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