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Desiderata

The following are public domain texts which I am keen to add to the Modern History Sourcebook. If you are willing to scan such texts please contact me at halsall@fordham.edu. Note, you can use modern reprintings of such texts as a basis for scanning, but not modern editions.

• Walter Bagehot  (1826-1877): The English Constitution
• John Reed (d. 1920): Ten Days that Shook the World, 1920

March 1999

February 1999

January 1999

• Andrea Alciato: Book of Emblems: The Memorial Web Edition in Latin and English [At MUN][Added 1/30/1999]
• John Bradford: Of Plymouth Plantation, full text. [At AOL][Added 1/30/1999]
• Thorstein Veblen: Conspicuous Consumption, 1902 [At this Site][Added 1/30/1999]
• WEB Letters and Dispatches of Horotio Nelson [At wtj.com][Added 1/30/1999]
• WEB Views of the Famine in Ireland [At Vassar][Added 1/30/1999]
• Walt Whitman: Song of Myself [At this Site][Added 1/30/1999]
• Mark Twain: An American's View of Europe from Innocents Abroad, 1869, [At this Site][Added 1/30/1999]
• Mark Twain: Concerning The Jews, Harper's Magazine, March, 1898  [At this Site][Added 1/30/1999]
• Jacob Thorkelson: Smearing Jews in Congress, 1939 [At this Site][Added 1/30/1999]
• The Jewish Chronicle: Outrages Upon Jews in Russia, May 6, 1881
• Selections from Der Stuermer [At this Site][Added 1/30/1999]
• Rosa Luxemburg: "The War and the Workers"-- The Junius Pamphlet, 1916 [At this Site][Added 1/30/1999]
• United States: The Espionage Act, May 16, 1918 [At this Site][Added 1/30/1999]
• Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881-1932): Speech, at the National Convention of the People's Party of the Republic, in Ankara between 15- 20 October, 1927. [At ataturk.turkiye.com][Added 1/30/1999]
• Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881-1932): Address to Turkish Youth [At www.ataturk.com][Added 1/30/1999]
• John F. Kennedy: The Space Challenge, Sept 13, 1962 [At this Site][Added 1/30/1999]
• Oswald Spengler: The Decline of The West, 1922 [At this Site][Added 1/30/1999]
• James Joyce: Finnegan's Wake, Full Text, [At Trent][Added 1/30/1999]
  The link is to an FTP directory. Chose either "ascii" or "wp" paths to access the texts.
• D.H. Lawrence: Lady Chatterley's Lover, full text [At Bibliomania][Added 1/30/1999]
• Charles Darwin: The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, full text, Project Gutenberg Release 1227, [At CMU][Added 1/30/1999]
• Sigmund Freud: Civilization & Die Weltanschauung, 1918 [At this Site][Added 1/30/1999]
• Friedrich Nietzsche: Thus Spake Zarathustra, 1891 [Full text][At this Site][Added 1/30/1999]
• Friedrich Nietzsche: The AntiChrist, 1895 [At Macromind][Added 1/30/1999]
• Cardinal Robert Bellarmine (1542-1621): Letter on Galileo's Theories, 1615 [At this Site][Added 1/30/1999]
• Accounts of the "Potato Revolution" 1695 - 1845 [At this Site][Added 1/30/1999]
• Jean-Marie Roland de la Platière: The State of the French Economy, 1789 [At this Site][Added 1/30/1999]
• Thomas Mun: England's Treasure By Forraign Trade, excerpts, 1664 [At this Site][Added 1/30/1999]
• Adam Smith: The Principle of the Mercantile System, 1776, from Wealth of Nations. [At this Site][Added 1/30/1999]
• Adam Smith: The Wealth of Nations, 1776, an epitome, [At this Site][Added 1/30/1999]
• Francois Rabelais: Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and Pantagruel, Project Gutenberg Text 1200, full text.[At CMU][Added 1/30/1999]
• The Life of Thomas Gent, Printer of York, 1693-1778 [At eclipse.co.ik][Added 1/30/1999]
• WEB Renaissance Electronic Texts [At Toronto][Added 1/30/1999]
  A series of old-spelling, SGML-encoded editions of early individual copies of English Renaissance books and manuscripts,and of plain transcriptions of such works.
• WEB Suffragists Oral History Project [At Berkeley][Added 1/30/1999]
• Jane Addams: Why Women Should Vote, 1915 [At this Site][Added 1/30/1999]
• David Ricardo: The Principles of Political Economy, 1817, an epitome [At this Site][Added 1/30/1999]
• Henry David Thoreau: Civil Disobedience, excerpts,1846 [At this Site][Added 1/30/1999]
• Winston S. Churchill: The Battle of Omdurman, 1898 [At this Site][Added 1/30/1999]
• John Stuart Mill: On Colonies and Colonization, 1848 [At this Site][Added 1/30/1999]
• W.T. Stead: "Europa", 1899 [At this Site][Added 1/30/1999]
• Luise Gottsched: Description of the Empress Maria Theresa, 1749 [At this Site][Added 1/30/1999]
• Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762): Prose and Poetry of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, full text, [At UVA][Added 1/30/1999]
• John Jacques Rousseau: Emile, ou l'education, full text, in French and English [At Columbia ILT][Added 1/30/1999]
• James Boswell: Life of Samuel Johnson, full text [At UPenn][Added 1/30/1999]
• WEB Mary's Groovy Grotto [Added 1/30/1999]
  On the sitcom, the Mary Tyler Moore Show
• Lou Gehrig: Farewell to Baseball, July 4, 1939 [At this Site][Added 1/30/1999]
• Westminster Shorter Catechism [At Bibleclass.com][Added 1/30/1999]
• Westminster Confession of Faith 1646 [At Bibleclass.com][Added 1/30/1999]
• John Wesley: Sermons [At Bibleclass.com][Added 1/30/1999]
• John Bunyan: The Holy War, full text [At Bibleclass.com][Added 1/30/1999]
• The Baptist Confession Of Faith 1689 [At Bibleclass.com][Added 1/30/1999]
• 2ND Tulip-- The Five Points of Calvinism [At Bibleclass.com][Added 1/30/1999]
• Canons of Dort, Synod of Dordrecht, November 13, 1618 - May 9, 1619 [At Bibleclass.com][Added 1/30/1999]
• William Guthrie: The Christian's Great Interest, full text, 1668 [At Bibleclass.com][Added 1/30/1999]
• Richard Hooker (1554?-1600): Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, very extensive selections, 1593 [At ViaMedia][Added 1/30/1999]
• Richard Hooker (1554?-1600): A Learned Discourse of Justification [At Bibleclass.com][Added 1/30/1999]
• John Calvin: On Double Predestination  [At this Site][Added 1/30/1999]
• John Calvin: On Civil Government and Resistence [At this Site][Added 1/30/1999]
• John Calvin: Institutes, full text [At bible.org][Added 1/30/1999]
• The Elizabethan Homelies, 1623, full text, [At Toronto][Added 1/30/1999]
• George Cavendish: The Life and Death of Cardinal Wolsey [At Toronto][Added 1/30/1999]
• The Treaty of Brest, 1595 [Articles Concerning Union With The Roman Church][At this Site][Added 1/30/1999]
• The Declaration of Utrecht, September 24, 1889 [At this Site][Added 1/30/1999]
• Council of Trent: Rules on Prohibited Books [At this Site][Added 1/30/1999]
• Council of Trent: Catechism for Parish Priests, Full Text [At this Site][Added 1/30/1999]
• The Apparitions at La Sallette, 1846 [At this Site][Added 1/30/1999]
• Pope Pius X: The Oath Against Modernism (Sacrorum antistitum), 1910 [At this Site][Added 1/30/1999]
• WEB Madame Blavatsky: Works [At Blavatsky.net][Added 1/30/1999]
  Large number of texts from the major figure in Theosophy.
• Karl Marx: Scientific Socialism, 1844-1875, an epitome [At this Site][Added 1/30/1999]
• G. W. F. Hegel: The Dialectic of History, 1812-1820, an epitome [At this Site][Added 1/30/1999]
• Pope Pius XI: Mortalium Animos, 1928 [At this Site][Added 1/30/1999]
  A papal document which opposed ecumenism.
• The Ottaviani Intervention, 1969 [At this Site][Added 1/30/1999]
  A rearguard action against modernization the Roman Catholic church.
• Danish Constitution, in Danish and English, 1953 [At grundlu][Added 1/30/1999]
• Friedrich Von Schiller: Wilhelm Tell, 1805 [Full text][At this Site][Added 1/30/1999]
• Thomas de Quincey: Confessions of an English Opium Eater, full text, [At Schaefer Drug Library][Added 1/30/1999]
• WEB www.theory.org.uk - theory, gender, and identity resources. [At leeds.uk][Added 1/22/1999]
• Sir William Beveridge: Social and Allied Services (The Beveridge Report), 1942 [The Executive Summary][At This Site][Added 1/22/1999] See also 2ND William Beveridge: Biography and Summary of the Report [At dss.uk]
• WEB History of Social Security in Britain [At dss.uk][Added 1/22/1999]
• 2ND William P. Quigley: Five Hundred Years of English Poor Laws, 1349-1834: Regulating the Working and Nonworking Poor [At Univ. Akron][Added 1/22/1999]
• WEB Florence Nightingale: Selected Correspondence [Added 1/22/1999]
• WEB The Value of Knowledge: a Miniature Library of Philosophy [Added 1/22/1999]
• WEB History of Economics by Schools of Thought [Added 1/22/1999]
• Die Protokolle der Weisen von Zion [The Protocols of the Elders of Zion][German Version][At Thulenet][Added 1/22/1999]
  -Please note that this text is emphatically not endorsed by the Modern History Sourcebook.
• WEB Adolf Hitler: Speeches 1921-1941 [Added 1/22/1999]
  Beware that these texts are at an overtly anti-Semitic website.
• Adolf Hitler: Mein Kampf, full text [At Brooklynzoo.net], and in German, [full text, zipped ascii file][At Thulenet][Added 1/22/1999]
  -Please note that this text is emphatically not endorsed by the Modern History Sourcebook.
• Elizabeth Fox-Genovese: Between Individualism and Fragmentation: American Culture and the New Literary Studies of Race and Gender [At Virginia] [Added 1/22/1999]
• Clifford Geertz: Ideology as a Cultural System [At Virginia][Added 1/22/1999]
• Clifford Geertz: Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture  [At Virginia][Added 1/22/1999]
• Roland Barthes: Myth Today [At Virginia][Added 1/22/1999]
• C. Vann Woodward: The Irony of Southern History, from The Burden of Southern History  [At Virginia][Added 1/22/1999]
• Elizabeth Fox-Genovese: Between Individualism and Fragmentation: American Culture and the New Literary Studies of Race and Gender [At Virginia] [Added 1/22/1999]
• Linda Gordon: What's New in Womens' History [At Virginia][Added 1/22/1999]
• David Lowenthal, Changing the Past, from The Past Is A Foreign Country [At Virginia][Added 1/22/1999]
• Roland Barthes: The World of Wrestling: The grandiloquent truth of gestures [At Virginia][Added 1/22/1999]
• Ted Friedman: The World of The World of Coca-Cola [At Virginia]
• Tom Wolfe: The Last American Hero [At Virginia][Added 1/22/1999]
  On stock-car races.
• Walt Whitman: Democratic Vistas [At Virginia][Added 1/22/1999]
• John Winthrop: A Modell of Christian Charity 1630 [At Virginia][Added 1/22/1999]
• Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot (1727-1781): Reflections on the Formation and Distribution of Wealth by M. Turgot, Comptroller General of the Finances of France, In 1774, 1775 and 1776. or in French [At McMaster][Added 1/22/1999]
• WEB Victorian Women Writers Project Library [Added 1/22/1999]
• Caroline Norton  (1808-1877): English Laws for Women in the Nineteenth Century, 1854 [At Victorian Women Writers Project][Added 1/22/1999]
• Caroline Norton  (1808-1877): A Letter to the Queen on Lord Chancellor Cranworth's Marriage and Divorce Bill 1855 [At Victorian Women Writers Project][Added 1/22/1999]
• Walter Bagehot (1826-1877): Bad Lawyers or Good or here, excerpt. 1876 [At Warwick][Added 1/22/1999]
  A consideration of the need for the reform of legal education and the legal profession in England and Wales.
• Arnold Toynbee: Lectures on The Industrial Revolution in England 1884  [At McMaster][Added 1/22/1999]
• Walter Bagehot (1826-1877): A New Standard of Value, The Economist, November 20, 1875 [At McMaster][Added 1/22/1999]
• Walter Bagehot  (1826-1877): Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market. [At McMaster][Added 1/22/1999]
  A classic analysis of the British banking system which was the basis for reform for many other European banking systems.
• WEB German Law Archive [At Oxford][Added 1/22/1999]
  Texts on German constitutional and statute law in English translation.
• Rosa Luxemburg: Martinique Written after the May 1902 volcanic eruption at the port of St. Pierre. [At Luxemburg Archive][Added 1/22/1999]

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