Internet Modern History Sourcebook

Editor: Paul Halsall



The Modern History Sourcebook works as follows:


Additional Study/Research Aids

In addition to the above structure the following may be of interest to educators and students.


Bad Links

1. This project is both very large and fairly old in Internet terms. At the time it was begun (1996), it was not clear that web sites [and the documents made available there] would often turn out to be transient. As a result there is a process called "link rot" - which means that a "broken link" is a result of someone having taken down a web page. Efforts are made to remove all dead links, but new link problems do come up.

2. All links to documents marked [At this Site] should be working.

3. Users may attempt to locate texts not currently available, or where the links have changed via The Internet Archive/Way Back Machine. Alternately, a search via Google may locate another site where the document is available.


SECTIONS

Subjects covered by the source texts in each Section.

Studying History


The Early Modern World

Reformation

Early Modern World

Everyday Life

Absolutism

Constitutional States

Colonial North America

Colonial Latin America


The Transformation of the West
Scientific, Political, and Industrial Revolutions

Scientific Revolution

Enlightenment

Enlightened Despots

Government in the Age of Enlightenment

American Independence

French Revolution Industrial Revolution

Romanticism

Romanticism


The 19th Century and Western Hegemony

Conservative Order

Nationalism

Liberalism

1848

1848: Europe in Revolt

19C Britain

British Empire History

19C France

19C Austria and Germany

19C Italy

19C West Europe

Other Western European Countries

19C East Europe

Eastern European Countries

Early US

US Civil War

US Immigration

US Culture

Canada

Canada: Another North American Society

Australia and New Zealand

19C Latin America

Socialism

Imperialism

Industrial Revolution II

Darwin, Freud, Einstein

19C Religion


World Wars and the End of Western Dominance

WWI

Russian Revolution

Age of Anxiety

The Depression

Fascism in Europe

Nazism

Holocaust

WWII


The World Since 1945

Bipolar World: The Cold War 1945-1991

US Power 1945-1990

US Society 1945-1990

Post-War W Europe

Post-War E Europe

Decolonization

Asia since 1900

Africa Since 1945

Middle East Since 1914

20C Latin America

Modern Social Movements

Post-War Thought

Post-War Western Thought

Post-War Religion

Modern Science

Pop Culture


The Twenty-First Century

21st Century


Introduction

The Internet Modern History Sourcebook is one of series of history primary sourcebooks. It is intended to serve the needs of teachers and students in college survey courses in modern European history and American history, as well as in  modern Western Civilization and World Cultures. Although this part of the Internet History Sourcebooks Project began as a way to access texts that were already available on the Internet, it now contains hundreds of texts made available locally.

The great diversity of available sources for use in modern history classes requires that selections be made with great care - since virtually unlimited material is available. The goals here are:


Sources of Material Here

The texts on these pages come from many sources:

Efforts have been made to confirm to US Copyright Law. Any infringement is unintentional, and any file which infringes copyright, and about which the copyright claimant informs me, will be removed pending resolution.


NOTES:

The Internet Modern History Sourcebook is part of the Internet History Sourcebooks Project. The date of inception was 1998. Links to files at other site are indicated by [At some indication of the site name or location]. WEB indicates a link to one of small number of high quality web sites which provide either more texts or an especially valuable overview.