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Mongols in World History
The Mongols in World History
Columbia University-Asia for Educators-Asian Topics in World History
The Secret History of the Mongols
The oldest surviving Mongol-language literary work. It was written for the Mongol royal family after Chinggis Khan’s death by an anonymous author.
Daoist Master Changchun is Summoned to Visit Chinggis Khan
Two excerpts from the record written by Changchun's disciple Li Zhizhang, Xiyou ji [Journey to the west], translated by Arthur Waley.
Travels of Marco Polo
The Discovery Age
1492: The Prequel
New York Times Magazine, June 6, 1999, (available through Georgia Southern Library)
A journal of the first voyage of Vasco da Gama, 1497-1499
a digital copy of a book that was preserved for generations on library shelves before it was carefully scanned by Google as part of a project
Early Modern World
Akbar’s religious views
Akbar I, also known as Akbar the Great, was the third Mughal emperor, who reigned from 1556 to 1605
The edict of Tokugawa Shogunate
The Tokugawa Shogunate (Tokugawa Bakufu or Edo Bakufu) was the last feudal Japanese military government, 1600-1868
The identification of mind and principle in Ming China
A writing by Wang Yangming, a Confucian scholar in Ming Dynasty China (1368-1644).
Divided by Faith: Religious Conflict and the Practice of Toleration in Early Modern Europe
A book by Benjamin Kaplan, Harvard University Press, 2007.
A Chinese Farmer, Two African Boys, and a Warlord
Andrade, Tonio. “A Chinese Farmer, Two African Boys; and a Warlord: Toward a Global Microhistory.” Journal of World History 21, no. 4 (December 2010)
The Enlightenment
Voltaire on Universal Toleration
Kant “What Is Enlightenment”
Enlightenment
Primary source documents from Internet History Sourcebook
Atlantic Slave Trade
The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
From the Low Country Digital History Archive
Map of the Slave Trade
Excerpt from A journal of a voyage made in the Hannibal
Industrial Revolution
Peter Stearns, "The Industrial Revolution”
A chapter from Peter Stearns, The Industrial Turn in World History (Routledge, 2016).
The Industrial Revolution: A boon to industry, a bane to childhood
A Youtube video, NHD 2011-2012 Revolution, Reaction, and Reform
Age of Imperialism
An excerpt from Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness (Elecbook, 2000), please focus on pp.51-56
Margaret Atwood and the Edges of History
Jonathan Spence, “Margaret Atwood and the Edges of History,” The American Historical Review
Vol. 103, No. 5 (Dec., 1998)
Fukuzawa Yukichi, “Goodbye Asia”
Select from David Lu, Japan : A Documentary History (Routledge, 1996)
Teaching “The Exotic White Man”
A discussion of the painting "The Exotic White Man" by Susan Rimby, Women in World History Project.
“The White Man’s Burden”: Kipling’s Hymn to U.S. Imperialism
Nanjing Treaty
Revolution and Nationalism
Declaration of Rights of Man 1789
Communist Manifesto
Meiji Constitution
Bolivar’s Address
The October Revolution
Timeline, glossary, people and primary documents on Marxists Internet Archives
Sun Yat-sen’s Three Principles of the People
WWI
Lenin, Imperialism as the Highest Stage of Capitalism
World War I
Primary source documents from the Internet History Sourcebook
WWII
Benito Mussolini, “What is Fascism” (1932)
About Chinese Writing
Video: an interview with Iris Chang and her book The Rape of Nanking
Includes transcript
World War II
primary documents about the period from Internet History Sourcebook
The Cold War
BBC History, “Cold War”
Cold War on file at National Archives
A sampling of documents with transcripts
The Contemporary World
"Trump’s coal plan – neither clean nor affordable"
21st Century
Primary source documents from Internet History Sourcebook
Environmental Performance Review The United States 2023
Environmental Policy in the US
I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education
Book review from The Washington Post
Nobel Prizes and Lauretes
The Trump administration, slanted science and the environment: 4 essential reads
The Conversation, April 22, 2017
UN (United Nations) News
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