Primary
Source Documents
Ancient and Medieval
Documents
Excerpts
from the Annals of Ashurnasirpal II (9th c. BC)
Aristotle on the Athenian Constitution
(c. 320s BC)
Aristotle
on Slavery (c. 350 BC)
Excerpts
from The Rule of St. Benedict, (c.530)
Excerpts
from Beowulf (10th
c.)
Excerpts
from the Book of Deuteronomy
Diodorus Siculus’ Account
of the First Servile War (c. 135–132 BC)
Excerpts
from the Book of Genesis
Excerpts
from the Code of Hammurabi (c. 1780 BC)
Excerpts from
The Gospel of Luke (1st c.)
Usama ibn Munqidh, Excerpts
from The Book of Contemplation (12th c.)
Excerpts from
the Letters of Paul (1st c.)
Plato, Euthyphro
(c.
380 BC)
Polybius, Analysis
of the Roman Government (c. 200 BC)
Excerpts from
The Quran (7th c.)
Excerpts
from The Gospel of Thomas (1st c.)
Pope
Urban II Calls The First Crusade (1095)
Modern
Documents
Jamal al-Din Al-Afghani's Response
to
Renan's Critique of Islam, (1883)
Bahithat al-Badiya, Excerpts
from "A Lecture in the Club of the Umma Party"(1909)
Paul Leroy Beaulieu, Excerpts
from Colonialism and Modern Peoples (1891)
Simone
de Beauvoir, Excerpts
from The
Second Sex (1949)
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, Excerpts
from Politics Taken From the Very Words of Holy Scripture"
(1679)
Edmund Burke, Excerpts
from Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
Thomas Carlyle, Excerpts
from "Signs of the Times" (1829)
Excerpts from The
Casement Report on the Congo (1904)
Evliya Çelebi, Excerpts
from The Book of Travels (c. 1630)
Winston Churchill, Excerpts
from The River War: An Account of the Conquest of the Sudan
(1902)
Declaration
of the Rights of Man and Citizen (1789)
Demet Demir, Filipa
de Souza Award Address (1997)
Frantz Fanon, Excerpts
from The
Wretched of the Earth (1961)
Mohandas K.
Gandhi, Excerpts
from Hind Swarj (Indian Home Rule, 1910)
Glückel of Hameln, Excerpts
from The Memoirs of Glückel
of Hameln (1719)
Robert Graves, Excerpts
from Goodbye To All That (1929)
The Haitian
Declaration of Independence, (1804)
Adolf Hitler,
Excerpts
from Several Speeches (1923, 1930, 1932)
Documents
on
Women's Lives in Modern India (1986, 1975)
Documents
on
Japanese Imperialism (1882, 1890, 1921)
Ernst Jünger,
Excerpts
from Storm of Steel (1920)
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Speech
Denouncing American Influence in Iran (1964)
Lahontan, Excerpts
from Dialogues with Kondiaronk (1703)
V.I.
Lenin, Excerpts from
Selected Writings (1902, 1917)
Karl Marx and
Friedrich Engels, Excerpts from The Communist Manifesto (1848)
Karl Marx
and Friedrich Engels, Excerpts from Selected Writings
Henry Mayhew, Excerpts
from London Labour and London Poor (1851)
Rigoberta
Menchú, Excerpts
from the Memoir of Rigoberta Menchú (1983)
John Stuart Mill, Excerpts
from On Liberty
(1859)
Sarojini Naidu, Excerpts
from Several Speeches (1917, 1918, 1946)
Kwame Nkrumah, "Speech
to the Organization of African Unity" (1963)
Testimonies
From The Genocide In Rwanda, 1994
Oswald Spengler, Excerpts
from Decline of the West (1918)
Woodrow Wilson, "14
Points"
(1918)
Gerrard Winstanley, Excerpts
From "The True Levellers' Standard Advanced" (1649)
Louise
Yim on the Japanese
Occupation of Korea (1951)
Zheng
He's Expeditions (1431)