HISTORY: Modern period

Modern (1750-today) modern
(since AD 1750)

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Links to material of relevance to the entire period

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Historians and Philosophers of the Modern Period, at this site, subdivided into three pages:
The 1755: The French and Indian War page.
The War of 1812 website
War of 1812-1814 - a well-crafted (albeit slow-loading) site.
The Victorian Web. A thoroughly well-designed site.

Online source material

Korean War Historical Documents. A collection of primary documents from 1904 to 1995.
The Class Struggles in France, 1848 to 1850 by Karl Marx (HTML at Colorado)
Revolutionary Silhouettes by Anatoly Vasilievich Lunacharsky (HTML at Colorado)
Marxism and Revisionism by Vladimir Ilich Lenin (HTML at Colorado)
Lessons of October by Leon Trotsky (HTML at Colorado)
The New Course by Leon Trotsky (HTML at Colorado)
Another View of Stalin by Ludo Martens (HTML at tiac.net)
The Revolution Betrayed: What is the Soviet Union and Where is it Going? by Leon Trotsky (HTML at Colorado)
The Danish Constitution of 1953 (bilingual HTML at ku.dk)

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The changing of the world

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A Summary View of the Rights of British America by Thomas Jefferson (text at vt.edu)
The American Crisis by Thomas Paine (text at vt.edu)
Common Sense by Thomas Paine (text at vt.edu)
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin
- HTML at Virginia
- text at Wiretap
Autobiography by Thomas Jefferson (text at vt.edu)

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The shadow of one man

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Online source material

Napoleonic Literature - a wonderful collection of out-of-copyright electronic books concerning Napoleon I and his times. Highly recommended.

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The kinslaying

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Letters of the Civil War, a compilation of letters from the soldiers, sailors, nurses, politicians, ministers and journalists from the newspapers of the cities and towns of Massachusetts. April 1861 - December 1865.
Up from Slavery by Booker T. Washington (text at Wiretap)

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The great slaughter

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World War I - a virtual visit to the wonderful land of trench warfare, mustard gas, and shell shock.
World War II.
Places of World War II. A guide to historical sites related to WWII.
Lights in the Darkness: Resisters to the Nazi Regime. Well worth a visit.

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Updated: July 24, 2005