HIST: Modern World History Websites

Subject Guide

Links include Human Rights, Slavery, Religion, Property and Workers.

Links include Laws & Suffrage, Societal Roles, Voices, and Equality.

Includes a wide range of both primary sources and background information on women's roles from ancient to modern periods.

Excerpts from the Napoleonic code focusing on marriage and divorce.

"includes 330 text documents (personal memoirs, official reports, newspaper articles, treatises, eyewitness accounts)—most of them translated from French to English and edited for the student and general reader."

A collection of authentic narratives of the horrors committed by the revolutionary government of France under Marat and Robespierre. Written by eye-witnesses.

A small archive of newspaper coverage from the British view

Includes, summaries, bios, maps, images and primary source documents organized by topic; includes introduction and background information

Parliamentary archival sources and images dating between 1789 - 1799.

Contemporary newspaper articles on the French Revolution from an American perspective.

Includes primary sources, digital resources, images, and biographical information on key figures in the Revolution.

Offers essays, analysis and a range of primary sources on the Industrial Revolution and its effect on women's lives. Political cartoons, statistics, data, documents and more.

Extensive list of primary and secondary sources on all aspects of Victorian life. Organized by subject.

Offers an overview of key dates, people and events. Primary sources documents, video and case studies.

"comprehensive collection of primary source materials documenting Germany's political, social, and cultural history from 1500 to the present."

Documents on the history of the Berlin Wall, beginning with the conditions in Berlin and East Germany following WWII and the history of the wall's construction in 1961, and followed by the 1971 Four Power Negotiations on the status of Berlin, and the final tearing down of the Wall in 1989.

Primary source documents, images and audio covering the years 1948-1952.

Offers a range of primary source material, including documents, speeches, posters and more. Organized by time period and topic.

Includes propaganda posters, newspaper photographs, postcards, drawings made by Spanish children and more documenting Spain's Second Republic (1931-1936), the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), and the post-War years of the 1940s.