This site from the Fordham University provides a great alternative perspective of the Baghdad Pact and the Central Treaty Organization. This is a statement given by the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Security in the Near and Middle East in 1955. He sees US domination rather than military security as the prime motive of the plan. An interesting piece from which to balance history.

This website from the Fordham University presents industrial data of the leading countries involved in the Industrial Revolution. Provides population statistics, illiteracy, railway expansion, and mineral output.

Fordham University provides excerpts from the 1748 book of political philosophy by Montesquieu; "The Spirit of Laws".

An article specifically about the way land was distributed in the Heavenly Kingdom.

This Fordham University site offers sociologist Thorstein Veblen's views on conspicuous consumption, taken from his work, The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study on Economic Institutions.

This site from the Modern History Sourcebook gives the key highlights of the Versailles Treaty, especially involving territorial questions.

Excerpts from the diaries of Wilfred Scawen Blunt, English writer who opposed British imperialism.

This site from Fordham University provides an early writing describing the battle of Yarmuk, at which the Muslims defeated the Byzantine Emperor Heraclius and his army.

This site from the Medieval Sourcebook answers the question: Why Study History Through Primary Sources? It provides complete information, a list of review questions, and bibliography information.

A historical document about the opening of the First Crusade, describing preparations and the people involved.

Fordham's Modern History Sourcebook offers a Chinese Christian's account of the Boxer Rebellion in China.

This site from the Modern History Sourcebook of Fordham University provides an exerpt from "The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844". Personal account of what life was like for textile mill workers in Manchester.

Fordham University provides this site with information on Stalin's plan to industrialize and modernize the Soviet Union.

This site has an essay written by Maximilien Robespierre in 1794, during the turmoultous years of the French Revolution. A brief historical background of the essay is also included in this site.

An essay written by Maximilien Robespierre in 1794, during the period known as the Reign of Terror in the French Revolution.

This article from the Fordham University describes nationalism and its political force in the 19th century. Includes a variety of multimedia links.

Fordham's Modern History Sourcebook offers a primary source record of a German imperialist organization's reasons to imperialize.

The Fordham University provides information about the application of steam power, which accelerated the centralization of textile production in factories.

Fardham University gives the text of the Balfour Declaration, which later was adopted and included in a UN Resolution.