Links to full texts of books available at this and other sites will be
listed here. The texts are also integrated within the overall structure of the Sourcebook.
This listing is to aid compilers of web guides to online books, etc.
The books that tend to have been put online here, or those that have been
linked, tend to be those entire books that are often assigned to students in college
classes to be read along with the more usual excerpted texts.
WEB Renaissance Electronic Texts [At Toronto]
A series of old-spelling, SGML-encoded editions of early individual copies of English
Renaissance books and manuscripts,and of plain transcriptions of such works.
Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu: The Spirit of the Laws, Translated by
Thomas Nugent, revised by J. V. Prichard, 1914 ed., [At Constitution.org]
Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832): Ivanhoe [At Project Gutenberg]
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797): Maria, 1795-97 [At Project Gutenberg]
[The attribution in the text to Mary Shelley must be wrong, since Mary W. died giving
birth to Mary Godwin (later Shelley) in 1797.]
Mary Shelley (1797-1851): Frankenstein, 1818
[At Project Gutenberg]
Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832): Offences Against Oneself,
c. 1785 [At Columbia],
One of the earliest modern considerations of homosexuality from a Liberal perspective.
WEBThe Gaskell Page [At
Nagoya]
A Comprehensive web page dedicated to the works of Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-65). It
includes ALL of Mrs. Gaskell's writings as etexts, as well as a lot of ancillary material
about 19th-century England.
WEBPenny Magazine [At Rochester]
The text of a magazine directed at the English working class in the 1830s.
WEB Interpreting The Irish
Famine, 1846-1850 [At Internet Archive, from Virginia]
A large collection of online original texts from Ireland, England, and America on the
Irish Famine. Includes a great deal on emigration to America.
WEBSecession Era Editorials Project [At Furman]
Many online texts, with a a special emphasis on the Civil War and Southern History. Many
texts are taken from newspaper editorials.
WEBMaking
of America [At Michigan]
5000 imprints from 1850-75 on line, but as image files rather than text.
Angelina E. Grimké: Appeal
To The Christian Women of the South, 1836, full text [At Furman]
Text of one of the few abolitionist treatises published by a Southern
white woman.
WEB The Mary Anne Sadlier Archive [At Virginia]
Mary Anne Sadlier (1820-1903), an Irish-American immigrant, wrote sixty volumes of work --
from domestic novels to historical romances to children's catechisms.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882): Self-Reliance, 1841 [At
USInfo]
H. M. Tomlinson: The Sea and the
Jungle, 1912 [At ibiblio]
"Narrative of the voyage of the tramp steamer Capella from Swansea to Para in the
Brazils, and thence 2000 miles along the forests of the Amazon.."
WEBMarx/Engels
Internet Archive [At Marxists.org]
Almost all the major texts (mostly English so far) by Karl Marx, Friederich Engels, and
major texts by James Connolly, Daneil DeLeon, Hal Draper, Georgi Dimitrov, Alexandra
Kollontai, Antonio Labriola, Lenin, Anatoly Lunacharsky, Rosa Luxemburg, Mao Tsetung, Jose
Carlos Mariategui, William Morris, David Riazanov, Anton Pannekoek, Max Shachtman, Stalin,
Leon Trotsky. The site also contains a major image archive and a search engine.
Karl Marx (1818-83): Full Texts [index at Marxists.org]
Henry Demarest Lloyd: The
Story of a Great Monopoly, The Atlantic Monthly, March 1881. [At The
Atlantic, subscription required]
On Standard Oil and the Rockefellars. See modern comments in The
Atlantic Monthly, May 1998 [At The Atlantic, subscription required, subscription required]
WEBAmerican Life Histories,
Manuscripts from the Federal Writers's Project, 1936-1940 [At Library of Congress]
Over 2,900 online oral histories from the Depressison era. The site also has image files.
Adolf Hitler: Mein Kampf, full
text [At Hitler Historical Museum], and in
German,
[At Adolf Hitler.ws]
-Please note that this text is emphatically not endorsed by the Modern History
Sourcebook.
The
Protocols of the Elders of Zion [PDF File] [At D. Dickerson] [Full Text]
Note that this text, which has directly caused the death of thousands of Jews, is a
complete fabrication. See here for a discussion of the text.
-Please note that this text is emphatically not endorsed by the Modern History
Sourcebook.
Citizens Allied for Civic Action (CAFCA): THE ANNOTATED PINK SWASTIKA [At QRD]
Extensive [600 Kbyte] point by point refutation of the Lively/Abrams book. The effort is
worthwhile, but it should be noted that no serious historian takes the Lively/Abrams book
seriously as anything other than evidence about the modern American far right [a
phenomenon of serious historical interest.]
A Bipolar World
Full texts here
Full texts elsewhere
WEB The Laws of War [At
Yale]
The Hague Conventions, Geneva Conventions, and Pacific Protocol.
WEBInternational Human Rights
Instruments [At Minnesota]
Texts of all major treaties, agreements, etc. since 1945, in English. Many also in French
and Spanish.
WWW International Constitutional Law [At
Wuerzburg][Added 7/20/98]
Maintains online texts in English, and search machines for comparative studies of
constitutions.
United States Atomic Energy Commission: In The Matter of J. Robert
Oppenheimer [At Yale]
Texts of Principal Documents and Letters of Personnel Security Board, General Manager,
Commissioners Washington, D.C., May 27, 1954, through June 29, 1954
Statute of Westminster, 1931 [At this Site]
The act by which the British Parliament assented to the independence, within the British
Commonwealth, of what were called the "White Dominions".
Full texts elsewhere
Luxun Lu Hsun (1881-1936): Selected Stories of Lu Hsun,
Translated by Yang Hsien-yi and Gladys Yang, full text of 20 stories. [At ibiblio]
A leading May 4th Movement writer.
WEB Mao Zedong (1893-1976): Writings [Mao Zedong
Archive/Marxists.org]
If any copyright has been infringed, this was unintentional. The possibility of a site
such as this, as with other collections of electronic texts, depends on the large
availability of public domain material from texts translated before 1923. [In the US, all
texts issued before 1923 are now in the public domain (although later editing may be
copyright). Texts published before 1964 may be in the public domain if copyright was not
renewed after 28 years. This site seeks to abide by US copyright law: the copyright status
of texts here outside the US may be different.] Efforts have been made to ascertain the
copyright status of all texts on this site, although, occasionally, this has not been
possible where older or non-US publishers seem to have ceased existence. Some of the
recently translated texts on this site are copyright to the translators indicated in each
document. These translators have in every case given permission for non-commercial
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