Hanover Historical Texts Project



In 1995, the History Department and Hanover students initiated the Hanover Historical Texts Project. The Project's primary aim is to make primary texts readily available to students and faculty for use in history and humanities courses.

The texts scanned for the project are all in public domain. The electronic forms of the texts created by the HHTP are under copyright. Permission to copy and use the texts is granted for educational purposes. Permission is not granted for commercial uses.

Bibliographical information and acknowledgements for scanning, conversion into html, and proofreading are found at the beginning of each text. The page numbers appear in parentheses at the point of the page breaks in the original texts. Tutor




Europe
Ancient
The Middle Ages
Early Modern
Modern
United States
17th Century
18th Century
19th Century
20th Century
The Americas Outside the U.S.
Africa
The Middle East
India and South Asia
East Asia



Ancient Greece and Rome

The Presocratics
Anaxagoras
Anaximander
Anaximenes
Empedocles
Melissos
Parmenides
Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans
Thales
Xenophanes
Zeno



Medieval Europe

Letters of Crusaders
Anselme of Ribemont, Letter to Manasses II, Archbishop of Reims, (1098)
Stephen, Count of Blois and Chartres, Letter to his wife, Adele (1098)
Daimbert, Godfrey and Raymond, Letter to the Pope (1099)
Conrad III, First Letter to Wibald, Abbot of Corvey (1148)
Conrad III, Second Letter to Wibald, Abbot of Corvey (1148)
Aymeric, Patriarch of Antioch, Letter to Louis VII of France (1164)
Letter from the East to Master of Hospitalers (1187)
Frederick I, Letter to Leopold of Austria(1189)
Sibylla, Ex-Queen of Jerusalem, Letter to Frederick I (1189)
The Duke of Lorraine, Letter to the Archbishop of Cologne [1197]
Frederic II, Letter to Henry IlI of England (1229)
Gerold, Patriarch of Jerusalem, Letter to all the Faithful (1229)

Lives of Saints
Jacobus de Voragine, The Golden Legend (in progress)



Early Modern Europe

The Italian Renaissance
Francis Petrarch, Selected Letters

The Reformation in Germany and Switzerland
Martin Luther,Address to the Christian Nobility of the German Nation (1520) excerpts
The German Mass and Order of Divine Service (1526)
Ordinances For The Regulation of the Churches Dependent Upon the Seigniory of Geneva(1547) excerpts
Genevan Ecclesiastical Ordinances (1561) excerpts (in progress)
Complaint of Nicholas de la Fontaine against Servetus (1553) excerpts (in progress)

The Religious Wars
An Account of the Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Day
An Account of the Destruction of Magdeburg

The Scientific Revolution
Francis Bacon, The Great Instauration (1620) excerpts

The Enlightenment
Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary excerpts

France
The Colloquy of Poissy (1561) excerpts (in progress)
Articles of the French League excerpts (in progress)
The Edict of Nantes excerpts (in progress)
Cardinal Richelieu, Political Testament excerpts
Royal Edict of 1626 ordering the demolition of the feudal castles in France
Letters patent establishing the French Academy (1635) excerpts
Jacques Benigne Bossuet, Political Treatise excerpts
Jean Baptiste Colbert, Memoirs excerpts
Louis XIV, Letter to the Town Officers and People of Marseilles (1664)
Accounts of Louis XIV
Revocation of the Edict of Nantes (October 22, 1685)

Britain

Puritan Voices
Charles I, The Declaration of Sport
The Declaration of Right (1689) excerpts



Modern Europe

The French Revolution
Arthur Young, Travels in France (1792) excerpts
Cahier of 1789, The Clergy of Blois and Romorantin
Cahiers of 1789: The Nobility of Blois
Cahiers of 1789: The Third Estate of Versailles
Cahier of 1789: The Third Estate of Carcassonne
The Decree Abolishing Feudalism (1789)
The Civil Constitution of the Clergy (1790)
The Proclamation of the Duke of Brunswick (1792)
Documents of the National Convention
St. Just, Republican Institute excerpts
Napoleon, Account of the Situation of the Empire (1804) excerpts

19th Century Conservatism
The Carlsbad Decrees (1819) excerpts

Nationalism
Joseph Mazzini, The Duties of Man (1844) excerpts

The Revolutions of 1848
Documents of the Revolution of 1848 in France
Documents of the Revolutions of 1848 in Germany (in progress) Documents of the Revolutions of 1848 in Italy (in progress)
National Unification
Documents of the Italian Unification (in progress) Otto von Bismarck, Memoirs excerpts

Labor and Socialist Movements
The Gotha Program (1875) The Erfurt Program (1891)
Imperialism
J.A. Hobson, Imperialism excerpts (in progress)



17th Century Colonial History

New England
John Winthrop, A Model of Christian Charity (1630)
Anne Bradstreet, A Dialogue Between Old England and New (1630)
The Massachusetts Body of Liberties (1641)
Samuel Green, ed. Groton in Witchcraft Times (c.1671)



18th Century Colonial and US History

The Revolution
Samuel Adams, The Rights of the Colonists (1772)



19th Century US History




20th Century US History




The Americas Outside the US




Africa




The Middle East




India and Southeast Asia




East Asia




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