These curated resource lists coincide with the topic ideas listed in the NHD 2018 Conflict & Compromise theme sample topics list. The links lead to resources accessed from the Library of Congress (LOC.gov) unless otherwise noted.
Selling Souls for Sugar: Slavery and the Sugar Islands
- The West India Atlas: or a Compendious Description of the West Indies: Illustrated with Forty Correct Charts and Maps Taken from Actual Surveys
Curator note: This volume was the first comprehensive British atlas of Florida and the Caribbean. It includes the first large, detailed printed maps of a number of Caribbean islands, such as Antigua, St. Christopher, and Barbados. On many of these individual maps, the topography is rendered with particular skill. The maps provide unprecedented detail documenting the sugar industry, slave life, roads, trade routes, and even individual homes and estates. The atlas exemplifies the qualities that ushered in a period of dominance for British chart-making related to the Americas. - Chart of the world, on Mercator’s projection, illustrative of the impolicy of slavery
- Sugar manufacture in the Antilles Isles 1665 illustration
- West Indies: manufacture of sugar 1667 illustration
- More sugar industry primary sources
- A voyage to North America, and the West Indies in 1817
- Emancipation of the West Indies. A six months’ tour in Antigua, Barbadoes, and Jamaica, in the year 1837
- Emancipation in the West Indies, in 1838
- Sugar in the Atlantic World – Sugar and Slavery University of Michigan Library
- Islands of the Commonwealth Caribbean : a regional study
The Treaty of Paris: The Uneasy Peace of the Seven Years’ War
- Fort Necessity & the French and Indian War background and primary sources
- French and Indian War primary sources Historical Society of Pennsylvania
- Maps of the French and Indian War Massachusetts Historical Society
- Map Showing Imperial Context in North America before the 1763 Treaty of Paris
- Map Showing Imperial Context of North America after the 1763 Treaty of Paris
- Mapping the New Empire: Britain’s General Survey of North America, 1763-1782 streaming webcast
- Treaty of Paris 1763 Avalon Project
- Treaty of Paris, 1763 U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian
The Congress of Vienna: The Legacy of Napoleon’s Downfall
- The Congress of Vienna 1816
- Europe after the Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle; Forming the Sequel to the Congress of Vienna 1820
- A Peace Congress of Intrigue 1919
- Three Peace Congresses of the Nineteenth Century 1917
- Congress of Vienna resources from the World Digital Library
- The Congress of Vienna Encyclopædia Britannica
- Portrait of Napolean
- The Battle of Waterloo Library of Congress blog June 18, 2015
- A visit to Flanders, in July, 1815: being chiefly an account of the field of Waterloo 1816
- The Battle of Waterloo sheet music
- Battle of Waterloo: June 18th 1815 Currier & Ives
The Conflicts and Compromises Needed to Unify Italy
- Celebration of Italian unification in New York City and Italian troops entering Rome Harper’s Weekly, v. 14, no. 724 (1870 November 12), p. 733
- Italy unification historical newspaper coverage
- Giuseppe Garibaldi historical U.S. newspaper coverage
- Count Cavour historical U.S. newspaper coverage
- Giuseppe Garibaldi primary source set
- A Discourse on the Life, Character, and Policy of Count Cavour 1862
- Liberty our aim! Washington our example! emblematic design c1852
- Italy Unification Encyclopædia Britannica
- S.Res.394 – 112th Congress (2011-2012): A resolution commemorating the 150th anniversary of Italian Unification
Otto von Bismarck and the Unification of Germany
- U.S. historical newspaper coverage of Otto von Bismarck
- U.S. historical newspaper coverage: German unification
- Books about Bismarck
- Otto von Bismarck image set
- Otto von Bismarck resources from the World Digital Library
- Otto von Bismarck Encyclopædia Britannica
- 150-Year Anniversary of the Adoption of the Constitution of the North German Confederation In Custodia Legis blog April 17, 2017
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