NHD 2019: World History Before the 20th Century

Last Updated on August 8, 2021

Athens, Sparta, and the Battle of Marathon

• History of the Great Persian War, from the Histories of Herodotus 1875
• History of Persia: Battle of Marathon
• History of Greece Volume 5 .pdf file (use find function to find mentions of Marathon)
• H.Res.1704 – Honoring the 2500th anniversary of the Battle of Marathon 111th Congress (2009-2010)
• Athens primary sources & other resources
• Sparta primary sources & other resources

Saladin: Military Triumph During the Crusades

• Saladin primary sources & other resources
• Laws in a Crusader State In Custodia Legis blog November 23, 2011
• The Crusades: An Arab Perspective Al Jazeera English December, 2016
  • Shock: The First Crusade and the Conquest of Jerusalem (article | video)
  • Revival: The Muslim Response to the Crusades (article | video)
  • Unification: Saladin and the Fall of Jerusalem (article | video)
  • Liberation: Acre and the End of the Crusades (article | video)
• Saladin mentions in Syria: A Country Study

Genghis and Saladin: the men who invented global terror New Statesman 9 July 2015

Genghis Khan: Cartography and Power

• The History of Genghizcan the Great 1722
• Genghis Khan mentions in Mongolia: A Country Study
• Medical Culture in Yuan China (1206-1368): Aspects of Mongol Rule and Neo-Confucian Activism (webcast 20:20 for mentions of Khan | transcript)

Emperor Meiji’s Modernization of Japan

• Meiji Japan primary source set
• U.S. historical newspaper coverage: Meiji Japan 1867-1912
• Meiji Japan resources from the World Digital Library
• Meiji Constitution: Constitution of Japan from 1889 to 1947 Encyclopædia Britannica
• The Meiji Restoration and Modernization Columbia University

Philippine-American War

• The World of 1898: The Spanish-American War primary & secondary sources
• Maps: Spanish-American War – Philippines
• Political cartoons: Spanish-American War – Philippines
• Images: Spanish-American War – Philippines
• Films: Spanish-American War – Philippines
• Philippines Spanish-American war resources World Digital Library
• Learning from the Source: Perspectives on U.S. Expansion
• Manila, or Monroe doctrine? (c 1898) Anti-Carnegie scraps and comments (1899)
• An epitome of historical events and of official and other correspondence connected with the acquisition and other dealings of the United States with the Philippine Islands (1902)
• The War in the Philippines (1899)
• Philippine war: U.S. historical newspaper coverage 1898-1908
• Books: Spanish-American War – Philippines
• Filipino Insurrection mentions in Philippines: A Country Study
• The Philippine Revolution
• The Philippine-American War, 1899–1902 (U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian)
• Philippine-American War Encyclopædia Britannica
• The Philippine-American War (Office of Multicultural Student Services University of Hawai’i)
• A New History of the Philippine-American War” (New York Timesbook review of Honor in the Dust, by Gregg Jones)
• The Pacification of the Philippines John M. Gates, Aileen Dunham Professor of History, Emeritus, College of Wooster
• World Spotlight: Spain
• World Spotlight: Cuba
• Today in History: Puerto Rico