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| Primary Sources: How to Read Them and Why They Are Important in World History | |
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| The Rise of Empires in the Americas, 600-1550 | |
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| The Founding of Tenochtitl�n | |
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| Human Sacrifice by the Aztecs | |
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| Machu Picchu | |
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| The Inca Census | |
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| The Ottoman-Habsburg Struggle and European Overseas Expansion, 1450-1600 | |
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| The Tribute of Children | |
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| A European Ambassador Reports on the Ottomans | |
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| An Ottoman Travel Journal | |
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| The Journal of Christopher Columbus | |
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| Renaissance, Reformation, and the New Science in Europe, 1450-1700 | |
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| Marsilio Ficino, "Letter to Paul of Middelburg" | |
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| Laura Cereta to Cardinal Ascanio Maria Sforza | |
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| John Calvin, Prayer from Commentary on Hosea | |
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| Galileo Galilei, Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems | |
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| Antony van Leeuwenhoek's "Animalcules" | |
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| Galileo's Views of the Moon | |
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| Peter the Great, "Correspondence with Alexis, 1715 | |
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| New Patterns in New Worlds: Colonialism and Indigenous Responses in the Americas, 1500-1800 | |
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| Aztecs Recount the Beginning of the War with the Conquistadors | |
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| Letter from Hernando de Soto | |
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| Coronado's Report to Viceroy Mendoza | |
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| Increase Mather on King Philip's Death | |
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| Reasons for Colonizing North America | |
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| African Kingdoms, the Atlantic Slave Trade, and the Origins of Black America, 1450-1800 | |
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| Leo Africanus on Timbuktu | |
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| "Krotoa" from the Journal of Jan van Riebeeck | |
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| The Arab Slave Trade | |
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| An Account of the Atlantic Slave Trade | |
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| Phillis Wheatly, "To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth…" | |
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| Slave Market, Pernambuco, Brazil, 1824 | |
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| The Mughal Empire: Muslim Rulers and Hindu Subjects, 1400-1750 | |
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| The Ain-i-Akbari | |
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| The Journey to the Court of Akbar | |
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| Jahangir Debates with the Hindus | |
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| Summary of the Reasons Which Led Akbar to Renounce Islam | |
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| Akbar on Proper Behavior | |
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| The Habits and Manners of Aurangzeb | |
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| Regulating the "Inner" and the "Outer" Domains of China and Japan, 1500-1800 | |
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| Buddhist World Map, 1710 | |
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| The Seclusion of Japan | |
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| The Philosophy of Wang Yang-Ming | |
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| Qianlong, Letter to George III | |
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| Nation-States and Patterns of Culture in Europe and North America, 1750-1871 | |
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| Jean Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract | |
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| Olympe de Gouges, Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen | |
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| Charles Maurice Talleyrand to Louis XVIII | |
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| Abraham Lincoln's First Inaugural Address | |
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| Proclamation of the German Empire | |
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| Victor Emmanuel and the Catholic Church | |
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| Industrialization and its Discontents, 1750-1914 | |
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| Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations | |
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| John Stuart Mill, On Liberty | |
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| Frederich Engels, Condition of the Working Class in England | |
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| Charles Dickens, David Copperfield | |
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| Parliamentary Report on English Female Miners, 1842 | |
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| Advertisment for a Vitascope, 1896 | |
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| Friedrich Nietzsche, from Beyond Good and Evil | |
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| The Challenge of Modernity: East Asia, 1750-1910 | |
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| The Nanjing Treaty | |
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| A Chinese Traveler on the Marvels of Western Technology | |
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| Jesuits in China | |
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| The "Opening" of Japan | |
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| The King of Siam to President Buchanan | |
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| The Challenge of Modernity: The Ottoman and Russian Empires, 1683-1908 | |
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| Peter the Great's Decree on Western Dress | |
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| Petyr Chaadaev, "Philosophical Letters" | |
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| A British Diplomat Comments on the Ottoman Army | |
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| The Gulhane Decree | |
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| "Mr. Sansonov" | |
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| The Iranian and Turkish Constitutional Revolutions of 1906 and 1908 | |
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| The New Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century | |
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| Dadabhai Naoroji on the Benefits Detriments of British Rule in India | |
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| The Diamond Fields of South Africa, 1872 | |
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| Rudyard Kipling, "The White Man's Burden" | |
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| Edward D. Morel, The Black Man's Burden | |
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| Raden Ayu Kartini, Letters of a Javanese Princess | |
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| Teapickers, northern India | |
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| Creoles and Caudillos: Latin America in the Nineteenth Century | |
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| Alexander Von Humboldt on New Spain | |
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| Sim�n de Bolivar, His Message to the Congress of Angostura | |
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| Pope Leo XIII, In Plurimis | |
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| Jose Marti, "Our America" | |
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| United States Recognition of Cuban Independence | |
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| World War and Competing Visions of Modernity to 1945 | |
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| Theodore Roosevelt, "War for Righteousness" | |
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| Joseph Stalin on Liquidating the Kulaks | |
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| Critics of Industrialization: The Southern Agrarians | |
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| Mohandas Gandhi and the Quit India Movement | |
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| Mussolini Repudiates on Political Liberalism, 1923 | |
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| Adolf Hitler, German Economic Goals and the Jewish Question | |
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| Korean "Comfort Girls" | |
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| Reconstruction, the Cold War, and Decolonization, 1945-1962 | |
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| The Marshall Plan | |
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| Dwight D. Eisenhower on the Suez Crisis | |
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| Cuban Missile Crisis | |
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| Jawaharlal Nehru, "Why India is Non-Aligned" | |
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| Juan Per�n, excerpt from The Voice of Per�n | |
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| Jomo Kenyatta, from Facing ML Kenya: The Tribal Life of the Gikuyu | |
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| Babies Being Weighed, North Korea, 1955 | |
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| The End of the Cold War, Western Social Transformation, and the Developing World, 1963-1991 | |
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| The US Civil Rights Act of 1964 | |
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| National Organization for Women, Statement of Purpose | |
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| The Yom Kippur/Ramadan War | |
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| Postcolonialism in Africa | |
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| Mikhail Gorbachev on the Arms Race Between the USSR and the US | |
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| The Tiananmen Square Massacre, 1989: a Poet Remembers | |
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| A Fragile Democratic-Capitalist World Order, 1991-Present | |
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| Tim Berners Lee, "Enquire Within Upon Everything" | |
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| "Death by Government" | |
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| Rachel Carson, from Silent Spring | |
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| The Sovereign Debt Crisis | |
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| James Tooley, from The Beautiful Tree | |