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Original Sources content
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collections. Each section below gives a brief overview of one of the collections, together with a
brief list of content highlights, and a few typical quotations.
A. World History
The main section of this collection contains primary source documents in the history of the
world, including eyewitness accounts, original and official documents, treaties, and speeches.
The documents are grouped into periods chosen to conform to the McREL standard historical
periods. The rich collection of primary source material includes Herodotus’ account of Egypt;
Magna Carta; John Knox on ‘The English Revolution’; the Rights of Man and Citizen; Benjamin
Franklin on ‘Those who would remove to America’; and the Zimmermann Telegram. The
section is supplemented by later great historians’ accounts of some of the major events and
topics.
A second section contains whole works of classic historians, including Homer, Herodotus,
Thucidydes, Plutarch, Cornelius Tacitus, and William Hickling Prescott.
A third section, Military History, gives accounts of battles and wars and military theory including
Hsun Tzu on the art of war; the Battle of Marathon; Judas Maccabaeus liberating Judea; the
Anglo-Saxon Conquest of Britain; Mahomet II taking Constantinople; Jeanne D’Arc’s Victory at
Orleans; and Defeat of the Spanish Armada.
1. Major writers and examples of works
Baker, Samuel White, Sir: In the Heart of Africa;
Bourrienne, Louis Antoine Fauvelet de: Memoirs of Napoleon (16 volumes)
Burke, Edmund: Selections From the Speeches And Writings of Edmund Burke
Campan, Jeanne Louise Henriette (Genet): Marie Antoinette (7 volumes)
Carlyle, Thomas: French Revolution, The; History of Friedrich II of Prussia
Davis, Richard Harding: Real Soldiers of Fortune; Notes of A War Correspondent
Edwards, Owen Morgan, Sir: Short History of Wales
Gibbon, Edward: History of the Decline And Fall of the Roman Empire
Giles, Herbert Allen: China and the Manchus; Historic China and other sketches
Gordon, Irwin Leslie: Who Was Who: 5000 BC – 1914
Haaren, John H.: Haaren, John H.
Josephus, Flavius: Life of Flavius Josephus, The; Wars of the Jews, The
Lang, Andrew: Voices of Jeanne D’Arc, The
Livingstone, David: Missionary Travels And Researches In South Africa
Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron: History of England
Machiavelli, Niccolò: History of Florence And of the Affairs of Italy
Marguerite, Queen, consort of Henry IV, King of France: Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois
Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret): Jeanne D’Arc: her life and death
Pepys, Samuel: Diary of Samuel Pepys, The
Philip, King of Macedon
Pinkerton, John: Early Australian Voyages: Pelsart, Tasman, Dampier
Prescott, William Hickling: The history of the Conquest of Mexico
Readings in English History Drawn from the Original Sources
Retz, Jean François Paul de Gondi de: Memoirs of Cardinal de Retz
Strachey, Lytton: Eminent Victorians; Queen Victoria
Taine, Hippolyte: The Ancient Regime; The French Revolution; The Modern Regime
2. Some stand-alone documents
“Ancient Laws of Babylon”
“Assyrian Inscriptions”
“The Rosetta Stone”
“Egyptian Contract of Marriage”
“Spartan Institutions”
“Rome at the End of the Punic Wars”
“Medieval Universities”
“Magna Carta”
“The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen”
“The Zimmerman Telegram”
“President Kennedy’s Remarks at the Berlin Wall”
3. Selected quotations
If a wife is unfaithful to her husband and then says, “Thou art not my husband,” let her be thrown
into the river . . . If a husband says to his wife, “Thou art not my wife,” he shall pay a fine of half
a maneh of silver. —— Ancient Babylonian laws.
I am entering on the history of a period rich in disasters, frightful in its wars, torn by civil strife,
and even in peace full of horrors. Four emperors perished by the sword. There were three civil
wars. —— Cornelius Tacitus: Histories, Book I, A.D. 96.
. . . those, who were called Christians by the mob and hated for their moral enormities . . . a
great multitude were convicted . . . of hatred of the human race. —— Tacitus, writing in 64 A.D.
about the persecution of Christians.
We have also granted to all the Freemen of our Kingdom, for us and our heirs for ever, all the
underwritten Liberties, to be enjoyed and held by them and by their heirs, from us and from our
heirs. —— Magna Carta.
That the earth is also spherical is therefore beyond question. . . . That the water also has the same
form can be observed from the ships, in that the land which cannot be seen from the deck, is
visible from the mast-tree. And conversely if a light be placed at the masthead it seems to those
who remain on the shores gradually to sink and at last still sinking to disappear. —— Nicolaus
Copernicus, On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres, 1543.
The narrative of the trip as told by the Genoese pilot is given below. It shows that Magellan was
a man of indomitable will, who persevered in his expedition in spite of shipwreck, storm and
mutiny. —— ‘Magellan’s Voyage Round the World.’
We have considered and determined the military plans of the three Allied powers for the final
defeat of the common enemy. . . . Nazi Germany is doomed. The German people will only make
the cost of their defeat heavier to themselves by attempting to continue a hopeless resistance.
—— Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin Joint Declaration, Yalta, 1945.
B. United States History
This collection documents the history of the United States from the voyages of the Vikings and
Columbus through colonial days and up to the present. The main section of this collection
contains primary source documents in the history of the United States, including eyewitness
accounts, original and official documents, treaties, and speeches. Examples of these documents
are the Mayflower Compact, Benjamin Franklin’s Plan of Union, the Declaration of
Independence, eyewitness accounts of Civil War battles, Thomas A. Watson on making the first
telephone for Alexander Graham Bell, the Resolution on Annexation of the Hawaiian Islands,
and the Miranda v. Arizona judgment.
A second section contains the whole of A Dictionary of American History by Thomas L. Purvis.
It has more than 3,000 entries giving introductory coverage of all the key topics in the history of
the United States.
The third section contains such classic works of American history as History of the American
People by Woodrow Wilson, de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America, History of the United
States by H.H. Bancroft, and works and essays by such writers as Hector de Crevecoeur,
Frederick Douglass, and Mercy Warren.
The final section, Learning Aids, contains much material on the study of Americana from the
Library of Congress and the National Archives. This material, of particular value to teachers,
includes Milestone Documents in the National Archives, two volumes of Teaching with
Documents, and A Guide to the Study of the United States of America.
1. Major writers and examples of works
Adams, Samuel: Writings of Samuel Adams
Brown, William Wells: Clotel; or, The President’s Daughter
Colton, Walter: The Discovery of Gold in California.
Douglass, Frederick: My Bondage and My Freedom; Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Ellis, Edward Sylvester: Thomas Jefferson, A Character Sketch
Grant, Ulysses S.: Personal Memoirs
Henry, Patrick: Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death
Judson, Katharine Berry: Myths and Legends of California and the Old Southwest
Lincoln, Abraham: Writings of Abraham Lincoln (7 volumes)
McLaughlin, Marie L.: Myths and Legends of the Sioux
Paine, Thomas: Common Sense
Purvis, Thomas L.: Dictionary of American History
Roosevelt, Theodore: An Autobiography
Rowlandson, Mary: Story of Her Captivity, Sufferings, and Restoration
Sewall, Samuel: “An Early Anti-Slavery Tract”
Smith, John: “The Romance of Pocahontas” and other essays
Stephenson, Nathaniel W.: Abraham Lincoln and the Union; The Day of the Confederacy
Truth, Sojourner: The Narrative of Sojourner Truth.
Warner, Charles Dudley: Captain John Smith; Up the Wilderness; The Story of Pocahontas
Warren, Mercy: John Adams’ Monarchical Ideas; The Death of Parson Caldwell’s Wife;
Woman’s Trifling Needs
Washington, Booker T.: Up From Slavery: An Autobiography
2. Some stand-alone documents and collections
Articles of Confederation
“Benjamin Franklin’s Plan of Union”
Bradford, William: “The Voyage of the Mayflower”
Clay, Henry: “The Clay Compromise”
Correspondence of the American Revolution (4 volumes)
“Daniel Boone Migrates to Kentucky”
Fox Bourne, H.R.: “John Locke and the Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina”
Francis Drake: “Drake in California”
“Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death”
King, Martin Luther, Jr.: “I Have a Dream”
Inaugural Addresses of the U.S. Presidents
Jefferson’s Original Draft of the Declaration of Independence, including amendments
Lincoln, Abraham: “Gettysburg Address”
Papal Bull Dividing the New World
San Francisco Earthquake and Fire
Treaty With Spain, 1819
3. Selected quotations
I write this to tell you how in thirty-three days I sailed to the Indies with the fleet that the
illustrious King and Queen, our Sovereigns, gave me. —— Letter of Columbus to Luis de Sant
Angel announcing his discovery.
Their men for the most part go naked; the women take a kind of bulrushes, and combing it after
the manner of hemp, make themselves thereof a loose garment. —— Francis Drake describing
the people of California.
Nor have we been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time
to time of attempts by their legislature to extend a[an unwarrantable] jurisdiction over these our
States[us]. —— Jefferson’s Original Draft of the Declaration, including amendments.
Friends and Fellow Citizens:—I stand before you to-night under indictment for the alleged crime
of having voted at the last presidential election, without having a lawful right to vote.
—— Susan B. Anthony ‘Woman’s Rights to the Suffrage’.
If we survey the situation of our Nation both at home and abroad, we find many satisfactions; we
find some causes for concern. . . . The larger purpose of our economic thought should be to
establish more firmly stability and security of business and employment and thereby remove
poverty still further from our borders. —— Herbert Hoover’s Inaugural Address, March 4, 1929.
C. Political Science & Law
There are four main sections in this collection: General, Comparative Government, Political
Theory and Philosophy, and American Government and Politics. Smaller sections cover
Constitution Law and
The general section covers the evolution of politics, government, and law in original works and
documents such as The Code of Hammurabi; The Supremacy of Parliament; the Habeus Corpus
Act of 1679; and the Bill of Rights of 1689. The section on comparative government includes
works by Edmund Burke, Karl Marx, and Michel Eyquem de Montaigne.
Political Theory and Philosophy is a large section containing great works from throughout
history. Plato’s book The Republic is the oldest, and later works include Nicolo Machiavelli’s
The Prince; letters and autobiographical extracts from Thomas Jefferson’s writing; Frederic
Bastiat’s books That Which Is Seen, and That Which Is Not Seen, and The Law; and John Stuart
Mill’s books including On Liberty and Representative Government.
American Government and Politics is a huge section, with subsections on U.S. Presidents, U.S.
Congress, U.S. Supreme Court, Founding Fathers, Constitution Reference, and National Party
Platforms 1840-2000. All of the inaugural addresses, messages, and papers of all presidents from
Washington to Clinton are included. From 1994 onwards, there is a weekly compilation of
presidential papers. The other subsections have similarly wide coverage, making American
Government and Politics an unparalleled, comprehensive online collection.
1. Major writers and examples of works
Bastiat, Frederic: That Which Is Seen, and That Which Is Not Seen
Brownson, Orestes Augustus: American Republic, The: Constitution, Tendencies and Destiny
Burke, Edmund: Reflections on the Revolution in France
Directory of U.S. Senators by State
Hamilton, Alexander: The Federalist Papers
Historical Almanack of the U.S. Senate
History of the United States Senate
Holmes, Oliver Wendell: The Common Law; The Path of the Law
Hobbes, Thomas: Leviathan
Jefferson, Thomas: Declaration of Independence; Hamilton and Adams; Correspondence,
essays, presidential papers.
Locke, John: Human Understanding; Civil Government
Machiavelli, Nicolo: The Prince
Marx, Karl: Communist Manifesto
Mill, John Stuart: On Liberty; Representative Government; Utilitarianism
De Montaigne, Michel Eyquem: Essays
Plato: Republic
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques: The Social Contract; Confessions; Discourse on the Origins of
Inequality
Tocqueville, Alexis de: Democracy in America (2 volumes)
2. Stand-alone documents and collections
Constitutional Reference: Documents relating to the U.S. Constitution
European Union: “Treaty of the European Union”
Founding Fathers: documents by or about the leaders of the American Revolution
“Habeus Corpus Act”
“Japan, Constitution of, 1886"
“Japan, Constitution of, 1946"
National Party Platforms 1840-2000
“Supremacy of Parliament”
“United States Bill of Rights”
United States Congress: documents on history and workings of the senate
“United States Constitution”
“United States Declaration of Independence”
United States Presidents: Inaugural Addresses; messages, papers, and documents of all the
presidents
United States Supreme Court: 16,000 important cases from 1793 to 2001
3. Selected quotations
If a builder has built a house for a man and has not made strong his work, and the house he built
has fallen, and he has caused the death of the owner of the house, that builder shall be put to
death. —— Code of Hammurabi.
For by art is created that great LEVIATHAN called a COMMONWEALTH, or STATE (in Latin,
CIVITAS), which is but an artificial man, though of greater stature and strength than the natural,
for whose protection and defence it was intended; and in which the sovereignty is an artificial
soul. —— Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan
ALL STATES, all powers, that have held and hold rule over men have been and are either
republics or principalities. . . . Such dominions thus acquired are either accustomed to live under
a prince, or to live in freedom; and are acquired either by the arms of the prince himself, or of
others, or else by fortune or by ability. —— Nicolo Machiavelli: The Prince.
Have you ever chanced to hear it said “There is no better investment than taxes. Only see what a
number of families it maintains, and consider how it reacts on industry; it is an inexhaustible
stream, it is life itself. In order to combat this doctrine.” —— Frederic Bastiat: That Which Is
Seen, and That Which Is Not Seen.
By some minds, government is conceived as strictly a practical art, giving rise to no questions
but those of means and an end. —— John Stuart Mill: Representative Government.
If taxes are laid upon us in any shape, without our having a legal representation where they are
laid, are we not reduced from the character of free subjects to the miserable state of tributary
slaves? —— Samuel Adams: “The Boston Instructions”.
And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do
for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but
what together we can do for the freedom of man. —— John F. Kennedy: Inaugural Address.
D. Social Sciences
The main sections in this collection come under the headings of Anthropology; Economics;
Psychology; Sociology; Family, Marriage, Sex, and Gender; and Vital Statistics.
The content of the Anthropology section ranges from paleontological writing such as that of
Thomas Huxley and Emory Adams Allen, to anthropological works by George Borrow on the
people and language of Wales; Ellsworth Huntington on aboriginal Americans; and the writing
of William I. Thomas; Alfred L. Kroeber; and T. T. Waterman.
The Economics section covers the great works of pioneers of economics thinking such as Karl
Marx, John Stuart Mill, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Adam Smith, as well as essays and extracts
from such important writers in economics as John Locke, Thomas Robert Malthus, Thomas
Mun, Francois Quesnay, and David Ricardo.
In addition to the inevitable and essential selection of Sigmund Freud’s writing, the diverse
writers in the psychology section include Charles Darwin on emotions in animals and humans;
Harry Houdini on the psychological tricks of spiritualists; Gustave Le Bon on the psychology of
revolution; Abraham Myerson on the foundations of personality; and Walter Dill Scott on
Business Psychology.
Sociology is a section ranging through works such as Thorstein Veblen on theory of the leisure
class; Gustave Le Bon on the sociology of the crowd; and Jane Addams, William Booth, Thomas
Carlyle, William Greenwood, and Leo Tolstoy on social conditions and problems.
The Family, Marriage, Sex, and Gender section includes classics such as Susan B. Anthony’s
“Woman’s Rights to the Suffrage”; Eliza Burt Gamble’s God-Idea of the Ancients—or Sex in
Religion; three works by Charlotte Perkins Gilman; and Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of
the Rights of Woman.
1. Major writers and examples of works
A Young Girl’s Diary
Addams, Jane: Twenty Years At Hull House; with autobiographical notes
Allen, Emory Adams: Prehistoric World, The: or, Vanished races
Borrow, George Henry: Wild Wales: Its People, Language and Scenery
Booth, William: In Darkest England and the Way Out
Carlyle, Thomas: Latter-Day Pamphlets
Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith): Utopia of Usurers, and other essays; What’s Wrong with the
World
Dumas, Alexandre: Celebrated Crimes – Complete; The Borgias
Ferri, Enrico: Criminal Sociology
Gamble, Eliza Burt: God-Idea of the Ancients—or Sex in Religion
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins: Forerunner; Herland
Goldman, Emma: Anarchism and Other Essays
Gross, Hans Gustav Adolf: Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and
students
Guthrie, William: Second Shetland Truck System Report
Harrington, James: Commonwealth of Oceana, The
Hose, Charles: Pagan Tribes of Borneo, The
Hulbert, Archer Butler: Paths of Inland Commerce, The
Huxley, Thomas Henry: Geological Contemporaneity and Persistent Types of Life
Huntington, Ellsworth: Red Man’s Continent, The: A Chronicle of Aboriginal America
Irving, Henry Brodribb: Book of Remarkable Criminals, A
Keller, Helen: Story of My Life
London, Jack: War of the Classes
Kingsley, Charles: Sanitary and Social Lectures, etc
Kroeber, Alfred L., and Waterman, T. T.: Source Book in Anthropology
Mandeville, John, Sir: Travels of Sir John Mandeville, The
More, Sir Thomas, Saint: Utopia
Morris, William: Signs of Change; News from Nowhere, or, An Epoch of Rest
Nadaillac, Jean-François-Albert du Pouget, Marquis de: Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric
Peoples
Schreiner, Olive: Woman and Labour
Smith, Adam: Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, An
Tolstoy, Leo: Census in Moscow, The; What to Do? Thoughts Evoked By the Census of
Moscow
Veblen, Thorstein: Theory of the Leisure Class
Wollstonecraft, Mary: Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Young, Kimball: Source Book for Sociology; Source Book for Social Psychology
2. Documents, speeches, papers and essays
“A Comparison of Municipal and Private Ownership”
Anthony, Susan B.: “Woman’s Rights to the Suffrage”
“Interstate Commerce Commission”
A Historical Record of the Population of the United States [From 1630 to 1991]
United States Price/Cost Indexes from 1875 to 1989
3. Selected quotations
The beginning of archaeology may be said to have been made with the decipherment of the
Rosetta stone. This was found at Rosetta in 1799. It contained three inscriptions, one in
hieroglyphic, one in demotic and the other in Greek. —— Oliver J. Thatcher: The Library of
Original Sources.
I confess I am not charmed with an ideal of life held out by those who think that the normal state
of human beings is that of struggling to get on; that the trampling, crushing, elbowing, and
treading on each other’s heels, which form the existing type of social life, are the most desirable
lot of human kind, or anything but the disagreeable symptoms of one of the phases of industrial
progress. —— John Stuart Mill: Principles of Political Economy.
The word Economy, or Oeconomy, is derived from oikos, a house, and uomas, law, and meant
originally only the wise and legitimate government of the house for the common good of the
whole family. —— Jean-Jacques Rousseau: “A Discourse on Political Economy.”
“It is especially to be remarked how readily infantile and youthful reminiscences enter into our
dreams. What we have long ceased to think about, what has long since lost all importance for us,
is constantly recalled by the dream.” —— A quote from Volkelt in Sigmund Freud’s
Interpretation of Dreams.
It is then an affection for the whole human race that makes my pen dart rapidly along to support
what I believe to be the cause of virtue: and . . . leads me earnestly to wish to see woman placed
in a station in which she would advance . . . the progress of those glorious principles that give a
substance to morality. . . . In a treatise, therefore, on female rights and manners, the works which
have been particularly written for their improvement must not be overlooked; especially when it
is asserted . . . that the minds of women are enfeebled by false refinement. —— Mary
Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.
E. Literature
This huge collection contains the most acclaimed and dominant literary writing in history. It
contains more than 3,000 complete books, and is divided into three main sections—American
Literature, British Literature, and World Literature. Each section contains many great authors’
works that are on recommended book lists for high school libraries. The inclusion of many
writers of interest to younger readers makes the Literature Collection of particular relevance to
elementary and middle schools.
American Literature contains the works of more than 80 great writers, including L. Frank
Baum’s 2 Oz novels; 12 novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs; 5 novels of James Fenimore Cooper;
the works of Mark Twain; and Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass. Poets in the collection include
William Cullen Bryant, Robert Frost, and Carl Sandburg. Works by women writers include 3
novels by Louisa May Alcott; 4 novels of Willa Cather; The Story of My Life by Helen Keller;
Mary Rowlandson’s description of her captivity; and Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s
Cabin. Female poets represented include Anne Bradstreet, Emily Dickinson, Edna St. Vincent
Millais, and Phillis Wheatley.
British Literature includes the works of more than 90 great writers, including J. M. Barrie’s Peter
Pan; Beowulf; the works of Lewis Carroll; 11 novels of Charles Dickens; 4 plays of George
Bernard Shaw; all the plays of William Shakespeare; and 24 works of Oscar Wilde. Poets in the
collection include Robert Burns, John Milton, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Alfred Lord Tennyson.
Works by women writers include 6 novels by Jane Austen; 1 novel each by Charlotte and Emily
Bronte; 2 novels of George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans); Baroness Orczy’s Scarlet Pimpernel; Mary
Wollstonecraft Shelley’s Frankenstein; Virginia Woolf’s The Voyage Out; and poems by
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Felicia Memens, and Christina Rossetti.
World Literature includes the works of more than 60 great writers, translated into English.
Examples are: 7 of the plays of Aeschylus; 30 of Aesop’s fables; more than 150 of the tales of
Hans Christian Andersen; 6 works of Miguel de Cervantes; 3 novels of Alexandre Dumas; 19
plays by Euripides; more than 200 children’s stories by the Brothers Grimm; the Rubaiyat of
Omar Khayyam: Leo Tolstoy’s two great novels, Anna Karenina and War and Peace; and
Johann Wyss’s Swiss Family Robinson.
1. Major authors with examples of works
American Literature
Alcott, Louisa May: Flower Fables; Little Women; Little Men
Alger, Horatio: Cast Upon the Breakers
Baum, Frank: The Marvelous Land of Oz; The Wizard of Oz
Burnett, Frances Hodgson: A Little Princess; Sara Crewe; The Secret Garden
Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce: “I Will Fight No More Forever”
Chopin, Kate: 21 stories
Cooper, James Fenimore: 5 novels
Dana, Richard Henry: Two Years Before the Mast
Dickinson, Emily: 4 volumes of poetry
Douglass, Frederick: My Bondage and My Freedom; The Narrative of the Life of J. Frederick
Douglass, An American Slave
Emerson, Ralph Waldo:2 volumes of essays; Representative men; “Brahma”; “Concord Hymn”
Frost, Robert: 3 volumes of poetry
Hawthorne, Nathaniel: The House of the Seven Gables; The Scarlet Letter; Twice-Told Tales
Henry, O.: 12 volumes containing 263 stories
Irving, Washington: The Alhambra; The Sketch Book
Keller, Helen: The Story of My Life
Lazarus, Emma: “The New Colossus”
London, Jack: 6 novels
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth: Complete Poems; Evangeline
Lowell, James: 15 essays; 9 poems
Melville, Hermann: Billy Budd; Encantadas; Moby-Dick; Typee
Millay, Edna St. Vincent: Renascence and Other Poems
Morley, Christopher: Parnassus on Wheels; The Haunted Bookshop
Phillips, David Graham: Susan Lenox, Her Rise and Fall
Poe, Edgar Allan: more than 120 stories and poems
Porter, Gene Stratton: At the Foot of the Rainbow; Freckles; Girl of the Limberlost; The Song of
the Cardinal
Pound, Ezra: 22 poems, including translations into English
Robinson, Edwin Arlington: “Miniver Cheevy”; “Richard Corey”
Rowson, Susanna: Charlotte Temple
Sandburg, Carl: Chicago Poems
Sienkiewicz, Henryk: Quo Vadis
Sinclair, Upton: The Jungle
Stowe, Harriet Beecher: Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Thoreau, Henry David: Walden – or Life in the Woods; plus 4 essays
Twain, Mark: 12 volumes of novels and stories
Wallace, Lew: Ben Hur
Warren, Mercy: 1 letter; 1 essay; and 1 poem—“Woman’s Trifling Needs”
Washington, Booker T.: Up From Slavery
Webster, Jean: Daddy-Long-Legs
Wharton, Edith: Ethan Frome; Summer
Wheatley, Phillis: 4 poems
Whittier, John Greenleaf: “Barbara Frietchie”
Winthrop, Margaret: “A Puritan Wife To Her Husband”; “The Trust of a Godly Woman”
Woolman, John: How He Testified in the Meeting Against Slavery
British Literature
Arnold, Matthew: Dover Beach
Austen, Jane: Pride and Prejudice; Sense and Sensibility
Barrie, J.M.: Peter Pan
Beowulf
Blake, William: 8 poems
Boswell, James: The Life of Samuel Johnson
Bronte, Charlotte: Jane Eyre
Bronte, Emily: Wuthering Heights
Brooke, Rupert: The Soldier
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett: two of the Sonnets from the Portuguese
Browning, Robert: 2 volumes of lyrics and poems
Burns, Robert: “A Red, Red Rose”; “Sweet Afton”
Butler, Samuel: Way of All Flesh
Byron, George Gordon, Lord: Don Juan; “She Walks in Beauty”;” “So We’ll Go No More a
Roving”
Carlyle, Thomas: The Hero as Poet
Carroll, Lewis: 75 works – poems; riddles; such novels as Alice in Wonderland; Through the
Looking-Glass
Chaucer, Geoffrey: The Canterbury Tales; The House of Fame; The Legend of Good Women;
Minor Poems; Troilus and Criseyde
Chesterton, G.K.: Orthodoxy; the Innocence of Father Brown
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor: 6 works, including “Kubla Khan”; “The Rime of The Ancient
Mariner”
Dickens, Charles: 11 major works
Eliot, George (Evans, Mary Anne ): 5 novels, including Middlemarch; Silas Marner
Keats, John: 37 major poems
Kingsley, Charles: Westward Ho!
Kipling, Rudyard: The Jungle Book; stories, poems, and novels
Lawrence, D.H.: Sons and Lovers
Lear, Edward: The Owl and the Pussy-Cat
Marvell, Andrew: To His Coy Mistress
Milton, John: 22 major poems including Paradise Lost
Munro (Saki), H.H.: 3 volumes of stories
Orczy, Baroness: The Scarlet Pimpernel
Rossetti, Christina: Remember
Scott, Sir Walter: Waverley
Shakespeare, William: All 34 plays; 154 sonnets
Shaw, George Bernard: Arms and the Man; Pygmalion
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft: Frankenstein
Shelley, Percy Bysshe: “Ode To the West Wind”; “Ozymandias”
Stevenson, Robert Louis: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; Treasure Island
Stoker, Bram: Dracula
Swift, Jonathan: Gulliver’s Travels
Tennyson, Alfred Lord: Idylls of the King; “The Charge of the Light Brigade”
Wells, H.G.: The Invisible Man; The War of the Worlds
Wilde, Oscar: 24 works
Woolf, Virginia: The Voyage Out
World Literature
Aeschylus: 7 plays
Aesop’s Fables
Alighieri, Dante: The Divine Comedy
Andersen, Hans Christian: 39 major tales and other works
Ariosto, Lodovico: Orlando Furioso
Aristophanes: Lysistrata; The Frogs; The Wasps
Campanella, Tommaso: The City of the Sun
Cervantes, Miguel De: Don Quixote; The Jealous Estramaduran
Cicero: letters and essays
Collodi, Carlo: Pinocchio—The Adventures of a Puppet
Dostoevsky, Fyodor Mikhailovich: Crime and Punishment: The Brothers Karamazov
Dumas, Alexandre: The Three Musketeers; The Man in the Iron Mask
Euripides: Electra; Heracles; Iphigenia in Tauris; The Trojan Women
Flaubert, Gustave: Madame Bovary
Giovanni, Boccaccio: The Decameron
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von: Faust
Grimm, Jacob Ludwig, and Grimm, Wilhelm Carl: 210 stories
Hugo, Victor: Les Miserables
Ibsen, Henrik: A Doll’s House; Hedda Gabler
Khayyam, Omar: Rubaiyat
Leroux, Gaston: Phantom of the Opera
Maupassant, Guy de:Bel-Ami
Moliere: Tartuffe
Montgomery, Lucy Maud: Anne of Green Gables
Ovid: Metamorphoses
Song of Roland
Stendhal: The Red and the Black
Tolstoy, Leo: War and Peace; Anna Karenina; 1 book of stories
Verne, Jules: Around The World in Eighty Days; Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Voltaire: Candide
Wyss, Johann: The Swiss Family Robinson
Yeats, William Butler: “The Lake Isle of Inisfree”
2. Selected quotations
. . . When war was begun between the North and the South, every slave on our plantation felt and
knew that, though other issues were discussed, the primal one was that of slavery. —— Booker
T. Washington: Up from Slavery.
Then on a stately oak I cast mine eye,
Whose ruffling top the clouds seem’d to aspire;
How long since thou wast in thine infancy?
—— Anne Bradstreet: “Contemplations”.
“I pray thee, shepherd, if that love, or gold,
Can in this desert place buy entertainment,
Bring us where we may rest ourselves and feed.”
—— William Shakespeare: As You Like It.
The child who is decked with prince’s robes and who has jewelled chains round his neck loses
all pleasure in his play; his dress hampers him at every step. —— Rabindranath Tagore:
Gitanjali (Song Offerings).
Master Pangloss taught the metaphysico-theologo-cosmolonigology. . . . “It is demonstrable,”
said he, “that things cannot be otherwise than as they are; for as all things have been created for
some end, they must necessarily be created for the best end. Observe, for instance, the nose is
formed for spectacles, therefore we wear spectacles.” —— Voltaire: Candide.
F. Science & Mathematics
Important and epoch-making writing from dozens of great scientists and mathematicians appears
in this extensive and varied collection. The five main sections, each of which is divided into
numerous subsections, are General Science, Life Science, Physical Science, Mathematics, and
Applied Science.
The General Science section covers the history of science in extensive collections such as A
Source Book in Greek Science, A Source Book in Medieval Science, and Classics of Modern
Science, Copernicus to Pasteur. In addition, there are descriptions of discoveries and theories by
great scientists such as, Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, and William Thomson Kelvin on the
absolute scale of temperature, and Antoine Laurent Lavoisier on the permanence of matter and
the nature of combustion.. The philosophy of science is covered in major works by Rene
Descartes and Immanual Kant, with essays, papers, and fragments from outstanding names such
as Anaximander, Anaxagoras, Roger Bacon, and Pliny the Elder.
Life Science includes an extensive subsection on general life science, which covers history,
philosophy, and major theories such as germ theory with extracts from the writing and
correspondence of Louis Pasteur. The second subsection, Botany, includes a dissertation on the
sexes of plants by Carolus Linnaeus. Zoology, the next subsection, has a Source Book in Animal
Biology, and zoological writings by such scientists as Aristotle and William Harvey. Physiology
includes the thoughts of Charles Bell on nerves, David Ferrier on location of brain function,
Hippocrates, Edward Jenner on immunization, and William Harvey. Other subsections of the
Life Sciences similarly full of great scientists’ writing include Genetics, Paleontology, Ecology,
Microbiology, and Ornithology. A final subsection, on Great Life Scientists, gives biographical
information on many of the contributors to this section.
Physical Science covers this important area in five extensive subsections. Astronomy (Space
Science) ranges from the first heliocentric theory of Aristarchus of Samos and the condemnation
of Galileo Galilei through source books on astronomy from 1900 to 1950, and from 1900 to
1975, to Norman Lockyer writing on the chemistry of the stars. Chemistry has source books
covering the history from 1400 to 1900, and from 1900 to 1950, plus writings by more than 20
great chemists. Physics, too, has a source book with 150 historical essays, plus many interesting
and important papers by such great scientists as Joseph Henry, Henri Poincare, Wilhelm
Roentgen, and Thomas Young. Two other similarly structured subsections also cover Geography,
Meteorology, Oceanography; and Geology.
The Mathematics section covers General Mathematics, Analysis, and Mathematical Logic. One
extensive source book covers general mathematics from 1200 to 1800, another covers classical
analysis, and a third covers mathematical logic from Frege to Godel. Individual papers and
essays cover the work of great thinkers such as Archimedes, Aristotle, Euclid, and Pythagoras.
Applied Science is an extensive section, divided into Engineering and Medicine. Further
subdivisions cover topics such as acoustical, aerospace, and agricultural engineering, each with
writings by people who made breakthroughs in the field, such as the Wright brothers. Medicine
has whole works by Galen and Hippocrates, and important papers in anatomy and physiology
1. Major scientists and examples of works
Anaximander: “Fragments”
Archimedes: “Cattle Problem, The”
Aristotle: On the Parts of Animals
Bacon, Roger: On the Importance of Studying Mathematics.
Classics of Modern Science
Darwin, Charles: Coral Reefs; Geological Observations on South America; Volcanic
Observations; Origin of Species
Einstein, Albert: “The Foundation of the General Theory of Relativity”; “On the Influence of
Gravitation of the Propagation of Light”
Euclid: “The Pythagorean Theorem”
Fahrenheit, Daniel Gabriel: “Fahrenheit Scale, The”
Franklin, Benjamin: Autobiography; 11 essays; 1 volume of letters
Galen: On the Natural Faculties
Harvey, William: “An Anatomical Disquisition on the Motion of the Heartblood in Animals”
Henry, Joseph: “On the Production of Currents and Sparks of Electricity From Magnetism”
Herschel, Sir William: “The Discovery of Uranus”
Hippocrates: Aphorisms; Of the Epidemics; Instruments of Reduction
Huxley, Thomas Henry: On Some Fossil Remains of Man; Lectures On Evolution
Jenner, Edward: “The Theory of Vaccination”
Kanada, Yasumasa: “One Divided By Pi (to 1 million digits)”
Kelvin, William Thomson: “An Absolute Scale of Temperature”
Kant, Immanuel: The Science of Right
Koch, Robert: “Theory of Bacteria”
Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent: “The Nature of Combustion”; “Respiration as Combustion”
Lockyer, Sir Joseph: “The Chemistry of the Stars”
Lyell, Sir Charles: Student’s Elements of Geology, The
Newton, Sir Isaac: “The Theory of Gravitation”
Pasteur, Louis: “Inoculation for Hydrophobia”
Pliny the Elder: “The Inventors of Various Things”; “An Account of the World and Its Elements”
Priestley, Joseph: “The Discovery of Oxygen”
Schwann, Theodore: “Cell Theory”
Watt, James: “Invention of the Steam Engine”
Wright Brothers, The: “The First Airplane to Fly Successfully”
2. Major works, documents and papers relating to science
Descartes, Rene: Discourse on the Method of Right Conducting the Reason and Seeking Truth in
the Sciences
“First 100,000 Prime Numbers, The”
Hippocrates: The Oath
Human Genome Project: Chromosome Numbers 1 – 24 (24 sections)
“Square Root of 4 to a Million Places, The”
“The Invention of the Telephone: The Share in It of Edison And Bell”
U.S. National Atomic Museum: Trinity Atomic Bomb
3. Selected Quotations
Anaximander said the sun was a ring twenty-eight times the size of the earth. . . . Further, he
says that in the beginning man was born from animals of a different species. —— Fragments of
Thought of Anaximander
Dear Mr. Pasteur:
“For the first time in the history of science, we are justified in cherishing confidently the hope
that, as far as epidemic diseases are concerned, medicine will soon be delivered from empiricism,
and placed on a real scientific basis.” —— John Tyndall, in a letter dated February 16, 1876.
G. Philosophy & Religion
Philosophy has three subsections providing grounding in the development of philosophy;
epistemology, including David Hume’s Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding;and logic,
including the great writing of Aristotle and Rene Descartes. The fourth subsection is the heart of
Philosophy, with the great works of no fewer than 26 major philosophers.
Religious studies, especially comparative religion, have received an extra emphasis in recent
times following the September 11, 2001 attack on the United States by terrorists claiming to act
in the name of Islam. Coverage in the Religion section starts with a general subsection on the
development of religion, including William James’ book The Varieties of Religious Experience.
This is followed by writings about, and the holy books of, great religions: classical mythology;
Hinduism; Buddhism; Confucianism; Taoism; Christianity; and Islam. Work on adding holy
books of other religions, including Judaism, is in hand for 2002 publication.
1. Major philosophers and religious writers
Philosophical works of writers including the following:
Antonius, Marcus Aurelius
Aquinas, Thomas
Aristotle
Bacon, Francis
Bentham, Jeremy
Berkeley, George
Descartes, Rene
Erasmus, Desiderius
Hume, David
Kant, Immanuel
Leibnitz, Gottfried Wilhelm
Locke, John
Malthus, Thomas Robert
Mill, John Stuart
Nietzsche, Friedrich
Paine, Thomas
Plato
Plotinus
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
Russell, Bertrand Arthur William 3rd, Earl,
Voltaire
Holy scriptures and philosophical guides
Book of Mormon, The
Buddha, The Gospel
Confucian Analects
Holy Bible, King James Version
Holy Bible, The Douay-Rheims Version
Laws of Manu, The
Quran, The
Tao Te Ching
Upanishads, The
Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
Religious writing of writers including the following:
Bunyan, John
Butler, Samuel
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
Eddy, Mary Baker
Gamble, Eliza Burt
Giles, Herbert Allen
Ginzberg, Louis
Hutton, Joseph Edmund
James, William
Lang, Andrew
Latimer, Hugh
Lau-tzu
Luther, Martin
MacCaffrey, James
Mather, Cotton
Melanchthon, Philip
Pinches, Theophilus Goldridge
Shepard, Thomas
Twain, Mark
Wheatley, Phillis
White, Andrew Dickson
Wigglesworth, Michael
Williams, Roger
2. Selected quotations
Descartes (1596–1650) tried to sweep away all uncertainties and start from one absolutely certain
fact, “Cogito, ergo sum,” as he expressed it,—“I think, and in so thinking I exist.” —— The
Beginnings of Modern Philosophy from the Library of Original Sources.
Memory gives the souls a sort of consecutiveness which is like reason, but which ought to be
distinguished from it. —— Leibniz: “Monadology”.
. . . there is a considerable difference between the perceptions of the mind, when a man feels the
pain of excessive heat, or the pleasure of moderate warmth, and when he afterwards recalls to his
memory this sensation, or anticipates it by his imagination. . . . The most lively thought is still
inferior to the dullest sensation. —— David Hume: An Enquiry Concerning Human
Understanding.
A man and an ox are both ‘animal’ . . . if a man should state in what sense each is an animal, the
statement in the one case would be identical with that in the other. —— Aristotle: Categories.
The higher criticism of the Bible is only a study of the Bible from this existential point of
view. . . . Under just what biographic conditions did the sacred writers bring forth their various
contributions to the holy volume? And what had they exactly in their several individual minds?
These are manifestly questions of historical fact . . . of what use should such a volume, with its
manner of coming into existence so defined, be to us as a guide to life and a revelation?
—— William James: The Varieties of Religious Experience.
That (seed) became a golden egg, in brilliancy equal to the sun; in that (egg) he himself was born
as Brahman, the progenitor of the whole world. —— Hinduism/The Laws of Manu.
The Master said, “If the people be led by laws, and uniformity sought to be given them by
punishments, they will try to avoid the punishment, but have no sense of shame. If they be led by
virtue, and uniformity sought to be given them by the rules of propriety, they will have the sense
of shame, and moreover will become good.” —— Confucius: Confucian Analects.
Thou awakest us to delight in Thy praise; for Thou madest us for Thyself, and our heart is
restless, until it repose in Thee. Grant me, Lord, to know and understand which is first, to call on
Thee or to praise Thee? —— The Confessions of Saint Augustine.
Psalms|1:1 Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the
way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
Psalms|1:2 But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and
night. —— The Bible.
Praise belongs to God, the Lord of the worlds, the merciful, the compassionate, the ruler of the
day of judgment! Thee we serve and Thee we ask for aid. Guide us in the right path, the path of
those Thou art gracious to; not of those Thou art wroth with; nor of those who err. —— The
Quran
H. Language
A useful resource to support language skills development and foreign language learning, this
collection has two main sections, Language Arts and Languages. The first section covers speech
communication, including famous orations throughout history; writing grammar and
composition; philology, the evolution of consonants in European languages; vowels; and the
derivation of English from Latin.
The main, Languages, section contains works in 11 languages: Danish, Dutch, Flemish, French,
German, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, and Welsh. Many of the works, such as
Don Quijote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, are also available translated into English in the
Original Sources collection of Literature.
1. Major writers and examples of works
Language arts
The World’s Famous Orations
“The Derivation of English From Latin”
Flemish
Heinrich Heine: De Beurs Lacht, De Franse Pers, and Franse Toestanden.
French
Alexandre Dumas (pere et fils), Henri III et sa Cour; Dame aux Camelias, La
Moliere: L’Etourdi
Marcel Proust: L’Ombre des Jeunes Filles en Fleurs, A
Edmond Rostand: Cyrano de Bergerac
Stendhal (6 novels)
Jules Verne: De la Terre a la Lune; Tour du Mond 80 Joures
Voltaire: Vie de Molière
German
Anzengruber, Ludwig: G’wissenswurm; Bauernkomödie in drei Akten, Der
Arnim, Ludwig Achim, Freiherr von: Isabella von Aegypten; Kaiser Karl des Fünften erste
Jugendliebe
Brentano, Clemens: Maerhen von dem Mytrenfraeulin, Das
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von: Briefe aus der Schweiz; Die Lieden des
JungenWerther;Egmont;Faust; 11 Wilhelm Meisters books, and 13 other works
Hebbel, Friedrich: Herodes und Mariamne; eine tragödie in fünf akten; Schnock; ein
niederländisches Gemälde
Heine, Heinrich: Buch der Lieder
Hesse, Hermann: Siddhartha: eine indische Dichtung
May, Karl Friedrich: Mein Leben und Streben
Meyer, Conrad Ferdinand: Die Versuchung des Pescara
Mommsen, Theodor: Roemische Geschichte 6 volumes
Wieland, Christoph Martin: Geschichte des Agathon; Oberon
Italian
Dante Alighieri: Divina Commedia
Ariosto, Lodovico: Orlando Furioso
Latin
Virgil: The Aeneid; The Bucolics and Eclogues; The Georgics
Cicero: Orations
Julius Caesar’s Commentaries on the Gallic War
Latin Vulgate Bible
Martin Luther: 95 Theses
Propertius, Sextus: Sexti Properti Carmina
Portuguese
J. Simoes Lopes Netto: Lendas Do Sol
Luis de Camoes: Os Lusiadas.
Spanish
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de: Don Quijote
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers: Bombardos Atomicos De Hiroshima y Nagasaki
Spanish short stories and plays
A Progressive Spanish reader
Selections from modern Spanish writers.
Swedish
Bibeln (The Bible)
Welsh
Sir Owen Morgan Edwards: Cartrefi Cymru
Hughes, Ceiriog: Ceiriog
O’r Nant, Twm: The Works of Twm O’r Nant
2. Selected quotations
The Consonants (Grimm’s and Verner’s Law).This describes the changes in consonants over
the centuries, and gives examples of how words have changed in the evolution into Aryan,
Greek, Latin, Gothic, Anglo Saxon, English, Old High German, and German languages, such as:
Kcrntom hekaton centum hund hundret hundred hundert Hundert. —— Oliver J. Thatcher, The
Library of Original Sources, 1907.
Sevilla es la Sephela fundada por los Fenicios, la Julia Rómula de los romanos y la Ixbilyah de
los árabes. La ciudad está situada cerca del Guadalquivir, y ha conservado como ninguna otra
ciudad la apariencia oriental y el ambiente soñador y lánguido de los sarracenos. —— Carolina
Marcial Dorado: “Sevilla.”