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A

“A Barbarous Traffic in Slaves”: by William Pitt
“A Final Adieu”: by Jefferson Davis
“A Man's House Is His Castle”: by James Otis
“A New Bond of Union”: by Edward Everett
“A New Heaven and a New Earth”: by Booker T. Washington
Act of Union Between Scotland and England, 1707
Address by the Anti-Slavery Society
Africa's Arbitrary Borders
Agreement of London and Hansa Towns
Air Raids on Darwin: Sydney Morning Herald Report
Apology of William I to the Estates-General of Holland
Arrests Follow Reichstag Fire
Australia's Bicentennary Celebrations: Sydney Morning Herald Report
Australia's Worst Earthquake: Sydney Morning Herald Report
Australian Referendum: Sydney Morning Herald Report
Australian Troops Departure for Vietnam: Sydney Morning Herald Report
Australian Troops Heading for the Boer War: Sydney Morning Herald Report
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: by Benjamin Franklin

B

Battle of Crécy: an Account by Jean Froissart
Battle of Hastings: an Account by William of Malmesbury
“Be Ye the Avengers of Noble Blood”: by William the Conqueror
Bismarck and the Ems Dispatch
Bismarck's Capture of Napoleon III
Boycotting in Ireland
Bright's Speeches Against the Crimean War
Burke's Speech on Fox's India Bill

C

Canberra Becoming the Nation's Capital: Sydney Morning Herald Report
Captain Smith Rescued by Pocahontas
Casement's Speech After Being Found Guilty of Treason
Chamberlains's Broadcast on the Outbreak of War
“Charlemagne's War Against the Saxons”: by Einhard
Charles I's Speech Before Execution
Chartist Petition of 1848
Cicero's Speech Impeaching the Sicilian Governor
Clive's Speech in Defence of his Conduct
Cobden's Speech Against the Corn Laws
Coronation Oath of Edward II, 1308
“Coronation of Charlemagne”: by Einhard
Cotton Industry: an Account by Edmund Cartwright
Cyclone Tracy: Sydney Morning Herald Report

D

Daniel O'Connell's Defence of the Irish in the House of Commons
Death of Joseph Lyons: Sydney Morning Herald Report
Death of Tito
Declaration of the Framework Knitters
“Defence of Constitutional Principles”: by John Wilkes
Defoe on the Turnpike Roads
Description of Belsen at the Time of Liberation
Description of Henry VIII
“Disappointment Is the Lot of Woman”: by Lucy Stone
Disraeli's Condemnation of Peel
Duke of Argyll's Speech on Patronage in the Army
Duke of Buckingham's Speech Dissolving Parliament, 1677

E

Edict of the Diet of Worms
“Edict on Land Reform”: by Ban Gu
Edmund Barton: Sydney Morning Herald Obituary
Edward VIII's Abdication Speech
Effects of Enclosure
Elizabeth I's Speech to the Troops at Tilbury
Employment of Children in Factories
Ernest Dunlop: Sydney Morning Herald Obituary
Eureka Stockade: Sydney Morning Herald Report
Execution of Ned Kelly: Sydney Morning Herald Report

F	First Telephone Call Between England and Australia: Sydney Morning Herald Report Foreign Intervention in the Spanish Civil War Founding of Canberra: Sydney Morning Herald Report

G

Gallipoli Campaign: Sydney Morning Herald Report
Gandhi Begins March to the Sea
George VI's Broadcast on the Outbreak of War
German Surrender at Reims
Germany and Russia Sign Pact
Gibbeting by the River Thames
“Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Death”: by Patrick Henry
Gladstone's Attack on Disraeli's Budget
Gladstone's Speech on the Turkish Suppression of the Bulgarians
Gladstone's Third Midlothian Speech
Guest Essay: Killing of a King
Guest Essay: Nuclear Weapons After the Cold War
Guest Essay: The Heritage of Europe
Guest Essay: The Historiography of Universal History
Guest Essay: The Need for National Belonging
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

H	“History Will Absolve Me”: by Fidel Castro

I

“I am an American”: by Gouverneur Morris
“I am Going to My Cold and Silent Grave”: by Robert Emmet
“I Have Always Made Common Cause With the People”: by Demosthenes
“I Have Nothing to Offer but Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat”: by Winston Churchill
“I Shall Declare Unto You My Very Faith”: by Thomas Cranmer
“I Will Fight No More”: by Chief Joseph
“In the Name of God, Go”: by Oliver Cromwell
Influenza Pandemic: Sydney Morning Herald Report
Introduction of Decimalization: Sydney Morning Herald Report
“Ireland Unfree Shall Never Be at Peace”: by Patrick Pearse
“It Is a Crime to Be a King”: by Camille Desmoulins

J	John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address

K	Kennedy Assassinated Kennedy's Cuban Missile Crisis Broadcast Kennedy's “Space Race” Telegram to Khrushchev Khrushchev Visit Memorandum Ku Klux Klan's Organization and Principles

M

Macaulay's Speech Against Religious Discrimination
Macaulay's Speech on Electoral Reform
Macmillan's “Wind of Change” Speech
Madrid Falls to Franco
“Man Above All Institutions!”: by William Lloyd Garrison
Mayflower Compact
“Men With Starvation in Their Faces”: Richard Lalor Sheil
Michael Sadler's Speech on the Factories Regulation Bill
Mob Wrecks Gin Joint
“My Patience Is Now at an End”: by Adolf Hitler
“My People Are Ebbing Away”: by Chief Seattle

N	Nelson Mandela's Inaugural Address Nixon's Resignation Speech “Non-Violence Is the First Article of My Faith”: by Mohandas Gandhi

O	On Encountering the Aborigines of Botany Bay “On Taking Up Arms”: by John Dickinson Opening of Sydney Harbour Bridge: Sydney Morning Herald Report

P

Parliamentary Speech on the General Strike
Past Masters: Gandhi
Peel on the Metropolitan Police
Pepys on The Great Fire of London
Pitt's Speech on Liberty and Free Speech
Plutarch's Account of Agesilaus
Plutarch's Account of Antony, Cleopatra, and War
Plutarch's Account of Caesar
Plutarch's Account of Caesar in Gaul
Plutarch's Account of Cicero
Plutarch's Account of Coriolanus
Plutarch's Account of Crassus
Plutarch's Account of Demosthenes
Plutarch's Account of Fabius
Plutarch's Account of Flamininus
Plutarch's Account of Lucullus
Plutarch's Account of Lycurgus
Plutarch's Account of Lysander
Plutarch's Account of Marcus Cato
Plutarch's Account of Numa Pompilius
Plutarch's Account of Pelopidas
Plutarch's Account of Pompey
Plutarch's Account of Romulus
Plutarch's Account of Sertorius
Plutarch's Account of Solon
Plutarch's Account of Themistocles
Plutarch's Account of Theseus
Plutarch's Account of Timoleon
Problems in China: from National Geographic
Proclamation Suppressing Coffee-Houses

Q	Queen Victoria on the Great Exhibition

R

Raleigh’s Letter to His Wife
Records of a Manor in Sussex
Recruiting Order, Scotland, 1782
Reflections on the Revolution in France: by Edmund Burke
Report of the Board of Health on Cholera
Report of the Poor Law Commissioners, 1838
Republican Convention: Sydney Morning Herald Report
Republican Referendum: Sydney Morning Herald Report
Resignation of Robert Menzies: Sydney Morning Herald Report
Roosevelt's Pearl Harbor Speech

S

Sacking of Gough Whitlam: Sydney Morning Herald Report
Selections from The Tatler and The Spectator
Signing of the Anzus Treaty: Sydney Morning Herald Report
South Vietnam Regime Falls in Coup
Speeches on the Middle East Peace Accord
Statement of the Twelve Articles
Strafford's Defence Against the Charge of Treason

T

Tennis Court Oath
Thaddeus Stevens's Speech on Radical Reconstruction
The Annals: by Tacitus
The Conquest of Gaul: by Gaius Julius Caesar
The Conquest of New Spain: by Bernal Díaz del Castillo
“The Dove of Peace”: by Henry Clay
“The Exchequer…is Empty…the Jewels Pawned”: by Sir John Eliot
“The First Scene of Our History”: by Daniel Webster
The Histories: The Persian Conflict: by Herodotus
The History of England: by Thomas Macaulay
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: by Edward Gibbon
The History of the Franks: by Gregory of Tours
The History of the Kings of Britain: by Geoffrey of Monmouth
“The Interest of England”: by George Canning
“The Kingdom is Undone”: by William Pitt the Elder
The Life of St Louis: by Jean de Joinville
The Makers of Rome: by Plutarch
“The Most Odious Species of Tyranny”: by Charles James Fox
“The Political Criminal of Today Must Needs be…The Saint of The New Age”: by Emma Goldman
“The Poorest He”: by Colonel Thomas Rainborowe
“The Priceless Value of the Freedom of the Press”: by James T. Austin
“The Rights of Man”: by Thomas Paine
“The Strong Arm of England”: by Viscount Palmerston
“The Tremendous Bar of God!”: by John Hancock
“The Triple Yoke of Ignorance, Tyranny and Corruption”: by Simón Bolívar
“This Was Their Finest Hour”: by Winston Churchill
Thoughts for the Millennium: Asa Briggs
Thoughts for the Millennium: Garret FitzGerald
Thoughts for the Millennium: Keith Ward
Thoughts for the Millennium: Mary Warnock
Thoughts for the Millennium: Peter Garrett
Thoughts for the Millennium: Richard Dawkins
“To Be a King”: by Elizabeth I
“To Dare, to Dare Again, Ever to Dare!”: by Georges Jacques Danton
Tony Benn's Speech to the House of Commons, 1963
Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
Treaty of Paris, 1783
“Tremble All Ye Oppressors of the World!”: by Richard Price
Truman's Korean War Statement
Truman's Speech on the Truman Doctrine

U	“Universal Emancipation”: by John Philpot Curran US Policy During the Cold War

V	V-J Day Celebrations: Sydney Morning Herald Report

W

Walpole's Defence of his Excise Bill
“War with Hannibal”: by Livy
“We Do Not Wish to Molest You”: by King Ethelbert
“We Now Demand Our Right to Vote”: by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
“We Shall Be as a City Upon a Hill”: by John Winthrop
Wilberforce's House of Commons Speech on Slavery, 1789
Wilson's Fourteen Points
Wolfe Tone’s Speech at His Court Martial
Words of Peace at Rabin's Funeral
World War I German Propaganda Leaflet

Y	“Your Blood Shall Redden the Earth”: by Pierre Vergniaud

Z	Zimmermann Telegram

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