National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Henry David Thoreau, Excerpts From "Economy," Ch. 1 of Walden, 1854
A chapter from Walden that critiques and challenges the new market economy of the nineteenth century.
Curated OER
Cbc.ca: Years of Hope & Anger Nationalist Passions
An overview of Canada in the 1960's, a 100th birthday for Canada, new flag debate, Quebec nationalism and separatists, and the rise of Trudeaumania.
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Religion: John Mayfield
Primary resource of John Mayfield, as he discusses civic life, religion and the growth of American democracy in an excerpt from "Toward the Millennium," ch. 8 in The New Nation: 1800-1845, 1982 (rev. ed.)
Library of Congress
Loc: Latvia Transition to Independence
This site from the Library of Congress examines some of the struggles that came out of democratization. The end of the communist party lead to the rise of splintered political parties. Legitimate vs. illegitimate bodies of government are...
Other
Frustrated Nationalism in Yugoslavia: From Liberal to Communist Solution
History of the politics in Yugoslavia from the early through the late 1900s. Examines the rise and fall of Communism and the country itself.
Digital Public Library of America
Dpla: Jacksonian Democracy?
The purpose of this primary source set is to weigh both sides of the argument and decide whether Jackson's presidency was a time of democracy, a time of rising nationalism or a combination of the two.
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Henry David Thoreau: Civil Disobedience: 1848
Thoreau's essay that calls for citizens to break unjust laws, particularly those promoting the continuation and expansion of slavery.
Digital History
Digital History: Shifting Political Values
A description of the changing ideas of the young Democratic Republicans and the three men who, in the 1820s, supported those values. These three men would be important players in the national government for the next 40 years.
PBS
Pbs: Frontline: The Ira and Sinn Fein: Poetry: "The Foggy Dew"
A favorite of Irish nationalists from the time that it was written (1919), "The Foggy Dew" is an example of a traditional ballad inspired by one of the most significant events in Ireland's long struggle with Britain: the 1916 Easter Rising.