Mount Holyoke College: The Balkans' Lethal Nationalism

Virtual exhibition profiling Mary Lyon, a school teacher who in 1837 founded Mount Holyoke Female Seminary to enable women to have an education equal to that of men. Well organized with colorful imagery.

This site from the Mount Holyoke College provides a list of numerous links to sources covering a broad range of topics on Stalin.

Stop here to read the full text of the Platt Amendment of 1903, which dealt with U.S. intervention in Cuba.

This site from the Mount Holyoke College provides an analysis of the debate of the question of Stalin and Stalinism and the different views and revisions that exist.

As part of a larger site about Joseph McCarthy and McCarthyism, this page relates his ultimate downfall brought about by his bullying style and false accusations.

Brief, but informative historical background on the events and influences that lead to the Italian invasion of Tripoli in 1911.

Step-by-step description of the development of the Bosnian Crisis is provided here.

Provides the well-documented text of the article "The East German Communists and the Origins of the Berlin Blockade Crisis" by Charles F. Pennacchio.

Follow the course of historical events through a series of letters among European powers! These English translations of primary source documents from German diplomatic archives concern the intervention of the European powers by forcing...

This site explains who Joe McCarthy was and the emergence and progression of McCarthyism in the United States.