Primary Sources
Religion and Cosmovision
The Spanish Conquest
Hernán Cortés – Second Letter to Charles V – October 30, 1520
The American Revolution
The Liberty Song, lyrics by John Dickinson – 1768
Come Shake Your Dull Noodles, parody of The Liberty Song – 1768
Thomas Paine – Common Sense – January 10, 1776
John Dickinson – The "Popular Tyranny" of a Republic – July 1, 1776
Colonial Spanish America
Alexander von Humboldt – "Problems and Progress in Mexico" – c. 1803
The Early American Republic
Tecumseh – "The Great Spirit is angry with our enemies" – Winter of 1811-1812
American Slavery and Abolitionism
Sarah Grimké – "An Epistle to the Clergy of the Southern States" – 1836
The Gilded Age
The Mexican Revolution
James Creelman – "President Diaz, Hero of the Americas," – 1908
US Imperialism
Francisco García Calderón – Latin America: Its Rise and Progress – 1913
Consumer Culture
Veblen – The Theory of the Leisure Class – 1899
The Cuban Missile Crisis – October 14 - 28, 1962
Fidel Castro – Speech to the People of Cuba at a Loyalty Rally – October 26, 1959
John F. Kennedy – Report to the American People – October 22, 1962
Nikita Khrushchev – Letter from Khrushchev to Kennedy – October 24, 1962