Sources and original texts

A source guide to priority historical periods. Original texts remain on their source websites. Acquisition and bibliographic relevance do not establish that every historical claim is correct or that a topic is fully covered.

The detailed editorial notes are currently in Chinese. This page does not claim a complete English translation.

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• Athenae — 见原版说明
• The History of the Peloponnesian War — Thucydides
• The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 — Herodotus
• 高僧法顯傳 — 東晉 法顯記
• 大唐西域記 — 唐 玄奘譯．辯機撰
• 南海寄歸內法傳 — 唐 義淨撰
• 大唐大慈恩寺三藏法師傳 — 唐 慧立本．彥悰箋
• 高僧傳 — 梁 慧皎撰
• 續高僧傳 — 唐 道宣撰
• 史記 — 司馬遷
• A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms — Faxian
• The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano — Olaudah Equiano
• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave — Frederick Douglass
• Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa — Mungo Park
• Maori Religion and Mythology — Edward Shortland
• The Popol Vuh: The Mythic and Heroic Sagas of the Kichés of Central America — Lewis Spence
• Ten Thousand Years of Cultivation at Kuk Swamp in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea — ANU Press
• Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian — Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian
• The History of African Development: A Textbook for a New Generation of African Students and Teachers — African Economic History Network
• 徐霞客遊記 — 徐弘祖
• 三國志（PG缺卷本） — 陳壽；裴松之注
• Declaration of Independence: institutional transcription — US National Archives and Records Administration
• United States Constitution: institutional transcription — US National Archives and Records Administration
• Bill of Rights: institutional transcription — US National Archives and Records Administration
• Emancipation Proclamation: institutional transcription — US National Archives and Records Administration
• Travels of an Arab merchant in Soudan (1854 abridged English version) — Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar Tūnisī
• Ancient Nahuatl Poetry (Brinton edition) — Daniel G. Brinton, editor and translator
• Rig Veda Americanus (Brinton edition) — Daniel G. Brinton, editor and translator
• The Federalist Papers — Alexander Hamilton; John Jay; James Madison
• An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations — Adam Smith
• The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 — Friedrich Engels
• Pleiades published places — 2026-09-16 complete JSON export — Pleiades / ISAW NYU and contributors
• 漢書（PG缺卷、省表本） — 班固；顏師古注
• Reflections on the Revolution in France — Edmund Burke
• The Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 2 (1779–1792): The Rights of Man — Thomas Paine
• The French Revolution: A History — Thomas Carlyle
• L'ancien régime et la révolution — Alexis de Tocqueville
• Ten Days That Shook the World — John Reed
• The Crisis in Russia — Arthur Ransome
• The International Development of China — Sun, Yat-sen
• The Fight for the Republic in China — Bertram Lenox Putnam Weale
• Japan: From the Japanese Government History — Kan'ichi Asakawa (editor)
• The Making of Modern Japan — John Harington Gubbins
• My Reminiscences — Rabindranath Tagore; translated by Surendranath Tagore
• India for Indians — Chitta Ranjan Das; edited by A. B. Patrika
• On the Origin of Species (1859 first edition) — Charles Darwin
• The Economic Consequences of the Peace — John Maynard Keynes
• On Liberty — John Stuart Mill
• The Souls of Black Folk — W. E. B. Du Bois