Edith Hamilton Library

Nationalist Roundtable

Books

The Edith Hamilton Library has many biographies and reference sources available. Search the "online catalog" under the name of the nationalist using the "power search" mode.

Reference Sources

History Study Center includes lots of reference materials, articles, links to websites, speeches, maps and images.

The Encyclopedia of World Biography (Ref 920 E)

Periodical Articles: magazines, journals and newspapers

Periodical Databases

ProQuest-The Proquest database includes the Historical New York Times back to 1857, as well as current newspaper articles, and magazine and journal articles. You can check here for obituaries as well as other periodical literature.

JStor-here are just a few of the articles you will find there:

Pakistan under Benazir Bhutto Saeed Shafqat Asian Survey, Vol. 36, No. 7 (Jul., 1996), pp. 655-672

The State and Civil Society in Pakistan: From Crisis to Crisis

Sukarno, the Ideologue Justus M. van der Kroef Pacific Affairs , Vol. 41, No. 2. (Summer, 1968), pp. 245-261.

Sukarno, the Nationalist Leslie H. Palmier Pacific Affairs, Vol. 30, No. 2. (Jun., 1957), pp. 101-119.

The Soviet Union and Iran under Khomeini

Social Change in Islamic Society: The Political Thought of Ayatollah Khomeini

A Discussion with Yasser Arafat

Arafat on Peace

Julius Nyerere: Reflections on the Legacy of His Socialism

Indian Foreign Policy: The Age of Nehru

Websites

Yassir Arafat

Arafat: Flawed Symbol of Palestine , by Gerald Butt, BBC News

Excerpts from a Speech by Arafat at a PLC Session, Oct. 29, 2002

Kwame Nkrumah

Kwami Nkrumah's Vision of Africa - BBC World Service

Dr. Kwame Nkrumah

"I Speak of Freedom" - speech of Nkrumah, 1961. Primary text.

Achmed Sukarno

The United States and the Overthrow of Sukarno

Asia Biography: Sukarno - AsiaSource Encyclopedia

Sukarno: Speech at the Opening of the Bandung Conference, Apr. 18, 1955 - Modern History Sourcebook; primary text

Gamal Abdul Nasser

Gamal Abdel Nasser - CNN Profile from its Cold War series.

Gamal AbduI-Nasser - entry from Encyclopedia of the Orient

Gamel Abdul Nasser's Last Political Speech: The Struggle for Renaissance -primary text.

Nasserist Rule - from Arab.net

Pandit Nehru

"Marxism, Capitalism, and Non-Alignment" - Excerpts from a Speech, Modern History Sourcebook

Speech on the Granting of Independence, Aug. 14, 1947 - Modern History Sourcebook

Nehru-see and hear him.

Mao Zedong

Mao Zedong Reference Archive - a treasure trove of Mao's statements and speeches over the span of his long career from Marxist.com. (Primary source material)

Mao Zedong - biography from Asia Society

Fidel Castro

Fidel Castro - About.com's site with links to biographical and primary text material.

Castro Internet Archive - A vast collection of speeches

"On the Export of Revolution", Fidel Castro, - primary text

"Cuba: Socialist Paradise or Castro's Fiefdom?" - a view from Workers Solidarity, a Socialist publication

Ho Chi Minh

"Ho Chi Minh's Rhetoric for Revolution", by Peter A. DeCaro

The Time 100: Ho Chi Minh

Ho Chi Minh Archive - Marxists.com site with biographical and primary source material

Charles DeGaulle

Speech at Constantine, Algeria, 1958 - excerpted from Modern History Sourcebooks; primary text

Charles De Gaulle - biographical and other info, including many speeches; this is a recommended one-stop site.

Juan Perón

Juan Domingo Perón: Excerpts from Speeches (in English)- Modern History Sourcebooks; primary texts

The Legacy of Juan Perón

Nelson Mandela

Time 100: Nelson Mandela - Biography from Time Magazine

Nelson Mandela Quotes

Nelson Mandela's Nobel Lecture

LePen (France)

Jean-Marie Le Pen - BBC News report

Jean-Marie Le Pen: A Right Wing Extremist and His Party - Anti-Defamation League

Jean-Marie Le Pen Articles from the New York Times

Léopold Senghor

Senghor-- University of Florida Biography

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

Ataturk.com

Virtual Istanbul--Ataturk

Julius Nyerere

Julius Nyerere, lifelong learning and informal education

Julius Nyerere: The Ethical Foundation of his Legacy

Benazir Bhutto

Nationalist Roundtable

Benazir Bhutto, 54, Lived in Eye of Pakistan Storm - New York Times

BBC NEWS | South Asia | Obituary: Benazir Bhutto

TIME 100: Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini

History of Iran: Ayatollah Khomeini

Modern History Sourcebook: Ayatollah Khomeini: The Uprising of Khurdad