Consisting of approximately 125 expertly selected international sources that present viewpoints from outside the United States on U.S. events, themes, and people, Global Voices expands the depth and scope of traditional U.S. primary sources. Each selection includes an original annotation placing it in historical context. Featuring documents, speeches, photographs, cartoons, audio and video clips, the collection allows readers to analyze a range of differing viewpoints and changing attitudes toward the United States and U.S. policy. The material is presented in an interactive timeline, corresponding to standard eras in the U.S. history curriculum. Compiled by history education specialist Craig Perrier.
Contents:
An Englishman Tastes the Sweat of an African, 1725 engraving by Serge Daget
Spy letter from colonial loyalist Benjamin Thompson, May 6, 1775
Proclamation of Rebellion issued by George III, responding to increasing hostilities in the American colonies, August 1775
“I am a Patriot d- me Sir and I will be a Patriot . . .” Anti-colonial British cartoon, 1776
“Qualifying for a Campain [sic],” British political cartoon, 1777
Allegorical Portrait of Benjamin Franklin, Jean-Honoré Fragonard and Marguerite Gérard, 1778
Treaty of Alliance between the United States and France, February 6, 1778
Letter from Casimir Pulaski to George Washington, March 19, 1778
French officer François Jean, Marquis de Chastellux, describes his visit with General Washington at military headquarters in New Jersey, 1780
To the Inhabitants of America, a letter from Benedict Arnold, October 7, 1780
Letter by King George III on the loss of America, ca. 1781–1782
Letter III by John Hector St. John (Michel Guillaume Jean de Crèvecoeur), 1782
Letter IX by John Hector St. John (Michel Guillaume Jean de Crèvecoeur), 1782
Letter from the Marquis de Lafayette to General Washington, February 5, 1783
The TEA-TAX-TEMPEST, or OLD TIME with HIS MAGIC LANTHERN, British political cartoon, 1783
The Slave Trade, painting by George Morland, ca. 1788
John Newton, Thoughts Upon the African Slave Trade (1788)
Address to the Inhabitants of Charleston, South Carolina, by an English Quaker, Ann Alexander, 1805
Overture by British Foreign Secretary George Canning for a Joint Declaration with the United States on the Spanish Colonies in America, 1823
Excerpt from Democracy in America, Alex de Tocqueville, 1835
A proclamation by José Joaquin de Herrera denouncing the United States' intention to annex Texas, June 4, 1845
George Catlin’s troupe of Iowa Indians entertains France’s King Louis-Philippe, 1845
“State of Affairs in Mexico,” London Times, November 9, 1846
Text of the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty, 1850
Letter from George H. Goddard to his brother, Augustus Goddard, 1851
“Harmony of the Executive and of the People in America,” speech by Lajos (Louis) Kossuth at the State House, Indianapolis, February 27, 1852
“Pictorial Depiction of American People and Steamship” ca. 1854
Ivan Vasilyevich Turchaninov, a.k.a John Basil Turchin of the Union Army, c.1861
Karl Marx’s observations on the American Civil War, Die Presse, November 7, 1861
Engraving of Chinese miners panning for gold in California, 1862
Captain Raphael Semmes, commanding officer of the CSS Alabama, 1863
Giuseppe Garibaldi's Letter to President Lincoln, August 6, 1863
British political cartoon on Russian-American relations, 1863
Emperor Dom Pedro II of Brazil visits the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition in 1876
Ulysses S. Grant and Li Hung Chang, Tientsin, China, 1879
Nez Percé Chief Joseph’s speech of grievance and surrender, Washington, D.C., 1879
The original Ferris wheel at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, and a successor at the 1895 Empire of India Exhibition in London
Unfinished letter from Cuban revolutionary José Martí to his friend, Manuel Mercado, May 18,1895
Official Protest to the Treaty of Annexation of Hawaii, Queen Liliuokalani, Washington, D.C., June 17, 1897
Personal letter from Spanish ambassador Don Enrique Dupuy de Lôme to the Spanish foreign minister, criticizing President McKinley, December 1897
Letter from the Central Filipino Committee to the American People, June 1900
Foreign naval forces in China during the Boxer Rebellion, 1900.
“Roosevelt as the Rising Sun of Yankee Imperialism,” Spanish cartoon, ca. 1900
“Roosevelt’s Word to Europe,” Italian cartoon, ca. 1904
Nobel Prize presentation speech for President Theodore Roosevelt, December 1906
President Theodore Roosevelt welcomed in Panama on visit to inspect canal site, 1906
“To Caesar All or Nothing,” Philippine newspaper article on U.S. imperialism, 1908
The Great White Fleet enters Rio de Janeiro, January 12, 1908
Australian postcard welcoming America’s Great White Fleet, August 1908
Wilbur Wright shows the Model A to Britain’s King Henry VII in Pau, France, 1909
Mexican revolutionary leaders Álvaro Obregón and Pancho Villa, with U.S. General John J. Pershing at Fort Bliss, Texas, Aug. 27, 1914
The Zimmerman Telegram (coded and decoded), 1917
Plea to the Haitian people by guerrilla fighter Charlemagne Péralte, 1918
Political cartoon on Woodrow Wilson’s concept of self-determination, 1919
“The Negro Question in America,” interview with Leon Trotsky at Prinkipo, Turkey, February 28, 1933
Open letter to President Roosevelt from British economist John Maynard Keynes, December 31, 1933
Article in The Daily Worker describing a reception for Paul Robeson on his first visit to the Soviet Union, 1935
Radio address by Canadian Prime Minister R.B. Bennett outlining a “New Deal” for Canada, January 2, 1935
Reply of Premier Joseph Stalin to Franklin D. Roosevelt’s letter of October 30, 1941 (November 4, 1941)
Japanese propaganda poster of Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt, ca. 1942
Letter from Mohandas Gandhi to Franklin D. Roosevelt on American culture, Indian independence, and war, July 1, 1942
German propaganda piece, Die Gefahr des Amerikanismus, [“The Danger of Americanism”], March 1944
“Notes on the Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima,” August 1945
Memo from Prime Minister Clement Attlee regarding the atomic bomb, August 28, 1945
“Coexistence, American-Soviet Cooperation, Atomic Energy, Europe,” interview with Joseph Stalin, April 9, 1947
Translation of memo from the Soviet ambassador to the United States, Alexander Paniushkin, to Secretary of State George Marshall, July 14, 1948
Advertisement from The Marshall Plan and You, a Dutch booklet, 1949
“The American Bludgeon in the Solution of the Market Problem,” 1949
“Peace without Fear: Security and Cooperation,” Danish Marshall Plan Poster, ca. 1951
Louis Armstrong in the Congo, 1960
Telegram from Nikita Khrushchev to John F. Kennedy, April 30, 1961
Telegram from German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer to U.S. President John F. Kennedy on first U.S. space flight, May 5, 1961
Telegram from Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev to U.S. President John F. Kennedy regarding the Cuban Missile Crisis, October 23, 1962
Interview with Fidel Castro regarding Cuba’s position on the Cuban Missile Crisis, November 1962
President John F. Kennedy is welcomed in Cork, Ireland, June 28, 1963
British embassy report on the March on Washington, dated August 30, 1963
“All the Way with L.B.J.,” Australian political cartoon, 1965
Report on U.S. policy in Vietnam at a meeting of the British cabinet, 1965
Viet Cong propaganda film, 1965
Reaction of Soviet and Communist Party officials to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, December 1, 1966
President Ho Chi Minh’s reply to President Lyndon Johnson’s letter about the Vietnam War, February 15, 1967
First McDonald’s restaurant outside the United States, Richmond, British Columbia, Canada, 1967
Reaction from world leaders to the death of Martin Luther King, Jr., reported in The Daily Telegraph, April 6, 1968
Statement by Comrade Mao Zedong on the Assassination of Martin Luther King and in Support of the Afro-American Struggle Against Violent Repression, April 16, 1968
Native American Cartoon about Moon Landing, 1969
Prime Minister Chou Enlai toasts President Richard Nixon, February 21, 1972
Joint Communique restoring diplomatic relations between China and US, February 27, 1972
Chilean President Salvadore Allende speaks to United Nations about U.S. Foreign Policy, December 4, 1972
Iranian Protesters, 1977–1979
Paraguayan Stamp of the 1980 Winter Olympics Lake Placid, New York
“Under the Roof the Capitol” by G. Tereshenok, 1983
Cover of Chinese Newspaper reacting to Challenger Explosion, January 30, 1986
Margaret Thatcher Speaks before House of Commons on U.S. Bombing of Libya, April 16, 1986
Philippine President Corazon Aquino’s Speech before Congress, Sept 18, 1986
Gorbachev Letter to Reagan, October 28, 1987
Address to Congress by Czech President Vaclav Havel, Washington, D.C., February 21, 1990
Boris Yeltsin Addresses Joint Session of Congress, Washington, D.C., June 17, 1992
Fidel Castro welcomes Cuban Olympic athletes to the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia
Mexican President Ernesto’s Zedillo’s NAFTA speech, Vancouver, Canada, November 22, 1997
Nelson Mandela Accepts the Congressional Gold Medal, Washington D.C., Sept 23, 1998
The Dalai Lama accepts the Congressional Gold Medal, Washington D.C., October 17, 1998
President Clinton’s Visit to Vietnam, November 16–19, 2000
French newspaper headlines in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks on the United States, 2001
UN Security Council Resolution 1368, “Threats to international peace and security caused by terrorist acts,” September 12, 2001
Press release of the Arab League on the September 11 attacks on the United States, 2001
FBI report on the first interview with captured Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, February 7, 2004
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez addresses the UN General Assembly, September 20, 2006
Farewell address by outgoing UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan at the Truman Presidential Museum & Library, December 11, 2006
Speech by His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama at the U.S. Congressional Gold Medal Ceremony, 2007
Speech by Jordan’s King Abdullah II to US Congress, Washington, D.C., March 7, 2007
Speech by French President Nicolas Sarkozy to U.S. Congress, November 7, 2007
Monuments to those who died attempting to cross the U.S.–Mexican border at Tijuana, November 2007
Editorial in British daily The Guardian on U.S. Global Warming Policy, December 15, 2007
Political cartoons from Europe on the election of Barack Obama, 2008
Incoming NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen speaks at the Atlantic Council, September 28, 2009
Official announcement of the selection of Barack Obama as winner of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize, October 9, 2009
Speech by Chinese leader Hu Jintao at the White House, January 10, 2011
Speech by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to U.S. Congress, May 24, 2011
International reaction to the death of Osama bin Laden, May 2011
