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  • UCLA Library Digital Collections

    UCLA Library Digital Collections

    The UCLA Library Digital Collections provide open access to rare and unique digitized primary sources from UCLA Library holdings and international partners. These materials support education, research, service, and creative expression. The platform offers high-resolution viewing with IIIF (International Image Interoperability Framework) functionality, enabling deep research, close inspection, annotation, and instructional use beyond static facsimiles.…

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  • On War | By Carl von Clausewitz | Translated by J. J. Graham | Arsinoe Library Edition

    On War | By Carl von Clausewitz | Translated by J. J. Graham | Arsinoe Library Edition

    Arsinoe Library Edition, 2026 The Arsinoe Library is excited to announce a new publication. On War by Carl von Clausewitz examines the nature of armed conflict, the relationship between military action and politics, and the practical demands of command. The linked Arsinoe Library edition presents J. J. Graham’s English translation, with an introduction and notes…

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  • Internet Medieval Sourcebook (Internet History Sourcebooks: Medieval Sourcebook)

    Internet Medieval Sourcebook (Internet History Sourcebooks: Medieval Sourcebook)

    The Internet Medieval Sourcebook, edited by Paul Halsall, is a major free online collection of primary source texts for the study and teaching of medieval history. Hosted by the Fordham University Center for Medieval Studies as part of the larger Internet History Sourcebooks Project, it has been online since 1996 and remains actively maintained. Its…

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  • The Ghost of the Slain | By R. L. Outhwaite | Drawings by Joseph E. Southall | Arsinoe Library Edition

    The Ghost of the Slain | By R. L. Outhwaite | Drawings by Joseph E. Southall | Arsinoe Library Edition

    Arsinoe Library Edition, 2026 The Arsinoe Library is excited to announce a new publication. The Ghosts of the Slain is a 1915 antiwar work by R. L. Outhwaite, illustrated by Joseph E. Southall and published by the National Labour Press in Manchester. It imagines the aftermath of war and argues that lasting peace requires political…

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  • The Art of War | By Sunzi | Translated by Lionel Giles | Arsinoe Library Edition

    The Art of War | By Sunzi | Translated by Lionel Giles | Arsinoe Library Edition

    Arsinoe Library Edition, 2026 The Arsinoe Library is excited to announce a new publication. The Art of War is the world’s oldest surviving military treatise, traditionally attributed to the Chinese strategist Sun Tzŭ (Sun Wu) of the late Spring and Autumn period (c. 544–496 BCE). Lionel Giles’s 1910 English translation, produced from Chinese texts and…

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  • The Art of War | By Sunzi | Translated by Lionel Giles, Sutton updates | Arsinoe Library Edition

    The Art of War | By Sunzi | Translated by Lionel Giles, Sutton updates | Arsinoe Library Edition

    Arsinoe Library Edition, 2026 The Arsinoe Library is excited to announce a new publication. NOTE: This is the Giles translation with the conversion work by Bob Sutton (1994). We have also published the orginal Giles, unmodified. The Art of War is the world’s oldest surviving military treatise, traditionally attributed to the Chinese strategist Sun Tzŭ…

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  • HathiTrust: Digital Library

    HathiTrust: Digital Library

    HathiTrust is a not-for-profit collaborative of academic and research libraries that preserves and provides lawful access to the published scholarly and cultural record. Founded in 2008 by the 12 universities of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (now the Big Ten Academic Alliance) and the 11 libraries of the University of California, it has grown into…

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  • Abbeville Institute – dedicated to exploring what is true and valuable in the Southern tradition

    Abbeville Institute – dedicated to exploring what is true and valuable in the Southern tradition

    The history of southern culture is as important to the world  as the history of many entire nations. Southern Culture represents a significant part of the American lifestyle we know and love today. However, many modern historians have tried to reduce the entirety of southern history to only slavery and treason. Our purpose at the…

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