Primary Sources Archives | HistoryNet

napoleon-eyewitness

Primary Sources

Napoleon’s Imperial Guard Tells of His Fight For The Emperor

by Captain Elzéar Blaze 1/26/20241/26/2024

An infantry captain who served in Napoleon’s elite troops tells of the army’s quest for glory.

Photo of Vietnamese students sit in a courtyard at City University in Paris, Aug. 27, 1963, at the start of a proposed 24-hour hunger strike against actions of the government in South Viet Nam. The government has put the country under martial law to quell protests of Buddhist monks and students.

Primary Sources

How Did World Media View the War in Vietnam?

by Zita Ballinger Fletcher 12/28/20231/4/2024

Primary Sources

Read Henry Kissinger’s Secret Message on the Fall of Saigon

by HistoryNet Staff 5/17/202311/29/2023

Primary Sources

Donald Trump Indictment: Read the Original Document of Charges

by HistoryNet Staff 4/5/20234/5/2023

Primary Sources

Old Soldier Stories

by Amy Chan 9/5/20184/30/2024

Primary Sources

Experience: Wartime Diarist

by Claire Barrett 5/15/20184/24/2024

Primary Sources

Terror and Survival at Tarawa

by Norman S. Moise 11/17/20175/5/2024

Primary Sources

Drones in the Great Hive: A Letter from an African-American Civil War Soldier

by HistoryNet Staff 6/12/20062/2/2024

Primary Sources

Fear in the Heart of North Carolina: “What an Awful and Grand Spectacle it is!”

by HistoryNet Staff 9/23/19995/2/2024

Primary Sources

One Last Look at Lady Lex

by HistoryNet Staff 8/19/19995/2/2024