Reserve Materials
Textbooks on Reserve for HIS 131/132
Available at the main campus library circulation desk for in-library use.
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America: A Narrative History Vol. 2
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Call Number: HIS 132 (Vol. 2)ISBN: 9780393882568Publication Date: 2021-12-21 -
America: A Narrative History (Vol. 1)
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Call Number: HIS 131 (Vol. 2)ISBN: 9780393882537Publication Date: 2021-12-21
Welcome to the American History HIS 131/132 Guide!
Welcome to our library's American History research guide for HIS 131 and HIS 132. Use this guide as a starting place for your course research.
Please use the tabs above to find quality resources. If you need more assistance, please don't hesitate to contact me or any of the reference librarians. We're always happy to help!
American History Books in the Library
A Great Disorder: national myth and the battle for America
"A Great Disorder" looks to the foundational myths that have shaped American identity--the Frontier, the Founding, the Civil War (Emancipation and Lost Cause), and Good War--and reveals how and why they are bringing the United States to the brink of an existential crisis.
The Rediscovery of America: native peoples and the unmaking of U.S. history
Ned Blackhawk interweaves five centuries of Native and non-Native histories, from Spanish colonial exploration to the rise of Native American self-determination in the late twentieth century.
A Black Women's History of the United States
Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross offer an examination and celebration of Black womanhood, beginning with the first African women who arrived in what became the United States to African American women of today.
A Queer History of the United States
A Queer History of the United States is groundbreaking and accessible. It looks at how American culture has shaped the LGBT, or queer, experience, while simultaneously arguing that LGBT people not only shaped but were pivotal in creating our country
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
In An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States, Dunbar-Ortiz challenges the founding myth of the United States and shows how policy against the Indigenous peoples was colonialist and designed to seize the territories of the original inhabitants, displacing or eliminating them.