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Resources for American History

Colonial Amercia

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Reiss, Oscar. Blacks in Colonial America. Jefferson, N.C., McFarland, 1997.

Check availability in PAC Ozuna Library, E185.18 .R45 1997

Goodman, Paul. Essays in American Colonial History. New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1967. Check availability in PAC Ozuna Library, E188.5.G6 1967.

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Roberts, Cokie. Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation. New York, William Morrow, 2004.

Check availability in PAC Ozuna Library, E176 .R63 2004.

 

19th Century

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Ambrose, Stephen E. Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad, 1863-1869.  New York, Simon & Schuster, 2000.

Check availability in PAC Ozuna Library, TF23 .A48 2000

20th Century

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Larson, Erik. In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin.  New York, Crown, 2011. 

Check availability in PAC Ozuna LibraryE748.D6 L37 2011.

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Abel, Elizabeth. Signs of the Times: The Visual Politics of Jim Crow. Berkeley, Calif., University of California Press, 2010.

Check availability in PAC Ozuna Library, E185.61 .A164 2010

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Why Choose A Book?

  1. Well researched
  2. Thorough
  3. Can be used to find additional resources

Books take time to write, edit, and publish, which makes them an excellent resource for history research. A well-researched book will also have bibliographic references which can be used as a short cut to other items on the topic.

General History Books

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Kammen, Carol, and Bob Beatty, editors. Zen and the Art of Local History. Lanham, Rowman & Littlefield, 2014.

Check availability in PAC Ozuna Library, E175.7 .Z46 2014

Aron, Cindy Sondik. Working at Play: A History of Vacations in the United States. New York, Oxford University Press, 1999.

Check availability in PAC Ozuna Library, E161 .A75 1999.

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Sommer, Barbara W, and Mary Kay Quinlan. The Oral History Manual. Lanham, MD, AltaMira Press, a Division of Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2009.

Check availability in PAC Ozuna Library, D16.14 .S69 2009