History Research Guide

A guide to articles, books, and other resources for research in history.

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Books and e-books

Handbook of North American Indians

This 20 volume set from the Smithsonian Institution started in 1978 and was recently updated in 2022. Attempting to give an encyclopedic summary of what is known about the history, languages, cultures, and contemporary development of the Indigenous peoples of North America north or the urban civilizations of Central Mexico. Each volume highlights a different region of North America.

Illustrated History of Canada's Native People, Fourth Edition : I Have Lived Here Since the World Began

Canada's Native people have inhabited this land since the Ice Age and were already accomplished traders, artisans, farmers, and marine hunters when Europeans first reached their shores. Contact between Natives and European explorers and settlers initially presented an unprecedented period of growth and opportunity. But the two vastly different cultures soon clashed. Arthur Ray charts the history of Canada's Native people from first contact to current land claims.

Milestone documents in American history : exploring the primary sources that shaped America

Milestone Visual Documents in American History expands our coverage of essential primary sources in American history by focusing on visual images from early America to the present day: photographs, paintings, cartoons, and more.

American Horizons

U.S. history is increasingly perceived, interpreted, and taught as part of a global historical experience. The mutual influence of change - of global forces entering the United States and of American ideas, goods, and people moving out through the world - has been a consistent feature since the 16th century. Although most Americans today are aware that their influence is felt abroad and are increasingly aware of the influence of events abroad on their own lives, they tend to think of these as recent developments. In fact, those earliest exchanges of beliefs and products some 500 years ago established a pattern of interaction that continues today.

Give Me Liberty!, 6th Edition (One-Volume)

A powerful text by an acclaimed historian, Give Me Liberty! delivers an authoritative, concise, and integrated American history. In the Sixth Edition, Eric Foner addresses a question that has motivated, divided, and stirred passionate debates: "Who is an American?" With new coverage of issues of inclusion and exclusion--reinforced by new primary source features in the text and a new secondary source tutorial online--Give Me Liberty! strengthens students' most important historical thinking skills.

These Truths

In the most ambitious one-volume American history in decades, award-winning historian and New Yorker writer Jill Lepore offers a magisterial account of the origins and rise of a divided nation, an urgently needed reckoning with the beauty and tragedy of American history.

Your country, my country : a unified history of the United States and Canada

Canada: land of hockey, terrible weather, unfailing politeness-and little else, as far as many Americans are aware. For Canadians, the United States is seen as a land of unparalleled opportunity and unparalleled failure, a country of heights and abysses. The straitlaced country in the north could hardly have much to tell about its powerhouse of a neighbor to the south, eh? Not so, according to historian Robert Bothwell. In this witty and accessible book, Bothwell argues that the shared history of the United States and Canada reveals more about each country than most would suspect.

A brief history of Canada

A Brief History of Canada, Second Edition, begins with the exploration of the Northern American frontier and continues through the rise and fall of the French and British empires to the foundations of Canadian nationhood and the present day.
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