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American History
Give Me Liberty!
Full, Brief, and Seagull
Seventh Editions
Eric Foner, Kathleen DuVal,
and Lisa McGirr
The leading U.S. history survey text, with a focus on American freedom.
America: A Narrative History
Full and Brief Thirteenth Editions and Fourth Essential Learning Edition
David Emory Shi, Daina Ramey Berry, Joseph Crespino, and Amy Murrell Taylor
A best-selling narrative history enters a new generation with new co-authors.
These Truths
Inquiry Edition and Inquiry Edition with Sources
Jill Lepore
A new kind of history text that highlights evidence and argument.
World History
Worlds Together,
Worlds Apart
Full Seventh Edition and Concise Fourth Edition
Jeremy Adelman, Elizabeth Pollard,
Clifford Rosenberg, and Robert Tignor
The most global survey text,
with a chronological storytelling approach.
The Webs of Humankind
Full and Seagull Second
J. R. McNeill
A cohesive single-author world history built around webs of interaction.
European History
Western Civilizations
Full Twenty-First Edition and Brief Sixth Edition
Joshua Cole and Carol Symes
The best-selling family of Western Civilizations texts that help students read and think critically.
The West: A New History
First Edition
Anthony Grafton and David Bell
A new history conveys the past as it was lived at the time.
A History of Modern Europe
Fourth Edition
John Merriman
The leading modern Europe text, beloved for authoritative coverage and narrative flair.
Regional History
Born in Blood and Fire: A Concise History of Latin America
Fifth Edition
John Charles Chasteen
The most readable, highly regarded, and affordable history of Latin America for our times.
The Search for Modern China
Fourth Edition
Jonathan D. Spence and Janet Chen
The gold standard for the modern Chinese history course.
Africa in Global History with Sources
Robert Harms
A narrative history by a leading scholar places Africa in a global context.
Readers
For the Record: A Documentary History of America
Ninth Edition
David Emory Shi and Holly A. Mayer
A documentary history filled with diverse voices and in-depth selections.
Voices of Freedom: A Documentary History
Seventh Edition
Eric Foner, Kathleen DuVal, and Lisa McGirr
The most popular reader for the U.S. history course
Worlds Together, Worlds Apart: A Companion Reader
Third Edition
Elizabeth Pollard and Clifford Rosenberg
The most global collection of primary sources, the best value.
Perspectives from the Past: Primary Sources in Western Civilizations
Seventh Edition
James Brophy, Joshua Cole, John Robertson, Thomas Max Safley, and Carol Symes
A rich, relevant collection of primary sources at an exceptional value.
Born in Blood and Fire: Latin American Voices
Second Edition
John Charles Chasteen
The companion reader to the most readable, highly regarded, and affordable history of Latin America for our times.
The Search for Modern China: A Documentary Collection
Third Edition
Janet Chen, Pei-kai Cheng, Michael Lestz, and Jonathan D. Spence
The most widely used primary-source reader for the modern China course.
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America Last
The Right’s Century-Long Romance with Foreign Dictators
Jacob Heilbrunn
An Emancipation of
the Mind
Radical Philosophy, the War over Slavery, and the Refounding of America
Matthew Stewart
New in Hardcover
Fierce Desires
A New History of Sex and Sexuality in America
Rebecca L. Davis
The Presidents and
the People
Five Leaders Who Threatened Democracy and the Citizens Who Fought to Defend It
Corey Brettschneider
Heart of American Darkness
Bewilderment and Horror on the Early Frontier
Robert G. Parkinson
Savings and Trust
The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman’s Bank
Justene Hill Edwards
A Day in September
The Battle of Antietam and the World It Left Behind
Stephen Budiansky
A Machine to Move Ocean and Earth
The Making of the Port of Los Angeles and America
James Tejani
American Civil Wars
A Continental History,
1850-1873
Alan Taylor
Kent State
An American Tragedy
Brian VanDeMark
She-Wolves
The Untold History of Women on Wall Street
Paulina Bren
Seven Social Movements That Changed America
Linda Gordon
Revolutions in
American Music
Three Decades That Changed a Country and Its Sounds
Michael Broyles
Explorers
A New History
Matthew Lockwood
The Burning Earth
A History
Sunil Amrith
Why War?
Richard Overy
Age of Revolutions
Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present
Fareed Zakaria
Raiders, Rulers,
and Traders
The Horse and the Rise
of Empires
David Chaffetz
The Home I Worked
to Make
Voices from the New
Syrian Diaspora
Wendy Pearlman
China’s World View
Demystifying China to Prevent Global Conflict
David Daokui Li
The Aztec Myths
A Guide to the Ancient Stories and Legends
Camilla Townsend
Italy Reborn
From Fascism to Democracy
Mark Gilbert
Chernobyl Roulette
War in the Nuclear
Disaster Zone
Serhii Plokhy
The Eastern Front
A History of the Great War, 1914–1918
Nick Lloyd
The Bluestockings
A History of the First
Women’s Movement
Susannah Gibson
Left for Dead
Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of
the World
Eric Jay Dolin
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