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U.S. History
Give Me Liberty!
Full, Brief, and Seagull
Eight 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.
Voices of Freedom: A Documentary History
Eighth Edition
Eric Foner, Kathleen DuVal, and Lisa McGirr
The most popular reader for the U.S. history course
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.
Our Fragile Freedoms
Essays
Eric Foner
We the People
A History of the U.S. Constitution
Jill Lepore
Boss Lincoln
The Partisan Life of Abraham Lincoln
Matthew Pinsker
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.
Worlds Together, Worlds Apart: A Companion Reader
Third Edition
Elizabeth Pollard and Clifford Rosenberg
The most global collection of primary sources, the best value.
The Webs of Humankind
Full and Seagull Second
J. R. McNeill
A cohesive single-author world history built around webs of interaction.
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.
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
Fourth Edition
Jonathan D. Spence and Janet Chen
The gold standard for the modern Chinese history course.
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.
Africa in Global History with Sources
Robert Harms
A narrative history by a leading scholar places Africa in a global context.
The Second Emancipation
Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide
Howard W French
Shattered Lands
Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia
Sam Dalrymple
A Short History of the Gaza Strip
Radical Philosophy, the War over Slavery, and the Refounding of America
Anne Irfan and Muhammad Shehada
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.
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.
Clodia of Rome
Champion of the Republic
Douglas Boin
The Revolutionary Self
Social Change and the Emergence of the Modern Individual, 1770-1800
Lynn Hunt
The Oak and the Larch
A Forest History of Russia and Its Empires
Sophie Pinkham
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