HISTORY 108: Rise and Fall of the USA

Library Resources - Semester 1, 2012

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Books in the Short Loan Collection and electronic readings for this course are available by searching Readings & Exams.

The following textbook will be very helpful in supplementing lectures and tutorials:

• Foner, Eric, Give Me Liberty! An American History, Seagull Edn, New York, 2006.

The following texts will help broaden your grasp of US history and provide useful context for weekly lectures and tutorial topics:

• Carroll, Peter N. and David W. Noble, The Free and the Unfree: A New History of the United States, New York, 1988.
• Cullen, Jim, The American Dream: A Short History of an Idea That Shaped a Nation, Oxford, 2003.
• Hofstader, Richard, The American Political Tradition, New York, 1948.
• Jones, Maldwyn, The Limits of Liberty: American History, 1607-1992, Oxford, 1995.
• Takaki, Ronald, A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America, Boston, 1993.
• Zinn, Howard, A People's History of the United States, London, 2003.

Reference books are an excellent place to start your research. You should then go on to read more in-depth journal articles and books.

• Kutler, Stanley I., ed., Dictionary of American History, 3rd edn, New York, 2003.
  This is a comprehensive 10-volume dictionary and is an excellent introduction to many topics in American history.
• Boyer, Paul S., ed., The Oxford Companion to United States History, Oxford, 2001.
• Chambers, John Whiteclay, ed., The Oxford Companion to American Military History, New York, 1999.
• Karsten, Peter, ed., Encyclopedia of War & American Society, Thousand Oaks, 2006.
• Martin, Waldo E. and Patricia Sullivan, eds, Civil Rights in the United States, New York, 2000.
• Purvis, Thomas L., A Dictionary of American History, Cambridge, Mass, 1997.

To find more information on a topic, a good place to start is a database that indexes journal articles.

• America: History & Life
  References and abstracts of articles on North American history.
• JSTOR
  A full-text archive of journal articles.
• Project Muse
  Recent journal articles.
• Google Scholar
  Use the Library's link to Google Scholar to get access to full-text journals .

There are more databases on the History resource pages.

Exam papers for HISTORY 108.