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The American Yawp
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The American Yawp is a collaboratively built, open American history textbook designed for general readers and college-level history courses. Over three hundred academic historians—scholars and experienced college-level instructors—have come together and freely volunteered their expertise to help democratize the American past for twenty-first century readers. The project is freely accessible online at www.AmericanYawp.com, and in addition to providing a peer review of the text, Stanford University Press has partnered with The American Yawp to publish a low-cost print edition. Furthermore, The American Yawp remains an evolving, collaborative text: you are encouraged to help us improve by offering comments on our feedback page, available through AmericanYawp.com.
OpenStax U.S. History
U.S. History is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of most introductory courses. The text provides a balanced approach to U.S. history, considering the people, events, and ideas that have shaped the United States from both the top down (politics, economics, diplomacy) and bottom up (eyewitness accounts, lived experience). U.S. History covers key forces that form the American experience, with particular attention to issues of race, class, and gender.
Curated Community Resources for OpenStax U.S. History
Additional resources for OpenStax U.S. History.
U.S. History II (OS Collection - Lumen Learning)
U.S. History II covers the chronological history of the United States from Reconstruction through the beginning of the 21st Century. This is an adaptation of the OpenStax text presented in a slightly different format.
A History of the United States Vol. 2

American History II
History lectures by Dr. Steve Blankenship of Georgia Highlands College.
The Skeptic's Guide to American History
Sorting through misconceptions, myths, and half-truths about America's past is a chance to revisit some of the country's greatest episodes, figures, and themes from a fresh perspective and an opportunity to hone the way you think about and interpret the past, the present, and even the future. This course examines many commonly held myths and half-truths about American history.
America in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
Step back in time with America in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. Over six innovative decades marked by economic, political, social, and technological upheavals, the U.S. went from an agrarian, isolationist country to the greatest industrial power and a nascent geopolitical superpower. Meet inventors, conservationists, robber barons, civil rights activists, and industrialists, who together forged a new nation.
Howard Zinn: A People's History of the United States
With the tremendous success of his book, A People's History of the United States, Howard Zinn radically changed the way Americans see themselves... Zinn talks about those who have no voice in the official History : Slaves, Indians, deserters, textile workers, union men.

Picturing America, 1497-1899
Prints, Maps, and Drawings bearing on the New World Discoveries and on the Development of the Territory that is now the United States - The New York Public Library Digital Collections

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