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Table of Contents

Narrative Textbooks and Companion Readers
Edwards, America's History, Concise Edition, 10e, Volume 1: To 1877
Edwards, America's History, Concise Edition, 10e, Volume 2: Since 1865
Sheets, Sources for America's History, 10e, Volume 1: To 1877
Sheets, Sources for America's History, 10e, Volume 2: Since 1865
Hewitt, Exploring American Histories with Sources, Volume 1: To 1877
Hewitt, Exploring American Histories with Sources, Volume 2: Since 1865
Hewitt, Thinking Through Sources for Exploring American Histories, 3e, Volume 1: To 1877
Hewitt, Thinking Through Sources for Exploring American Histories, 3e, Volume 2: Since 1865
Roark, The American Promise: A History of the United States, Concise Edition, 9e, Volume 1: To 1877
Roark, The American Promise: A History of the United States, Concise Edition, 9e, Volume 2: Since 1865
Johnson, Reading the American Past: Selected Historical Documents, 8e, Volume 1: To 1877
Johnson, Reading the American Past: Selected Historical Documents, 8e, Volume 2: Since 1865
Brown, Going to the Source: The Bedford Reader in American History: Volume I: To 1877, 5e
Brown, Going to the Source: The Bedford Reader in American History: Volume 2: Since 1865, 5e

Bedford Series in History and Culture
Addams (Brown), Twenty Years at Hull-House with Related Documents, 2e
Alexander, Reconstruction Violence and the Ku Klux Klan Hearings
Argersinger, The Triangle Fire: A Brief History with Documents, 2e
Calloway, Our Hearts Fell to the Ground: Plains Indian Views of How the West Was Lost: A Brief History with Documents, 2e
Calloway, The World Turned Upside Down: Indian Voices from Early America: A Brief History with Documents, 2e
Chavez, The U.S. War with Mexico: A Brief History with Documents
Cunningham, Jefferson vs. Hamilton: Confrontations That Shaped a Nation
Dittmer, Freedom Summer: A Brief History with Documents
Douglass (Blight), Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave,Written by Himself with Related Documents, 3e
DuBois (Blight Gooding-Williams), The Souls of Black Folk
Earle, John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry: A Brief History with Documents
Equiano (Allison), The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Written By Himself
Finkelman, Defending Slavery: Proslavery Thought in the Old South: A Brief History with Documents, 2e
Finkelman, Dred Scott v. Sandford: A Brief History with Documents, 2e
Flehinger, The 1912 Election and the Power of Progressivism: A Brief History with Documents
Franklin (Masur), The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin with Related Documents, 3e
Gilfoyle, The Urban Underworld in Late Nineteenth-Century New York: The Autobiography of George Appo with Related Documents
Godbeer, The Salem Witch Hunt: A Brief History with Documents, 2e
Greenberg, Manifest Destiny and American Territorial Expansion: A Brief History with Documents, 2e
Greenberg, The Confessions of Nat Turner: with Related Documents, 2e
Greer, The Jesuit Relations: Natives and Missionaries in Seventeenth-Century North America, 2e
Hamilton and Phillips, The Kitchen Debate and Cold War Consumer Politics: A Brief History with Documents
Hoganson, American Empire at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: A Brief History with Documents
Holton, Black Americans in the Revolutionary Era: A Brief History with Documents
Horowitz, Attitudes Toward Sex in Antebellum America: A Brief History with Documents
Horton, Harriet Tubman and the Fight for Freedom: A Brief History with Documents
Howard-Pitney, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and the Civil Rights Struggle of the 1950s and 1960s: A Brief History with Documents
Hoxie, Talking Back to Civilization: Indian Voices from the Progressive Era
Isenberg, The California Gold Rush: A Brief History with Documents
Jacobs (Fleischner), Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself, 2e
Jacobs and Zelizer, Conservatives in Power: The Reagan Years, 1981-1989, A Brief History with Documents
Johnson, Abraham Lincoln, Slavery, and the Civil War: Selected Writings and Speeches, 2e
Kidd, The Great Awakening: A Brief History with Documents
Kornfeld, Creating an American Culture, 1775-1800: A Brief History with Documents
MacLean, The American Women's Movement, 1945-2000: A Brief History with Documents
Mancall, Envisioning America: English Plans for the Colonization of North America, 1580-1640, A Brief History with Documents, 2e
Martin, Brown v. Board of Education: A Brief History with Documents, 2e
May, The 9/11 Commission Report with Related Documents
Mihm, The Life of P.T. Barnum, Written by Himself with Related Documents
Moran, The Scopes Trial: A Brief History with Documents, 2e
Olmsted (Inscoe), Selections from The Cotton Kingdom by Frederick Law Olmsted
Olson and Roberts, My Lai: A Brief History with Documents, 2e
Paine (Slaughter), Common Sense and Related Writings
Perdue, The Cherokee Removal: A Brief History with Documents, 3e
Polenberg, The Era of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1933-1945: A Brief History with Documents
Prince, Radical Reconstruction: A Brief History with Documents
Rakove, Declaring Rights: A Brief History with Documents
Riis (Leviatin), How the Other Half Lives by Jacob A. Riis with Related Documents, 2e
Rowlandson (Salisbury), The Sovereignty and Goodness of God, with Related Documents, 2e
Royster, Southern Horrors and Other Writings: The Anti-Lynching Campaign of Ida B. Wells, 1892-1900, 2e
Schrecker, Deery, The Age of McCarthyism: A Brief History with Documents, 3e
Schulman, Lyndon B. Johnson and American Liberalism: A Brief Biography with Documents, 2e
Schwartz, Seijas, Victors and Vanquished: Spanish and Nahua Views of the Fall of the Mexica Empire, A Brief History with Documents, 2e
Shannon, The Seven Years' War in North America: A Brief History with Documents
Sinclair (Phelps), The Jungle
Sklar, Women's Rights Emerges within the Antislavery Movement, 1830-1870: A Brief History with Documents, 2e
Story, Laurie, The Rise of Conservatism in America, 1945-2000: A Brief History with Documents
Sutton, Jerry Falwell and the Rise of the Religious Right: A Brief History with Documents
Thomas, Plessy v. Ferguson: A Brief History with Documents
Tocqueville (Kammen), Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
Vorenberg, The Emancipation Proclamation: A Brief History with Documents
Washington (Brundage), Up from Slavery with Related Documents
Watson, Andrew Jackson vs. Henry Clay: Democracy and Development in Antebellum America
Wolloch, Muller v. Oregon: A Brief History with Documents
Yung, The Chinese Exclusion Act and Angel Island: A Brief History with Documents
Zeiler, Jackie Robinson and Race in America: A Brief History with Documents

Bedford Document Collections
Aiello, Black Power: Voices from a Revolution
Allison, Perceptions of the Boston Massacre

Andrews, The Human Cost of an Emerging Industrial Economy: Coal Mining Disasters in the West
Bowes, Debating Federal Indian Removal Policy in the 1830s
Brunsman, George Washington and the Establishment of the Federal Government
Burke, The Laguna Pueblo Baseball Game Controversy of the 1920s
Clark, The Northampton Community: Social Reform and Utopia in the 1840s
Crespino, The Challenge of Liberal Reform: School Desegregation Norton and South
Critchlow, Barry Goldwater, Extremism, and the 1964 Election
Delgado, The U.S. War with Mexico
DuVal and DuVal, Esteban: Sixteenth Century African Explorer of North America
DuVal, Building a Creek Nation: Reading the Letters of Alexander McGillivary
Edwards, Sources of Populism in the 1890s
Farber and Mattson, The Diggers: Cultural Rebellion in the 1960s
Finger, Yellow Fever and National Politics in the 1790s
Godbeer, Witch Accusations in Seventeenth Century New England
Graybill, The Texas Rangers: Vanguard of Anglo Settlement in the Lone Star State
Grubb, The Decision to Intern Japanese Americans during World War II
Hamner, Interpreting the Battle of Gettysburg
Harvey, Organization and Protest in the Civil Rights Era South: The Montgomery Bus Boycott
Head, The Antebellum Temperance Movement: Strategies for Social Change
Hinderaker, Pontiacs War: 1763-1765
Hinnerschitz, The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965: A Revolutionary Reform

Igler, The California Gold Rush: A Trans-Pacific Phenomenon
Irwin, World War I Posters and the Culture of American Internationalism
Kern and Sorrell, World War I and the Control of Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Leflouria, Convict Labor and the Building of Modern America
Martinez-Fernandez, Raphel L. Trujillo: U.S. Dominican Relations, 1904-1961
McClymer, The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
McPherson, The Cuban Missile Crisis: An International History
Mize, The U.S.-Mexico Bracero Program, 1942-1964
Moorehouse, War Stories: African American Soldiers and the Long Civil Rights Movement
Nelson, The Legend of John Henry: Folklore and the Lives of African Americans in the Postwar South
Petrick, Louisa Casselle: Reconstructing a Life in the West
Prince, Reconstruction, Black Suffrage, and the Rebirth of American Democracy

Sutton, Al Smith and the 1928 Presidential Election
Sutton, Religion Wars in the 1920s

Weber, What Caused the Civil War?
West, Sand Creek: Battle or Massacre?

White, Early Colonial Expeditions and the Little Ice Age, 1520-1610

Bedford Tutorials
Working with Non-Text Sources
Preparing and Presenting an Oral Presentation
Getting the Most Out of Your Textbook
Preparing for Class Discussion
Using Historical Evidence Effectively
Working with Digital Databases and Sources
Planning and Preparing a Short Writing Assignment
Planning and Preparing a Long Essay in History
Working with Primary Sources
Learning to Read and Think Like a Historian
Avoiding Plagiarism and Managing Sources
Taking Effective Notes
Achieving Texas Student Learning Outcomes

Research and Writing Guides
Benjamin, A Students Guide to History, 14e
Rampolla, A Pocket Guide to Writing in History, 10e

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