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Books

Who Built America? Textbook

Who Built America? Working People and the Nation’s History presents history from the perspective of working men and women, pairing a lively narrative with extensive visual and written documentary evidence. For the third edition (2008, Bedford/St. Martin’s), the authors restructured the chapters to make Who Built America? a more teachable textbook.

Freedom’s Unfinished Revolution: An Inquiry into the Civil War and Reconstruction

Freedom’s Unfinished Revolution book coverA textbook designed for high school classrooms, Freedom’s Unfinished Revolution: An Inquiry into the Civil War and Reconstruction, examines one of the most contested periods in America’s history where social conflict and change shaped the national landscape for generations to come.

Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution

This site introduces the extraordinary events of the French Revolution, from its origins in eighteenth-century French society through its legacies in the rule of Napoleon Bonaparte and after. Read essays by Jack Censer and Lynn Hunt that survey the Revolution’s major themes, or examine the rich archive of more than 600 primary sources, organized by category and searchable by keyword, type, and theme.