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Use this guide to access library resources, including databases, books, academic journals, and textbooks, Open Educational Resources, and freely available online resources related to the subject of History.

African American History

Slavery to Liberation by Joshua Farrington; et. al.
ISBN: 9781734328905

Publication Date: 2019-12-18

Gives instructors, students, and general readers a comprehensive and up-to-date account of African Americans’ cultural and political history, economic development, artistic expressiveness, and religious and philosophical world views in a critical framework. By placing race at the center of the work, the book offers significant lessons for understanding the institutional marginalization of Blacks in contemporary America and their historical resistance and perseverance.

African American History and Culture
This course introduces students to the history of African Americans, starting with their history in Africa before captivity, continuing through the start of the slave trade, their slavery in America, the origins of African American culture, the abolitionist movement, African Americans in the Civil War, and the Reconstruction.

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Please note that each module is individually licensed. Lumen also provides access to instructor resources.

African American Studies
This course is an interdisciplinary introduction to important historical, cultural, literary, and political issues concerning African Americans. Through critical readings of literary, artistic, and filmic texts, this course provides an overview of African American experiences from the 17th through mid-20th centuries. Emphasis will be placed on developing an understanding of the historical and cultural experiences of African Americans from the beginning of the Transatlantic Slave Trade through the Civil Rights Movement.
African American History: From Emancipation to the Present (Open Yale Course)
Open Yale course, including Lecture videos and a list of readings, that “examine[s] the African American experience in the United States from 1863 to the present.

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Please note that while the lecture videos and course content provided on this site are Creative Commons licensed, the readings used in this course are not necessarily similarly licensed.

World War I

eBooks
Podcasts

1914: Austria-Hungary, the Origins, and the First Year of World War I by Gunter Bischof; Ferdinand Karlhofer; Samuel R. Williamson
ISBN: 9783902936356

Publication Date: 2014-01-01

First World War: New Perspectives
A series of short introductory talks from experts in the field presenting new perspectives on the First World War. Produced by the University of Oxford.

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Videos displaying the CC symbol are licensed under CC-BY-NC-SA. Videos not displaying the CC symbol are not Creative Commons Licensed and should be treated as resources with All Rights Reserved.

Environmental History

Textbooks

American Environmental History by Dan Allosso
ISBN: 9781981731732

Publication Date: 2017-12-14

For too long the environment has been considered little more than a neutral background to history. This text surveys findings of the new field of Environmental History about how the environment of the Americas influenced the actions of people here and how people affected their environments, from prehistory to the present.

Last Updated: Dec 5, 2024 10:47 AM
URL: https://minnesotanorth.libguides.com/history
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Subjects: Associate of Arts, History

Tags: American History, European History, Native American History, World History, World War II History

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