13 History
Book Collections & Textbooks
- History in the Making: A History of the People of the United States of America to 1877: This textbook examines U.S. History from before European Contact through Reconstruction, while focusing on the people and their history; double blind peer reviewed by over thirty scholars for scholarly and high standard of quality. “This book provides a strong emphasis on critical thinking about US History by providing several key features in each chapter.”
- Pressbooks: U.S. History Textbooks: Pressbooks U.S. History (filtered); titles include U.S. History, US History II, U.S. History I: Pre-Colonial to 1865, U.S. History II: 1877 to Present, US History I & II YAWP
- Shingwauk Narratives: Sharing Residential School History: The Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre (SRSC) holds letter books of the first principal of the Shingwauk Residential School. The letters range in date from 1875-1904, and include a wealth of information about the early history of Shingwauk and Wawanosh.
The letter books incorporate topics such as funding, staffing, student life, religious missions to aboriginal communities, and more which is not known to the wider public. - OpenBook Publishers: History and Biography: “We are the leading independent Open Access publisher in the Humanities and Social Sciences in the UK: a not-for-profit Social Enterprise run by scholars who are committed to making high-quality research freely available to readers around the world.” CC BY
The Internet Archive began in 1996 and provides free access to a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts for use by researchers, historians, scholars, people with print disabilities, and the general public.
The archive contains 625 billion web pages, 38 million books and texts, 7 million videos, and 4 million images.
Repositories & Research
- Advisory Council on Historic Preservation: The Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP) is an independent federal agency that promotes the preservation, enhancement, and productive use of our nation’s historic resources, and advises the President and Congress on national historic preservation policy. [Federal Gov’t]
- The Crisis: “Founded in 1910 as the house magazine of the NAACP and edited by W. E. B. Du Bois, The Crisis quickly became the most important voice of the African-American struggle for cultural identity and civic justice in the U.S.” Many Public Domain images can be found within the volumes. [Public Domain]
- American Indian Boarding School: uses primary sources to explore American Indian boarding schools; DPLA Primary Source Sets are designed to help students develop their critical thinking skills and draw diverse material from libraries, archives, and museums across the United States; created and reviewed by the teachers on the DPLA’s Education Advisory Committee [CC BY]
- UNESCO Digital Library: African History Books & Articles: The UNESCO Digital Library is the repository of UNESCO’s institutiona