Research Guides: HIS 221/222 (American History): Find Books and eBooks

New American History Books

Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion

Understanding and Teaching Native American History

Tribal Administration Handbook: A Guide for Native Nations in the United States

The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic

Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom

The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021

The Black Box: Writing the Race

American Vikings: How the Norse Sailed into the Lands and Imaginations of America

Journey Without End: Migration from the Global South Through the Americas

The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021

The Whiskey Rebellion: A Distilled History of an American Crisis

Waging a Good War: A Military History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968

Harriet Tubman: A Reference Guide to Her Life and Works

The Long Reckoning: A Story of War, Peace, and Redemption in Vietnam

Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights

As Sacred to Us: Simon Pokagon's Birch Bark Stories in their Contexts

American Visions: The United States, 1800-1860

Symbols of Freedom: Slavery and Resistance Before the Civil War

Sleeping with the Ancestors: How I Followed the Footprints of Slavery

Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining our Future

American Inheritance: Liberty and Slavery in the Birth of a Nation, 176-1795

The 272: The Families who were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church

Project 562: Changing the Way we See Native America

Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of "Latino"

A Conspiratorial Life: Robert Welch, the John Birch Society, and the Revolution of American Conservatism

Myth America: Historians Take on the Biggest Legends and Lies About our Past

Freedom's Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power

You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live: Ten Weeks in Birmingham that Changed America

Rewriting the Chicano Movement: New Histories of Mexican American Activism in the Civil Rights Era

Racial Baggage: Mexican Immigrants and Race Across the Border

Native Agency: Indians in the Bureau of Indian Affairs

Asian American Histories of the United States

The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History

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Bibliographies

Detroit Bibliography
The Marygrove Conservancy and the Institute for Detroit Studies present the fourth edition of Thomas A. Klug's Bibliography of Detroit History, Politics, and Culture: Late-Nineteenth Century to the Present. You may view the entire 217-page comprehensive bibliography or any of the twenty-seven topical sub-bibliographies.

Where are American History Books in the Library?

Look for the E call number area in the Library book stacks. Ask for help at the Reference Desk if you need assistance.

Library of Congress Call Number Classification:

E11-29 America (General)
E51-73 Pre-Columbian America
E75-99 Native Americans
E101-135 European discovery of America
E151-169 United States (General)
E186-199 Colonial History
E201-298 The Revolution, 1775-1783
E300-453 Revolution to the Civil War
E456-655 Civil War Period
E740-837 Twentieth Century (including Presidential Administrations)
E838-889 Later Twentieth Century, 1961-2000 (including Presidential Administrations)
E895-904 Twenty-First Century (including Presidential Administrations)

F1-975 Local United States History
F561-575 Michigan History