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Uncovering

World History

Volume 1

All-Digital!
Uncovering

World History

Volume 2

A People's History of the World

Since 1400

Voices of A People's History of the World

Since 1400

New edition! 

World in the Making
A Global History
Volume One: To 1500
Second Edition 

New edition! 

World in the Making
A Global History
Volume Two: Since 1300
Second Edition 

A History of the World in Seven Themes

Volume One:

to 1600

A History of the World in Seven Themes

Volume Two:
since 1400

New edition! 

Forging the Modern World
A History
Third Edition 

Big Ideas
A Guide to the History of Everything

New edition!

Patterns of
World History
Volume 1: To 1600 with Sources
Fifth Edition

with Oxford Insight

Patterns of
World History
Volume 2: From 1400 with Sources
Fifth Edition

with Oxford Insight

Roots of Contemporary Issues series

Series editors: Jesse Spohnholz and Clif Stratton, both at Washington State University  

Brief and affordable, each title in this series gives students the opportunity to engage with the contours of a historical argument.

Ruptured Lives
Refugee Crises in Historical Perspective

Power Politics
Carbon Energy in Historical Perspective

Chronic Disparities
Public Health in
Historical Perspective

Gender Rules
Identity and Empire in Historical Perspective

Heavy Traffic
The Global Drug Trade in Historical Perspective

New and All-Digital!
Uncovering Western 

Civilization 

Volume 1

New and All-Digital!
Uncovering Western 

Civilization

Volume 2

Europe in the Modern World
A New Narrative History
Second Edition

Sources for Europe in the Modern World
Second Edition

(with Guided Writing Exercises)

Sources for
Cultures of the West: A History, Volume 1: To 1750
Fourth Edition

Cultures of the West: A History, Volume 1: To 1750, Fourth Edition

Cultures of the West: A History, Volume 2: Since 1350, Fourth Edition

Sources for
Cultures of the West: A History, Volume 2:
Since 1350
Fourth Edition

New!
Stepping into the Past
Activities for the Western
Civilization Classroom,1450–present

The Worlds of Medieval Europe

Fourth Edition

Medieval Europe
A Short History

Twelfth Edition

The Black Death
A New History of the Great Mortality in Europe, 1347-1500

New!
Modern Germany
A Global History 

New!
Picturing Russian Empire

New edition!
Latin America in the
Modern World 

Second Edition

A History of Africa
Combined Edition

Brazil

Five Centuries of Change

Third Edition

New!
A History of the Middle
East Since the Rise of Islam

The Modern Middle East
A History

Fifth Edition

Ancient Mediterranean

Civilizations  

From Prehistory
to 640 CE

Third Edition

New edition!

As the Romans Did
A Sourcebook in Roman
Social History
Third Edition

New edition!
Classical Mythology

Twelfth Edition

New edition!
The World
of Myth

Fourth Edition

Classical Myth
Ninth Edition

New edition!
Classical Mythology
in Context 

Second Edition

The Enhanced e-Book for Forging America offers students an accessible, affordable, and interactive learning environment. It features a narrated audio book by professional actors, “What If?” Videos, “Check Your Understanding” assessments, and all primary sources from the two-volume sourcebook.

Integrated directly in the e-book at no extra charge and available as a standalone product, the Audio Book for Forging America provides another mode for engaging with the text. Each chapter is narrated by a professional actor. Music and sound effects enhance the listening experience. 

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Forging America

A Continental History of the United States

Volume One to 1877

New!
Forging America

A Continental History of the United States

Volume Two since 1863

Sources for Forging America

A Continental History of the United States

Volume One to 1877

Sources for Forging America

A Continental History of the United States

Volume Two since 1863

Constructing the American Past

A Sourcebook of a People's History, Volume One to 1877

Ninth Edition

Constructing the American Past

A Sourcebook of a People's History, Volume Two from 1865

Ninth Edition

Of the People
A History of the
United States  

Volume 1: To 1877,

with Sources
Fifth Edition

Of the People
A History of the
United States  

Volume 2: To 1865,

with Sources
Fifth Edition

Reading American Horizons: Primary Sources for Vol. 1: To 1877
Fifth Edition

Reading American Horizons: Primary Sources for Vol. 2: Since 1865
Fifth Edition

American Horizons
U.S. History in a
Global Context

Volume One to 1877
Fifth Edition

American Horizons
U.S. History in a
Global Context

Volume 2: Since 1865
Fifth Edition

New in the Debating American History series

Series editors: Joel M. Sipress, University of Wisconsin-Superior,
and David. J. Voelker, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay  

Each title in this series encourages students to participate in a contested, evidence-based discourse about the human past.

Black Liberation from Reconstruction to Black Lives Matter

A Progressive Era for Whom?
African Americans in an Age of Reform, 1890-1920

The Politics of Prosperity
Mass Consumer Culture in the 1920s

Fire in the Streets

The Social Crisis of the 1960s  

Armies of Deliverance  
A New History of the Civil War, College Edition

Sources for Armies of Deliverance

Concise Historical Atlas of the U.S. Civil War
Second Edition

The Unfinished Journey

America Since World War II

Ninth Edition

America Divided
The Civil War
of the 1960s
Sixth Edition

Hard Road to Freedom
The Story of Black America

Combined Volume

Hard Road to Freedom
The Story of Black America

Volume 1: To 1896

Hard Road to Freedom
The Story of Black America

Volume 2: Since 1864

The Murder of Emmett Till
A Graphic History

The split volumes are also available as enhanced eBooks.

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American Women 

A Concise History

Women's America
Refocusing the Past

Ninth Edition

Gender Rules
Identity and Empire in Historical Perspective

From Herodotus to H-Net

The Story of Historiography
Second Edition

Writing History
A Guide for Students 

Sixth Edition

New edition!
The Information-Literate Historian 

Fourth Edition

The First Black Marines

An Oral History: A Graphic History

Oberbrechen

A German Village Confronts its Nazi Past: A Graphic History

Witness to the Age of Revolution
The Odyssey of Juan Bautista Tupac Amaru:
A Graphic History

The Murder of
Emmett Till
A Graphic History

Abina and the
Important Men
Third Edition
A Graphic History 

Debating Truth

The Barcelona
Disputation of 1263
A Graphic History

The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt

Empire, Disease, and Modernity
in French Colonial Vietnam
A Graphic History

Doom Towns 

The People and Landscapes
of Atomic Testing
A Graphic History

Perpetua's Journey

Faith, Gender, and Power
in the Roman Empire
A Graphic History

Inhuman Traffick 

The International Struggle
against the Transatlantic
Slave Trade
A Graphic History

Mendoza the Jew 

Boxing, Manliness,
and Nationalism
A Graphic History

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