Resources

This is a listing of some resources for History, with an emphasis on the Regional Option of the Americas, but also includes Europe and the Middle East. Please add any resources you think would be helpful to others.

=Americas=

United States
__American History: A Survey__, Alan Brinkley, McGraw Hill __The American Pageant: A History of the Republic__, Kennedy et al, Houghton Mifflin __The Enduring Vision: A History of the American People__, Boyer et al, Houghton Mifflin __History Lessons: How Textbooks from Around the World Portray U.S. History__, Lindaman & Ward, The New Press __The American Civil War and its Origins 1848-65,__ Farmer, Hodder-Murray (Assess to History series) __Apostles of Disunion:Southern Seccession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War__, Dew, University of Virginia Press __Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire__, Ferguson, Penguin Books

Canada
__A History of the Canadian Peoples__, Bumsted, Oxford University Press __Defining Canada: History, Identity and Culture,__ Brune, McGraw Hill Ryerson __Canada: A National History__, Conrad & Finkel, Pearson Education __The Illustrated History of Canada__, Brown, et al, Key Porter Books __Fire and Ice: The United States, Canada and the Myth of Converging Values__, Adams, Penguin Canada

Latin America
__Modern Latin America__, Skidmore & Smith, Oxford University Press __A History of Latin America__, Keen & Haynes, Houghton Mifflin __A History of Modern Latin America__, Clayton & Conniff, Wadsworth Publishing __Latin America: A Concise Interpretive History__, Burns & Charlip, Prentice Hall __Born in Fire and Blood: A Concise History of Latin America__, Chasteen, W.W. Norton __The Book of Embraces__, Galeano, W.W. Norton __After Fidel; The Inside Story of Castro’s Regime and Cuba’s Next Leader__, Latell, Palgrave Macmillan __The Cambridge History of Latin America,__ Bethell, Cambridge University Press

=**Europe and the Middle East (19th Century mostly)**=

=20th Century World (Many of these would work for Europe/ME)= __A History of the World in the Twentieth Century__, Grenville, Harvard University Press __Europe: 1890-1990__, Traynor, Nelson Thornes __Years of Change: European History 1890-1990__, Wolfson & Laver, Hodder Education __Mastering Modern World History__, Lowe, Palgrave __A History of the Modern World, since 1815.__ Palmer, Colton and Kramer. McGraw Hill __Origins of the First World War__, Henig, Routledge (Lancaster Pamphlets) __Germany: The Third Reich 1933-45__, Layton, Hodder & Stoughton (Access to History series) __Europe and the Cold War, 1945-91__, Williamson, Hodder & Stoughton (Access to History series) __The Origins of the Second World War__, Overy, Longman (Seminar Studies in History) __Russia, America and the Cold War__, McCauley, Longman (Seminar Studies in History) __Europe 1914-1945__, Catterall & Vinen ed., Heinemann (History Briefings) __Stalinist Russia__, Phillips, Heinemann (Advanced History series) __The Cold War__, Sewell, Cambridge University Press (Perspectives in History series) __Exam Essays in 20th Century World History__, Catterall ed., Heinemann __Treacherous Alliance: The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran, and the United States__. Parsi, Trita. __Origins and Development of Authoriatian and Single-Party States__ Gauci, Joe. OSC IB Revision guides __Rise to Globalism__ Stephen Ambrose and Douglas Brinkley - excellent of Am. foreign policy post WW2

=PS 1, Peacemaking, Peacekeeping-international relations 1918-1936= Keylor, William R. //The Legacy of the Great War.// Problems in European Civilization. Heath and Company. 1998. Gauci, Joe. //IB History: Peacemaking, Peacekeeping// OSC IB revision Guides

=PS 2, Arab-Israeli Conflict 1945-1979= Schulze, Kirsten E. //The Arab-Israeli Conflict.// Seminar Studies in History. Longman Press. 1999. Ross, Stewart. the israeli-palestinian conflict. Teach Yourself Series. McGraw Hill. 2007

=PS 3, Communism in Crisis 1976-1989= Daniels, Robert V. //Soviet Communism from Reform to Collapse.// Problems in European Civilization. Heath and Company. 1995 Olofsson, Sam. //IB History: The Cold War// OSC IB Revision Guides

=__Internet Sites__= [|http://www.activehistory.co.uk] [|http://www.ibhistory.net] [|www.schoolhistory.co.uk] [|www.revision-notes.co.uk] [] [] - This is a great site for primary souces. [] [] [] - Links to lots of history related websites. [] - Lots of primary sources and resources for teachers. [] - Excellent site about the African and slave experience in the U.S [|www.worldmapper.org] Incredible selection of over 700 maps where territories are re-sized according to the subject of interest.

=__Videos__= CNN Cold War Series

=__Historiographical Skills__= __After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection__ __** [|The Craft of Research, Third Edition] ** __ by Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb and Joseph M. Williams