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Books

Aims Bookstore carries all the books for the history department. There is a link on their site to order books online as well.

The Aims Library has copies of all the history textbooks available for free checkout.

The history textbooks are as follows (with links to the publisher's websites where available): 

 

US History

HIS 201 American History to 1865

Text
Foner, Eric, Give me Liberty!: An American history, 2d edition, Volume one: 978-0393-93027-6; Volume two: 978-0393-93028-3

Primary source reader
Peter J. Frederick and Julie Roy Jeffrey American History Firsthand: Working with Primary Sources, Vol. 1, 2nd Edition by, ISBN-13: 978-0205559923

HIS 202 American History Reconstruction to present

Text
Foner, Eric, Give me Liberty!: An American history, 2d edition, Volume two: 978-0393-93028-3

Primary source reader
Wheeler, WB, Discovering the American Past, 6th edition, Volume one: 061852259x; Volume two: 061852260

Website:
http://www.wwnorton.com/college/history/foner2/
From this site you can subscribe to podcasts of the text, a half price ebook and other study aids.

 

Western Civilization

HIS 101 Western Civ Antiquity-1650

Text
Kagan, Donald, The Western Heritage, 9th edition, Volume one: 0132197197 

Primary source reader
Gregory, Candace, Documents of Western Civilization, Volume one: 0495030104;

HIS 102 Western Civ 1650-present

Text
Kagan, Donald, The Western Heritage, 9th edition, Volume two: 013173346x

Primary source reader
Gregory, Candace, Documents of Western Civilization, volume two: 0495030112

Website: http://www.prenhall.com/kagan 

 

World Civilization

HIS 111 World Civ, Antiquity -1500

Text
to be decided

HIS112 World Civ, 1500-Present

Text
to be decided

 

History of Colorado

HIS 225

Carl Abbott, et al, Colorado: A History of the Centennial State 4th edition, ISBN 0-87081-800-7

Clark Secrest, Hells' Belles: Prostitution, Vice and Crime in Early Denver isbn 087081633

 

History of 20th Century World

Daniel R. Brower, The World In The Twentieth Century, ISBN 9780131930421

 

 

 

Japan Warrior