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Oregon’s History: People of the Northwest in the Land of Eden
Copyright Year: 2020
Contributors: Michaels and Hakanson
Publisher: Open Oregon Educational Resources
License: CC BY
This “open textbook” is a social and cultural history of the people of Oregon representing powerful figures from the dominant Euro-American culture, the marginalized and oppressed, and social and political reformers who shaped the historical legacy of the state. It is a story of the diverse array of immigrants who helped build the state and strengthen it. The title is a recollection of the racial fantasies that European-American settlers created in their expansionist vision of the West and the state of Oregon. Initially the Oregon Territory was built on intolerance and racial exclusivity, but eventually Oregon embraces its diversity, but not without struggle and heartache. Our journey through the past starts with an essential question, “Who are the people of Oregon?”
(3 reviews)
Slavery to Liberation: The African American Experience - 2nd Edition
Copyright Year: 2019
Contributors: Farrington, Powell, Graham, and Anyanwu
Publisher: Encompass Digital Archive
License: CC BY
Slavery to Liberation: The African American Experience gives instructors, students, and general readers a comprehensive and up-to-date account of African Americans’ cultural and political history, economic development, artistic expressiveness, and religious and philosophical worldviews in a critical framework. It offers sound interdisciplinary analysis of selected historical and contemporary issues surrounding the origins and manifestations of White supremacy in the United States. By placing race at the center of the work, the book offers significant lessons for understanding the institutional marginalization of Blacks in contemporary America and their historical resistance and perseverance.
(5 reviews)
Guide to Ancient Roman art
Copyright Year: 2019
Contributors: Ezra, Harris, and Zucker
Publisher: Smarthistory
License: CC BY-NC-SA
This book contains all of Smarthistory’s content for the Ancient Roman art.
(4 reviews)
Guide to Ancient Greek Art
Copyright Year: 2019
Contributors: Ezra, Harris, and Zucker
Publisher: Smarthistory
License: CC BY-NC-SA
This book contains all of Smarthistory’s content for Ancient Greek art.
(3 reviews)
Guide to Ancient Etruscan Art
Copyright Year: 2019
Contributors: Ezra, Harris, and Zucker
Publisher: Smarthistory
License: CC BY-NC-SA
This book contains all of Smarthistory’s content for the Ancient Etruscan art.
(1 review)
Guide to Ancient Aegean Art
Copyright Year: 2019
Contributors: Ezra, Harris, and Zucker
Publisher: Smarthistory
License: CC BY-NC-SA
This book contains all of Smarthistory’s content for the Ancient Aegean, including Cycladic, Minoan, and Mycenaean art.
(1 review)
Guide to Ancient Egyptian Art
Copyright Year: 2019
Contributors: Ezra, Harris, and Zucker
Publisher: Smarthistory
License: CC BY-NC-SA
This book contains all of Smarthistory’s content for Ancient Egyptian art.
(1 review)
Guide to Ancient Near Eastern Art
Copyright Year: 2019
Contributors: Ezra, Harris, and Zucker
Publisher: Smarthistory
License: CC BY-NC-SA
This book contains all of Smarthistory’s content for Sumerian, Akkadian, Neo-Sumerian / Ur III, Babylonian, Assyrian and Persian art.
(2 reviews)
The American Yawp Vol. II: Since 1877
Copyright Year: 2019
Contributors: Locke and Wright
Publisher: Stanford University Press
License: CC BY-SA
In an increasingly digital world in which pedagogical trends are de-emphasizing rote learning and professors are increasingly turning toward active-learning exercises, scholars are fleeing traditional textbooks. Yet for those that still yearn for the safe tether of a synthetic text, as either narrative backbone or occasional reference material, The American Yawp offers a free and online, collaboratively built, open American history textbook designed for college-level history courses. Unchecked by profit motives or business models, and free from for-profit educational organizations, The American Yawp is by scholars, for scholars. All contributors—experienced college-level instructors—volunteer their expertise to help democratize the American past for twenty-first century classrooms.
(8 reviews)
The American Yawp Vol. I: To 1877
Copyright Year: 2019
Contributors: Locke and Wright
Publisher: Stanford University Press
License: CC BY-SA
In an increasingly digital world in which pedagogical trends are de-emphasizing rote learning and professors are increasingly turning toward active-learning exercises, scholars are fleeing traditional textbooks. Yet for those that still yearn for the safe tether of a synthetic text, as either narrative backbone or occasional reference material, The American Yawp offers a free and online, collaboratively built, open American history textbook designed for college-level history courses. Unchecked by profit motives or business models, and free from for-profit educational organizations, The American Yawp is by scholars, for scholars. All contributors—experienced college-level instructors—volunteer their expertise to help democratize the American past for twenty-first century classrooms.
(16 reviews)