Humanities Textbooks
It’s About Them: Public Speaking in the 21st Century
Contributors: Kim, Marshall, and Pulliam
Publisher: LOUIS: The Louisiana Library Network
License: CC BY-NC-SA
In addition to original material this book is an adaptation of Introduction to Speech Communication authored by Sarah E. Hollingsworth, Kathryn Weinland, Sasha Hanrahan, and Mary Walker with a CC BY-NC-SA license. Introduction to Speech Communication includes original work as well as adapted and remixed material from Exploring Public Speaking: 4th Edition licensed CC BY-NC-SA, Stand Up, Speak Out licensed CC BY-NC-SA, and Fundamentals of Public Speaking licensed CC BY.
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The European Experience: A Multi-Perspective History of Modern Europe, 1500–2000
Contributors: Hansen, Hung, and Ira
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
License: CC BY-NC
The European Experience brings together the expertise of nearly a hundred historians from eight European universities to internationalise and diversify the study of modern European history, exploring a grand sweep of time from 1500 to 2000. Offering a valuable corrective to the Anglocentric narratives of previous English-language textbooks, scholars from all over Europe have pooled their knowledge on comparative themes such as identities, cultural encounters, power and citizenship, and economic development to reflect the complexity and heterogeneous nature of the European experience. Rather than another grand narrative, the international author teams offer a multifaceted and rich perspective on the history of the continent of the past 500 years. Each major theme is dissected through three chronological sub-chapters, revealing how major social, political and historical trends manifested themselves in different European settings during the early modern (1500–1800), modern (1800–1900) and contemporary period (1900–2000). This resource is of utmost relevance to today’s history students in the light of ongoing internationalisation strategies for higher education curricula, as it delivers one of the first multi-perspective and truly ‘European’ analyses of the continent’s past. Beyond the provision of historical content, this textbook equips students with the intellectual tools to interrogate prevailing accounts of European history, and enables them to seek out additional perspectives in a bid to further enrich the discipline
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Writing Rhetorically: Framing First Year Writing
Contributors: Fontenot, Rodrigue, and Waller
Publisher: LOUIS: The Louisiana Library Network
License: CC BY
This course equips students with a strong understanding of how to use rhetorical modes that underpin much academic writing. The textbook covers modes related to creative writing, such as narration and illustration, while also covering analytically-focused modes such as comparison and cause and effect. Detailed assignment sheets are supplemented by helpful student worksheets for each major paper assignment. The book's final chapter includes grammar and style exercises.
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Exploring the Arts: A Brief Introduction to Art, Theatre, Music, and Dance
Contributors: Hall, Berkeley, and Khan
Publisher: LOUIS: The Louisiana Library Network
License: CC BY
This textbook was created as part of the Interactive OER for Dual Enrollment project, facilitated by LOUIS: The Louisiana Library Network and funded by a $2 million Open Textbooks Pilot Program grant from the Department of Education. This project supports the extension of access to high-quality post-secondary opportunities to high school students across Louisiana and beyond. This project features a collaboration between educational systems in Louisiana, the library community, Pressbooks technology partner, and workforce representatives. It will enable and enhance the delivery of open educational resources (OER) and interactive quiz and assessment elements for priority dual enrollment courses in Louisiana and nationally. Developed OER course materials will be released under a license that permits their free use, reuse, modification and sharing with others.
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Music Appreciation: History, Culture, and Context
Contributors: Le, Scully, and Edwards
Publisher: LOUIS: The Louisiana Library Network
License: CC BY
Music makes us human. Every culture on earth has music. In fact, every human society extending back into prehistoric times has had music. Most of us are surrounded by music. We use it to enhance our mood and to regulate our metabolism, to keep us awake and help us go to sleep, as background to accompany the work, study, exercise, and relaxation that fills our days. But it is precisely when music steps out of this background and asks for our attention, engages our memory and our expectations, that it becomes a fundamentally artistic endeavor. Music is a sonic response to a question that’s not really about sound at all, but rather is historical and social. The study of music is the study of human thought, experience, and history. This course is about the musical imagination. It’s how to think about music, but it’s also about music as a mode of thinking. (inspired by Michael Hays, Professor of Architectural Theory at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design: Welcome to The Architectural Imagination (edx.org).
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Libro Libre: An Introduction to Spanish I
Contributors: Huebener, Cuellar, and Feldman
Publisher: LOUIS: The Louisiana Library Network
License: CC BY-NC-SA
Welcome to Elementary Spanish!
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Rhetoric Matters: A Guide to Success in the First Year Writing Class
Copyright Year: 2022
Contributors: Falik, La Rue, and Watts
Publisher: LOUIS: The Louisiana Library Network
License: CC BY-NC-SA
Rhetoric Matters: A Guide to Success in the First Year Writing Class offers students necessary concepts and practice to learn all the elements needed for successful first year writing and set the stage for future writing success in college.
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World History, Volume 2: From 1400 Volume 2
Copyright Year: 2022
Contributors: Kordas, Lynch, and Nelson
Publisher: OpenStax
License: CC BY
World History, Volume 2: from 1400 is designed to meet the scope and sequence of a world history course from 1400 offered at both two-year and four-year institutions. Suitable for both majors and non majors World History, Volume 2: from 1400 introduces students to a global perspective of history couched in an engaging narrative. Concepts and assessments help students think critically about the issues they encounter so they can broaden their perspective of global history. A special effort has been made to introduce and juxtapose people’s experiences of history for a rich and nuanced discussion. Primary source material represents the cultures being discussed from a firsthand perspective whenever possible. World History, Volume 2: from 1400 also includes the work of diverse and underrepresented scholars to ensure a full range of perspectives.
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American Literatures After 1865
Contributors: Peterson, Berke, and Bleil
Publisher: University of Missouri - St. Louis
License: CC BY-SA
This book is an anthology of American Literatures After 1865, a reimagining of the open educational resource: Writing the Nation: A Concise Introduction to American Literature 1865 to Present.
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The Commons: Tools for Reading, Writing, and Rhetoric
Copyright Year: 2022
Contributors: Parrot, Ashby, and Collins
Publisher: Eastern Kentucky University Libraries
License: CC BY-NC
An Open Textbook for English 101: Reading, Writing, and Rhetoric at Eastern Kentucky University
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