LibGuides: United States History: Open Educational Resources (OER)

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JSTOR Open Access Books
Collection of Open Access journals and eBooks. Not all of the works are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License v4.0. Check the licensing information provided for the selected item to be sure!
MERLOT - History Community Portal
Collection of materials, organizations, journals, and more.

OpenStax U.S. History
A free, openly licensed, and peer-reviewed digital textbook that covers the history of the United States from pre-Columbian times to the present.

Courses

Boundless US History
College Sidekick's Boundless U.S. History Study Guides, offers a comprehensive set of educational materials designed to assist students in studying U.S. history.

MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) - American History
a free and open online publication of educational materials from thousands of MIT courses, providing free access to lecture notes, exams, videos, and more for learners and educators worldwide.

Yale University – The American Revolution
A free, full lecture series by historian Joanne Freeman on the American Revolution, detailing how colonists transformed into revolutionaries. Available online with 25 video lectures.

Textbooks

After 9/11: Leading Political Thinkers about the World, the U.S. and Themselves: 17 Conversations.
Verlag Barbara Budrich, 2011. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY).
Civil War Congress and the Creation of Modern America: A Revolution on the Home Front.
Ohio University Press, 2018. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution- (CC BY-NC-ND).
The Constitutional History of the United States
J.B. Lippincott and Company, 1858. Public Domain.
The Declaration of Independence, The Articles of Confederation, and The Constitution of the United States.
Oxford University Press, 1917. Public Domain.
Ending the Civil War and Consequences for Congress
Ohio University Press, 2019. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY-NC-ND).
History in the Making: A History of the People of the United States of America to 1877
University of North Georgia Press. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA).
A History of the American Civil Rights Movement Through Newspaper Coverage: The Race Agenda, Volume 1.
New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Oxford, Wien: Peter Lang, 2018. Licensed under
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND).
History of the Louisiana Purchase.
Chicago: Callaghan and Company, 1902. Public Domain.
Slavery to Liberation: The African American Experience - 2nd Edition
Encompass Digital Archive, 2019. ISBN 13: 9781734328905. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution License v4.0.
U.S. History
OpenStax, 2015. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY).
U.S. History
Rice University, 2014. ISBN-13: 978-1-947172-08-1. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution License v4.0.

United States History: Open Educational Resources (OER)

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