Global America

Unit Resources

Unit Reference Materials

Adler, William M. Mollie's Job: A Story of Life and Work on the Global Assembly Line. New York: Touchstone, 2000.

Critchlow, Donald T. Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism: A Woman's Crusade. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005.

Critchlow, Donald T., and Gary B. Nash, eds. Encyclopedia of American History, Volume X, Contemporary United States, 1969 to the Present. New York: Facts on File, Inc., 2003.

Leiva, Julio. El Terco Deseo de Crear un Mejor Manana: Memoir of Tulio Serrano. San Salvador: Molino de Viento, 2005.

Nash, Gary B. Julie Roy Jeffrey, John R. Howe, Peter J. Frederick, Allen F. Davis, and Allan M. Winkler. The American People: Creating a Nation and a Society, 6th ed. New York: Pearson Education Inc., 2004. Reprinted by permission of Pearson Education, Inc.

Wood, Peter, Jacqueline Jones, Thomas Borstelmann, Elaine Tyler May, and Vicki Ruiz. Created Equal: A Social and Political History of the United States. New York: Pearson Education Inc., 2003. Reprinted by permission of Pearson Education, Inc.

Further Reading

Calloway, Colin G. First Peoples: A Documentary Survey of American Indian History. Bedford/St. Martins, 1999.

Crosby, Alfred W. The Columbian Exchange, Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492. Greenwood Press, 1972.

Taylor, Alan. American Colonies: The Settling of North America. Penguin Books, 2002.

Wood, Peter H. Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 Through the Stono Rebellion. W. W. Norton & Company, reissue edition, 1996.

Wood, Peter H. Strange New Land: Africans in Colonial America. Oxford University Press, 2003.

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The Origins of the Cold War (PDF)

Communism, Espionage, and the Cold War (PDF)

The Vietnam War: A National Dilemma (PDF)

Organization of American Historians: Talking History Radio Program

Ronald Reagan: In part 4 of our series on presidential elections, a talk with professor Gil Troy of McGill University, author of See How They Ran: The Changing Role of the Presidential Candidate.

Oct. 23, 2000 air date
Listen Now: Real Audio 28.8

The program contains an op-ed by Wayne State University professor Melvin Small about the presidency of Richard Nixon.