The Best Study & Teaching History Books 2025

1. The History Handbook

Prepared by Carol Berkin of Baruch College, City University of New York and Betty Anderson of Boston University. This book teaches students both basic and history-specific study skills such as how to read primary sources, research historical topics, and correctly cite sources. Substantially less expensive than comparable skill-building texts, The History Handbook also offers tips for Internet research and evaluating online sources.

Title: The History Handbook ISBN: 9780618122851 New condition

2. Common Ground: Reimagining American History, (Paperback)

In Common Ground, Gary Okihiro uses the experiences of Asian Americans to reconfigure the ways in which American history can be understood. He examines a set of binaries--East and West, black and white, man and woman, heterosexual and homosexual--that have structured the telling of our nation's history and shaped our ideas of citizenship since the late nineteenth century. Okihiro not only exposes the artifice of these binaries but also offers a less rigid and more embracing set of stories on which to ground a national history. Influenced by European hierarchical thinking in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Anglo Americans increasingly categorized other newcomers to the United States. Binaries formed in the American imagination, creating a sense of coherence among white citizens during times of rapid and far-reaching social change. Within each binary, however, Asian Americans have proven disruptive: they cannot be fully described as either Eastern or Western; they challenge the racial categories of black and white; and within the gender and sexual binaries of man and woman, straight and gay, they have been repeatedly positioned as neither nor. Okihiro analyzes how groups of people and numerous major events in American history have generally been depicted, and then offers alternative representations from an Asian-American viewpoint--one that reveals the ways in which binaries have contributed toward simplifying, excluding, and denying differences and convergences. Drawing on a rich variety of sources, from the Chicago Exposition of 1898 to The Wizard of Oz, this book is a provocative response to current debates over immigration and race, multiculturalism and globalization, and questions concerning the nature of America and its peoples. The ideal foil to conventional surveys of American history, Common Ground asks its readers to reimagine our past free of binaries and open to diversity and social justice.

Common Ground: Reimagining American History, (Paperback) Author: Princeton University Press ISBN: 9780691070070 Format: Paperback Publication Date: 2001-04-01 Page Count: 176

3. AP European History (Paperback) by Larry Krieger, M W Campbell, Niles Holt

9780738606279. New condition. Trade paperback. 10th Green ed. Language: English. Pages: 632. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 632 p. Contains: Illustrations, black & white, Maps. REA Test Preps. Intended for a young adult/teenage audience. REA's test prep for the AP* European History exam - For Students Serious About Scoring a 5 on Their Advanced Placment* Exam! Our AP* European History test prep includes a comprehensive review of every Advanced Placement* European History exam topic from the Renaissance to present day, including religious reformations, European wars, changes in government, and more! Each detailed review chapter contains in-depth historical timelines that help you study smarter and boost your AP* score. The book features four full-length practice exams with detailed explanations of answers. The practice tests are composed of every type of question that can be expected on the actual AP* European History exam, so you can "practice for real" and target your strengths and weaknesses before the test. After building your European History knowledge, follow up with REA's proven test-taking strategies and a study schedule that gets you ready for exam day. REA has helped more than a million students succeed on their AP* exams. Teachers across the country consider our AP* titles to be invaluable resources and consistently recommend our books to their students. Our test preps are authored by AP* experts who have mastered the exam content and teach the course. If you're serious about getting a 5 on your AP* European History exam, you need REA's test prep for AP* European History!

ISBN: 9780738606279 Condition: New Trade paperback 10th Green ed. Language: English Pages: 632 Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 632 p. Contains: Illustrations, black & white, Maps. REA Test Preps. Intended for a young adult/teenage audience. REA's test prep for the AP* European History exam - For Students Serious About Scoring a 5 on Their Advanced Placment* Exam! Our AP* European History test prep includes a comprehensive review of every Advanced Placement* European History exam topic from the Renaissance to present day, including religious reformations, European wars, changes in government, and more! Each detailed review chapter contains in-depth historical timelines that help you study smarter and boost your AP* score. The book features four full-length practice exams with detailed explanations of answers. The practice tests are composed of every type of question that can be expected on the actual AP* European History exam, so you can "practice for real" and target your strengths and weaknesses before the test. After building your European History knowledge, follow up with REA's proven test-taking strategies and a study schedule that gets you ready for exam day. REA has helped more than a million students succeed on their AP* exams. Teachers across the country consider our AP* titles to be invaluable resources and consistently recommend our books to their students. Our test preps are authored by AP* experts who have mastered the exam content and teach the course. If you're serious about getting a 5 on your AP* European History exam, you need REA's test prep for AP* European History!

4. The End of the Innocence (Paperback)

From April 1964 to October 1965, some 52 million people from around the world flocked to the New York World's Fair, an experience that lives on in the memory of many individuals and in America's collective consciousness. Taking a perceptive look back at "the last of the great world's fairs," Samuel offers a vivid portrait of this seminal event and of the cultural climate that surrounded it. He also counters critics' assessments of the fair as the "ugly duckling" of global expositions. Opening five months after President Kennedy's assassination, the fair allowed millions to celebrate international fellowship while the conflict in Vietnam came to a boil. This event was perhaps the last time so many from so far could gather to praise harmony while ignoring cruel realities on such a gargantuan scale. This world's fair glorified the postwar American dream of limitless optimism even as a counterculture of sex, drugs, and rock `n` roll came into being. It could rightly be called the last gasp of that dream: The End of the Innocence. Samuel's work charts the fair from inception in 1959 to demolition in 1966 and provides a broad overview of the social and cultural dynamics that led to the birth of the event. It also traces thematic aspects of the fair, with its focus on science, technology, and the world of the future. Accessible, entertaining, and informative, the book is richly illustrated with contemporary photographs.

The End of the Innocence (Paperback)

5. Pacific Focus: The Ivory Tower and Beyond: Participant Historians of the Pacific (Hardcover)

There is a tradition of participant history among historians of the Pacific Islands, unafraid to show their hands on issues of public importance and risking controversy to make their voices heard. This book explores the theme of the participant historian by delving into the lives of J.C. Beaglehole, J.W. Davidson, Richard Gilson, Harry Maude and Brij V. Lal. They lived at the interface of scholarship and practical engagement in such capacities as constitutional advisers, defenders of civil liberties, or upholders of the principles of academic freedom. As well as writing history, they made history, and their excursions beyond the ivory tower informed their scholarship. Doug Munro's sympathetic engagement with these five historians is likewise informed by his own long-term involvement with the sub-discipline of Pacific History.

Pacific Focus: The Ivory Tower and Beyond (Hardcover)