New Resources - U.S. History - History Resources in the Library

New eBooks

The Age of Acrimony: How Americans Fought to Fix Their Democracy, 1865-1915 by John Grinspan
America and Iran: A History, 1720 to the Present by John Ghazvinian
The Cause of Freedom: A Concise HIstory of African Americans by Jonathan Scott Holloway
City of Refuge: Slavery and Petit Marronage in the Great Dismal Swamp, 1763–1856 by Marcus P. Nevius
The Correspondents: Six Women Writers on the Front Lines of World War II by Judith Mackrell
Fears of a Setting Sun: The Disillusionment of America's Founders by Dennis C. Rasmussen
Galvanized: The Odyssey of a Reluctant Carolina Confederate by Michael K. Brantley
General Lee's Army: From Victory to Collapse by Joseph Glatthaar
The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution by Bernard Bailyn
King Richard: Nixon and Watergate—An American Tragedy by Michael Dobbs
Lincoln in Private: What His Most Personal Reflections Tell Us About Our Greatest President by Ronald C. White
The Ordeal of the Reunion: A New History of Reconstruction by Mark Wahlgren Summers
A People's History of the Supreme Court: The Men and Women Whose Cases and Decisions Have Shaped Our Constitution by Peter Irons
Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era by Jerry Mitchell
War on the Border: Villa, Pershing, the Texas Rangers, and an American Invasion by Jeff Guinn
Yesterday's Tomorrow: On the Loneliness of Communist Specters and the Reconstruction of the Future by Bini Adamczak

New eBooks on pdf/Kindle

These four ebooks are available in Dogwood Digital database, but NOT searchable via the Libby app. They can be read as a pdf on a laptop or tablet by downloading the free Adobe Digital Editions reader or downloaded to Kindle (there is a free Kindle app if you don't own a Kindle). Instructions for setting up your Dogwood Digital account can be found to the right.

Beyond Slavery's Shadow: Free People of Color in the South by Warren Eugene Milteer Jr.
Public Confessions: The Religious Conversions That Changed American Politics by Rebecca L. Davis
Thirteen Clocks: How Race United the Colonies and Made the Declaration of Independence by Robert G. Parkinson
West of Slavery: The Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire by Kevin Waite

Accessing Dogwood Digital eBooks

The ebooks on this page are available in Dogwood Digital database.

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Search for your book by title in Libby and click "Borrow." It's as easy as that.

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