LibGuides: Open Source Education Resources: History & Anthropology

History

American Yawp
The American Yawp offers a free and online, collaboratively built, open American history textbook designed for college-level history courses. All contributors—experienced college-level instructors—volunteer their expertise to help democratize the American past for twenty-first century classrooms.
US History: OpenStax
Designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of most introductory courses. The text provides a balanced approach to U.S. history, considering the people, events, and ideas that have shaped the United States from both the top down (politics, economics, diplomacy) and bottom up (eyewitness accounts, lived experience). U.S. History covers key forces that form the American experience, with particular attention to issues of race, class, and gender.
History in the Making: A History of the People of the United States of America to 1877 - University of North Georgia
This book puts a strong emphasis on critical thinking about US History by providing several key features in each chapter. Learning Objectives at the beginning of each chapter help students to understand what they will learn in each chapter. Before You Move On sections at the end of each main section are designed to encourage students to reflect on important concepts and test their knowledge as they read. In addition, each chapter includes Critical Thinking Exercises that ask the student to deeply explore chapter content.
American History
This online textbook is one of a series of three. It begins by describing Native American Society as it was directly before colonization. This text comprehensively discusses, all topics of American history up to the turn of the twenty first century.
American Government
Beginning with the nature of government, this text covers all of the main topics of government including federalism, congress, bureaucracy, and civil rights.

Anthropology

Cultural Anthropology
Tutorials created and maintained by Dr. Dennis O'Neil, Behavioral Sciences Department, Palomar College, San Marcos, California.
Native Peoples of North America
Intended to be an introductory text about the Native peoples of North America (primarily the United States and Canada) presented from an anthropological perspective.
ANTH 101: Anthropology for Everyone
A course designed by Dr. Michael Wesch, Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University. The course makes available the open textbook "The Art of Being Human" in an interactive hub for Introduction to Cultural Anthropology.

Supplemental Materials

MU Library Resources

The Monmouth University Library provides access to databases that contain e-books, e-journals, images, videos, etc. that can be used to supplement textbooks and other course materials. To learn more, see the following:

AnthroSource This link opens in a new window
eHRAF World Cultures This link opens in a new window
HathiTrust Digital Library This link opens in a new window
Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new window
New York Times Historical: 1851-2019 This link opens in a new window
Historic Map Works This link opens in a new window