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1. Perspectives from the Past: Primary Sources in Western Civilizations: From the Ancient Near East through the Age of Absolutism

   James M. Brophy, Joshua Cole, Steven Epstein, Et Al.

   Fourth Edition / Volume(s): 1 / Chapters 1-15

   Perspectives from the Past is the most flexible and substantial reader for use in the two-semester Western Civilizations course.More

2. The Telephone Gambit: Chasing Alexander Graham Bell's Secret

   Seth Shulman

   "A stellar example of historical investigation at its probing best."—Chuck Leddy, Boston GlobeMore

3. Elizabeth I and Her Age

   Susan M. Felch, Donald V. Stump

   Four centuries after her death, Elizabeth I remains a powerful and fascinating figure.More

4. The Age of Jim Crow

   Jane Dailey

   America’s racial history has been marked by both hard-won progress and sudden reversals of fortune.More

5. The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln

   Sean Wilentz

   Abridged College Edition

   Winner of the Bancroft Award: "Monumental…a tour de force…awesome in its coverage of political events."—Gordon Wood, New York Times Book ReviewMore

6. The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story

   Diane Ackerman

   The New York Times bestseller: a true story in which the keepers of the Warsaw zoo saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands.More

7. Inventing Human Rights: A History

   Lynn Hunt

   “A tour de force.”—Gordon S. Wood, New York Times Book ReviewMore

8. Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign

   Michael K. Honey

   "The definitive appreciation of the Memphis garbage strike, one of the pivotal human-rights moments in late twentieth-century America."—David Levering LewisMore

9. Voices of Freedom: A Documentary History

   Eric Foner

   Second Edition / Volume(s): 1 / New World-Reconstruction

   Edited by Eric Foner and coordinated with each chapter of the text, this companion to Give Me Liberty! includes 139 primary-source documents touching on the theme of American freedom.More

10. Democracy in America

    Alexis de Tocqueville, Isaac Kramnick, Henry Reeves

    The Norton Critical Edition presents Tocqueville’s classic text in the Henry Reeve translation.More

11. Pirates in the Age of Sail

    Robert J. Antony

    Pirates in the Age of Sail takes a global perspective to explore the world of pirates between the early sixteenth and middle nineteenth centuries.More

12. The Writings of St. Paul

    Saint Paul, Wayne A. Meeks, John T. Fitzgerald

    Second Edition

    The Second Edition of this perennially popular Norton Critical Edition is based on the Today’s New International Version of Paul’s letters, a new translation that is heralded for its inclusiveness and accuracy in representation of gender.More

13. Killing Custer: The Battle of Little Bighorn and the Fate of the Plains Indians

    James Welch, Paul Stekler

    The classic account of Custer's Last Stand that shattered the myth of the Little Bighorn and rewrote history books.More

14. The Killing Zone: My Life in the Vietnam War

    Frederick Downs, Jr.

    “The best damned book from the point of view of the infantrymen who fought there.”—Army TimesMore

15. The Rise of American Democracy: The Crisis of the New Order 1787-1815

    Sean Wilentz

    College Edition / Volume(s): 1

    Now available in three separate paperbacks designed for college courses, The Rise of American Democracy, acclaimed as the definitive study of the period by one of the greatest American historians, traces a historical arc from the earliest days of the republic to the opening shots of the Civil War.More