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U.S. History Survey
Type Price
(combined/volumes)		 Book
FULL-SIZE $202.00/$153.75 Boyer, The Enduring Vision, 7e (Cengage, 2011)
$200.00/$159.00 Murrin, Liberty, Equality, Power, 6e (Cengage, 2012)
$190.00/$146.25 Ayers, American Passages, 4e (Cengage, 2009)
$183.75/$139.75 Boyer, The Enduring Vision, 8e (Cengage, 2014)
$176.50/$140.00 Norton, A People and a Nation, 9e (Cengage, 2012)
$171.00/$136.75 Berkin, Making America, 6e (Cengage, 2012)
$167.50/$139.75 Kennedy, The American Pageant, 15e (Cengage, 2013)
$139.75/$107.25 (est.) Carnes, The American Nation, 14e (Pearson 2012)
$139.75/$107.25 (est.) Goldfield, The American Journey, 6e (Pearson, 2011)
$139.75/$107.25 (est.) Jones, Created Equal, 3e (Pearson, 2009)
$139.75/$107.25 (est.) Divine, America: Past and Present, 10e (Pearson, 2013)
$139.75/$107.25 (est.) Faragher, Out of Many, 7e (Pearson, 2012)
$132.50/$114.75 Brinkley, American History, 14e (MGH, 2012)
$132.50/$114.75 Davidson, Experience History, 7e (MGH, 2011)
$123.00/$104.50 Conlin, American Past, 9e (Cengage 2010)
$123.00/$104.50 Conlin, American Past, 10e (Cengage 2014)
$114.00/$91.00 Maier, Inventing America, 2e (WWN, 2006)
$106.00/$85.00 Foner, Give Me Liberty!, 3e (WWN, 2011)
$105.00/$85.00 Henretta, America’s History, 7e (BSM, 2011)
$105.00/$85.00/$70.00 Roark, The American Promise, 5e (BSM, 2012)
$97.00/$63.75 (est.) Oakes, Of the People, 1e (Oxford, 2010)
$75.00/$52.00 Tindall, America, 8e (WWN, 2010)
n.a./$71.50 (est.) Schaller, American Horizons, 1e (Oxford, 2013)
$69.00/$57.00 Hewitt/Lawson, Exploring American Histories(BSM, 2013)
$68.25/$55.25 Roark, LLF Ed., The American Promise, 5e (BSM, 2012)
$68.25/$55.25 Henretta, LLF Ed., America’s History, 7e (BSM, 2011)
n.a./$57.00 ASHP, Who Built America?, 3e (BSM, 2008)
$44.75/$37.05 Hewitt/Lawson, LLF Ed., Exploring American Histories(BSM, 2013)
MID-SIZE $90.50/$72.00 Keene, Visions of America, 2e (Pearson, 2013)
$69.00/$58.00 Roark, Compact American Promise, 4e (BSM, 2010)
$62.25/$45.25 (est.) Brands, American Stories, 2e (Pearson, 2012)
BRIEF $135.00/$98.25 Murrin, Liberty, Equality, EnhancedConcise 4e (Cengage, 2009)
$122.75/$89.25 Murrin, Liberty, Equality, Concise 6e (Cengage, 2014)
$122.00/$91.75 Berkin, Making America, Brief 5e (Cengage, 2011)
$121.00/$87.00 Ayers, American Passages, Brief 4e (Cengage, 2012)
$111.00/$83.50 Berkin, Making America, Brief 6e (Cengage, 2014)
$109.75/$91.25 Boyer, The Enduring Vision, Concise 7e (Cengage, 2013)
$108.00/$86.25 Norton, A People and a Nation, Brief 9e (Cengage, 2012)
$101.25/$81.75 Gillon, The American Experiment, 3e (Cengage, 2009)
$100.25/$88.25 Kennedy, The American Pageant, Brief 8e (Cengage, 2012)
$90.50/ $71.90 Jones, Created Equal, Brief 3e (Pearson, 2011)
$90.50/ $71.90 Faragher, Out of Many, Brief, 6e (Pearson, 2012)
$87.50/$71.10 Nash, The American People, Vango Ed. (Pearson, 2009)
$81.75/$65.25 Brinkley, Unfinished Nation, Concise 6e (MGH, 2010)
$81.75/$65.25 Davidson, U.S.: A Narr. History, "M" Series 6e (MGH, 2012)
n.a./$67.50 (est.) Unger, American Issues, 5e (Pearson, 2011)
$63.75/$45.00 Schultz, HIST, 3e (4LtrPress/Cengage, 2014)
$62.25/$45.25 (est.) Goldfield, The American Journey, Concise 2e (Pearson, 2012)
$62.15/$45.25 (est.) Nash, The American People, Concise 7e (Pearson, 2011)
$62.00/$52.00 Foner, Give Me Liberty!, Brief 3e (WWN, 2012)
$60.00/$47.00 Roark, Understanding the Amer. Promise (BSM, 2011)
$56.25/$37.50 Schultz, HIST,2e (4LtrPress/Cengage, 2012)
$50.00/$41.00 Tindall, America, Brief 8e (WWN, 2010)
$50.00/$40.00 Henretta, America: Concise, 5e (BSM, 2012)
n.a./$34.50 (est.) Schaller, American Horizons, Concise 1e (Oxford, 2013)
n.a./$34.50 (est.) Oakes, Of The People: Concise, 2e (Oxford, 2012)
TRADE SIZE/B&W $63.50/$47.00 Brinkley, The Unfinished Nation, Brief 1e (MGH, 2005)
$62.25/$45.10 (est.) Carnes, American Destiny, 4e (Pearson, 2012)
$61.50/$49.00 Ayers, American Passages, Adv. Ed. 4e (Cengage, 2010)
$61.50/$49.00 Kennedy, American Pageant, Adv. Ed. 15e (Cengage, 2014)
$61.50/$49.00 Norton, A People and a Nation, Adv. Ed. 9e (Cengage, 2012)
$61.50/$49.00 Boyer, The Enduring Vision, Adv. Ed. 7e (Cengage, 2012)
$61.50/$49.00 Murrin, Liberty, Equality, Power, Adv. 6e (Cengage, 2012)
$61.50/$49.00 Conlin, The American Past, Adv. Ed. 9e (Cengage, 2012)
$59.00/$47.00 Berkin, Making America, Adv. Ed. 6e (Cengage, 2013)
$54.00/$41.00 Foner, Give Me Liberty!, Seagull Ed. 3e (WWN, 2012)
$54.10/$40.10 Divine, American Story, 5e (Pearson, 2013)
$43.00/$35.00 Roark, The American Promise, Value 5e (BSM, 2012)

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READERS
Type Price
(combined/volumes)		 Book
n.a./$95.75 Kennedy, The American Spirit, 12e (Cengage, 2010)
n.a./$92.00 Hyser, Voices of the American Past, 5e (Cengage, 2012)
n.a./$81.75 Oates, Portrait of America, 10e (Cengage, 2011)
n.a./$77.00 Binder, The Way We Lived, 7e (Cengage, 2013)
n.a./$77.00 Hollitz, Contending Voices, 3e (Cengage, 2011)
n.a./$77.00 Wheeler, Discovering the American Past, 7e (Cengage, 2012)
$76.50/$54.75 Davidson, After the Fact, 6e (MGH, 2010)
n.a./$72.50 Boller, A More Perfect Union, 7e (Cengage, 2009)
n.a./$72.50 Hollitz, Thinking Through the Past, 4e (Cengage, 2010)
n.a./$67.50 Unger, American Issues, 5e (Pearson, 2011)
n.a./$65.25 (est.) Roberts, American Experiences, 7e (Pearson, 2008)
n.a./$60.50 Weisner, American Portraits, 3e (MGH, 2008)
n.a./$58.25 Wheeler, The Social Fabric, 11e (Pearson, 2009)
n.a./$56.00 (est.) Gorn, Constructing the American Past, 7e (Pearson, 2011)
n.a./$46.50 Brown/Shannon, Going to the Source, 3e (BSM, 2012)
n.a./$46.50 Couvares, Interpretations of American History, 8e (BSM, 2009)
n.a./$46.50 Marcus/Burner, America Firsthand, 9e (BSM, 2012)
n.a./$27.00 Shi, For the Record, 5e (WWN, 2013)
n.a./$21.00 Foner, Voices of Freedom, 3e (WWN, 2011)
n.a./$15.00
(free with text)		 Johnson, Reading the American Past, 5e (BSM, 2012)
n.a./$12.50
(free with text)		 Yazawa/Fernlund, Documents Collection to Accompany America’s History, 7e (BSM, 2011)

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U.S. Women's History
Type Price (combined/volumes) Book
$89.50/$60.75 Buhle, Women & the Making of America (Pearson, 2009)
$85.25 Norton, Major Problems in American Women’s History, 4e (Cengage, 2007)
$75.50 Woloch, Women & the American Experience, 5e (MGH, 2011)
n.a./$67.00 (est.) Hewitt/Delegard, Women, Families, and Communities, 2e (Pearson, 2008)
$65.50 Ware, Modern American Women, 2e (MGH, 2002)
$65.50 Woloch, Early American Women, 2e (MGH, 2002)
$57.50/n.a. Sklar/Dublin, Women and Power in American History, 3e (Pearson, 2009)
$56.50 Woloch, Women & the American Experience, Concise 2e (MGH, 2002)
$56.00/$41.00 DuBois/Dumenil, Through Women’s Eyes, 3e (BSM, 2012)
$52.00 Coryell, History of Women in America, 1e (MGH, 2012)
$50.25/$35.25 (est.) Kerber, Women’s America, 7e (Oxford, 2011)
$47.00/$37.00 Skinner, Women and the National Experience: Sources in Women's History, 3e (Pearson, 2011)
$12.75 Evans, Born for Liberty (Free Press, Simon & Schuster, 1997)

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Native American History
Type Price (combined/volumes) Book
$106.75/$86.25 Edmunds/Hoxie, The People (Cengage, 2007)
$85.25 Hurtado, Major Problems in American Indian History, 2e (Cengage, 2001)
$56.00 Calloway, First Peoples, 4e (BSM, 2012)
$18.75 (est.) Nichols, American Indians in U.S. History (Oklahoma, 2004)

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African American History
Type Price Book
$98.50 Franklin, From Slavery to Freedom, 9e (MGH, 2011)
$97.25/$76.50 (est.) Carson, African American Lives: The Struggle for Freedom, 1e (Pearson, 2005)
$95.50 Palmer, Passageways: An Interpretive History of Black America, 1e (Cengage, 1998)
$93.00/$76.50 (est.) Hine, African American Odyssey, 5e (Pearson, 2011)
n.a./$85.25 Holt, Major Problems in African American History, 1e (Cengage, 2000)
$74.50 (est.) Davis, Inhuman Bondage, 1e (Oxford, 2006)
$67.00 cloth (est.)/
$22.50 paper (est.)		 Trotter, African American Urban History Since WWII (U. Chicago, 2009)
$61.50/$44.75 Hine, African Americans: A Concise History, 4e (Pearson, 2012)
$60.00/$45.00 White/Bay/Martin, Freedom on My Mind (BSM, 2013)
$52.50 cloth (est.)/
$20.25 paper (est.)		 Crosby, Civil Rights History From the Ground Up (U. Georgia, 2011)
$51.25 Theoharis, These Yet to Be United States, 1e (Cengage, 2003)
$45.40/$32.00 (est.) Carson, The Struggle for Freedom, Concise 2e (Pearson, 2011)
$35.25 (est.) Painter, Creating Black Americans, 1e (Oxford, 2006)

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Writing Guides/METHODOLOGY
Type Price Book
$36.25 (est.) Marius, Short Guide to Writing History, 8e (Pearson, 2012)
$34.75 Berkin, History Handbook, 2e (Cengage, 2012)
$23.50 Benjamin, A Student’s Guide to History, 12e (BSM, 2013)
$21.50 Frakes, Writing for College History (Cengage, 2004)
$17.75 Rampolla, Pocket Guide to Writing in History, 7e (BSM, 2012)
$15.00 (est.) Storey, Writing History, 4e (Oxford, 2012)
$14.25 (est.) Brundage, Going to the Sources, 5e (Wiley, 2013)
$11.00 BSM, The Bedford Glossary for U.S. History (BSM, 2007)
$11.00 Schrum, U.S. History Matters, 2e (BSM, 2009)

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