- Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and MythHenry Nash Smith's classic American Studies book on popular representations of the US West in 19th and 20th centuries.
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On the Hmong People in the United States Excerpts from the book by Sucheng Chan.
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Works of Frederick Jackson Turner Links to classic essays by the historian most responsible for scholarly legitimation of the frontier myth. Includes his extremely influential 1893 essay, "The Significance of the Frontier in American History."
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Frederick Jackson Turner: An Examination of His "Frontier Thesis" by Mark Wibe (circa 1998).
- The [New] American West Essays from the Organization of American Historians' "Magazine of History" (Fall 1994) by Walter Nugent reviewing several of the early works of the "new western history," Susan Armitage on women in the west, and other state of the art works of the early 1990s. On the introduction to the 2005 revisting of this topic is available online.
- Wild West Magazine Index to online articles in the journal that, despite its name, often publishes serious historical scholarship.
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A Literary History of the American West (1988) Online book form the Western Literature Association.
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The Cutting Edge: Sterlization and Eugenics in California, 1909-1945 by Jon Gottshall.
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The Emergence of Postsuburbia by Rob Kling and Mark Poster.
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Manifest Destiny's Last Stand?
Prop 187 and the Future of North American Labor and Human Rights
by Raul Hinojosa Ojeda
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Coming to America by Marilee Strong. On history and future of immigration policies and practices.
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A Brief History of the Black Panther Party by Sundiata Acoli.
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The Transformation of Culture: Three Chinese Views of America by Kevin Scott Wong (American Quarterly).
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Oscar J. Martinez, ed. US-MEXICO BORDERLANDS book review by Elliot Young.
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Teaching Asian American Literature by Amy Ling (Heath Anthology).
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A Talk Concerning First Beginnings: Teaching Native American Oral Literature by Andrew Wiget (Heath Anthology).
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Teaching Chicano Literature: An Historical Approach by Raymund Paredes (Heath Anthology).
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The Uses of the Spanish Imperial Past in the Early
American Classroom: Beyond the Anthology: Sources for Teaching Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Colonial Spanish Literature of North America
by E. Thomson Shields, Jr.
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Teaching Gay and Lesbian American Literature by David Bergman (Heath Anthology)
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Book Review page from H-West listserv