Dr. Kurt Hackemer

Digital Textbooks

In an effort to combat rising textbook costs, there are several digital collections of free and reduced price textbooks that might be adopted for courses.

• American History: From Revolution to Reconstruction, and Beyond
• The American Yawp - A Free and Online, Collaboratively Built American History Textbook
• A People's History of the United States, by Howard Zinn
• College Open Textbooks - Open source, peer reviewed textbooks
• Digital History of the United States
• OpenStax - Free textbooks that meet scope and sequence requirements for many courses. These are peer-reviewed texts written by professional content developers.
• University of Minnesota Open Textbook Catalog - Open source, peer reviewed textbooks
• US History.org - US History textbook sponsored by the Independence Hall Association. Written by leading historians.