The Elements of Style by William Strunk

A Writer's Reference by Diana Hacker

Calculus by James Stewart

Human Anatomy and Physiology by Elaine Nicpon Marieb
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Republic by Plato

The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx

Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
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Orientalism by Edward W. Said
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The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli

Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

They Say/I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing by Cathy Birkenstein

Doing Your Research Project: A Guide for First-Time Researchers in Education and Social Science by Judith Bell

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
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Letter From the Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King
Meditations on First Philosophy by Rene Descartes
Paradise Lost by John Milton
Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault
A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations by Kate L. Turabian
Second Treatise of Government by John Locke
The Art of Public Speaking by Stephen Lucas
Fundamentals of Nursing by Patricia A. Potter
The Study Skills Handbook by Stella Cottrell
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order by Samuel P. Huntington
Research Design by John W. Creswell
Social Research Methods by Alan Bryman
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
The American Promise: A History of the United States by James L. Roark
Molecular Biology of the Cell by Bruce Alberts
Oedipus Rex by Sophocles

Nations and Nationalism Since 1780 by E. J. Hobsbawm

In Defense of History by Richard J. Evans

Imagined Communities by Benedict R. O.'G. Anderson

The Pursuit of History: Aims, Methods, and New Directions in the Study of Modern History by John Tosh

The American Promise: A History of the United States by James L. Roark

The Western Heritage by Donald Kagan

Traditions and Encounters: A Global Perspective on the Past by Jerry H. Bentley

Western Civilization by Jackson J. Spielvogel

The Making of the West: Peoples and Cultures by Lynn Hunt

Worlds of History: A Comparative Reader by Kevin Reilly
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Ordinary Men by Christopher R. Browning

The Nazi Dictatorship: Problems and Perspectives of Interpretation by Ian Kershaw​

The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order by Samuel P. Huntington

King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild

Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared M. Diamond
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Ordinary Men by Christopher R. Browning

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
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The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order by Samuel P. Huntington

King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild

Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared M. Diamond
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Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke

The Human Record: Sources of Global History by Alfred J. Andrea
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The Making of the English Working Class by E. P. Thompson

History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

What Is History? by Edward Hallett Carr​

The Life of Charlemagne by Einhard
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The Invention of Tradition by E. J. Hobsbawm
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A History of Modern Europe: From the Renaissance to the Present by John M. Merriman

The Search for Modern China by Jonathan D. Spence
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The Russian Revolution by Sheila Fitzpatrick
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The Life of Charlemagne by Einhard
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A History of the Modern Middle East by William L. Cleveland​

A History of Modern Europe: From the Renaissance to the Present by John M. Merriman

The Search for Modern China by Jonathan D. Spence
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The Russian Revolution by Sheila Fitzpatrick
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Writing History: A Guide for Students by William Kelleher Storey
The Heritage of World Civilizations by Albert M. Craig
Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837 by Linda Colley
Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age by Modris Eksteins
The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois
Ninety-Five Theses by Martin Luther
Form and Style: Theses, Reports, Term Papers by Stephen V. Ballou
Sam Patch, the Famous Jumper by Paul E. Johnson
The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution by Bernard Bailyn
Liberty, Equality, Power: A History of the American People by John M. Murrin
The History of Sexuality by Michel Foucault
Ecological Imperialism by Alfred W. Crosby
Farewell Address by George Washington
Odyssey by Homer
A Rumor of War by Philip Caputo
The Second Sex by Simone De Beauvoir
The Radicalism of the American Revolution by Gordon S. Wood
Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin
Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market by Walter Johnson
Connections: A World History by Edward H. Judge
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington

American History

The American Promise: A History of the United States by James L. Roark
America: A Narrative History by George Brown Tindall
Give Me Liberty!: An American History by Eric Foner
A Pocket Guide to Writing in History by Mary Lynn Rampolla
Thinking Through the Past: A Critical Thinking Approach to U.S. History by John Erwin Hollitz
The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American People by Alan Brinkley
Reconstruction by Eric Foner
Out of Many: A History of the American People by John Mack Faragher
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet A. Jacobs
American Passages: A History of the United States by Edward L. Ayers
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass
Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody
America, Past and Present by Robert A. Divine
American History: A Survey by Alan Brinkley
A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
The American Journey: A History of the United States by David R. Goldfield
The American People: Creating a Nation and a Society by Gary B. Nash
The Enduring Vision: A History of the American People by Paul S. Boyer
Letter From the Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King
Reading the American Past: Selected Historical Documents by Michael P. Johnson
​The American Spirit: United States History as Seen by Contemporaries by Thomas Andrew Bailey
A People and a Nation: A History of the United States by Mary Beth Norton
Democracy in America by Alexis De Tocqueville
​The Significance of the Frontier in American History by Frederick Jackson Turner
Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England by William Cronon
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