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Library Guides/ Modern and Contemporary History 1800 AD - Present

Handbooks

Chafe, William H. The Unfinished Journey : America Since World War II. 8th ed. New York, 2015.
ISBN: 9780199347995
Conrad, Margaret. A Concise History of Canada. New York, NY, 2012.
ISBN: 9780521744430
Grant, Susan-Mary. A Concise History of the United States of America. Cambridge, 2012.
ISBN: 9780521612791
Levine, Paul, and Harry Papasotiriou. America Since 1945 : The American Moment. 2nd ed. Basingstoke, 2010.
ISBN: 9780230251458
Thompson, Antonio S, and Christos Frentzos. The Routledge Handbook of American Military and Diplomatic History 1865 to the Present. New York, 2013.
ISBN: 9781135071028
The New Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations. 4 vol. Cambridge, 2013.
ISBN: 9781107536135
Woodward, C. Van gen.ed. The Oxford History of the United States New York, 1982-2017. Multivolume work.
ISBN: 9780195305227

Key bibliography

America: history & life This link opens in a new window
Covers the history and culture of the United States and Canada,
from prehistory to the present.
Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Bibliography on the world's history (except USA and Canada) from 1450 to the present

Related LibGuide

American Studies

Reference

The Oxford Companion to United States History. Oxford, 2001. This link opens in a new window
Hallowell, Gerald. The Oxford companion to Canadian history. Oxford, 2004. This link opens in a new window

Biographical Reference

American National Biography This link opens in a new window
The online edition of the ANB
Dictionary of Canadian biography online This link opens in a new window
Biographies of persons in Canadian history that lived between 1000 and 1930.

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