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HIST 406B (Johnson), American West since 1849: Library Guides

Books

ebooks (print course reserves also available)

Shaped by the West, Volume 1 by Anne F. Hyde; William F. Deverell
ISBN: 9780520964372
Publication Date: 2018
Shaped by the West, Volume 2 by William F. Deverell; Anne F. Hyde
ISBN: 0520965205
Publication Date: 2018
Boyle Heights:How a Los Angeles Neighborhood Became the Future of American Democracy by George J. Sánchez
ISBN: 0520237072
Publication Date: 2021
The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka
Call Number: Lied Library Book Stacks PS3615.T88 B83 2011
ISBN: 0307700003
Publication Date: 2011
Nature's Metropolis by William Cronon
Call Number: Lied Library Book Stacks F548.4 .C85 1991
ISBN: 0393029212
Publication Date: 1991
Internet Archive (free account needed for full access for 1 hour):
copy 1
copy 2
copy 3

Print only

The New Encyclopedia of the American West by Howard R. Lamar (Editor)
Call Number: Lied Library Book Stacks F591 .N46 1998
ISBN: 0300070888
Publication Date: 1998
Internet Archive (free account needed for full access for 1 hour):

class slides

Feb. 3 class session

Streaming Films

Ken Burns: The West by part 4: Death Runs Riot, 1856 to 1868
Publication Date: PBS Video, 2015
Ken Burns: The West by part 6: Fight No More Forever, 1874 to 1877
Publication Date: PBS Video, 2015
Stagecoach by dir. John Ford
Publication Date: 1939
High Noon by dir Fred Zinnemann
Publication Date: United Artists,1952
Goin' Back to T-Town by prod. Sam Pollard, Joyce Vaughn
Publication Date: 1993
Smoke Signals by dir. Chris Eyre
Publication Date: 1998
The Times of Harvey Milk by dir. Rob Epstein and Richard Schmiechen
Call Number: Lied Library Book Stacks Media HQ75.8.M55 T55 2011
Publication Date: 1984
The New West and the Politics of the Environment by Earth Focus is a local public television program presented by PBS SoCal | KCET.
Sliver of a Full Moon
The Longoria Affair (DVD only)
DVD available on reserve at Lied circulation desk

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