History for Everyone: Build a Nation of Readers with Free Ebooks

The epub format below is for your Apple and Android devices including the Send-to-Kindle feature in Amazon.

Download the mobi file for Amazon devices except the Send to Kindle feature here.

I have written this guide to over a hundred free ebooks to save you time that you might have spent sampling individual titles. I think that we need to upgrade the reading experiences in our classrooms and I hope that this guidebook makes a contribution to that effort.

We can do better in our classrooms as you know. It is time for students to read the same biographies, autobiographies, and memoirs that adults have been buying for generations. If school districts begin to look harder at what books are available, the quality and quantity of reading experiences can improve. School districts need to realize that history textbooks are not building readers. “Mentioning” a topic briefly in a textbook does not give students the repetition needed to commit the subject or the character or the topic to long-term memory.

The book starts with comments about the need to provide reading experiences for students at all grade levels. It ends with a couple of chapters asking why Americans are not reading more about our history. Most of the book is descriptions of free ebooks which I have enjoyed and could be useful in history classrooms.

ELA students might benefit from turning on the Text to Speech feature (TTS) available in many ereading apps.

Please send your comments, corrections, and suggestions for digitizing other out-of-print books to me at feedback@ebooksforstudents.org.

Regards,
Jim McCabe