HOE and dialects texts

[Greg Pulliam]

I'm teaching "American English: History and Dialects" this summer at
IIT after a two-year hiatus, and I'm looking for text suggestions.

The students will probably only take this one linguistics course in
their lives, so in the past I've used some decidedly un-textbooky
things, like "The Story of English," the companion to the PBS series.
In conjunction with that, I used Wolfram's "American Dialects," and
actually had a nice little 8-week course that students enjoyed and
got a lot from.

Are there any new texts out there?  Wolfram is out of print, so I
must have a new text for the survey of American dialects portion of
the course, and I need something accessible.  I'm pretty happy with
TSOE, but I'd be interested in a newer but still highly-accessible
history of English, if such a thing exists.

Thanks.

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Greg
greg at pulliam.org