The text provides a balanced approach to U.S. history, considering the people, events, and ideas that have shaped the United States from both the top down (politics, economics, diplomacy) and bottom up (eyewitness accounts, lived ...
Known for its attention to AP® themes and content, the new edition features a nine part structure that closely aligns with the chronology of the AP® U.S. History course, with every chapter and part ending with AP®-style practice ...
James Axtell, “Europeans, Indians, and the Age of Discovery in American HistoryTextbooks,” American Historical Review 92 (1987): 627. Essays such as Axtell's, which review college-level textbooks, rarely appear in history journals.
Building on the book's hallmark strengths — balance, comprehensiveness, and explanatory power — as well as its outstanding visuals and extensive primary-source features, authors James Henretta, Rebecca Edwards, and Robert Self have ...
For the new, sixth edition, the authors took a hard look at all aspects of their text, considered what worked and what didn’t, and crafted a broad revision plan that demonstrates, once again, their unmatched commitment to America’s ...
When the white people first came, the Indians had nothing to shoot with but bows and arrows. In Philip's time they had given up bows, finding guns much better for killing game. You may be sure that when Philip once got away from the ...
Presents the history of the United States from the point of view of those who were exploited in the name of American progress.
... and Thomas Wentworth Higginson, another Unitarian minister for whom abolitionism became the core of his religion. Higginson had led the group that had tried to liberate escaped slave Anthony Burns from Boston's federal courthouse in ...
"America's History helps AP students: Grasp vital themes: The seventh edition emphasizes political culture and political economy to help students understand the ways in which society, culture, politics, and the economy inform one another.
the Mexican War extended the nation's borders to the Pacific; those acquisitions would significantly reorient policy ... the U.S. minister stationed in Honolulu, David L. Gregg, negotiated an annexation treaty and sent it to Washington.