Product Description: America Past and Present, Brief Edition presents a balanced and manageable overview of the United States as an unfolding story of national development, blending the best in past historical interpretation with new scholarship. This edition features all of the strengths found in the successful comprehensive text: a compelling narrative, clear organization, and exceptional pedagogy...read more

With its careful balance of the social and political dimensions of our history, America Past and Present presents the experiences of both the ordinary men and women and the extraordinary historical figures who have contributed so much to our American past. A lively narrative, clear organization, attractive maps and illustrations, and exceptional pedagogy will help you better understand that past, and help you appreciate the role of the past in shaping your present - and your future.

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Product Description: America Past and Present blends the excitement and drama of the American experience with insights about the social, economic, and cultural forces that underlie it. Each of the authors is a renowned scholar in American history. Their goal has been to present a clear, relevant, and balanced history of the United States as an unfolding story of national development, from the days of the earliest inhabitants to the present...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Hardcover 1991 teacher's edition. Contains a teacher's section in the front of the book. Also has the pages of the student book, with teacher's information in the side margins.

The American Story presents a balanced and manageable overview of the United States as an unfolding story of national development, integrating social and political history into a coherent and compelling narrative.   Acknowledging the nation's rich diversity of class, race, gender, and ethnicity, this edition tells the story both of the people who, through their collective and individual endeavors, shaped the past and of the demands that events placed upon them. This text, based on the bestselling America Past and Present text, is presented in a highly affordable Penguin Academic edition.

An overview of the United States integrates social and political history into a coherent narrative.