The Essential America is a fundamentals version of the Tindall/Shi narrative packaged in an eye-popping, four-color design.
The oversized page and double-column layout make the text accessible and highlight the book’s impressive art program. The text’s outstanding pedagogy keeps the central themes of the narrative in sight throughout.
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George Brown Tindall, late of the University of North Carolina, was for many years one of the country’s most distinguished professors of American history. He was the author of several books, including South Carolina Negros, 1877-1900; the award-winning The Emergence of the New South, 1913-1945; The Disruption of the Solid South; and, most recently, The Ethnic Southerners.
David E. Shi is president and professor of history at Furman University. Professor Shi was the Frontis W. Johnston Professor of History at Davidson College for more than a decade. His four books focus on American cultural history: Matthew Josephson, Bourgeois Bohemian; The Simple Life: Plain Living and High Thinking in American Culture; In Search of the Simple Life: American Voices, Past and Present; and, most recently, Facing Facts: Realism in American Thought and Culture.
Thomas Lee Pearcy is professor of history at Slippery Rock University. An outstanding scholar of print and multimedia sources, he regularly teaches survey courses in American and Latin American history.
David E. Shi is president and professor of history at Furman University. Professor Shi was the Frontis W. Johnston Professor of History at Davidson College for more than a decade. His four books focus on American cultural history: Matthew Josephson, Bourgeois Bohemian; The Simple Life: Plain Living and High Thinking in American Culture; In Search of the Simple Life: American Voices, Past and Present; and, most recently, Facing Facts: Realism in American Thought and Culture.
Thomas Lee Pearcy is professor of history at Slippery Rock University. An outstanding scholar of print and multimedia sources, he regularly teaches survey courses in American and Latin American history.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
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This review is from: The Essential America: A Narrative History (Volume 1) (Paperback)
Book was in a little worse condition than I had expected. It does have more information than what we cover in my class, so it makes up for it's condition.
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Pretty useless,
This review is from: The Essential America: A Narrative History (Volume 1) (Paperback)
I am using this textbook in a 200 level college American history class. I am so dissapointed the professor didn't require a better book for us. It barely grazes over key important points in history. I find myself constantly on the internet trying to get more information to write my papers. It seems like it's written for high school level readers, but I wouldn't recommend it even for that. It's impossible to get a good understanding of what went on for any given topic. Also, it is very hard to reference information. Each chapter has timelines in the front which are helpful, and there is a website for quizes and such. In addition, the authors frequently make references to "people" when they simply mean "rich white males". Isn't it enough that our forefathers thought this way - the writers of history books in 2006 have to continue this tradition?? If only Howard Zinn or L. Loewen had written complete history books that can be used in the classroom. They write wonderful books exposing the lies and ommissions of standard history books, but they cannot in themselves be used in the classroom I believe.
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