A History of the United States and Its People [Hardcover]

Edward Eggleston (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 1, 1998

In this third book in Edward Eggleston?s history series you?ll find solid American history in a thorough handbook of American history up to 1888, containing information every child and adult should know about our American heritage.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

This book is the third in Edward Eggleston's history textbook series. You won't find political correctness or revisionism herejust solid American history. And more than that, this book makes the teacher's job easy, while it stimulates the student's interest. To do this, this book is arranged by topic so the student sees cause and effect clearly and contains study questons, a Study by Topic section, fill-in exercises, many maps and illustrations, suggestions to teachers and a useful, comprehensive index.

Eggleston's technique allows teachers and parents to teach history with proficiency and allows students to savor and comprehend the facts and lessons of America's history.

Recommended for Ages 12 and up.

From the Back Cover

A History of the United States and Its People is the third book in Edward Eggleston's history textbook series. You won't find political correctness or revisionism herejust solid American history. And more than that, you get a book aimed at making the teacher's job easy, while at the same time stimulating the student's interest. Eggleston does this with a wealth of features like:

Arrangement by topic so the student sees cause and effect clearly

Study questions to aid students in mastering the facts in each chapter

Study by topics: essay questions that can be used for written or oral discussion

Fill-in exercises after many chapters

Liberal use of maps as a teaching tool--which helps the student master geography as well as history

Suggestions for diagrams, reviews and other blackboard exercises

Scores of illustrations by some of the best artists and engravers of the time

Big 17 page index

No question. Eggleston's easy-does-it technique allows teachers and parents to teach history with proficiency and allows students to savor and comprehend the facts and lessons of America's history.

Other Edward Eggleston books published by

Lost Classics Book Company: Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans & A First Book in American History

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 433 pages
• Publisher: Lost Classic Books; Reprint edition (July 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 096527358X
• ISBN-13: 978-0965273589
• Product Dimensions: 13.2 x 5.5 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #453,194 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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33 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Solid American History, December 27, 2001

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thewahlmighty (Hanoi) - See all my reviews

This review is from: A History of the United States and Its People (Hardcover)

This, the third book in Edward Eggelston's textbook series, is a remarkable example of how textbooks ought to be, and once were, written.

From the first page to the last, Eggleston's clarity and obvious love for the subject infused me with the desire to push on, thus learning what was to happen next. The bite-sized chapters (which are about four pages of text each) ensured that this desire did not wane out of a failure to mentally digest a ton of facts all at once. And, to top it all off, the pictures and maps inside this book actually added to (rather than distracted me from) its content.

As a current student, I can only tell you that I would love for one of my teachers to have used, or to use, a textbook like this for one of my classes. It contains nothing but solid American history and is a textbook that is at once both readable and immensely worth reading. I'm giving it five out of five stars.

29 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent overview of American History..., September 16, 2003

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B. Surkan (Marietta, GA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A History of the United States and Its People (Hardcover)

I teach History at a private middle school in California and have been using this book in class. It is exceptionally readable and includes paragraph summaries in the margins along with exquisite illustrations. It refreshingly lacks marxism and political correctness, as noted by another reviewer. This is truly the way textbooks ought to be written.

For example, this book explains why the initial British colonies of Plymouth and Jamestown almost starved: redistribution of wealth. The simple solution was to assign private property ownership. By the next harvest the result of private land ownership led to overwhelmingly plentiful food and led to our current Thanksgiving celebration. Few modern texts mention that it was primarily the lack of private property rights that led to starvation in these colonies.

One word of caution...it reads easily and provides an excellent overview, but does not go into sufficient detail for middle school. Supplemental materials are required.

34 of 39 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I wish they still wrote texts like this, October 1, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: A History of the United States and Its People (Hardcover)

A grade school history book, free from political correctness and Marxism. Unabashedly pro-American.