This history of the United States organizes each chapter around a specific question designed to challenge students to consider the complexity of the past. The book has been updated to include coverage of the first months of the Clinton administration.
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A survey of US History from Pre-Columbian times to the present. Takes a "questioning approach", which focuses student attention to large historiographical questions in each chapter. New edition adds material on the Pre-Columbian period and expands colonial coverage; expands coverage of Indian peoples, ecology and environment, economic history. Volume II re-interprets cold war and final chapter focuses on end of cold war and diversity.
These United States discusses political, diplomatic, and military events, it also covers - and extensively - social, cultural, and economic events and currents. It deals not only with events, moreover, but also with people. Each chapter has a 'Historical Portrait' and a 'Historical Document' in the words of some representative figure of the period discussed in the chapter.
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