America: The Essential Learning Edition (Volume 2) - Softcover

Shi, David E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393542904 ISBN 13: 9780393542905

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2022

Synopsis

The best-selling storytelling approach with more support for student success. 

David Shi’s rich storytelling style fills America’s celebrated narrative with colorful biographical sketches and vivid first-person quotations. The latest edition welcomes more diverse voices with new coverage of the Latino/a experience as well as on-going enhanced coverage of women and gender, African American, Native American, immigration, and LGBTQ history. The Essential Learning Edition surrounds these stories with a framework that guides reading and develops the skills required for analyzing primary and secondary sources.

About this title

About the Author

David Emory Shi?is president emeritus and professor emeritus at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina. After receiving his PhD from the University of Virginia, he taught for seventeen years at Davidson College, where he won the Distinguished Teaching Award and served as History Department Chair. In addition to authoring the best-selling America: A Narrative History family of books, he is the author of several books focusing on American cultural history, including the award-winning?The Simple Life: Plain Living and High Thinking in American Culture?and?Facing Facts: Realism in American Thought and Culture, 1850–1920. While serving as a Trustee at several colleges, he remains highly engaged with students and instructors around the country with his many annual “author-in-residence” campus visits.

Edition details

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0393542904
• ISBN 13: 9780393542905
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 928