America, Volume 1: A Narrative History

by George Brown Tindall, David Emory Shi, David E. Shi

Book Overview

Full of vivid characters and events, this survey explores American history from pre-Columbian civilizations through to the era of Civil War reconstruction. It introduces American history at a level... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393912663
• ISBN13: 9780393912661
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 768 Pages
• Weight: 1.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.3"

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One of the few required readings that I enjoyed

I'm a student at BSU and although I'm a history major I recognize that not all aspects of history are exciting or involving, but I was really taken aback by how much I enjoyed this book. The word "Narrative" is the key here, textbooks just don't have the same storytelling approach that books like this have. You'll laugh (a lot) and you'll cry with this book, but more importantly you'll learn a lot and gain an appreciation for what our founding fathers, the Natives, and the other world powers went through during this time. Buy this book, you won't be disappointed, but try and buy a used copy and save yourself a lot of money. To compliment this book I highly reccomend "Patriots, The Men who Started the Revolutionary War".

outstanding

I first encountered the Tindall/Shi American history books while a student in college. As a history major, I found that it was almost a requirement for history books to be boring. That is just not the case with this one. I would be lying if I said that there weren't parts of this book that drag, but there are parts of American history that just aren't too terribly interesting. By and large, this narrative reads like a good novel. You are intrigued by the characters and events that shaped U.S. history, much as you would be by any number of fictional characters. And yet the narrative still manages to be detailed without overwhelming the reader too often, a nearly impossible task for history books. The Volume One that I own is the Third Edition, and covers America's pre-colonial beginnings up through Reconstruction. I have found it to be a handy resource over the years with its recountings, not to mention the various charts and documents contained within the appendix. I doubt much has changed in subsequent editions, since the history of that era is pretty well established.

Excellent book and resource

I am a Political Science student, and used this text in A.P. U.S. History in high school. In high school I found that it is, as other reviewers have mentioned, not only packed with information, but occasionally recites short, funny stories and interesting tidbits not found in normal, dry history books. Today, as I do a lot of research and writing for Political Science, I find that I am constantly referring to it to look up all sorts of information listed in tables in the back or to read a paragraph about this or that. It is a wonderful text and a resource for any student in the Social Sciences, or anyone interested in America's history, particularly political history.