American Heritage Encyclopedia of American History

By: Faragher, John Mack

Introducing the new standard in American history. The most authoritative single-volume encyclopedia of American history in twenty-five years, this groundbreaking reference has been a major undertaking... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805044388
• ISBN13: 9780805044386
• Release Date: August 1970
• Publisher: Holt & Company, Henry
• Length: 1120 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.1" x 7.8" x 9.5"

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I beg to differ with the reviewer disappointed ... Can a one-volume work on a broad subject be anything but broad brushstrokes? No other specific objections are given. This is an excellent collection of articles covering an immense topic....American Heritage's alphabetical arrangement makes it exceedingly easy to find an article among the nearly 3,000 included. Some are as long as 2,000 words, others are quite brief. The American Heritage might be characterized as a dictionary of American history. It is packed with biographic sketches, articles on events, and concise overviews of trends and major topics. The World War II article has three pages of text plus a photograph and two maps (Europe and Pacific). The sexual revolution has two pages of text. Four articles on slavery cover five and one-half pages with text, illustrations and cross references to articles on African Americans, Antislavery Movement, Cotton, David Walker, Fugitive Slaves, Gabriel Plot, Manumission, Middle Passage, Nat Turner's Insurrection, Plantation System, Proslavery Ideology, Stono Rebellion and Vesey Conspiracy. Broad? That's pretty fair for a one-volume work. The Literacy Acts of 1917 get one paragraph, and a reference to immigration. Oh, yes: many articles have brief bibliographies and the type and layout make this easy to read. It's a fine reference.