In a concise but wide-ranging narrative, Brinkley shows the diversity and complexity of the nation and our understanding of its history--one that continues to evolve both in the events of the present and in our reexamination of new evidence and perspectives on the past. This edition features a series of Patterns of Popular Culture essays, as well as expanded coverage of pre-Columbian America, n…
The history of the United States is a relatively short one by the standards of much of the world. But the history of what we now call the Americas is a very long one, extending back thousands of years before Amerigo Vespucci gave his name to the continents that became the New World. The United States is the product of the toil and talent and luck of its people in the roughly 230 years since it …