The American Past: A Survey of American History, Enhanced Edition, Volume I, Volume 1

Joseph R. Conlin

Cengage Learning, Jan 10, 2008 - History - 552 pages

THE AMERICAN PAST offers a colorful and engaging look at the individuals, events, and ideas that have shaped this nation’s past. Accessible and lively, this text sets the story of the United States in political context while providing balanced coverage of important social, cultural, economic, intellectual, constitutional, diplomatic, and military events. Consistent scholarship and a unique organization make this text both comprehensive and easily manageable while remaining uniquely affordable. The text also benefits from the author’s literary prose style, which results in a strong and appealing voice that captures and holds students’ interest. This Enhanced Edition features chapter-ending Discovery sections, a unique study feature that gives students an opportunity to practice analyzing source materials and helps them draw connections between the text’s key themes.
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About the author

Joseph Conlin was born in Philadelphia and educated at Villanova University (A.B.) and the University of Wisconsin (M.A., Ph.D.). He taught American history at half a dozen colleges and universities, spending most of his career at California State University, Chico. He was a Fulbright Professor in Rome and Salzburg and was twice Visiting Senior Lecturer at the Social History Centre at Warwick University, England. For 30 years (60 semesters), with a few subtracted for sabbaticals, he taught between one and four sections of the United States history survey course each term, a total of about 200 times. He won four awards for excellence in teaching. Conlin has written a dozen books, about 70 articles in scholarly journals and magazines of popular history, some 100 book reviews in a variety of journals, and more newspaper journalism than he can or cares to remember. Several of his published essays and one book were awarded "best of the year" prizes.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The American Past: A Survey of American History, Enhanced Edition, Volume I, Volume 1
• Author: Joseph R. Conlin
• Edition: 8, revised
• Publisher: Cengage Learning, 2008
• ISBN: 0495566101, 9780495566106
• Length: 552 pages
• Subjects: History / General