Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 973
EAN num: 9780618093335
ISBN number: 0618093338
Label: Houghton Mifflin Company
Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Company
Quantity: 1
Printing Date: August 02, 2000
Publishing house: Houghton Mifflin Company
Sale Popularity Level: 1978169
Studio: Houghton Mifflin Company
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A People and a Nation is a spirited narrative that challenges students to think about the meaning of American history. Its thoughtful inclusion of the lives of everyday people, cultural diversity, work, and popular culture preserves the text's basic approach to American history as a story of all the American people.
- The end-of-chapter 'Legacies for a People and a Nation' feature focuses on a specific event, movement, or fact covered in the chapter that shows a striking relevance to present-day events and controversies. The feature demonstrates how important the past is to the present and provides a forum for contemporary analysis.
- The 'How Do Historians Know' feature demonstrates the process by which various pieces of historical evidence are used to reach conclusions about the past.
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I use this textbook in my AP US II class, and I've found while trying to study from it that is almost too comprehensive. However, I particularly enjoy the 'How do historians know' sections of the text because I think it adds an element of realism to the text, as does the story of a person or persons at the beginning of each chapter. All in all, I think the 'Norton' (as we have dubbed it at school) is the perfect textbook for an AP History course.
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Though this book is well written, there is a newer edition out. If you need it for class, you probably are gonna need the seventh edition. Other then that, it still contains a few useful maps and charts, covering through the 1990s... It could serve as a decent enough reference, but the bottom line here is that there is a newer version.
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We use this as the main text in my US History AP course. It's a good, fairly comprehensive, yet easy to read text.
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I used this textbook as a junior in high school and recently purchased a later edition. Although the wonderful charts plotting the states and electoral numbers of the Presidential elections are long gone it is still a great reference book on our nations history.
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My students really enjoyed this textbook because it was so inclusive of all American heritages. It is up-to-date with current trends in American history and has a little bit of everything your students might be interested in.
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