num_pages: 891
description: American history is the story of magic transformation. How did people from everywhere join the American family? How did men and women from tired Old World, where people thought they knew what to expect, become wide-eyed exploreres of a New World?Our history is the story of these millions in search of what it means to be an American. In the Old World people knew quite definitely whether they were English, French, or Spanish. But here is took time for them to discover that they really were Americans.What does it mean to be an American? To answer that questions we must shake hands with our earlier selves and try to become acquainted. We must discover what puzzled and interested and troubled earlier Americans.What has been especially American about out ways of living and earning a living? Our ways of making war and making peace? Our ways of thinking and hoping and fearing, of worshiping God and fighting the Devil? Our ways of traveling and politicking, or importing people, of building houses and cities? These are some of the questions we try to answer in this book.Discoving America is a way of discovering outselves. This is a book about us.-Prologue
language: English
title: A History of the United States
titlecomplete: A History of the United States
genres: Nonfiction, History, Textbooks, Reference
ratings_count: 16
publisher: Pearson Prentice Hall