America: A Narrative History, Brief 8th Edition
George Brown Tindall is recently deceased after spending many years on the faculty of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.  He was an award-winning historian of the South with a number of major books to his credit, including The Emergence of the New South.David E. Shi (PhD University of Virginia) is president and professor of history and at Furman University in Greeneville, South Carolina.  He is the author of several books focusing on American cultural history, including the award-winning The Simple Life: Plain Living and High Thinking in American Culture and Facing Facts: Realism in American Thought and Culture, 1850–1920.