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A First Book in American History: A Classic Introduction to American History for Young Readers
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Fiction AnthologiesGeneral United States History
ISBN13: 9781617203923
Publisher: SMK Books
Published: Nov 18 2011
Pages: 106
Weight: 0.37
Height: 0.25 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Edward Eggleston introduces American history through clear stories of exploration, settlement, conflict, independence, invention, leadership, and national growth. Written for younger readers and beginning students, A First Book in American History presents the past through memorable people and events rather than abstract summary, giving students an accessible path into the larger story of the United States.
Eggleston's method reflects the older tradition of narrative history for children, where biography, anecdote, moral example, and national memory work together to make history readable. The book moves through major figures and episodes connected with European exploration, colonial life, Native peoples, the Revolution, westward movement, political development, social change, and the formation of American identity. Its style is direct and instructional, designed to help readers remember history by seeing it unfold through action and character.
First published in the late nineteenth century, A First Book in American History remains useful for readers interested in classic schoolbooks, homeschool history, traditional narrative history, American studies, and the way earlier generations taught the national past. Modern readers may notice period assumptions in its treatment of race, empire, settlement, and Native history, but the book remains an important example of American historical education and nineteenth-century classroom literature.
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