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Library of American history from the discovery of America to the present time

Library of American history from the discovery of America to the present time

Sylvester Ellis, Edward

Paperback

General United States HistoryTeaching Instruction

ISBN10: 9353702720
ISBN13: 9789353702724
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: May 20 2019
Pages: 370
Weight: 1.19
Height: 0.82 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
From the first Atlantic crossings to a nation on the world stage, the United States was forged in risk, argument, and reinvention. History starts in salt air. Edward Sylvester Ellis gathers that long sweep into a single united states history survey, written with the narrative drive of a storyteller and the organisation of a reference work. Designed as a classic american history book for readers who want clarity without dryness, this volume moves through the early american discovery era and the age of exploration and colonization, then follows the pressures that shaped colonies into a republic. You will find an american revolution overview set beside portraits of leadership and ideas, including founding fathers biographies and a guiding sense of a presidential history timeline. Ellis continues through expansion, conflict, and the hard reckonings of civil war reconstruction, carrying the story from colonial to modern America in a way that supports both browsing and sustained study. It also serves naturally as homeschool us history and as a classroom history textbook, with the breadth expected of a history reference collection. First published in an era when national history was taught as a shared civic language, Ellis's work remains a telling artefact of how Americans narrated their past - and an accessible gateway for today's readers. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions, it has been restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint - a collector's item and a cultural treasure for casual readers and classic-library collectors.

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