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re: Best overview book of American history
Posted on 11/5/22 at 10:22 am to ClientNumber9
Posted on 11/5/22 at 10:22 am to ClientNumber9
Rise of the American Nation - 1977 or older version.
It is the public school history book that many of us used in junior and high school.
At that time it was more in line with my "world view" as I accepted it. If you understand what world means. Not from a dictionary, but from my pre-information age view, world view is how we see or interpret events or information based on our acceptance or rejection from our personal teachings, experiences or personal moral preferences.
World View - Wikipedia
I cannot remember which American history book that we used in college in the 70s.
There are people on TD that know extensive histories and details about the events that might like or dislike Rise of the American Nation.
I hope that they will explain the facts, fallacies and cultural leanings that might have shaped the different historical presentations in the various history books.
It is the public school history book that many of us used in junior and high school.
At that time it was more in line with my "world view" as I accepted it. If you understand what world means. Not from a dictionary, but from my pre-information age view, world view is how we see or interpret events or information based on our acceptance or rejection from our personal teachings, experiences or personal moral preferences.
World View - Wikipedia
I cannot remember which American history book that we used in college in the 70s.
There are people on TD that know extensive histories and details about the events that might like or dislike Rise of the American Nation.
I hope that they will explain the facts, fallacies and cultural leanings that might have shaped the different historical presentations in the various history books.
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Posted on 11/5/22 at 10:49 am to TheOtherSide
A good, easy-to-read book on the beginning is 1776 by David McCullough. All of his books are pretty good.
1776
An overview type book is basically just going to track wars and major trends. Hopefully, it will inspire you to dig deeper and get the fuller story.
A good book on events that greatly shaped this part of the country is Struggle for the Gulf Borderlands: The Creek War and the Battle of New Orleans, 1812-1815. The scope and true ramifications of this theater of the War of 1812 were largely overlooked by northern historians.
1776
An overview type book is basically just going to track wars and major trends. Hopefully, it will inspire you to dig deeper and get the fuller story.
A good book on events that greatly shaped this part of the country is Struggle for the Gulf Borderlands: The Creek War and the Battle of New Orleans, 1812-1815. The scope and true ramifications of this theater of the War of 1812 were largely overlooked by northern historians.
This post was edited on 11/5/22 at 10:50 am
Posted on 11/5/22 at 10:53 am to Ben Hur
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I don't know of one book, but the Oxford History of the United States is a collection of some of the best US period history books that are chronological.
While I agree, the laymen will have a difficult time with those books because they are long and scholarly. They aren't popular histories and some chapters feel like they will never end - even to history nerds like me.
While I know this will be a very unpopular opinion with some of the posters on the O-T, the best one volume popular history of the United States is without a doubt A Patriot's History of the United States: From Columbus's Great Discovery to America's Age of Entitlement by Larry Schweikart and Michael Allen. It has a conservative slant but it's really the only straight forward, one volume history that is readable and without an obvious political agenda.
Posted on 11/5/22 at 10:55 am to whatshisface
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I’m an audio book fan and I’ve enjoyed the biographies of founding fathers and world leaders. I feel you learn abt history and the men. My path so far has been Hamilton, Jefferson, Washington Nepoleon, Grant, Churchhill, and currently on Teddy.
Check out McCoullough’s The Greater Journey, Adams and 1776, and Destiny of the Republic by Candace Millard
Posted on 11/5/22 at 11:31 am to nealnan8
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you are going to get a lot of grief for posting this, but I agree that it is a very interesting read. Don't agree with everything Zinn had to say, but if it true that "history is written by winners", why not get a different perspective?
The problem with Zinn is that he cherry picks from dubious sources in places and completely fails to cite sources in others. It only gained traction in academic circles because it endorses a narrative that many academic types agree with. Had it gone the other way and endorsed a right wing version of events, it would have been but a foot note in historical scholarship - and rightly so. Zinn is pure propaganda. Nothing more.
This post was edited on 11/5/22 at 11:35 am
Posted on 11/5/22 at 12:38 pm to ClientNumber9
A History of the American People.
Paul Johnson.
Paul Johnson.
Posted on 11/5/22 at 1:13 pm to ClientNumber9
I have a book called American Empire 1945-2000. Its unbiased, but I think there are several American Empire books broken down by certain times. Let me see if I can find more info and I will post it.
Posted on 11/5/22 at 1:17 pm to ClientNumber9
American Empire 1945 - 2000
This is a link to Amazon, you will see the book I referred to then there are two other books that are of two different time periods.
This is a link to Amazon, you will see the book I referred to then there are two other books that are of two different time periods.
Posted on 11/5/22 at 4:16 pm to Obtuse1
You might do better reading multiple biographies. I read this one and learned why James K Polk is one of our top 5 Presidents. He had 4 goals, accomplished all of them in one term, and left.
Posted on 11/5/22 at 4:19 pm to mikelbr
Soviet propaganda. Howard Zion was a Soviet “useful idiot.” Your teacher should have been fired for assigning that vile propaganda.
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