Author Joseph R. Conlin's award-winning teaching and writing styles are reflected in this colorful and engaging look at the individuals, events, and ideas that have shaped our nation's past. Organized into short chapters and updated with new insights into recently published research, this text sets the story in a political context, weaving in social, cultural, economic, intellectual, constitutional, diplomatic, and military events along the way. Conlin's popular sidebars and "How They Lived" vignettes bring historical stories to life and emphasize the human and social dimensions of history. With its literary prose style and its unifying voice, THE AMERICAN PAST, Tenth Edition, will capture and hold your students' interest as it guides them on a fascinating, eye-opening walk through the years gone by. Available in the following split options: THE AMERICAN PAST: A SURVEY OF AMERICAN HISTORY, Complete; Volume 1: To 1877; and Volume 2: Since 1865.
