America: The Essential Learning Edition
The best-selling storytelling approach with more support for student success. 

David Shi’s rich storytelling style fills America’s celebrated narrative with colorful biographical sketches and vivid first-person quotations. The latest edition welcomes more diverse voices with new coverage of the Latino/a experience as well as on-going enhanced coverage of women and gender, African American, Native American, immigration, and LGBTQ history. The Essential Learning Edition surrounds these stories with a framework that guides reading and develops the skills required for analyzing primary and secondary sources.  
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America: The Essential Learning Edition
The best-selling storytelling approach with more support for student success. 

David Shi’s rich storytelling style fills America’s celebrated narrative with colorful biographical sketches and vivid first-person quotations. The latest edition welcomes more diverse voices with new coverage of the Latino/a experience as well as on-going enhanced coverage of women and gender, African American, Native American, immigration, and LGBTQ history. The Essential Learning Edition surrounds these stories with a framework that guides reading and develops the skills required for analyzing primary and secondary sources.  
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America: The Essential Learning Edition

America: The Essential Learning Edition

America: The Essential Learning Edition

America: The Essential Learning Edition

Overview

The best-selling storytelling approach with more support for student success. 

David Shi’s rich storytelling style fills America’s celebrated narrative with colorful biographical sketches and vivid first-person quotations. The latest edition welcomes more diverse voices with new coverage of the Latino/a experience as well as on-going enhanced coverage of women and gender, African American, Native American, immigration, and LGBTQ history. The Essential Learning Edition surrounds these stories with a framework that guides reading and develops the skills required for analyzing primary and secondary sources.  

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781324084990
Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date: 07/01/2025
Edition description: Fourth Edition
Product dimensions: 5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

David Emory Shi is president emeritus and professor emeritus at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina. After receiving his PhD from the University of Virginia, he taught for seventeen years at Davidson College, where he won the Distinguished Teaching Award and served as History Department Chair. In addition to authoring the best-selling America: A Narrative History family of books, 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. While serving as a Trustee at several colleges, he remains highly engaged with students and instructors around the country with his many annual “author-in-residence” campus visits.
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