America: The Essential Learning Edition

by David E. Shi, Daina Ramey Berry, Joe Crespino, Amy Murrell Taylor

Overview

An essential narrative of American history, with a focus on core learning objectives in the text and online.

Lively yet concise, The Essential Learning Edition of America blends Shi and Tindall’s unrivalled narrative style with innovative pedagogy to help students understand major historical developments and strengthen critical interpretive skills. Online adaptive learning tools enhance and assess students’ mastery of the core objectives from the text.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781324085119
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.