America: The Essential Learning Edition

by David E. Shi, George Brown Tindall, Erik Anderson, Jonathan Lee

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:	9780393938029
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	02/01/2015
Edition description:	Older Edition
Pages:	744
Product dimensions:	8.10(w) x 10.10(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

David Emory Shi is president emeritus at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina. 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, and the best-selling survey texts America: A Narrative History, Full and Brief (now in their Twelfth Editions) and America: Essential Learning Edition (now in its Third Edition). He remains highly engaged with students and instructors around the country with his many annual “author-in-residence” visits to campuses.