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This is Book 5 in the four-color edition of A History of US, winner of the James Michener Award in Writing and of the Parents' Choice Silver Honor Award, which begins with the Native Americans and ends with the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001. These books are not written from a biblical perspective, but they do a great job of presenting America's history in an exciting, yet challenging, manner. The engaging narrative is enriched with historic photos and drawings, fact boxes, quotes, maps, and vocabulary. The side bars on the pages call attention to facts of interest, pertinent quotations, vocabulary terms, comments and questions, and explanations of the artwork. Also, there is a chronological list of events at the back, as well as a list of additional reading titles correlated with this time period.
Book 5 discusses the period of growth in American history prior to the Civil War, describing the lives of people from a variety of backgrounds, including Jedediah Smith, Emily Dickinson, John James Audubon, and Sojourner Truth. The big issue led, of course, to the Civil War—but many other issues of importance had to be addressed, too.
The books have four-color illustrations, maps, and an index. Hewitt has written a syllabus with tests and answers for this set of books for junior-high students. Books can be purchased separately or in a set. See Related Items below. From the Book:
The subject of a debate at Harvard College in 1828 was: Can one man be president of the United States when it is eventually settled from Atlantic to Pacific? The answer of the winning team was no, which, of course, was the only sensible answer. . . . "In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes America what it is," wrote a twentieth century American writer named Gertrude Stein. Is that true today? Don't answer that question too quickly. Look at a map.
