These United States: The Questions of Our Past : Since 1865

About this book

Using a thematic approach this concise survey explores the many and varied threads of American history-social intellectual cultural political diplomatic economic and military-from the arrival of the first native American inhabitants thousand of years ago throught the crisis following the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington on September 11 2001. Irwin Unger a Pulitzer Prize winning author wrote this book after discovering from his own experiences teaching American History at the University of California at Davis and at NYU that a thematic approach was much more interesting to students than a purely descriptive one.