| Brinkley, American History: Connecting with the Past Updated AP Edition, 2017, 15e, Student Edition Contributor(s): Brinkley, Alan (Author) |
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ISBN: 0076738302 ISBN-13: 9780076738304 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies OUR PRICE: $267.43 Product Type: Hardcover Published: January 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - General |
| Dewey: 973 |
| Lexile Measure: 1300 |
| Series: A/P Us History |
| Physical Information: 1.5" H x 9.1" W x 10.9" (4.90 lbs) 1008 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: American History shows students that history is not just a collection of names and dates, but an ongoing story about the present and past. It invites students to think critically about the forces that continually create the United States. The print student edition takes an engaging, balanced approach to American History. AP historical thinking skills and reasoning processes are central to the instruction, practice, and assessments. It is presented through a balanced perspective of political, social, and cultural history. |
Contributor Bio(s): Brinkley, Alan: - In addition to being a best selling textbook author, ALAN BRINKLEY is the Allan Nevins Professor of History and former Provost at Columbia University. He is the author of Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and the Great Depression, which won the 1983 National Book Award; The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War; and Liberalism and its Discontents. His most recent books are John F. Kennedy: The American Presidents Series: The 35th President, 1961-1963 and The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century both published recently. He was educated at Princeton and Harvard and taught previously at MIT, Harvard, and the City University Graduate School before joining the Columbia faculty In 1991. In 1998-1999, he was the Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University. He won the Joseph R. Levenson Memorial Teaching Award at Harvard in 1987 and the Great Teacher Award at Columbia in 2003. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of the board of trustees of the National Humanities Center and Oxford University Press, and chairman of the board of trustees of the Century Foundation. He has been a visiting professor at Princeton, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris), and the University of Torino (Italy). He was the 1998-1999 Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University. |