The Landmark History of the American People from Plymouth to the Moon
by Daniel Boorstin, Ruth F. Boorstin (Author)
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V. 1. From Plymouth to Appomattox--v. 2. From Appomattox to the moon.Tags
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I read the original The Landmark History of the American People some 15 years ago, to my oldest. Now, I read the revised edition from Sonlight Curriculum to my second-youngest. It is much better. I liked the color pictures, and the fact that it has been broken into two volumes, which makes it much easier to use. The timelines at the beginning of each chapter help with seeing how events fit together. I believe the text was tightened up, as well, making it more interesting. This is a good overview of American history.
I had a hard time using the older edition with my younger kiddos, but the new edition with its beautiful illustrations has been a wonderful resource to use with my 6th grader. One really gets a sense of how life was, why things developed as they did, and the sense of speed with which progress was made.
This is a two volume work. Volume I is From Plymouth to Appomattox. Volume 2 is From Appomattox to the Moon.
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A prolific writer, Daniel Boorstin is the author of numerous scholarly and popular works in American Studies. Born in Georgia and raised in Oklahoma, Boorstin received degrees from Harvard and Yale universities and was a Rhodes Scholar at Balliol College, Oxford. A member of the Massachusetts Bar, he has been visiting professor of American History show more at the Universities of Rome, Puerto Rico, Kyoto, and Geneva. He was the first incumbent of the chair of American History at the Sorbonne and Pitt Professor of American History and Institutions at Cambridge. He taught at the University of Chicago for 25 years. In 1959 Columbia University awarded him its Bancroft Prize for The Americans: The Colonial Experience (1958), the first volume of his trilogy titled The Americans. In 1966 he received the Francis Parkman Award for the second volume, The Americans: The National Experience (1965), and in 1974 he received the Pulitzer Prize for the third volume, The Americans: The Democratic Experience (1973). Many of Boorstin's books have been translated into Chinese, Japanese, and various European languages. In 1969 Boorstin became director of the National Museum of History and Technology of the Smithsonian Institution. In 1973 he became senior historian at the Smithsonian. Boorstin was appointed Librarian of Congress in 1975 and served in that position with distinction for 12 years, becoming Librarian Emeritus in 1987. (Publisher Provided) show less
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