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David E. Shi

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.

David E. Shi

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.

Books by David E. Shi

  • America: A Narrative History

    David E. Shi

    Brief Twelfth Edition, Volume 2, Paperback, 2022

    The best-selling storytelling approach with tools that develop history skills
  • The Essential America

    George Brown Tindall, David E. Shi, Thomas Lee Pearcy

    Volume 1, Paperback, 2001

    The Essential America is a fundamentals version of the Tindall/Shi narrative packaged in an eye-popping, four-color design.
  • The Essential America

    George Brown Tindall, David E. Shi, Thomas Lee Pearcy

    2, Paperback, 2001

    The Essential America is a fundamentals version of the Tindall/Shi narrative packaged in an eye-popping, four-color design.