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David E. Shi

David Emory Shi?is president emeritus and professor emeritus at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina. After receiving his PhD from the University of Virginia, he taught for seventeen years at Davidson College, where he won the Distinguished Teaching Award and served as History Department Chair. In addition to authoring the best-selling America: A Narrative History family of books, 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. While serving as a Trustee at several colleges, he remains highly engaged with students and instructors around the country with his many annual “author-in-residence” campus visits.

David E. Shi

David Emory Shi?is president emeritus and professor emeritus at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina. After receiving his PhD from the University of Virginia, he taught for seventeen years at Davidson College, where he won the Distinguished Teaching Award and served as History Department Chair. In addition to authoring the best-selling America: A Narrative History family of books, 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. While serving as a Trustee at several colleges, he remains highly engaged with students and instructors around the country with his many annual “author-in-residence” campus visits.

Books by David E. Shi

  • America: The Essential Learning Edition

    David E. Shi, Daina Ramey Berry, Joe Crespino, Amy Murrell Taylor

    Fourth High School Edition, Paperback, 2025

  • For the Record: A Documentary History of America

    David E. Shi, Holly A. Mayer

    Ninth Edition, Volume 1, E Book, 2025

    A documentary history filled with diverse voices and in-depth selections
  • For the Record: A Documentary History of America

    David E. Shi, Holly A. Mayer

    Ninth Edition, Volume 2, E Book, 2025

    A documentary history filled with diverse voices and in-depth selections
  • 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.