America

A Narrative History

Thirteenth Edition

Volume:Volume 1

1 July 2025

Territory Rights — Worldwide.

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

Description

A best-selling narrative history enters a new generation

The beloved and best-selling America: A Narrative History family of books has been used by millions of students because of its enthralling storytelling that brings history to life. Award-winning teachers and scholars Daina Ramey Berry (University of California, Santa Barbara), Joseph Crespino (Emory University), and Amy Murrell Taylor (University of Kentucky) join lead author David Shi (Furman University) to enhance the balanced narrative with a focus on the diverse experiences of women in American history. Seamlessly integrated into the reading experience, new tools help students to read at the college level and engage with the building blocks of history: primary sources.

Digital Teaching and Learning Tools

History Skills Tutorials

The History Skills Tutorials are interactive, online modules that support student development of the key skills for the American history survey course. The tutorials for America focus on: Analysing Secondary Source Documents, Analysing Primary Source Documents, Analysing Images and Analysing Maps

Additional Resources

This website offers additional study and review materials for students to use outside of class. The resources on this site are available via America’s digital landing page, or directly via your LMS.

Norton Illumine E-Book

The NEW Norton Illumine Ebook enhances students’ reading and learning experience. Engaging features illustrate and reinforce core concepts for all students in a supportive, accessible, and low-stakes environment.

InQuizitive

InQuizitive is Norton’s easy-to-use adaptive learning tool that personalises the learning experience for students, helping them to learn—and retain—key learning objectives. Through a variety of question types, answer-specific feedback, and gamelike elements such as the ability to adjust their confidence level for each question, students are motivated to keep working until they’ve learned the concepts.

Thinking Like a Historian Exercises

To strengthen student history skills, America offers a collection of assignable Thinking Like a Historian exercises for each chapter and part. Based on the hugely popular Thinking Like a Historian features that originally appeared in only the Essential Learning Edition, these online exercises highlight the foundational role of primary and secondary sources as the building blocks of history.

Purchase Options

Print

9781324084402

157 x 236 mm • 1064 pages

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Standalone Ebook

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Interactive Ebook and Norton Learning Tools

9781324084488

  • Norton Illumine E-Book
  • InQuizitive
  • Thinking Like a Historian Exercises
  • History Skills Tutorials
  • Additional Resources

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