for middle-grade students. Robert D. Johnston is an award-winning professor of history and the director of the Teaching of History program at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

It's about and set in the making of America from its roots to now. The characters are the people that have affected the US to be like how it is today. The characters could be people like George Washington, Martin Luther King Junior, or even its people.

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From the first contact of Europeans with Native Americans in 1492 to the current events of the 21st century, this comprehensive volume makes the story of America interesting and fun for today?s visually oriented kids. Major eras and social movements unfold chronologically. Each chapter includes biographies of two key people and a ?Great Debate? focusing on some heated issue of that era and an explanation of its relevance today.

Douglas Brinkley (born December 14, 1960) is an American author, Katherine Tsanoff Brown Chair in Humanities and professor of history at Rice University

Douglas Brinkley (born December 14, 1960) is an American author, Katherine Tsanoff Brown Chair in Humanities and professor of history at Rice University. He is a public spokesperson on conservation issues. He joined the faculty of Rice University as a professor of history in 2007. Brinkley was born in Atlanta, Georgia in 1960, but raised in Perrysburg, Ohio. His parents were high school teachers.

The United States has to move very fast to even stand still

The United States has to move very fast to even stand still. Ambrose and Brinkley, both of the Eisenhower Center for American Studies of the University of New Orleans, present a collection of nearly 170 primary historical documents paired with roughly 120 black.

Johnston, Robert D and Douglas Brinkley, The Making of America: The History of the United States from 1492 to the Present (National Geographic, revised ed, 2010). Judah, Asher, The Australian Century (Connor Court Ballan, 2014). Kresl, Peter Karl, Planning Cities for the Future: The Successes and Failures of Urban Economic Strategies in Europe (Edward Edgar, 2007).

Douglas Brinkley and American Heritage have done a grand jo. David McCullough This book will be treasured by anyone interested in the story of America.

Douglas Brinkley and American Heritage have done a grand job. This is a first-rate book: fair, clear, and enormous. Douglas Brinkley's one-volume history is a riveting narrative of unique people who have come to call themselves American. There is no dust on these pages as the author brilliantly tells our national story with skill and brevity. This book will be treasured by anyone interested in the story of America.

Douglas Brinkley is the director of the Eisenhower Center for American Studies and a professor of history at the .

Douglas Brinkley is the director of the Eisenhower Center for American Studies and a professor of history at the University of New Orleans. He is a bestselling author who has written The American Heritage History of the United States, as well as books on Jimmy Carter, James Forrestal, and FDR. From School Library Journal: Grade 5-8-This book stands in stark and wonderful contrast to the dry textbook approach to learning about history, and is exactly the type of book an informed teacher would want.