From the Publisher: American history the way you wish you'd learned it-accessible, lively, witty, and just plain fun-but with a serious core of key knowledge selected by one of our most respected historians.

Includes a broad range of historical themes covering the history of the United States, some of which include atmospheric changes over the last 18,000 years; the death of millions of Native Americans; getting the British out of Boston; the birth of a working class; the fall and rise of capital punishment; sexuality and architecture; the making of Black Harlem; and languages, dialects, immigration, emigration, expansion, secregation, and isolationism....