The American reader, from Columbus to today; being a compilation or collection of the personal narratives, relations and journals concerning the society, economy, politics, life and times of our great and many-tongued nation :
by Paul M Angle; Illus. by Franz Altschuler.
- New York ; Chicago : Rand Mcnally & Company, 1958.
- xvi, 703 p. : ill. ; map on the lining paper ; 23 cm.
With hard-and supercover Map on lining-papers.
Index: p. 679-703
Cont.: A new continent, 1492-1692 -- Life in Colonial America, 1730-1778 -- France loses an empire, 1745-1763 -- Toward Revolution, 1765-1775 -- Independence, 1774-1776 -- The War for Independence, 1776-1782 -- The new nation, 1787-1807 -- Westward, 1769-1820 -- The War of 1812, 1811-1815 -- Young America, 1816-1850 -- Beyond the Mississippi, 1831-1852 -- The fabric of society, 1832-1855 -- A nation dividing, 1834-1860 -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Post-war years, 1865-1893 -- Nation in ferment, 1862-1913 -- Enjoying life, and learning, 1865-1906 -- The United States becomes a world power, 1898-1910 -- The Progressive Era, 1896-1916 -- The First World War, 1914-1921 -- "Normalcy," 1920-1937 -- The New Deal, 1933-1945 -- World War II, 1941-1945 -- The United States in an uneasy world, 1945-1958.
American history starting from Columbus discovery of America through all of the historic happenings to establish our United States up to and including The Explorer in 1958.