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Samuel Eliot Morison (1887–1976) – wrote History of United States Naval Operations in World War II and numerous works about the maritime exploration of the Americas; Henry Newbolt (1862–1938) – wrote The Naval History of the Great War; Michael Oppenheim (1853–1927) Charles O. Paullin (1869–1944) Werner Rahn (born 1939) Bryan Ranft ...
The New American History (1997) 397pp; 16 essays by experts on recent historiography; Foner, Eric, and Lisa McGirr, eds. American History Now (2011) 440pp; essays by 18 scholars on recent historiography excerpt and text search; Garraty, John A., and Eric Foner, eds. The Reader's Companion to American History (2nd ed. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ...
Pekka Hämäläinen (born 1967), Native American history; N. G. L. Hammond (1907–2001), ancient Greek history; Nahema Hanafi (born 1983), modern and contemporary history; Victor Davis Hanson (born 1953), ancient warfare; Syed Nomanul Haq (born 1948), history and philosophy of science; Yuval Noah Harari (born 1976), Israeli, military, Medieval
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 4 March 2025. "American history" redirects here. For the history of the continents, see History of the Americas. Further information: Economic history of the United States Current territories of the United States after the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands was given independence in 1994 This article ...
A People's History of the United States: Volume 1: American Beginnings to Reconstruction, Teaching Edition; A People's History of the United States, Vol. 2: The Civil War to the Present, Teaching Edition; A People's History of the United States: The Wall Charts; designed by Howard Zinn and George Kirschner; New Press (2007). ISBN 978-1-56584-171-0
In 1832, Webster wrote and published a history textbook titled History of the United States, which omitted any reference to the role of slavery in American history and included racist characterizations of African Americans. The textbook also "spoke of whiteness as the supreme race and declared Anglo Saxons as the only true Americans."
In 1821, Prescott abandoned the idea of a legal career because of the continued deterioration of his eyesight, and resolved to devote himself to literature. [25] Although he initially studied a wide range of subjects, including Italian, French, English and Spanish literature, American history, classics and political philosophy, Prescott came to focus on Italian poetry. [26]
The Oxford History of the United States is an ongoing multivolume narrative history of the United States published by Oxford University Press. Conceived in the 1950s and launched in 1961 under the co-editorship of historians Richard Hofstadter and C. Vann Woodward , the series has been edited by David M. Kennedy since 1999.