America Past and Present, Volume I: Chapters 1-16 (6th Edition)

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Summary: Looking for answers
Review: Can anyone tell me if this text book is used at the college or the high school level?

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Summary: RE: Looking for Answers
Review: I am a hich school junior and use the unabridged version of this textbook in my A.P. U.S. History class. Since my school's Advanced Placement courses use college texts, I assume America Past and Present is also used in undergraduate history classes. (I had to rate this book to post this "review." Please do not consider my rating if you are trying to assess this book.)

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Summary: I don't like it
Review: I hated this book, it was bad

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Summary: I liked it
Review: I have to use the full edition for school, but this abridged version has almost all the facts i need and is significantly shorter.

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Summary: Excellent!
Review: The authors do an excellent job of covering American history. Highly readable, comprehensible, with interesting special essays in each chapter. My only complaint is a lack of study aids or chapter summaries. Also available in two briefer editions, covering American history through 1865 in the first and after 1865 in the second.

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Summary: Biased..
Review: This book came from a total liberal slant. It tells history in a false way, and twists things to fit the author's point of view. Plus, it is almost anti-america. Everything in there has a negative tone to it, and describes the white males as basically destroying everyone else, and how america is so evil. please. America is the longest standing country out there, yet the authors seem to think our founders were all cracked. BTW I use this book for my high school AP US history class.

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Summary: Good In-depth Study of History
Review: This book does a good job of covering the major events in American history while also including social, religous, and some scientific aspects. The book tends to be more centered around the politics of history, but that is one of the factors that makes this book unique.

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Summary: Review by college kid...
Review: This book was used as a text for a history class that I took which fulfilled my basic history requirement. I'm working on a B.S. in physics at the University of Oklahoma and found this book to be completely without substance.

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Summary: very good
Review: This is a very nice textbook, and is meant for those who have already had a background in history. I use it for my AP class and really like it. The book reads very well - unlike a lot of history books it doesn't use complex grammar and spelling to sound sophisticated - and has a lot of detail as well as a liberal and well-founded opinion; in addition it has very good diagrams, illustrations, and a chronology for each chapter. It is a real book - there are no built in study guides, self review, or page-consuming explainations of simple concepts that most textbooks have. I reccomend this for all who wish to seriously study history, but not for those who want to skim a book for a quick review.

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Summary: Good Book
Review: This makes an excellent undergraduate textbook in US history -- also good just for a general read.