The Oxford History of the American People: Vol. 1-3

Includes all three volumes of the first edition.

Volume 1: Prehistory to 1789
Volume 2: 1789 Through Reconstruction
Volume 3: 1869 to the Death of John F. Kennedy 1963

The Oxford History of the American People stands as the culminating achievements of over fifty years of scholarship, teaching, and writing. Historian Samuel Eliot Morison–whose works include The History of the United States Naval Operations inWorld War Two (fifteen volumes) and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Admiral of the Ocean Sea (two volumes)–in this comphrensive chronicle brilliantly intermingles political, military, social, and cultural history, with important emphasis on Native Americans and the parallel growth of Canada.

Leading historical personalities, changing norms of conduct, technological and economic developments, popular songs and slang, the physical realities of American life–all are part of the revealing panorama the author has fashioned. The result is history truly masterful in its authority, immediacy, and humanity.