The National Experience, Part One: A History of the United States to 1877

by John Morton Blum, William S. McFeely, Edmund S. Morgan

Men and women make history. Their ideas and their hopes, their goals and contrivances for reaching those goals, shape all experience, past and present. Each generation has committed the nation to a complex of policies, some the product of thought and debate, others of habit or inadvertence, still others of calculated or undiscerning indifference. It took long thought and hard debate to settle the issues of independence, of democratic reform of expansion, of slavery, of union itself, of control of private economic power, of resistance to totalitarianism across two oceans. All those issues and many more have made up the national experience.

Genres: History, Nonfiction

Paperback

First published December 31, 1973

About the author

John Morton Blum was an American historian, active from the 1950 to 1991. He was a specialist in 20th-century American political history and a senior advisor to Yale officials.

Reviews

[Nicole]

I could recall all the good times I spend pulling my hair out last summer. Finding all those 100 APUSH terms was the cherry on top my summer vacation. Fortunately for me I only used this textbook for one assignment. I never thought I would ever say that I am thankful for the American Pageant.

[Kays]

For the memories