Liberty, Equality, Power: A History of the American People, Volume I: To 1877, Concise Edition

by John M. Murrin, Paul E. Johnson, James M. McPherson

Understanding the past helps us navigate the present and future. When you read this text, you will not only learn about American History, you will also be exposed to movies and music that tell the stories of American History. A highly respected, balanced, and thoroughly modern approach to US History, LIBERTY, EQUALITY, POWER uses these themes to show how the United States was transformed from a land inhabited by hunter-gatherer and agricultural Native American societies into the most powerful industrial nation on earth. This approach helps you understand the impact of the notions of liberty and equality, which are often associated with the American story, and also how dominant and subordinate groups have affected and been affected by the ever-shifting balance of power.

Genres: History

544 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 2001

About the author

John M. Murrin, Ph.D. (Yale University; A.M., University of Notre Dame; B.A., College of St. Thomas), was Professor Emeritus of History at Princeton University, where he taught from 1973 to 2003. Previously he taught at Washington University in St. Louis.

A past president of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, he was elected a fellow of the Society of American Historians and a member of the American Antiquarian Society.

Reviews

[Cameron (readsandwritesbyc)]

I’ve never counted a textbook towards my Reading Challenge, but we’re doing it this time!
I felt that this history textbook was very honest and unbiased when discussing major social and political themes in the early years of the United States, and its teachings have opened my eyes even more to the issues that are occurring in today’s world.

[Daniel]

For a text book, it was okay. Kept things relatively interesting. My complaint is that towards the end, the organization was not conducive to what I needed from it. The book had several different sections going over the same time periods, but with a different focus in each section. As my projects required information in a short time from across all of these sections, I found this more than a little frustrating.

[Matt]

Great book. Read for college and was one of my favorite books used for class ever.

[Nicole]

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