There appears to be a common belief that our country suffers from a lack of brief single volumes on US History written for general audiences and young students.  Normal textbooks that contain subdivisions, stock illustrations, and quiz questions, constructed by committee, do not count.  Since I started teaching US History in the classroom, I have run across several low-cost narrative histories, some with primary source readers as companion volumes. The best were crafted by a single historian who specialized in US History and wrote this as a capstone to a long teaching career. Wilfred M. McClay wrote Land of Hope Read more