<P style="MARGIN: 0px"><B>For introductory-level survey courses in American History.</B></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">Using a thematic approach, this concise survey explores the many and varied threads of American history-social, intellectual, cultural, political, diplomatic, economic, and military-from the arrival of the first native American inhabitants thousand of years ago throught the historic 2008 election and the new administration of Barack Obama.</P>