In one page snippets, you can learn about American history from Christopher Columbus to President Biden. The book is divided into sections about exploration, colonization, the American Revolution, nationalization, the American Civil War, and the Industrial Revolution, economic struggle and the World Wars, and the "era of social and economic advance", finishing up by calling recent history "the era of reaction, social struggle, and political contention."

I'm not sure I agree with some of these labels for recent history. Since we are right in the middle of living it, it's impossible to know how historians will look back on this time and label it; but I think there is a narrative there which the author wants to promote, and it doesn't exactly reflect real life. I did not like the political bias of the recent history section. The facts were definitely skewed in a certain political direction, and that is not a historian's job. Some of it even sounded like political propaganda, interpreting the facts in a particular way. I wish the author had just given the reader the bare facts, and let us decide for ourselves how to interpret events.

However, I did enjoy reading the sections of history that just gave the facts of the American Revolution and the Civil War, etc... It was really wonderful to read about how the colonies were first founded, how George Washington became the first president, how Lincoln died, and how so many brave men and women made this country what it is today.

American history is not pretty. Like every other country in the world, we have a dark past. What is amazing is to read about how Americans have led the world in overcoming those dark parts of our history and promoting justice and moral living. That is something to be proud of!

Disclaimer: I received a copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for a free and honest review. All the opinions stated here are my own true thoughts, and are not influenced by anyone.