Jeff's Uncool history series continues with another of my overview looks at American history."The Oxford History of the American People" by Samuel Eliot Morison.
This is a very broad and very comprehensive US history book and one that is very readable, full of facts and comprehensive. If you are looking for one book to cover everything, this is a great place to start. Morison has been justifiably criticized for being extremely light on the slavery issue but then again most authors of his era had a distorted view which has been since corrected in this and most other general history books.
So often we think we know history until we read it again...
Example: Can you name a disputed presidential election where the votes from Florida were called into question and the eventual winner had less popular votes but more electoral votes? If you said the 1876 election of Rutherford B. Hayes, you would be correct.
Read your history! Nothing is new...
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