A Basic History of the United States, Vol. 1
The Colonial Experience, 16071774

This is the first volume of a comprehensive fivevolume set. For Carson, history is more than facts and dates, [but] is the product of the actions of countless individuals, each under the influence of certain ideas. . . . He shows how they were responsible for the settlement of this continent, the struggle for freedom, the westward expansion, the construction of schools, churches, factories, and the founding of new religious denominations. The Freeman