Aspects of American History

<p><em>Aspects of American History</em> examines major themes personalities and issues across American history using topic focused essays. Each chapter focuses on key events and time periods within a broad framework looking at liberty and equality the role of government and national identity. The volume engages with its central themes through a broad ranging examination of aspects of the American past including discussions of political history foreign policy presidential leadership and the construction of national memory. In each essay Simon Henderson:</p><ul> <li>introduces fresh angles to traditional topics </li> <li>consolidates recent research in themed essays </li> <li>analyzes views of different historians </li> <li>offers an interpretive rather than narrative approach </li> <li>gives concise treatment to complex issues.</li> </ul><p>Including an introduction which places key themes in context this book enables readers to make comparisons and trace major thematic developments across American history.</p>