[cinives]

Excellent recommendation. My high school kid read it (calling it her "nosebleed" book) but she did finish it and learned a tremendous amount of factual history from it.

Try "Modern Times" by Johnson as well.

[LS]

Great book, too, but for American history, there is nothing like our "Patriot's History of the U.S."

By far, it has the most up-to-date research; most consistently-argued conclusions; and most thorough coverage of anything that is out there.