【简介】《美国历史（英汉双语版）》是美国哈佛大学著名历史学教授爱德华·钱宁专为美国学生撰写的一本关于美国历史的权威教材，它对此后的美国历史教科书产生了不朽的影响。全书从欧洲人发现美洲开始，重点讲述了1600~1900期间300年的美国历史。作者试图通过《美国历史》“唤起学生对历史的热爱，而不是死记大量轶事”，因为有些轶事没有多大重要性，有的又基于不可靠的资料。《美国历史》全书分15篇，共45章，归纳了485个知识要点，对学生把握全书的脉络与历史线索很有帮助。《美国历史》采用英汉双语形式出版，中文只是作为内容和阅读形式的一种补充，每章之后配有相应的练习题和教师建议。对国内学生来讲，这套书也是一本很好的英语学习读本。配合英文朗读，对提升英语水平一定更有帮助。The aim of this book is to tell in a simple and concise form the story of the founding and development of the United States. The study of the history of one's own country is a serious matter,and should be entered upon by the text-book writer, by the teacher, and by the pupil in a serious spirit,even to a greater extent than the study of language or of arithmetic. No effort has been made, therefore,to make out of this text-book a story book. It is a text-book pure and simple, and should be used as a text-book, to be studied diligently by the pupil and expounded carefully by the teacher.