The Reader's companion to American history / 
Eric Foner and John A. Garraty, editors ; sponsored by the Society of American Historians. 
 - Boston :  Houghton-Mifflin,  c1991. 
 - xxii, 1226 p. :  maps ;  26 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and indexes. 
<br/><br/>The Reader's Companion to American History offers a fresh, absorbing portrait of the United States from the origins of its native peoples to the nation's complex identity in the 1990s. Covering political, economic, cultural, and social history, and combining hundreds of short descriptive entries with longer evaluative articles, the encyclopedia is informative, engaging, and a pleasure to read 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780395513729 0395513723 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>91019508  
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>United States--History--Encyclopedias.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>F673t  / .R43 1991 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>973/.03