ABSTRACT
It has been conventional to treat American history as if it were identical to U.S. history. Such a myopic view cuts students off from the context in which the United States developed, a larger history that will not go away. America’s history begins at least fifteen thousand years ago with evidence of human activities discovered through archaeology. Even the early humans affected the American scene. Invading Europeans met no wilderness, but landscapes and resources rendered through millennia of human actions.
