Thanks, Tom. I’ve started looking at the textbooks that I’ve inherited at the school. AMERICAN REPUBLIC with Appleby, Brinkley and others looks very promising – even has a pretty pro-business slant in the section on industrialization. That’s “since 1877.” The “to 1877” textbook is AMERICAN HISTORY: THE EARLY YEARS by Ritchie and Broussard. I’m yet to dig into that book.
