Bill Nye — the nineteenth-century journalist and humorist Edgar Wilson Nye, not the Science Guy — was one of America’s most beloved comic writers, and Comic History of the United States (1894) is among his most gleefully irreverent works. From the first settlers to the Civil War, no sacred cow of American historical legend escapes his cool, deadpan wit and his eye for the gap between myth and reality.
Illustrated and wickedly funny, it stands in the grand American tradition of comic history-writing that Mark Twain made famous. Download this free EPUB and submit to a history lesson you will not easily or willingly forget.