Adult Ed: American History for Citizenship

[Maria/ME]

HI:

I have a friend who is applying for citizenship here in the U.S. She needs to "brush up" on her American History/Civics/Gov't etc studies.

Does anyone have any ideas for a college level book/video/audio? I have gleaned a few ideas via a search but thought I'd post for more ideas.

Thanks!

Maria

[Moira in MA]

I've just gone through the citizenship process myself. I'd recommend a book specifically aimed at the citizenship test. I used this one, borrowed from the library.

http://www.amazon.com/Becoming-U-S-Citizen-Interview/dp/0873377990/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1215827325&sr=1-1

The test is really very simple, There are 100 possible questions. The interviewer has a subset of specific questions from this list to ask each interviewee. He or she is looking for close matches to the answers given in the study guide.

Getting a college level text would be going into too much detail, HTH

[Maria/ME]

Thanks so much for your input! I appreciate your point that a college level text would be too much detail. I will recommend this book to my friend!

Meanwhile, if anyone else has an ideas of a more simple overview of history let me know!