-Amy Dru Stanley, University of Chicago"Forging America is a brilliant effort to reimagine the complex history of the United States by placing events in a global context, establishing the central role race and gender played in the emergence of the republic, and demanding that we recognize the nation's development as a contingent process rather than a pre-determined outcome. It demands that students reflect on history, consider alternative outcomes, and find viable explanations when confronted with a wide range of causal factors."

-Thomas Summerhill, Michigan State University"This is an innovative, sharply written, fast moving history of the United States, one that places the US within broader worlds not of the country's own making. It demonstrates the role of everyday people, particularly non-white people, in shaping the country."

-Gregory P. Downs, University of California, Davis"Steven Hahn's Forging America is a tour-de-force. His fast-moving narrative provides a global history of US history while simultaneously centering the experiences of people of color whose lives are often marginalized in survey texts. It is a major scholarly achievement."

-Karlos K. Hill, University of Oklahoma