杨生茂、陆镜生著《美国史新编》已于今年4月由中国人民大学出版社出版。它既是一部高等院校的教科书,也是一部学术专著。《美国史新编》具有许多鲜明的特点。通史的写作过去往往多写政治史,但《美国史新编》的内容复盖面广阔。它以政治史为主线,兼及经济、外交、社会、城市、社会运动、意识形态、法律制度、文学艺术、科学技术和学术思潮等许多领域,对 Yang Shengmao and Lu Jingsheng, “A New History of American History,” was published by Renmin University of China Press in April this year. It is both a textbook of institutions of higher learning and an academic monograph. New History of the United States has many distinctive features. General history writing often used to write more political history, but the “New American History” covers a wide range of content. It takes political history as its main line and pays tribute to many fields such as economy, diplomacy, society, cities, social movements, ideology, legal system, literature and art, science and technology and academic trend of thought