NAMED ONE OF THE TOP 10 BEST AFRICAN AMERICAN BOOKS OF 2009 by Kam Williams - Internationally Renowned Book, Film and Music Critic Considered to be the most important book published in the eleven year history of the company, African American History In the United States of America - An Anthology - From Africa To President Barack Obama - Volume 1 is the most controversial and comprehensive book ever published about the history of Africans and African Americans and Europeans and European Americans in the United States. African American History In the United States of America - An Anthology - From Africa To President Barack Obama - Volume 1 has been compiled in historical order utilizing chapters from some of the greatest African American historians and writers - Lerone Bennett Jr., Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America - The African Past; Barack Obama, Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance; Lerone Bennett Jr., Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America - Before the Mayflower and Behind the Cotton Curtain; Jim Haskins, African American Military Heroes; Lerone Bennett Jr., Pioneers In Protest; Brenda Wilkerson, African American Women Writers Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century; Otha Richard Sullivan, African American Inventors; Jim Haskins, African American Entrepreneurs; Clinton Cox, African American Healers and Eleanora E. Tate, African American Musicians. Volume One begins with the story of Ancient Africa, the beginning of Homo Sapiens and African Civilizations, the coming of Europeans, slavery and early African and African American people who lived in the seventeenth, eighteenth and early to mid nineteenth century America and an acknowledgement, introduction and foreword written by the publisher that attempts to explain and solve the centuries old causes and reasons behind racism in America. Compiled, edited and published exclusively for elementary, middle and high school students, libraries, universities, and African American and European American readers. The publishers hope this Anthology can be used as a first step in understanding the history and contributions all Americans have made to The United States of America.