How long does it take to read The American Yawp?
A Massively Collaborative Open U.S. History Textbook, Vol. 1
Joseph L. Locke, Ben Wright
The American Yawp by Joseph L. Locke, Ben Wright takes about 8 hours 22 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 8 hours 22 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2019. 456 pages, about 125,400 words.
17 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 13 hours 56 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 22 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 14 minutes |
The page count is the median across 1 edition, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The American Yawp constructs a coherent and accessible narrative from all the best of recent historical scholarship. Without losing sight of politics and power, it incorporates transnational perspectives, integrates diverse voices, recovers narratives of resistance, and explores the complex process of cultural creation. It looks for America in crowded slave cabins, bustling markets, congested tenements, and marbled halls. It navigates between maternity wards, prisons, streets, bars, and boardrooms. Whitman’s America, like ours, cut across the narrow boundaries that strangle many narratives. Balancing academic rigor with popular readability, The American Yawp offers a multi-layered, democratic alternative to the American past.
Subjects: History
