An American Chronicle: A Comprehensive History of the United States of America from the Pre-Columbian Era through the Great Depression is the first of a two-volume work on the social, cultural, political, technological and economic history of the United States covering the period from the early prehistoric settlement of North America to the eve of America's involvement in World War II. The second volume will cover events from 1941 to President Biden's inauguration on January 20, 2021.

This first volume consists of 14 chapters offering a detailed, fact-based, year-by-year presentation of the key events that have marked American history. Each chapter begins with an introduction explaining how each successive period is bound to those which precede and follow. These books have been designed to serve as a convenient ready-reference and guide. Extensive contextualization and cross-referencing have been incorporated to assist the reader in making complex links between various events which are sometimes separated by decades or even centuries. This will help the reader understand developments which, at first glance, may appear totally unrelated. This technique aims to demonstrate the underlying continuity and cohesion which unifies US history.

Several major periods are covered in volume 1: the prehistory of North America until the first contacts between Native Americans and Europeans, the colonisation of British North America and the French and Indian Wars, the War of American Independence and the expansion of the young Republic until the Civil War and, finally, Reconstruction until the Great Depression and America's rise as a World power.

Glyn E. German was born in Fairfax, Virginia, on March 26, 1982. He has dual American and French nationality (American father, French-Breton mother). His father, a university professor, was offered a post in France and the family moved there during the late 1980s. Glyn was educated at the Lycée Chaptal in Quimper, Brittany, in north-western France and, graduated from the Université de Bretagne Occidentale de Brest's department of history in 2009. Since 2010, Glyn has been an independent author, historian and translator. He is the author of two books: Welsh History: A Chronological Outline, Talybont: Y Lolfa, 2015 (second edition to come out soon) and Une Chronologie de l'histoire du Pays de Galles, Paris: L'Harmattan, 2017. An American Chronicle, A Comprehensive History of the United States (vols 1 & 2), is the product of 10 years of research.