High School American Promise Compact - Hardcover

The American Promise: A Compact History combines a dynamic narrative, stunning visuals, and abundant help for students in a unique mid-sized format that makes this text easier to teach, read, and study than any other book on the market. Delivered within a clear political framework and condensed by the authors themselves to provide just the right amount of reading, the narrative brings history to life through the voices and perspectives of people who embraced and contested America's promise. With more full-color maps, illustrations, artifacts, and features than any competing text, this mid-sized book provides exceptional support for teaching and learning. Enhanced with more tools for study and review, and offered at a price thirty percent lower (or more) than most full-length texts, the third compact edition is just the right choice for many courses.

James L. Roark is the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of History at Emory University. In 1993, he received the Emory Williams Distinguished Teaching Award, and in 2001-2002 he was the Pitt Professor of American History and Institutions at Cambridge University. He has written Masters without Slaves: Southern Planters in the Civil War and Reconstruction. With Michael P. Johnson, he is author ofBlack Masters: A Free Family of Color in the Old South and editor of No Chariot Let Down: Charleston's Free People of Color on the Eve of the Civil War. He has received research assistance from the American Philosophical Society, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.

Michael P. Johnson is professor of history at the Johns Hopkins University. His publications includeToward a Patriarchal Republic: The Secession of Georgia; with James L. Roark,Black Masters: A Free Family of Color in the Old South and No Chariot Let Down: Charleston's Free People of Color on the Eve of the Civil War;Abraham Lincoln, Slavery and the Civil War: Selected Writings and Speeches; andReading the American Past: Selected Historical Documents, the documents reader forThe American Promise. Johnson has been awarded research fellowships by the American Council of Learned Societies; the National Endowment for the Humanities; the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University; and the Times Mirror Foundation Distinguished Research Fellowship at the Huntington Library. He has directed a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for College Teachers and has been honored with university awards for outstanding teaching. He won theWilliam and Mary Quarterly award for best article in 2002 and the Organization of American Historians ABC-CLIOAmerica: History and Life Award for best American history article in 2002.

Patricia Cline Cohen is professor of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She has writtenA Calculating People: The Spread of Numeracy in Early America and The Murder of Helen Jewett: The Life and Death of a Prostitute in Nineteenth-Century New York. She has published articles on quantitative literacy, mathematics education, prostitution, and murder. Her scholarly work has received assistance from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Humanities Center, the University of California President's Fellowship in the Humanities, the Schlesinger Library, and the Newberry Library. In 2001-2002 she was the Distinguished Senior Mellon Fellow at the American Antiquarian Society. She served as chair of the history department at Santa Barbara from 2002 to 2005. She is at work on a book about women's health advocate Mary Gove Nichols.

Sarah Stage is professor of women's studies at Arizona State University. Her books includeFemale Complaints: Lydia Pinkham and the Business of Women's Medicine and Rethinking Women and Home Economics in the Twentieth Century, which has been translated for a Japanese edition. She has received fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation, the American Association of University Women, the Charles Warren Center for the Study of History at Harvard University, and the University of California President's Fellowship in the Humanities. She is at work on a book entitledWomen and the Progressive Impulse in American Politics, 1890-1914.

Alan Lawson is professor of history at Boston College. He has written The Failure of Independent Liberalism and coeditedFrom Revolution to Republic. While completing the forthcoming Ideas in Crisis: The New Deal and the Mobilization of Progressive Experience, he has published book chapters and essays on political economy, the cultural legacy of the New Deal, multicultural