The American Promise: A Compact History, Combined Version (Volumes I & II)

You can have it all! A mid-sized alternative,The American Promise: A Compact Historyis the perfect compromise for instructors who want all the features of a full-length text in an affordable format. Condensed by the authors to deliver the latest scholarship in an engaging, flexible format, the fourth edition includes a lavish visual and special features program, study tools that rival any survey text, and a memorable narrative enlivened by the voices of hundreds of Americans.

JAMES L. ROARK (Ph.D., Stanford University) is the Samuel Chandler Dobbs Professor of History at Emory University. He has written and edited four books, including, with Michael P. Johnson, Black Masters: A Free Family of Color in the Old South (1984).

MICHAEL P. JOHNSON (Ph.D., Stanford University) is a professor of history at the Johns Hopkins University. He has written or edited six books, including No Chariot Let Down: Charleston’s Free People of Color on the Eve of the Civil War (1984) and Reading the American Past.

PATRICIA CLINE COHEN (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley) is professor of history at the University of California at Santa Barbara. She has written three books including The Murder of Helen Jewett: The Life and Death of a Prostitute in Nineteenth-Century New York (1998).

SARAH STAGE (Ph.D., Yale University) is professor of women’s studies at Arizona State University West. She has written three books, including Rethinking Women and Home Economics in the Twentieth Century (1997).

ALAN LAWSON (Ph.D., University of Michigan) is professor of history at Boston College. He has written or edited three books, including From Revolution to Republic (1976).

SUSAN M. HARTMANN (Ph.D., University of Missouri) is professor of history at The Ohio State University. She has written five books, including The Other Feminists: Activists in the Liberal Establishments (1998).

Brief Table of Contents 1. Ancient America: Before 1492

2. Europeans Encounter the New World, 1492–1600

3. The Southern Colonies in the Seventeenth Century, 1601–1700

4. The Northern Colonies in the Seventeenth Century, 1601–1700

5. Colonial America in the Eighteenth Century, 1701–1770

6. The British Empire and the Colonial Crisis, 1754–1775

7. The War for America, 1775–1783

8. Building a Republic, 1775–1789

9. The New Nation Takes Form, 1789–1800

10. Republicans in Power, 1800–1824

11. The Expanding Republic, 1815–1840

12. The New West and Free North, 1840– 1860

13. The Slave South, 1820–1860

14. The House Divided, 1846–1861

15. The Crucible of War, 1861–1865

16. Reconstruction, 1863–1877

17. The Contested West, 1870–1900

18. Business and Politics in the Gilded Age, 1870–1895

19. The City and Its Workers, 1870–1900

20. Dissent, Depression, and War, 1890– 1900

21. Progressivism from the Grass Roots to the White House, 1890–1916

22. World War I: The Progressive Crusade at Home and Abroad, 1914–1920

23. From New Era to Great Depression, 1920–1932

24. The New Deal Experiment, 1932–1939

25. The United States and the Second World War, 1939–1945

26. Cold War Politics in the Truman Years, 1945–1953

27. The Politics and Culture of Abundance, 1952–1960

28. Reform, Rebellion, and Reaction, 1960–1974

29. Vietnam and the Limits of Power, 1961–1975

30. America Moves to the Right, 1969–1989

31. The End of the Cold War and the Challenges of Globalization: Since 1989