The American Promise, Value Edition, Volume 1: A History of the United States

This lower priced version (full narrative, fewer maps and photos) tells the story of the nation through a wide range of American voices--famous, unknown, marginalized.

About the Author :
James L. Roark (Ph.D., Stanford University) is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor Emeritus of American History at Emory University. He received his universitys Emory Williams Distinguished Teaching Award, and in 2001-2002 he was Pitt Professor of American Institutions at Cambridge University. He has written Masters without Slaves: Southern Planters in the Civil War and Reconstruction and coauthored Black Masters: A Free Family of Color in the Old South with Michael P. Johnson. He has also co-edited No Chariot Let Down: Charleston's Free People of Color on the Eve of the Civil War with Michael P. Johnson. Michael P. Johnson (Ph.D., Stanford University) is Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University. His publications include Toward a Patriarchal Republic: The Secession of Georgia; Abraham Lincoln, Slavery, and the Civil War: Selected Speeches and Writings; and Reading the American Past: Selected Historical Documents, the documents reader for The American Promise. He has also coedited No Chariot Let Down: Charleston's Free People of Color on the Eve of the Civil War with James L. Roark. François Furstenberg (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University) is Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University. From 2003-2014 he taught at the Université de Montréal. His publications include In the Name of the Father: Washington's Legacy, Slavery, and the Making of a Nation; and When the United States Spoke French: Five Refugees who Shaped a Nation. Sarah Stage (Ph.D., Yale University) has taught U.S. history at Williams College and the University of California, Riverside, and she was a visiting professor at Beijing University and Szechuan University. Currently she is Professor of Women's Studies at Arizona State University. Her books include Female Complaints: Lydia Pinkham and the Business of Women's Medicine and Rethinking Home Economics: Women and the History of a Profession. Sarah E. Igo (Ph.D., Princeton University) is the Andrew Jackson Professor of American History and Director of American Studies at Vanderbilt University. Previously, she was an associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania, where she won the Richard S. Dunn Award for Distinguished Teaching in 2003. She is the author of The Averaged American: Surveys, Citizens and the Making of a Mass Public and The Known Citizen: A History of Privacy in Modern America.