The new two-color design enriches the text and helps students to better navigate the chapters. Studying is made easy with headings and review questions that draw students' attention as they work through the chapters. Students will find it easier to connect events and places with the new two-color maps.
Additional end-of-chapter pedagogy focuses on historical thinking. New "Linking to the Past" questions at the end of each chapter send students back to earlier chapters, helping them to understand cause and effect, compare historical episodes, and consider change over time.
New and important scholarship provides fresh perspectives on historical events. In an ongoing effort to keep
The American Promise thorough, balanced, and up-to-date, recent historical scholarship has been added on such topics as the dominance of the Comanche in the American southwest, the internal slave trade, Southern white women and the rise of the Lost Cause, the 1918 influenza epidemic, and the Obama presidency.
New media resources add to the already robust ancillary package options. New for instructors, the Bedford Lecture Kit includes lecture outlines with full-color maps and images from the parent textbook. The new America in Motion DVD offers video clips that show historical events from the twentieth century. The Bedford Coursepack includes all of these elements plus the Online Study Guide for students, primary documents, the Computerized Test Bank, and suggested references, for free download to Blackboard, Angel, Desire2Learn, or WebCT.