The American People

Our past is changing. In all branches of American history, scholars and writers are going back to find the people missing from our history texts...the minorities, the women, the labourers, the not-so-famous creators of America. The history emerging from this intellectual energy is, like the nation itself, vital and democratic. It's also a history far more meaningful to today's students, a fact clearly demonstrated by the overwhelming popularity of the American people-the first major text to combine an exceptionally high level of scholarship with the new, more "democratic" view of history. Now this groundbreaking text is available in a brief edition. Carefully abridged to preserve the widely-acclaimed balanced approach and distinctive voice of the full-length text.