The new edition of this classic text on modern U.S. history seamlessly blends political, social, cultural, intellectual, and economic themes into an authoritative and readable account of America's national story since the 1890s.
Robert D. Johnston is Professor of History and Director of the Teaching of History Program at the University of Illinois Chicago. An award-winning teacher, he has authored and co-edited several books, including The Radical Middle Class: Populist Democracy and the Question of Capitalism in Progressive Era Portland, Oregon.
Walter LaFeber was the Andrew Tisch and James Tisch University Professor Emeritus at Cornell University. His publications included The American Age: U.S. Foreign Policy Since 1750 and Inevitable Revolutions: The United States and Central America. He was a Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Teaching Fellow at Cornell.
Richard Polenberg was the Marie Underhill Noll Professor Emeritus of American History at Cornell University. His publications included The World of Benjamin Cardozo and The Era of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1933-1945. He was a recipient of the Clark Award for Distinguished Teaching and was a Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Teaching Fellow at Cornell.
Nancy Woloch is a research scholar in the History Department, Barnard College, Columbia University. She is the prizewinning author of A Class by Herself: Protective Laws for Women Workers, 1890s-1990s. Her books include Women and the American Experience: A Concise History, Muller v. Oregon, Early American Women, and Eleanor Roosevelt: In Her Words.