Offering balanced and up-to-date coverage of America's social, political, and diplomatic past, this two-volume anthology of articles by nationally renowned scholars and journalists introduces readers to the excitement and diversity of American history. With fifteen new selections, the seventh edition has been substantially revised to examine such topics as the Salem witch trials, early American religious freedom, slavery, the Civil War, and ethnic violence in the West, as well as such prominent personalities as Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Ford, Harry Truman, and Walmart's Sam Walton.