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Catholic schools deserve the best textbooks. With Catholic Textbook Project, you can bring balance, perspective, and hope back into the hearts and minds of your students―these are the only history textbooks written with the freedom for the truth that Catholic schools enjoy. Our textbooks meet and exceed standards while educating and inspiring students with the great drama of our history. Our textbooks bring history alive by using a narrative format that engages students' interest and invites them into the story of history. Moreover, because beauty is a crucial path to truth, our books feature custom maps and full-color reproductions of beautiful art to please the eye and inspire wonder. They also have teacher manuals developed for teachers, by teachers, around the time-tested strategy of “less is more.” Many of them include a student workbook as well! LANDS OF HOPE AND PROMISE: A HISTORY OF NORTH AMERICA, STUDENT TEXTBOOK This textbook presents the history of North America from the landing of Columbus in 1492 to the late 20th century, including the contributions of the Catholic Church, communities, and individuals to the rich and tempestuous American story. GRADE RANGE: High School Presenting the history of North America from the landing of Columbus in 1492 to the late 20th century, this volume tells the story of the French, Spanish, Dutch, Russian, and English settlements, and of the native peoples and cultures with which they interacted and came in conflict. It also describes the events of the European settlement, focusing on the United States as the representative of Anglo-American culture and Mexico as the representative of Latin American culture. In addition to recounting the secular history found in standard textbooks, this volume incorporates the contributions of the Catholic Church, Catholic communities, and individual Catholics―along with Catholic ideas. It paints this history as a narrative, with all the color and drama that b