This popular Instructor's Resource Manual offers extensive information for each chapter in the textbook: outlines of chapter themes and topics, lecture and discussion strategies, multiple-choice questions for quizzing, video and film resources, and advice on outside readings. The new edition offers as well suggestions on how to incorporate all the supplements for The American Promise into teaching plans; adivce on including the volumes in the Bedford Series relevant to each chapter; Using the Internet exercises that reinforce and extend the text; and a wealth of practical suggestions for first-time teaching assistants, from suggestions on running discussion sections and designing assignments to advice on dealing with difficult students.