A Student Workbook for Land of Hope
An Invitation to the Great American Story
A wonderfully written, sweeping narrative history of the United States that will help Americans discover the land they call home.
Workbook for High School Students studying Land of Hope
This workbook accompanies Land of Hope
This Student Workbook for Wilfred M. McClay's Land of Hope: An Invitation to the Great American Story will be an invaluable supplemental resource for students and teachers who use Land of Hope as a textbook for courses in U.S. history. Prepared by Dr. McClay in collaboration with Dr. John McBride, a master teacher with more than thirty years of secondary and collegiate teaching experience, it is an exceptionally rich and useful tool for classroom instructors. The Student Workbook is designed to be used in tandem with the Teacher's Guide to Land of Hope and includes additional materials, such as extensive map exercises, that will build students' geographical knowledge. In the Student Workbook, each chapter of Land of Hope receives a four-part treatment: questions and answers about the chapter, short objective tests suitable for quizzes and exams, a primary-source document for class analysis, and questions and answers to accompany the document. In addition, the Student Workbook contains special units to assist students in understanding the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights. Finally, in addition to the map exercises, the Student Workbook features handy reference tools for student use and an extensive list of suggested topics for research papers and further investigation.
Wilfred M. McClay is the G. T. and Libby Blankenship Chair in the History of Liberty at the University
of Oklahoma. He served from 2002 to 2013 on the National Council on the Humanities, the advisory
board for the National Endowment for the Humanities, and is currently serving on the U.S.
Semiquincentennial Commission, which is planning for the 250th anniversary of the United States in
2026. Among his books is The Masterless: Self and Society in Modern America, which won the 1995
Merle Curti Award of the Organization of American Historians for the best book in American
intellectual history. He was educated at St. John’s College (Annapolis) and received his Ph.D. from
the Johns Hopkins University.
John McBride was educated at Rice University (BA 1968, MA 1971) and the University of Virginia (PhD 1977). He taught high school (mostly US History AP) in Chattanooga TN from 1974 to 2010, at the Baylor School and David Brainerd Christian School. He has also taught as an adjunct for the past 25 years at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, in political science and in history. For the past six years he has taught (as a volunteer and most recently as an adjunct for Georgia State University) at Walker State Prison, which is Georgia's character-and-faith-based prison. He enjoys employing a wide variety of teaching methods, including games, trivium-style debates, and group projects.
