Christ and the Americas is a popular and much-loved high school American history text, written by best-selling author and history teacher Dr. Anne Carroll. It fills a great void because it gives proper attention to and appreciation for the role of the Catholic Church in American history. Beginning in pre-Columbus America and concluding in the 1990's, this book covers the vast panoply of American history in a fast-paced yet thorough manner. Its scores of amazing insights and penetrating analysis render history understandable and make the past come alive. With study questions at the end of each chapter, this book can be used as a traditional textbook or as an informal read for enjoyment and enlightenment. Students will come away from this book with a proper sense of who we are as Catholic Americans and of what America's debt to the Catholic Church. (455 pgs., PB.)