Joyce Oldham Appleby, Ph.D. (Claremont Graduate School, 1966; B.A., Stanford University, 1950), is professor of history at University of California, Los Angeles. She previously taught at San Diego State University, 1967–1981. She was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1993, and was president of the Organization of American Historians (1991) and the American Historical Association (1997).
I teach from this. Have since we adopted it in 05. It sucks. Boring, not appealing at all to its intended audience, dry, etc. etc. When we were in book adoption, I said "anything but the Glencoe one." Unfortunately, TPTB were blinded by Glencoe's test generator. All the other options were much better. Not that I'm bitter.