This comprehensive text is designed to engage readers in a story of curriculum and to invite them to identify with and participate in this important book. This text illustrates how changes in American society and culture correlate with the American field of curriculum studies and curriculum work. It contains five parts that focus on the United States; the first offers a backdrop for parts II-V, which present curriculum's journey through the last half of the 20th century. The text is appropriate as a supplemental text for the graduate level curriculum development course.