Bedford/St. Martin's joins Dallas TeleLearning at the LeCroy Center for Educational Telecommunications to offer a complete distance learning package that includes Dallas TeleLearning’s highly praised video lessons; the text of The American Promise, Fourth Edition; print Student Course Guides that fully integrate the video with the text; and a full array of supplements. The distance learning courses Shaping America: U.S. History to 1877 and Transforming America: U.S. History since 1877 each include 26 half-hour video lessons delivered in the following formats: telecourse, interactive telecourse (CD-ROM), and Internet.