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Experience History: Interpreting America's Past
by Davidson, James West; DeLay, Brian; Heyrman, Christine Leigh; Lytle, Mark; Stoff, MichaelDownloadable: 180 Days
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Experience History, Interpreting America’s Past is breaking new ground for the American History survey course. Its adaptive, mobile and interactive activities paired with its lively narrative and engaging visuals creates a unique teaching and learning environment propelling greater student performance and better course results. Through proven digital tools, instructors gain better insight into students' engagement and understanding as students develop a base of knowledge and construct critical thinking skills.
Experience History emphasizes that history is not a collection of facts, but is "interpreted" from the detective work of historians examining the past’s evidence. Utilizing an active learning environment that only an online solution can provide, Experience History gives students the opportunity to examine primary sources and explore specific periods and events. This leads to greater understanding as well as the building and practicing of critical thinking skills. As students uniquely experience American History, Experience History propels students to greater understanding while achieving greater course success.
Give students an experience. Improve course participation and performance. Experience History and experience success.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. The First Civilizations of North America
Chapter 2. Old Worlds, New Worlds, 1400-1600
Chapter 3. Colonization and Conflict in the South, 1600-1750
Chapter 4. Colonization and Conflict in the North, 1600-1700
Chapter 5. The Mosaic of Eighteenth-Century America, 1689-1768
Chapter 6. Toward the War for American Independence, 1754-1776
Chapter 7. The American People: The American Revolution, 1775-1783
Chapter 8. Crisis and Constitution, 1776-1789
Chapter 9. The Early Republic, 1789-1824
Chapter 10. The Opening of America, 1815-1850
Chapter 11. The Rise of Democracy, 1824-1840
Chapter 12. The Fires of Perfection, 1820-1850
Chapter 13. The Old South 1820-1860
Chapter 14. Western Expansion and the Rise of the Slavery Issue, 1820-1850
Chapter 15. The Union Broken, 1850-1861
Chapter 16. Total War and the Republic, 1861-1865
Chapter 17. Reconstructing the Union, 1865-1877
Chapter 18. The New South & the Trans-Mississippi West, 1870-1914
Chapter 19. The New Industrial Order, 1870-1914
Chapter 20. The Rise of an Urban Order, 1870-1914
Chapter 21. The Political System under Strain at Home and Abroad, 1877-1900
Chapter 22. The Progressive Era, 1890-1920
Chapter 23. The United States and the Collapse of the Old World Order, 1901-1920
Chapter 24. The New Era, 1920-1929
Chapter 25. The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1929-1939
Chapter 26. America's Rise to Globalism, 1927-1945
Chapter 27. Cold War America 1945-1954
Chapter 28. The Suburban Era 1945-1963
Chapter 29. Civil Rights & Uncivil Liberties 1947-1969
Chapter 30. The Vietnam Era 1963-1975
Chapter 31. The Conservative Challenge, 1976-1992
Chapter 32. The United States in a Global Community, 1989 - Present
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