Summary
Connect students to the stories of history. Connect students to the experience of history. Connect students to success in history.
At McGraw-Hill, we have spent the past few years deepening our understanding of the student and instructor experience. Employing a wide array of research tools including surveys, focus groups, and ethnographic studies, we've identified areas in need of improvement to provide an opportunity for greater learning and teaching experiences. Experience History is a direct result of this.
Experience History is also a first in American History. Its groundbreaking adaptive diagnostic and interactive exercises paired with its lively narrative and engaging visuals create a unique teaching and learning environment propelling greater student success and better course results. Instructors gain better insight into students' engagement and understanding as students develop a base of knowledge and construct critical thinking skills. Gripping stories keep students turning the page while the adaptive diagnostics for each chapter and a personalized study plan for each individual student help students prepare for class discussions and course work while enjoying increased course success.
Experience History emphasizes that history is not just a collection of proven facts, but is "created" from the detective work of historians examining evidence from the past. Providing the interactive environment that only an integrated 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 An American Story: The Power of a Hidden Past A Continent of Cultures A Cultures of Ancient Mexico Daily Lives: Play Ball Cultures of the Southwest Cultures of the Eastern Woodlands Cultures of the Great Plains Cultures of the Great Basin Cultures of the Pacific Northwest Cultures of the Subarctic and Arctic Innovations and Limitations America's Agricultural Gifts Landscapers The Shape of a Problem Animals and Illness Historian's Toolbox: An Ancient Calendar Crisis and Transformation Enduring Cultures North America on the Eve of ContactDueling Documents: How Many People Lived in Hispaniola in 1492? North America on the Eve of ContactREVIEW CHART: A CONTINENT OF CULTURES CONCLUSION: THE WORLD AT LARGE SIGNIFICANT EVENTS TIMELINE CHAPTER SUMMARY ADDITIONAL READING After the Fact: Historians Reconstruct the Past: Tracking the First Americans Chapter 2. Old Worlds, New Worlds, 1400-1600 An American Story: Fishing Nets and Far Horizons Eurasia and Africa in the Fifteenth Century Europe's Place in the World Historian's Toolbox: A Witch Bottle Africa and the Portuguese Wave Sugar and the Origins of the Atlantic Slave Trade Spain in the Americas The Spanish Beachhead in the Caribbean Daily Lives: "Barbaric Dress"--Indian and European Conquest of the Aztecs The Columbian Exchange The Crown Steps In Dueling Documents: How Did Spaniards and Aztecs Remember First Contact?The Search for North America's Indian Empires Religious Reform Divides Europe The Teachings of Martin Luther The Contribution of John Calvin The Birth of Spanish Florida and French HuguenotsThe English Reformation England's Entry into America The Ambitions of Gilbert, Raleigh, and Wingina A Second Roanoke--and Croatoan REVIEW CHART: EUROPEAN EXPLORATIONS CONCLUSION: THE WORLD AT LARGE SIGNIFICANT EVENTS TIMELINE CHAPTER SUMMARY ADDITIONAL READING Chapter 3. Colonization and Conflict in the South, 1600-1750An American Story: Outlandish Strangers Spain's North American Colonies The Founding of a "New" Mexico The Growth of Spanish Florida Pope and the Pueblo RevoltEnglish Society on the Chesapeake Dueling Documents: What Caused the Pueblo Revolt?The Virginia Company Reform and a Boom in Tobacco The Founding of Maryland and the Renewal of Indian WarsChanges in English Policy in the Chesapeake Chesapeake Society in Crisis Bacon's Rebellion and Coode's Rebellion From Servitude to Slavery Africa and the Atlantic Slave Trade Historian's Toolbox: Hip Mask from Benin A Changing Chesapeake SocietyFrom the Caribbean to the Carolinas Paradise Lost Daily Lives: A Taste for Sugar The Founding of the Carolinas Carolina, Florida, and the Southeastern Slave Wars White, Red, and Black: The Search for Order The Founding of Georgia REVIEW CHART: SOUTHERN COLONIES CONCLUSION: THE WORLD AT LARGE SIGNIFICANT EVENTS TIMELINE CHAPTER SUMMARY ADDITIONAL READING Chapter 4. Colonization and Conflict in the North, 1600-1700 An American Story: Bears on Floating Islands France in North America The Origins of New France New Netherlands, the Iroquois, and the Beaver Wars The Lure of the Mississippi Historian's Toolbox: A French Map The Founding of New England The Puritan Movement The Pilgrim Settlement of Plymouth Colony The Puritan Settlement at Massachusetts Bay Stability and Order in Early New England Communities in Conflict Goodwives and Witches Daily Lives: A World of Wonders and Witchcraft The People in the Way Dueling Documents: Accusations and Defenses in the Salem Witchcraft Trials Metacom's War The Mid-Atlantic Colonies English Rule in New York The Founding of New Jersey Quaker Odysseys Patterns of Growth Quakers and Politics Adjustment to Empire The Dominion of New England Royal Authority in America in 1700REVIEW CHART: NORTHERN COLONIES CONCLUSION: THE WORLD AT LARGE SIGNIFICANT EVENTS TIMELINE CHAPTER SUMMARY ADDITIONAL READING Chapter 5. The Mosaic of Eighteenth-Century America, 1689-1768 An American Story: The Tale of a Tattooed Traveler Crisis and Transformation in Northern New Spain Defensive Expansion into Texas Crisis and Rebirth in New Mexico Spanish California Women and the Law in New Spain and British North America Dueling Documents: The Founders of Spanish California Eighteenth-Century New FranceColonial Compromise France on the Gulf Coast Slavery and Colonial Society in French Louisiana Forces of Division in British North AmericaImmigration and Natural IncreaseDaily Lives: Transatlantic TrialsMoving into the BackcountrySocial Conflict on the FrontierEighteenth-Century SeaportsSocial Tension in SeaportsHistorian's Toolbox: A Woman's CupboardSlave Societies in the Eighteenth-Century SouthThe Slave Family and CommunitySlave Resistance in Eighteenth-Century BritishNorth AmericaEnlightenment and Awakening in AmericaThe Enlightenment in America The First Great Awakening The Aftermath of the Great Awakening Anglo-American Worlds of the Eighteenth Century English Economic and Social Development The Consumer RevolutionInequality in England and America Politics in England and AmericaThe Imperial System Before 1760 REVIEW CHART: EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY NORTH AMERICACONCLUSION: THE WORLD AT LARGESIGNIFICANT EVENTS TIMELINECHAPTER SUMMARYADDITIONAL READING Chapter 6. Toward the War for American Independence, 1754-1776An American Story: The General, the Trader, and the Missing AlliesThe Seven Years' WarOriginsYears of DefeatA Shift in Policy Years of Victory Postwar Expectations Historian's Toolbox: John Singleton Copley's Watson and the Shark The Imperial Crisis Pontiac's Rebellion George Grenville's New Measures The Beginning of Colonial Resistance Riots and Resolves Repeal of the Stamp Act The Townshend Acts The Resistance Organizes The International Sons of Liberty Daily Lives: Street Theater The Boston Massacre Dueling Documents: Who Was to Blame for the Boston Massacre?Resistance Revived The Empire Strikes Back Toward the Revolution The First Continental Congress The Last Days of the British Empire in America The Fighting Begins Common Sense REVIEW CHART: PARLIAMENT AND THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION CONCLUSION: THE WORLD AT LARGE SIGNIFICANT EVENTS TIMELINE CHAPTER SUMMARY ADDITIONAL READINGChapter 7. The American People: The American Revolution, 1775-1783 An American Story: "Will He Fight?"The Decision for IndependenceThe Second Continental CongressThe DeclarationAmerican LoyalistsDueling Documents: Abigail and John Adams Spar on Women's RightsThe Fighting in the NorthThe Two Armies at BayDaily Lives: Radical Chic and Revolutionary WomenLaying StrategiesCapturing PhiladelphiaDisaster at SaratogaThe Turning PointThe American Revolution Becomes a Global WarWinding Down the War in the NorthWar in the WestThe Home Front in the NorthThe Struggle in the SouthThe Siege of CharlestonThe Partisan Struggle in the SouthGreene Takes CommandAfrican Americans in the Age of RevolutionHistorian's Toolbox: Runaways The World Turned Upside Down Surrender at Yorktown REVIEW CHART: BRITISH AND AMERICAN FORCES COMPARED CONCLUSION: THE WORLD AT LARGE SIGNIFICANT EVENTS TIMELINE CHAPTER SUMMARY ADDITIONAL READINGChapter 8. Crisis and Constitution, 1776-1789 An American Story: "These United States"Republican ExperimentsThe State Constitutions From Congress to Confederation The Temptations of PeaceThe Temptations of the WestForeign Intrigues Disputes among the States The More Democratic WestThe Northwest Territory Slavery and Sectionalism Wartime Economic Disruption Republican Society The New Men of the Revolution The New Women of the Revolution Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication Republican Motherhood and Education Historian's Toolbox: A Woman's Compass The Attack on Aristocracy From Confederation to Constitutions The Jay-Gardoqui Treaty Shays's RebellionDaily Lives: The Spirits of Independence Framing a Federal Constitution The Virginia and New Jersey Plans The Deadlock Broken Ratification Dueling Documents: Republican Remedy?