Primary Source Investigator (PSI), a CD-ROM of over 400 sources that gets students working like historians, is now included free with each new copy of the text. There are all different kinds of sources to work with on PSI: photographs, works of art, cartoons, historic maps, interactive maps, journal entries, town records, songs, and more.

Interactive Learning sections at the end of every chapter direct students to relevant material on PSI. Marginal icons point to relevant mini-documentaries (total of 14) on PSI

Additional information on women, particularly in chapters 17 (social effects of women entering the workforce), 18 (women and the growing popularity of literature), 19 (women and the Alliance movement), 21 (Southern women as opponents of lynching), and 23 (the “Women’s Bureau” and legislation passed in response to women’s suffrage)

Two new America in the World essays: one on social democracy (Chapter 21) and one on the cinema (Chapter 24)

One new Patterns of Popular Culture essay in Chapter 18 on Louisa May Alcott

Three new Where Historians Disagree essays: one in chapter 2 on Native Americans and “the Middle Ground”; one in chapter 3 on the Salem witchcraft trials; one in chapter 31 on the civil rights movement

Chapter introductions have been expanded to present a more comprehensive overview of the material to follow.

Judicious edits throughout, including integrating material from “The American Environment” essays into the main text narrative

"For Further Reference" sections at the end of each chapter updated to reflect recent scholarship