Student Engagement. High interest features throughout the text captivate readers, bring history to life, and help students make connections between the past and the present. Opinion questions in every chapter ask students for their opinions on a variety of historical issues; Point of View provides quotations from historians that can serve as a springboard for discussions; Backstory brings history to life through interesting, memorable anecdotes about lesser known aspects of historical figures and events; and Then and Now features compare cultural artifacts of the American past with analogous items from the present.
Design. Stunning images, charts, and maps throughout grab the reader's attention and make serious scholarship enjoyable to read. Students prefer a magazine format over a "conventional" text. U.S.: A Narrative History is a visually stimulating, innovative learning tool that emulates the media students most consume and most enjoy.
Portability. Available in two volumes for maximum flexibility and portability. Volume 1: To 1877 covers Chapters 1 through 17; Volume 2: From 1865 covers Chapters 17 through 32.
Current Content. Written by a team of experts, U.S.: A Narrative History offers a balanced approach that encompasses both social and political narrative to provide a more current, complete, and engaging view of the history of the nation and the people of which it is comprised. Praised by reviewers around the country, it provides scholarly, succinct content, organized the way instructors teach.
Integration of global material. Throughout the text, integration of global material offers greater context for the American story and a broader perspective on the ties of the United States to the rest of the world.
Continental perspective. With strong coverage of the environment, the West, and Native American history, this text presents a continental view of the nation's past from the very beginning, taking into account the people and forces that shaped Early American history west of the Anglo-American colonies.
After The Fact in Brief. These features showcase the variety of evidence that historians consult when piecing together the past, including cartoons, maps, and material culture.
Witness. Every chapter includes a brief except from a primary source document, along with a link to the full text online.
Primary Source Investigator Online. This database, now online with free access to all students on the Online Learning Center, offers hundreds of primary sources such as interactive maps, charts, photos, primary source docs, audio files, and video files with contextual information on each source, and thought-provoking questions that show students how historians look at sources. In addition, PSI has a program that walks students through how to write a paper using sources as evidence and is also easy to use in the classroom to support lecture and discussion.
Online Learning Center. A wealth of additional online resources include a detailed Faculty Guide for instructors and a wealth of student resources such as interactive maps, quizzes, essay questions, and chapter summaries.
Purchase Options. Purchase each volume separately (Volume 1 ISBN: 978-0-07338546-4 / Volume 2 ISBN: 978-0-07-723621-2) or packaged together as a complete, two-volume set (ISBN: 978-0-07731539-9). Or, purchase an electronic version of U.S. at www.CourseSmart.com (Volume 1 ISBN: 978-0-07728619-4 / Volume 2 ISBN: 978-0-07728620-0 / Combined ISBN: 978-0-07728476-3).
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