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Learning U.S. History, Semester 1, 1st edition

Published by Pearson (December 5, 2016) © 2017

  • H W. Brands University of Texas

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For US History Survey courses.

Thinking and storytelling beyond the textbook

Learning US History brings the American past vividly to life via a continuous blend of engaging writing and original video.

Integrating activities and assessments directly within the narrative, acclaimed author and educator H. W. Brands enables students to apply concepts and practice historical analysis without ever losing the thread of the story. Thanks to this immersive multimedia learning experience, Learning US History gets students reading, writing and thinking like historians.

Highlights of the DIGITAL UPDATE for Revel (available for Fall 2021 classes)

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  • NEW: History 360 Experience simulations allow students to learn about history through the exploration of historical sites. Each immersive experience combines 360-degree photographs and videos with sound, images and text to help bring the past to life. Sites that students can explore include:
    • Gettysburg
    • Ellis Island
    • Reunification of Berlin
  • NEW: Artifacts as Evidence videos enable students to explore the connections between individual artifacts and historical developments. Created in conjunction with the Smithsonian Institution, these videos illuminate history through examination of a wide range of items from the historical record. The featured artifacts include:
    • Ancestral Pueblo Jars
    • John Deere Plow
    • Greensboro Lunch Counter

Features of Revel; published 2016

A lively narrative combines written material and video

  • Narrative videos complement, rather than supplement, the written material, with information not presented in the narrative.
  • Author video introductions provide brief overviews of the material to be covered within each chapter.
  • Thinking Historically video features prompt students to analyze historical events the way historians do, using applied methodologies.
    • How Do We Know? features challenge students to analyze how sources were employed by those on 1 or both sides of an issue.
    • Arguing History features ask students to consider opposing viewpoints regarding a particular topic.
    • Past and Present features encourage students to examine how past decisions, policies and events affect the present.

Interactive content gets students thinking like historians

  • Chapter-opening Prepare to Learn pretests prime students to learn.
  • Chapter review sections help students synthesize what they've learned.
  • Integrated writing opportunities measure students' ability to formulate historical arguments.
1. Old Worlds and New, 40,000 BCE to 1400 CE
2. Exploration and Conquest, 1400 to 1600
3. The English Colonial Enterprise, 1600 to 1689
4. The English and the Americans, 1689 to 1763
5. Declaring Independence, 1763 to 1776
6. The Revolutionary War, 1776 to 1783
7. The Constitution, 1783 to 1789
8. Federalists and Republicans, 1789 to 1800
9. Republicans Take Over, 1800 to 1810
10. The Second War of Independence, 1810 to 1820
11. Jacksonian Democracy, 1820 to 1840
12. Manifest Destiny, 1840 to 1850
13. The Sectional Crisis, 1850 to 1860
14. The Civil War, 1861 to 1865
15. Reconstruction, 1865 to 1877

About our authors

Henry William (H. W.) Brands was born in Oregon, went to college in California, sold cutlery across the American West and earned graduate degrees in mathematics and history in Oregon and Texas. He taught at Vanderbilt University and Texas A&M University before joining the faculty at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is the Dickson Allen Anderson Centennial Professor of History. He writes on American history and politics, with books including The Man Who Saved the Union, Traitor to His Class, Andrew Jackson, The Age of Gold, The First American and TR. Several of his books have been bestsellers, and 2, Traitor to His Class and The First American, were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. He lectures frequently on historical and current events, and can be seen and heard on national and international television and radio programs. His writings have been translated into Spanish, French, German, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Ukrainian.

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