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Experience History: Interpreting America's Past

AUTHOR Delay, Brian; Heyrman, Christine Leigh; Davidson, James West
PUBLISHER McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Langua (10/06/2010)
PRODUCT TYPE Hardcover (Hardcover)

Description
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.

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Product Details
ISBN-13: 9780073385679
ISBN-10: 0073385670
Binding: Hardback or Cased Book (Sewn)
Content Language: English
Edition Number: 0007
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Page Count: 927
Carton Quantity: 8
Product Dimensions: 8.70 x 1.50 x 10.90 inches
Weight: 5.11 pound(s)
Feature Codes: Bibliography, Index, Maps, Table of Contents, Textbook, Glossary, Illustrated
Country of Origin: US
Subject Information
BISAC Categories
History | United States - General
Dewey Decimal: 973
Library of Congress Control Number: 2010035538
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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.

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Author: Delay, Brian
Brian DeLay (Ph.D., Harvard) is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. He specializes in colonial and 19th century U.S. and Mexican history. His scholarship has won awards from the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, the Western History Association, the Council on Latin American History, the American Society for Ethnohistory, the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association, and the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. He is the author of "War of a Thousand Deserts: Indian Raids and the U.S.-Mexican War" (Yale, 2008), and is currently at work on a book about the international arms trade and the re-creation of the Americas during the long nineteenth century. He can be reached at delay@berkeley.edu and his website is http: //history.berkeley.edu/faculty/DeLay/.
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