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AUTHOR Delay, Brian; Heyrman, Christine Leigh; Davidson, James West
PUBLISHER McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Langua (10/15/2013)
PRODUCT TYPE Software (Other)

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Connect to the "stories" of history. Connect to the "experience" of history. Connect to "success" in history.
Experience History, Interpreting America's Past is breaking new ground for the American History survey course. Its adaptive, mobile and interactive activities paired with its lively narrative and engaging visuals creates a unique teaching and learning environment propelling greater student performance and better course results. Through proven digital tools, instructors gain better insight into students' engagement and understanding as students develop a base of knowledge and construct critical thinking skills.
Experience History emphasizes that history is not a collection of facts, but is "interpreted" from the detective work of historians examining the past's evidence. Utilizing an active learning environment that only an online 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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ISBN-13: 9780077504656
ISBN-10: 0077504658
Content Language: English
Edition Number: 0008
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Carton Quantity: 500
Country of Origin: US
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History | United States - General
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Connect to the "stories" of history. Connect to the "experience" of history. Connect to "success" in history.
Experience History, Interpreting America's Past is breaking new ground for the American History survey course. Its adaptive, mobile and interactive activities paired with its lively narrative and engaging visuals creates a unique teaching and learning environment propelling greater student performance and better course results. Through proven digital tools, instructors gain better insight into students' engagement and understanding as students develop a base of knowledge and construct critical thinking skills.
Experience History emphasizes that history is not a collection of facts, but is "interpreted" from the detective work of historians examining the past's evidence. Utilizing an active learning environment that only an online 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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