Explore America’s rich and complex past in this accessible presentation of American history.
Using a streamlined and powerful narrative, the authors take readers beyond an assortment of facts to tell the story of our nation. American Stories, 3/ecovers the essential elements and events in American history and uses significant incidents and episodes to reflect the dynamism of the dilemmas, choices, and decisions made by the American people as well as by their leaders that helped shape America today.
MyHistoryLab is an integral part of the Brands program. Key learning applications include Closer Looks, History Explorer, and the all new Writing Space.
Revel from Pearson is a new learning experience designed for the way today’s students read, think, and learn. Revel redesigns familiar and respected course content and enriches it for today’s students with new dynamic, rich-media interactives and assessments. The result is improved student engagement and improved learning. Revel for Brands will be available for Fall 2014 classes.
Teaching and Learning Experience
This program will provide a better teaching and learning experience—for you and your students. It:
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Personalizes Learning with MyHistoryLab: The new MyHistoryLab delivers proven results in helping students succeed, and provides engaging experiences that personalize learning.
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Emphasizes Critical Thinking: Learning tools throughout the text help students to focus their learning on key material and become more critical thinkings. These features include: Chapter opening vignettes, Learning Objective Questions, Key Terms, Quick Check Questions and a Thematic Timeline.
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Includes an Engaging Pedagogically-Driven Design: This edition is designed to highlight a clear learning path through the material and offer a visually stunning learning experience in print or on a screen.
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Provides a Flexible Learning Plan for Students on the Go: The Pearson eText, with a new streamlined design for tablet devices, lets students access American Stories anytime, anywhere, and any way they want.
'American Stories' concentrates on the topics most commonly taught in an American history survey course, with a focus on the major themes and the connections between them. Pedagogical features include quick-check questions, glossary entries in the margins, chapter reviews and sample essay questions.
