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  • Connect History, a new web-based assignment and assessment platform, combines a fully integrated eBook* with a number of powerful tools that make managing assignments easier for instructors and learning and studying more engaging and efficient for students. A groundbreaking adaptive questioning diagnostic provides a personalized study plan for students to ensure that they understand chapter content, while engaging interactivities such as "Critical Missions" involves students deeply in situations as they use maps and primary sources to sharpen their analytical skills and increase their historical understanding of historical interpretion. Additionally, the program includes numerous primary sources and a support material that teaches students how to read and interpret primary sources as well as how to write a history paper, document sources, and avoid plagiarism. (*Fully integrated eBook included in Connect Plus History.)

  • Critical Missions immerse students as active participants in a series of transformative moments in history. As advisors to key historical figures, they read and analyze sources, interpret maps and timelines, and write recommendations for what do to in this critical moment. After finding out what actually happened, students learn to think like a historian, conducting a retrospective analysis from a contemporary perspective. Mission topics include Moctezuma, Continental Congress, Impeachment of Andrew Johnson, Immigration and Civil Rights. (Available in Connect)

  • LearnSmart is the premier learning system designed to effectively assess a student's knowledge of course content through a series of adaptive questions, intelligently pinpointing concepts the student does not understand and mapping out a personalized study plan for success. LearnSmart prepares students, allowing instructors to focus valuable class time on higher-level concepts. (Available in Connect)

  • "Recall and Reflect" prompts at the end of the chapter guide students through mastery of the key events and main ideas of each chapter.

  • Thoroughly revised and expanded coverage of the very recent past in Chapters 31 and 32 brings the text up to date on new developments in 21st century America, including George W. Bush's second term, the 2008 election, Hurricane Katrina, weblogs, and the war in Iraq.

  • "Setting the Stage" chapter introductions and preview questions cue student to important themes to pay attention to as they are reading.

  • "Consider the Source" features guide students through careful analysis of historical documents and prompt them to make connections with contemporary events.

  • "Understand, Analyze, and Evaluate" prompts at the end of all feature essays encourage students to think critically about historical information.







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