Exploring American Histories, Volume 2: A Brief Survey with Sources

by Nancy A. Hewitt, Steven F. Lawson

Exploring American Histories offers an entirely new approach to teaching the U.S. survey that puts investigating sources and thinking about the many stories of American history right at the center of your course. The distinctive format integrates primary documents and a brief narrative into one cost-effective and easy-to-use volume. Exploring American Histories features Bedford/St. Martin’s new digital history tools, including LearningCurve, an adaptive quizzing engine that garners over a 90% student satisfaction rate, and LaunchPad, the all new interactive e-book and course space that puts high quality easy-to-use assessment at your figertips. Easy to integrate into your campus LMS, and featuring video, additional primary sources, a wealth of adaptive and summative quizzing, and more, LaunchPad cements student understanding of the text while helping them make progress toward learning outcomes.  It’s the best content joined up with the best technology. Available in combined and split volumes and in a number of affordable print and digital formats.

576 pages, Paperback

First published November 9, 2012

Reviews

[James S · Rating 1 out of 5]

Reading this was like looking through a grimy window; you could see the author's opinions much more clearly than the history they were trying to cover. You are entitled to your opinions, but a history book is not an opinion piece. Feel free to write whatever opinions you want in a historical commentary, but it's a conflict of interest to mix the presentation of facts and opinions.

The anti-Christian sentiments in the writing seem to be predicated on a strawman of Christianity's beliefs. In other words, this text suffers from both bias and ignorance, which are two unacceptable qualities for this type of literature.