Discovering Our Past


Book Description

Evaluate students' progress with the printed booklet of Chapter Tests and Lesson Quizzes. Preview online test questions or print for paper and pencil tests. Chapter tests include traditional and document-based question tests.




Discovering Our Past: A History of the United States, Student Edition


Book Description

Discovering Our Past: A History of the United States brings people, events and issues to life, allowing students to make connections between the past and their lives today. The program includes support for building reading and writing skills and an abundance of primary and secondary sources. The print student edition is aligned to the revised NCSS/Thematic Strands and Common Core State standards for Literacy in History/Social Studies. The program focuses on critical concepts through Big Ideals, Essential Questions and Enduring Understandings.




U.S. History


Book Description

U.S. History is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of most introductory courses. The text provides a balanced approach to U.S. history, considering the people, events, and ideas that have shaped the United States from both the top down (politics, economics, diplomacy) and bottom up (eyewitness accounts, lived experience). U.S. History covers key forces that form the American experience, with particular attention to issues of race, class, and gender.







Discovering History in China


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Originally published: New York: Columbia University Press, 1984.




The American Journey


Book Description

Provides information on American history between the founding of the nation and the time of World War 1. Combines motivating stories with research-based instruction that helps students improve their reading and social studies skills as they discover the past. Every lesson of the textbook is keyed to California content standards and analysis skills.




Lies My Teacher Told Me


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Criticizes the way history is presented in current textbooks, and suggests a more accurate approach to teaching American history.




Why Study History?


Book Description

Considering studying history at university? Wondering whether a history degree will get you a good job, and what you might earn? Want to know what it’s actually like to study history at degree level? This book tells you what you need to know. Studying any subject at degree level is an investment in the future that involves significant cost. Now more than ever, students and their parents need to weigh up the potential benefits of university courses. That’s where the Why Study series comes in. This series of books, aimed at students, parents and teachers, explains in practical terms the range and scope of an academic subject at university level and where it can lead in terms of careers or further study. Each book sets out to enthuse the reader about its subject and answer the crucial questions that a college prospectus does not.