Revel for Learning U.S. History, Full Year -- Combo Access Card

by Brands, H W

• ISBN13: 9780135192924
• ISBN10: 0135192927
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2018-07-30
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

For U.S. History Survey courses

Thinking and storytelling beyond the textbook
REVEL™ for  Learning U.S. History brings the American past vividly to life via a continuous blend of engaging writing and original video. Integrating activities and assessments directly within the narrative, acclaimed author and educator H. W. Brands enables students to apply concepts and practice historical analysis without ever losing the thread of the story. Delivered via REVEL, Pearson’s all-digital interactive learning environment, Learning U.S. History gets students reading, writing, and thinking like historians.

NOTE: This Revel Combo Access pack includes a Revel access code plus a loose-leaf print reference (delivered by mail) to complement your Revel experience. In addition to this access code, you will need a course invite link, provided by your instructor, to register for and use Revel.

 

Author Biography

Henry William (H. W.) Brands was born in Oregon, went to college in California, sold cutlery across the American West, and earned graduate degrees in mathematics and history in Oregon and Texas. He taught at Vanderbilt University and Texas A&M University before joining the faculty at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is the Dickson Allen Anderson Centennial Professor of History. He writes on American history and politics, with books including The Man Who Saved the Union, Traitor to His Class, Andrew Jackson, The Age of Gold, The First American, and TR. Several of his books have been bestsellers; two, Traitor to His Class and The First American, were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. He lectures frequently on historical and current events, and can be seen and heard on national and international television and radio programs. His writings have been translated into Spanish, French, German, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Ukrainian.

Table of Contents

1. Old Worlds and New, 40,000 BCE to 1400 CE
2. Exploration and Conquest, 1400 to 1600
3. The English Colonial Enterprise, 1600 to 1689
4. The English and the Americans, 1689 to 1763
5. Declaring Independence, 1763 to 1776
6. The Revolutionary War, 1776 to 1783
7. The Constitution, 1783 to 1789
8. Federalists and Republicans, 1789 to 1800
9. Republicans Take Over, 1800 to 1810
10. The Second War of Independence, 1810 to 1820
11. Jacksonian Democracy, 1820 to 1840
12. Manifest Destiny, 1840 to 1850
13. The Sectional Crisis, 1850 to 1860
14. The Civil War, 1861 to 1865
15. Reconstruction, 1865 to 1877
16. The Age of Industry, 1865 to 1890
17. The Politics of Depression, 1890 to 1898
18. America Meets the World, 1890 to 1900
19. Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressives, 1900 to 1908
20. Woodrow Wilson and World War I, 1909 to 1920
21. The Roaring Twenties, 1920 to 1929
22. The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1929 to 1939
23. World War II, 1939 to 1945
24. The Cold War Begins, 1945 to 1954
25. The Civil Rights Revolution, 1954 to 1965
26. The Shadow of Vietnam, 1965 to 1975
27. Reagan and the New Conservatism, 1975 to 1988
28. After the Cold War, 1989 to 2000
29. The New Millennium, 2001 to 2016