Publisher's Synopsis
The way we once learned history is now history.
Developed for students and instructors of thetwenty-first century, Becoming America exciteslearners by connecting history to their experienceof contemporary life. You can't travel back intime, but you can be transported, and BecomingAmerica does so by expanding the traditional coreof the U.S survey to include the most contemporaryscholarship on cultural, technological, andenvironmental transformations. At the sametime, the program transforms the student learningexperience through innovative technology that is atthe forefront of the digital revolution. As a result, the Becoming America program makes it easierfor students to grasp both the distinctiveness and the familiarity of bygone eras, and to think in ahistorically focused way about the urgent questions of our times.
