Features
MindTap® for THE ENDURING VISION: A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, 10th EDITION, is a personalized, online learning platform that provides students with an immersive learning experience to build and foster critical thinking skills. The new edition has been redeveloped in a completely "reimagined" format featuring dual pane learning that enables students to read and practice at the same time. Through a carefully designed chapter-based learning path (easily customizable by instructors), MindTap® allows students to identify learning objectives; draw connections and improve writing skills by essay assignments; read short, manageable sections from the eBook; and test their content knowledge with map- and timeline-based critical thinking questions.
"Going to the Source" is a one-page excerpt of a primary source, highlighting issues related to the environment and the land. These features appear throughout each chapter with analysis questions to engage students in thinking critically about the excerpt's content. A rich selection of primary documents from speeches, diaries and other writings are included.
"Beyond America -- Global Interactions" chapter reflection activities, available in MindTap®, explore the worldwide context of key developments in American history, including the Panic of 1837, slavery as a global institution, decolonization and the Cold War, and the Black Freedom Movement.
"Technology and Culture" chapter reflection activities, available in MindTap®, demonstrate the importance of these two forces in American history. Topics include public sanitation in Philadelphia, guns and gun culture, flush toilets and the interstate highway system.
A supportive in-text pedagogical program is designed to help students grasp each chapter's structure and purpose. Introductions prepare students for broad developments, themes and historical problems; outlines provide a wireframe of key topics; focus questions help students read actively rather than passively; chronologies provide an overview of key events; and the chapter review, The Whole Vision, sums up the core themes and answers the focus questions, providing students with an opportunity to solidify their understanding of what they've read.
The general organization of the text is chronological, with individual chapters conforming to important historical periods. In keeping with the emphasis on social and cultural history, some chapters take a more thematic approach, overlapping chronologically with those that precede and follow them, thus introducing students to a more sophisticated understanding of the different levels -- political, cultural, economic, social -- of historical periodization.
Within each chapter, features are offered to help students grasp its structure and purpose. A brief chapter introduction, usually including an illustrative biographical vignette, prepares students for the broader developments, themes and historical problems that are addressed in that chapter. A chapter outline lists both the major headings and the subheads of the chapter, while also providing focus questions for each section -- questions designed to help students read the chapter actively rather than passively. Those questions also appear under the major headings within the body of each chapter. Chronologies appear near the beginning of each chapter to provide an overview of key events. The chapter conclusion, The Whole Vision, addresses and answers the focus questions, providing students with an opportunity to review what they’ve read.
As a further pedagogical aid, each chapter includes key terms and definitions that appear in marginal boxes near where the boldfaced term first appears in the chapter. All terms are also grouped at the end of the chapter for quick and easy review. In addition, an annotated, up-to-date list of core readings, available on the website, offers guidance for those wishing to explore a particular topic in depth.