Summary
Connect students to the stories of history. Connect students to the experience of history. Connect students to success in history.
At McGraw-Hill, we have spent the past few years deepening our understanding of the student and instructor experience. Employing a wide array of research tools including surveys, focus groups, and ethnographic studies, we've identified areas in need of improvement to provide an opportunity for greater learning and teaching experiences. Experience History is a direct result of this.
Experience History is also a first in American History. Its groundbreaking adaptive diagnostic and interactive exercises paired with its lively narrative and engaging visuals create a unique teaching and learning environment propelling greater student success and better course results. Instructors gain better insight into students' engagement and understanding as students develop a base of knowledge and construct critical thinking skills. Gripping stories keep students turning the page while the adaptive diagnostics for each chapter and a personalized study plan for each individual student help students prepare for class discussions and course work while enjoying increased course success.
Experience History emphasizes that history is not just a collection of proven facts, but is "created" from the detective work of historians examining evidence from the past. Providing the interactive environment that only an integrated solution can provide, Experience History gives students the opportunity to examine primary sources and explore specific periods and events. This leads to greater understanding as well as the building and practicing of critical thinking skills. As students uniquely experience American History, Experience History propels students to greater understanding while achieving greater course success.
Give students an experience. Improve course participation and performance. Experience History and experience success.
Table of Contents
Chapter 17. Reconstructing the Union, 1865-1877 An American Story: The Secret Sale at Davis Bend Presidential Reconstruction Lincoln's 10 Percent Plan The Mood of the South Johnson's Program of Reconstruction The Failure of Johnson's Program Johnson's Break with Congress The Fourteenth Amendment Dueling Documents: Equality and the Vote in Reconstruction The Elections of 1866 Congressional Reconstruction Post-Emancipation Societies in the Americas The Land Issue Impeachment Reconstruction in the South Black Office Holding White Republicans in the South The New State Governments Economic Issues and Corruption Black Aspirations Experiencing Freedom The Black Family The Schoolhouse and the Church New Working Conditions The Freedmen's Bureau Daily Lives: The Black Sharecropper's Cabin Planters and a New Way of Life The Abandonment of Reconstruction The Election of Grant The Grant Administration Growing Northern Disillusionment The Triumph of White Supremacy The Disputed Election of 1876 Historian's Toolbox: Dressed to Kill The Failure of Reconstruction REVIEW CHART: MAJOR PLAYERS IN RECONSTRUCTION CONCLUSION: THE WORLD AT LARGE SIGNIFICANT EVENTS TIMELINE CHAPTER SUMMARY ADDITIONAL READING Chapter 18. The New South & the Trans-Mississippi West, 1870-1914 An American Story: "Come West" The Southern Burden Agriculture in the New South Tenancy and Sharecropping Southern Industry Timber and Steel The Sources of Southern Poverty Life in the New South Rural Life The Church Segregation Western Frontiers Western Landscapes Indian Peoples and the Western Environment Whites and the Western Environment: Competing Visions The War for the West Contact and Conflict Custer's "Last Stand"--And the Indians' Killing with Kindness Historian's Toolbox: A White Man's View of Custer's Defeat Borderlands Dueling Documents: "Americanizing" the Indians Ethno-Racial Identity in the New WestBoom and Bust in the West Mining Sets a PatternThe Transcontinental RailroadCattle Kingdom Home on the Range A Boom and Bust Cycle The Final Frontier A Rush for Land Farming on the Plains A Plains Existence Daily Lives: The Frontier Kitchen of the Plains The Urban Frontier The West and the World Economy Packaging and Exporting the "Wild West" The South and the West in Sum REVIEW CHART: THE WAR FOR THE WEST CONCLUSION: THE WORLD AT LARGE SIGNIFICANT EVENTS TIMELINE CHAPTER SUMMARY ADDITIONAL READING After the Fact: Historians Reconstruct the Past: Where Have All the Bison Gone?Chapter 19. The New Industrial Order, 1870-1914 An American Story: "Waiting for their Brains"The Development of Industrial SystemsNatural Resources and Industrial Technology Systematic Invention Transportation and Communication Finance Capital The Corporation Daily Lives: The Rise of Information Systems An International Pool of Labor Railroads: America's First Big Business A Managerial Revolution Competition and Consolidation The Challenge of Finance The Growth of Big Business Strategies of Growth Carnegie Integrates Steel Rockefeller and the Great Standard Oil Trust The Mergers of J. Pierpont Morgan Corporate Defenders Corporate Critics Short and Long Term Costs of Doing Business The Workers' World Industrial Work Children, Women, and African AmericansHistorian's Toolbox: Digital Detecting The American Dream of Success The Systems of LaborEarly Unions The Knights of LaborThe American Federation of Labor The Limits of Industrial SystemsDueling Documents: Two Sides of Haymarket Management Strikes REVIEW CHART: THE STRUCTURES AND STRATEGIES OF BIG BUSINESS CONCLUSION: THE WORLD AT LARGE SIGNIFICANT EVENTS TIMELINE CHAPTER SUMMARY ADDITIONAL READING Chapter 20. The Rise of an Urban Order, 1870-1914 An American Story: A Day in the Life of Boss Plunkitt A New Urban Age The Urban Explosion The Great Global Migration Holding the City Together Bridges and Skyscrapers The Urban Environment: Slum and Tenement Running and Reforming the City Historian's Toolbox: Machine Age Voting Boss RuleRewards, Costs, and Accomplishments Nativism, Revivals, and the Social Gospel The Social Settlement Movement City Life The Immigrants in the City Urban Middle-Class Life Victorianism and the Pursuit of VirtueDueling Documents: City Scenes City Life and "Manliness" Challenges to Convention City Culture Public Education in an Urban Industrial World Higher Learning and the Rise of the Professional Higher Education for Women A Culture of Consumption Leisure City Entertainment at Home and on the Road Daily Lives: The Vaudeville Show REVIEW CHART: THE GROWTH OF CITIES CONCLUSION: THE WORLD AT LARGE SIGNIFICANT EVENTS TIMELINE CHAPTER SUMMARY ADDITIONAL READING Chapter 21. The Political System under Strain at Home and Abroad, 1877-1900 An American Story: "The World United at Chicago" Politics of Paralysis Political Stalemate The Parties The Issues The White House from Hayes to Harrison Ferment in the States and CitiesThe Revolt of the Farmers The Harvest of Discontent The Origins of the Farmers' Alliance Alliance PeaksThe Election of 1892 Dueling Documents: What Can a Farmer Do? The New Realignment The Depression of 1893 The Rumblings of Unrest The Battle of the Standards Historian's Toolbox: Pinning the Winning TicketThe Rise of Jim Crow Politics The African-American ResponseMcKinley in the White House Visions of Empire Imperialism, European-Style and American The Shapers of American Imperialism Dreams of a Commercial Empire The Imperial Moment Mounting Tensions The Imperial War Daily Lives: The New Navy War in Cuba Peace and the Debate over Empire From Colonial War to Colonial Rule An Open Door in China REVIEW CHART: ACQUIRING AN EMPIRE: 1860-1900 CONCLUSION: THE WORLD AT LARGE SIGNIFICANT EVENTS TIMELINE CHAPTER SUMMARY ADDITIONAL READING After the Fact: Historians Reconstruct the Past: Engendering the Spanish-American War Chapter 22. The Progressive Era, 1890-1920 An American Story: Burned Alive in the City The Roots of Progressive Reform The Progressive System of Beliefs The Pragmatic Approach The Progressive Method The Search for the Good Society Poverty in a New LightExpanding the Women's Sphere Social Welfare Women's Suffrage Controlling the Masses Stemming the Immigrant Tide The Curse of Demon Rum Daily Lives: "Amusing the Million" Prostitution "For Whites Only" Historian's Toolbox: Mementos of Murder The Politics of Municipal and State Reform The Reformation of the Cities Progressivism in the States Progressivism Goes to Washington TRA Square Deal Bad Food and Pristine Wilds The Troubled TaftDueling Documents: Preservation versus Conservation The Election of 1912 Woodrow Wilson and the Politics of Morality Early Career The Reforms of the New Freedom Labor and Social Reform REVIEW CHART: THE PROGRESSIVE AMENDMENTS CONCLUSION: THE WORLD AT LARGE SIGNIFICANT EVENTS TIMELINE CHAPTER SUMMARY ADDITIONAL READING Chapter 23. The United States and the Collapse of the Old World Order, 1901-1920 An American Story: "A Path between the Seas"Progressive Diplomacy Big Stick in the Caribbean A "Diplomatist of the Highest Rank" Dollar Diplomacy Woodrow Wilson and Moral Diplomacy Missionary Diplomacy Intervention in Mexico The Road to War The Guns of August Neutral but Not Impartial The Diplomacy of Neutrality
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