Who Built America? From the Centennial Celebration of 1876 to the Great War of 1914

Description

Based on a definitive two-volume history of the United States, Who Built America? offers a whole new way to encounter history. Readers can discover how the text was woven from the threads of actual events by accessing some of the thousands of original source documents: audio, video, and text. Imagine not just reading about the invention of cinema but seeing The Great Train Robbery in its entirety, hearing a young boy's searing account of a lynching in rural Florida in 1902, or watching suffragists march up Fifth Avenue. Coupling superb scholarship with the opportunity to move behind the printed page, Who Built America? delivers an impact and immediacy which transforms the study of history.

Platforms

Windows

Product Features

• American Social History Project
• Watch early movies that made history
• Thousands of historical documents, including pictures, photographs,letters, archival audio and films
• 70 graphs and charts; games, quizzes, and the world's first crossword puzzle
• Extensive Expanded Book research tools, including customized search, index, notebook capabilities and Superfind for search by subject and document type