Supplements for Instructors

The History Place Website (www.ushistoryplace.com).
Available free to adopters of the text, this new Website combines quality educational publishing with the immediacy and interactivity of the Internet. At The History Place, you'll find a continually updated source of maps, timelines, and other interactive learning activities, as well as a rich collection of primary documents, news, and online quizzes. A free subscription to The History Place is included with every new copy of the student text.

America Past and Present Interactive Edition CD-ROM
An exciting new learning tool that combines the America Past and Present textbook and Study Guide with the latest in multimedia. The Interactive Edition CD-ROM contains the full text and maps from the book, in full color, with contextually placed media icons – audio, video, related Web links, activities, practice tests, and more – that connect students to additional content directly related to key concepts in their text. These multimedia icons and features expand chapter content, involve students in the subject matter, and reinforce the material that they've studied. Because the Divine Interactive Edition allows students to study through a variety of media, it accommodates a wide variety of individual learning styles. Please contact your local Longman sales representative for ordering information.

Instructor's Resource Manual
Prepared by James Walsh of Central Connecticut State University, each chapter of this resource manual contains interpretative essays, anecdotes and references to biographical or primary sources, and a comprehensive summary of the text.

Teaching Assistant's Guide to America Past and Present
Written by Timothy Moy of the University of New Mexico, this comprehensive guide for new instructors includes helpful information ranging from running discussion sections and engaging students to the basic of grading papers. The guide also demonstrates how to incorporate the supplements available with America Past and Present in classroom use.

Test Bank
Prepared by James Olson of Sam Houston State University, this test bank contains over 1,200 multiple-choice, true/false, matching, and completion questions.

Test Gen EQ Computerized Testing System
This flexible, easy-to-master computer test bank includes all the test items in the printed test bank. The software allows you to edit existing questions and add your own items. Tests can be printed in several different formats and can include figures such as graphs and tables. Available for Windows and Macintosh computers.

QuizMaster
The new program enables you to design Test Gen EQ generated tests that your students can take on a computer rather than in printed form. QuizMaster comes packaged along with the Test Gen EQ program.

History in Action: Collaborative Activities
Written by J. Patrick McCarthy Jr. of the University of Georgia, these activities are designed to engage students and get them to think and argue critically about history through collaborative and role-play activities.

A Guide to Teaching American History Through Film
Created by Randy Roberts of Purdue University, this guide provides instructors with a creative and practical tool for stimulating classroom discussion. The film listing is presented in a narrative form, developing the connection between each film and the topics being studied.

Visual Aids

Divine Presentation Maker
Developed by Timothy Hall of Central Michigan University and James Walsh of Central Connecticut University, these Power Point slides provide a presentation for each chapter of America Past and Present with detailed outlines from the text.

Comprehensive American History Transparency Set.
This collection includes over 200 four-color American history map transparencies on subjects ranging from the first Native Americans to the end of the Cold War, covering wars, social trends, elections, immigration and demographics. Also included are a reproducible set of student map exercises, teaching tips, and correlation charts.

Discovering American History Through Maps and Views
Created by Gerald Danzer of the University of Illinois at Chicago, the recipient of the AHA's 1990 James Harvey Robinson Prize for his work in the development of map transparencies, this set of 140 four-color acetates is a unique instructional tool. It contains an introduction to teaching history through maps and a detailed commentary on each transparency. The collection includes cartographic and pictorial maps, views and photos, urban plans, building diagrams, and works of art.

Divine Transparencies
A set of 40 four-color map transparency acetates drawn from the text.

Longman American History Atlas Transparency Set.
These 69 acetates from our four-color historical atlas were especially designed for this volume.

Visual Archives of American History, 2/e
This two-sided laserdisc explores history from the meeting of three cultures to the present and is an encyclopedic chronology of U.S. history, offering hundreds of photographs and illustrations, a variety of source and reference maps—several of which are animated—plus approximately 50 minutes of video clips. For ease in planning lectures, a manual listing barcodes for scanning and frame numbers for all the content is provided.

American Impressions: A CD-ROM for U.S. History
This unique CD-ROM is organized in a topical/thematic framework, which allows an in-depth coverage for each topic with a media-centered focus. Hundreds of photos, maps, pieces of art, graphics, and historical film clips are organized into narrated vignettes and interactive activities to create a tool for both professors and students. Each topic is explored through three major themes: Politics, Culture and Society, and Science and Health. Available for Macintosh and Windows formats.

Video Lecture Launchers
Prepared by Mark Newman of the University of Illinois at Chicago, these video lecture launchers (each 2 to 5 minutes in duration) cover key issues in American history from 1877 to the present. The launchers are accompanied by an Instructor's Manual.

"This Is America" Immigration Video
Produced by the American Museum of Immigration, this video tells the story of American immigrants, relating their personal stories and accomplishments. By showing how the richness of our culture is due to the contributions of millions of immigrant Americans, the video makes the point that America's strength lies in the ethnically and culturally diverse backgrounds of its citizens.


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