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"Who Built
America? combines impeccable scholarship with a beautiful design and
format that is accessible to those new to both computers and American
history. It will redefine the way American history is taught." "Who Built America?
on CD-ROM represents an astounding innovation for history textbooks. The
interactive quizzes, graphics, sound (including original recordings of
songs and speeches), and even early movies makes this already innovative
book into an exciting new teaching tool. If anything can 'bring history
alive' for students, this is it." "The CD-ROM version
of Who Built America? lifts the study of history onto an entirely
new plane. In its capacity to engage students--through images, songs,
and primary sources--its excursions into and behind the textbook are simply
extraordinary. A second Gutenberg revolution is at hand." "The finest piece
of social history ever written, and the finest multimedia tool ever produced.
It never fails to capture the attention and enthusiasm of the most jaded
beach bums cruising through undergraduate requirements here at University
of California, San Diego."
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Both of the Who Built America? CD-ROMs are approved for purchase in the New York State Textbook List (NYSTL). Click here for more information on NYSTL.
ACADEMIC REVIEWS AND COMMENTS "Whenever somebody asks me for an example of multimedia history done right, I send them to the Who Built America? CD-ROMs. The second disk, like the first, contains a treasure trove of audio and visual materials not available in book form or on the Web. Who Built America? is a terrific resource for teachers and students at both the secondary and collegiate levels." Gary J. Kornblith, Professor, Department of History, Oberlin College "Reflecting the latest and best scholarship, and loaded with fascinating multimedia primary sources, Who Built America? From the Great War of 1914 to the Dawn of the Atomic Age in 1946 is a fabulous teaching resource especially for graduate students who are creating their first survey courses. Highly recommended!" John McMillian, Ph.D. candidate, Department of History, Columbia University "I am quite impressed with the CD-ROM Who Built America? From the Great War of 1914 to the Dawn of the Atomic Age in 1946. The rich multimedia resources on African American history--letters and cartoons from The Chicago Defender, clips from blues singers such as Josh White, panels from Jacob Lawrences's Migration Series, clips from The Birth of a Nation and The Negro Soldier, letters to Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt--provide extremely engaging and highly effective entry points for students enrolled in both U.S.History and African American history courses. Putting thousands of primary resources a mere mouse click away, this electronic textbook enables students to join historians in the archives. What a stunning achievement!" Tracey Weis, Professor, Department of History, Millersville State University "For the record, I am bombarded with multimedia US survey packages from the big trade presses and they are almost uniformly awful. Most offer not much more than some digitized versions of the pictures in the print text, and a lot of garbage (quizzes, etc). None even come close--in terms of either content or use of the media--to the WBA CDs. This is amazing, given the resources the big presses have to throw at such projects, and the fact that the first WBA CD is now almost a decade old. This shows, I think, how far ahead of the curve ASHP was (and remains); and it shows how important it is to have real historians (and not just 19 year old interns with some training on FrontPage) involved in the multimedia end. Colin Gordon, Professor, Department of History, University of Iowa |
"The
winner of my 'master the medium' contest goes to Voyager for . . . Who
Built America?, a beautifully presented collection of documents, songs,
oral histories, images and videos. The depth of the material is staggering;
history comes alive."
"Every
student of American history will probably be enthralled."
