Issues and Controversies in American History - About This Database

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Place Students and Researchers at the Center of the Great Debates in American History

With Issues and Controversies in American History, history comes to life not as a mere recitation of names and dates, but as a series of turning points where the future hung in the balance and opinions raged on all sides. This recently redesigned database builds a deeper understanding of how historical events have shaped our nation by exploring the key players and the battles they fought. Each in-depth exploration delivers dynamic, concise, and balanced reporting that provides the background, outcomes, and contemporary points of view for the major topics in every American history curriculum. The inviting new interface makes searching and browsing even more efficient, with new features such as tabbed search results.

Features

• Issues in American History, updated biweekly with extensive links to overviews and background articles, touching on crucial topics from Colonial America to the present
• Arguments for and against, giving a framework for understanding and analysis of each issue—as it was seen in its time and as it relates to our own
• Primary source documents, encyclopedia articles, and biographies, instantly accessible from in-depth articles
• Special historical features, including presidential election coverage, timelines, photographs, statistical charts, explanatory diagrams, maps, and cartoons
• Bibliographies and Web sites, guiding further research
• Discussion Questions and Activities, promoting critical-thinking skills and enhancing understanding of the issues
• Redesigned Curriculum Tools area, featuring assignment and activity suggestions for educators, and a special section on working with primary source documents
• New persistent record links and more prominent citations.