Supporting students and instructors by bringing learning to light

The new Norton Illumine Ebook supports course goals in any teaching and learning environment through high-quality content. This content shines brighter through engaging and motivational features that illuminate core concepts for students in a supportive, low-stakes environment. A reading experience that now promotes student accountability and improves preparation is easy to assign through LMS integration.

Author Videos

Embedded videos with authors Foner, DuVal, and McGirr give students a closer look at each chapter’s essential developments, difficult concepts, and primary source documents. All videos are available with transcripts and closed captioning.

NEW author videos, including with DuVal and McGirr, provide further insight into some of the most important Native American history topics found in the Seventh Edition.
Videos embedded in the “Who is an American” primary document feature, with excerpts that highlight themes of inclusion and exclusion in U.S. history.

Interactive Voices of Freedom features

The popular Voices of Freedom primary source document feature in each chapter is now an interactive with questions and feedback. These interactives prompt students to think critically about each primary source, while rich answer-specific feedback supports students’ learning regardless of their answer.

NEW embedded audio clips provide students a reading of each “Voices” document excerpt, and pop-up annotations throughout each source help students better understand the trickier elements of the documents.

Interactive Visions of Freedom features

This interactive feature, exclusive to the Norton Illumine Ebook, guides students through a step-by-step visual analysis of one of the chapter’s most important primary source images.

Going beyond the static experience in the print book, where the images have captions, the Visions of Freedom interactives guide students through the important details in the image and invite them to practice visual analysis.

Check Your Understanding questions

Low-stakes, end-of-section Check Your Understanding questions motivate students and build confidence in their learning, offering rich feedback explaining why answers are correct or incorrect.

Students’ progress is tracked as they work toward completion through easy-to-use assignment tools and LMS integration.