“Explore Online Resources for U.S. History” Hosted by Carson Russell and Julie Sindel

Watch Carson Russell, our History Media Editor, and Julie Sindel, our History Specialist, will show how the following resources can be implemented to meet your course goals and create an active learning experience for your students:

1. The new, assignable Norton Illumine Ebook which engages students by chunking the reading
2. InQuizitive, Norton's easy-to-use adaptive learning tool
3. History Skills Tutorials and other resources focused on primary sources
4. How all of these resources integrate with any Learning Management System like Blackboard, Moodle, or Canvas.

“Digital Resources for Born in Blood and Fire” Hosted by Cynthia Anderson

Want to see simple ways you can incorporate digital resources into your course? Watch history specialist Cynthia Anderson explore the new and updated resources for the Fifth Edition of John Chasteen's Born in Blood and Fire. See how you can improve student reading comprehension and map literacy with the NEW Norton Illumine Ebook along with other easy-to-use resources that can be accessed through any Learning Management System.

“Explore Online Resources for World History” Hosted by Carson Russell and Julie Sindel

Watch Carson Russell, our History Media Editor, and Julie Sindel, our History Specialist, walk you through the following resources and show how they can be easily assigned to meet your course goals and create an active learning experience for your students: 1. The new, assignable Norton Illumine Ebook which engages students by chunking the reading 2. InQuizitive, Norton's easy-to-use adaptive learning tool 3. History Skills Tutorials and exercises focused on primary sources and maps 4. How all of these resources integrate with any Learning Management System like Blackboard, Moodle, or Canvas.

"World History on the Edge" Hosted by Jeremy I. Adelman

The Global History Lab and Worlds Together, Worlds Apart do a lot of work with universities at the cross-hairs of political conflict, where teaching inclusive world history is a challenge to nationalist and authoritarian pressures, from Myanmar, Belarus, and Hungary to Afghanistan and the Ukraine. What can we learn from working alongside colleagues and students who work at the edge? And how can we draw some energy and purpose from that sense that history is alive and has a purpose in dark times?

"Environmental History and Global History"

In this webinar, J.R. McNeill, author of The Webs of Humankind, discusses how environmental history fits into the world history perspective offered in the book. It touches on familiar stories, such as the Columbian Exchange and the current bout of climate change, but also the concept of the Anthropocene, the global impacts of early industrialization, and others from the Pleistocene to the present.

"Scaffolding Historical Skills Online"

In this teaching workshop, Julia M. Gossard (Utah State University) explores how to scaffold primary source analyses for general education students to build their historical skills in asynchronous online classrooms. Through the use of reading grids, apply knowledge activities, history skills tutorials, and the new Norton Illumine Ebook interactivity, Dr. Gossard demonstrates how her European History students have successfully built their confidence, skills, and academic performance.

"Introducing the Norton Illumine Ebook"

Have you ever had trouble getting students to read their textbook? Join W. W. Norton and Give Me Liberty! coauthor Kathleen DuVal (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) to learn about the Norton Illumine Ebook. New to the Seventh Edition, the ebook now includes interactive features to guide students through primary documents and images, and low-stakes questions to keep students engaged in and accountable for the reading. Professor DuVal will also share how she uses this ebook and its features with her students, and will be available to answer questions from instructors.

"History Resources Workshop"

Want to see simple ways you can incorporate digital resources into your course? Check out this 30-minute webinar, led by Norton history specialist (and card-carrying historian) Julie Sindel and Sarah England Bartley.

We will show how you can improve student reading comprehension and primary source analysis skills, with the new Norton Illumine Ebook, the InQuizitive adaptive learning tool, and other easy-to-use resources that can be accessed through any Learning Management System, like Blackboard, Moodle, Desire2Learn, and Canvas.

"The Family Roe: An Online Lecture and Q&A with Joshua Prager", January 18, 2023

To support instructors and students online, W. W. Norton offered a special virtual lecture with journalist Joshua Prager, drawing from his decade of research on the people behind the Supreme Court’s most divisive case, Roe v. Wade. Propelled by the crosscurrents of sex and religion, gender and class, these lives tell the story of abortion in America.

"Making Amends: Rewriting the U.S. Constitution" with Jill Lepore, October 19, 2022

The U.S. Constitution was always meant to be amended: fixed, added to, improved. But it has become one of the most difficult constitutions in the world to change. How did that happen? And what are its consequences? In an interactive workshop, historian Jill Lepore will present early findings of her new research project on the history of efforts to rewrite the Constitution. Related to These Truths.

"Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands" with Kelly Lytle Hernández, March 23, 2022

Kelly Lytle Hernández's book, Bad Mexicans, reframes our understanding of U.S. history in this groundbreaking narrative of revolution in the borderlands. In this 30-minute lecture, Hernández explores the dramatic story of the magonistas, the migrant rebels who sparked the 1910 Mexican Revolution from the United States. Related to Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands.

"The Shattering: America in the 1960s" with Kevin Boyle, March 1, 2022

Kevin Boyle's book The Shattering is a masterful history of the decade whose conflicts shattered America’s postwar order and divide us still. In this 30-minute lecture, Boyle uses the stories of four ordinary Americans to explore the extraordinary upheavals of the 1960s: a history of deep division and sweeping change, told on an intimate scale. Related to The Shattering: America in the 1960s.

"Intimate History, Radical Experiments" with Saidiya Hartman (Columbia University), February 11, 2021

A blend of reading, analysis and method, this lecture addresses the variety of forms that history might assume, especially when we take into account minor lives and subjugated knowledge. Related to Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals.

“'The Webs of Humankind': A Signature Idea in World History" with J. R. McNeill (Georgetown University), October 2, 2020

Learn about a concept that unlocks an intuitive, cohesive view of world history: webs of connection along which trade, religious beliefs, technologies, pathogens, and much else traveled. Related to The Webs of Humankind: A World History.

"Free Thinker: Sex, Suffrage, and the Extraordinary Life of Helen Hamilton Gardener" with Kimberly Hamlin (Miami University of Ohio), August 25, 2020

The story of Helen Hamilton Gardener, who died as the highest-ranking woman in federal government and a national symbol of female citizenship, casts suffrage history in a fresh light. Related to Free Thinker: Sex, Suffrage, and the Extraordinary Life of Helen Hamilton Gardener.

"Pandemics and Civilization" with Mark Honigsbaum (City University of London), May 27, 2020

From the 6th century Plague of Justinian that hastened the fall of the Byzantine Empire to the reforms to the English feudal system that followed the 14th century Black Death, pandemics have long been regarded as agents of historical change and key factors in the rise and fall of civilizations. Related to The Pandemic Century: One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria, and Hubris.

"Life After the Black Death" with Carol Symes (University of Illinois, Urbana–Champaign), May 5, 2020

A follow-up to the previous lecture, Dr. Symes discusses the far-ranging consequences of the Black Death, the medieval plague that struck during the 14th century. Related to Western Civilizations.

"The Black Death—What We Know Now" with Carol Symes (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), April 22, 2020

Cutting-edge research has transformed our understanding of the causes and extent of the Black Death, the medieval plague that struck during the 14th century and is estimated to have killed 40–60% of the populations of Europe, Asia, and Africa. Related to Related to Western Civilizations.

"The Second Founding" with Eric Foner (Columbia University), April 8, 2020

The Reconstruction amendments abolished slavery, guaranteed all persons due process and equal protection of the law, and equipped black men with the right to vote. In grafting the principle of equality onto the Constitution, these revolutionary changes marked the second founding of the United States. Related to The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution.

"Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement" with Kate Masur, April 28, 2021

W. W. Norton is offering a special virtual lecture with scholar and author Kate Masur, who will discuss how Black and white Americans mobilized to fight for racial equality in civil rights, from the era of the American Revolution through the Civil War. Related to Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction.

"Riot or Rebellion?: The Meaning of Violent Protest from the 1960s to George Floyd" with Elizabeth Hinton, May 17, 2021

Challenging the optimistic story of the post-Jim Crow United States, Hinton's discussion will present a new framework for understanding our nation's enduring racial strife.. Related to America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s.

"Seed Money: Monsanto’s Past and Our Food Future" with Bartow J. Elmore, October 13, 2021

Elmore's new book, Seed Money, is an authoritative history of Monsanto, a St. Louis chemical firm that became the world’s largest maker of genetically engineered seeds. When researchers found trace amounts of the firm’s blockbuster herbicide in breakfast cereal bowls, Monsanto faced public outcry. But what’s the real story behind Roundup? Related to Seed Money: Monsanto's Past and Our Food Future.

"Of Fear and Strangers" with George Makari, February 15, 2022

In this 30-minute lecture, Makari will discuss how xenophobia emerged alongside Western nationalism, colonialism, mass migration, and genocide. Stranger-hatred may indeed be ancient, but the moral and political notion of this dangerous bias emerged not long ago. Related to Of Fear and Strangers: A History of Xenophobia.