Give Me Liberty!

Flexible student and instructor resources

The following digital resources are included with all new copies of the text or can be purchased stand-alone. Accessibility is at the core of all the products we create, with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), the most widely accepted voluntary international standard for accessibility, ensuring that all students will succeed in your course.

InQuizitive

Through a variety of question types featuring primary source documents, images, maps and videos, answers pecific feedback, and game-like elements such as the ability to wager points, students are motivated to keep working until they’ve mastered the concepts. Students can access their ebook from InQuizitive if they need help.

20% of the questions for the Sixth Edition are new and revised
New Map Exercises for each chapter feature ten questions built around the key maps
InQuizitive can help increase history students’ quiz scores by 16 percentage points.^*

History Skills Tutorials

The History Skills Tutorials are four interactive, online modules that provide a framework for analyzing primary and secondary source documents, images, and maps that can be found in the text.

Author videos guide students through analysis and interpretation
interactive assessments provide students the opportunity to practice and apply what they have learned
A new “Analyzing Secondary Sources” module offers students a framework for assessing historical interpretations

Ebooks

With Norton Ebooks, students are able to have an active reading experience and can take notes, bookmark, search, highlight, and even read offline. As an instructor, you can even add your own notes for students to see as they read the text. Norton Ebooks can be viewed on—and synced among—all computers and mobile devices.

Embedded Author Videos featuring Eric Foner explaining essential developments and difficult concepts, including sixteen new “Who is an American?” videos
Enlargeable Images and Maps
Pop-up Key Terms definitions within the narrative

What Instructors and Students are Saying

“Easier for students to keep focused and apply what is learned.”

— John P. Williams, Collin College

“It is highly relevant in our nation today.”

— Sara Davis, Edmonds Community College

"It's a great organizing theme and allows for focus on minorities and the disenfranchised through history."

— Sara Davis, Edmonds Community College

Learn how our tools can be used before, during, and after your online or in-person class

1. Course Design

For Students

Accessibility is central to Norton’s products. To meet the greatest range of requirements, we follow the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) and strive for WCAG 2.1 AA across all products.

For Instructors

On-demand support from a dedicated customer success manager who will consult on course design integrate our tools into your LMS, and provide ongoing support. In a recent survey, 91 percent of instructors felt supported or very supported using Norton learning tools.

2. Before Class

For Students

Read the interactive ebook. The ebook features embedded Author Videos featuring Eric Foner, pop-up Key Terms definitions within the narrative, and enlargeable Images and Maps.

Designed by a cognitive psychologist, InQuizitive adaptive learning activities promote a growth mindset and build understanding through retrieval practice and concept application.

For Instructors

Instructors tell us that assigning InQuizitive for 10–15 percent of the course points ensures students complete the reading and understand important concepts. Integration ensures that grades flow into your LMS gradebook.

Activities, interactives, and videos in our Norton Teaching Tools refresh your syllabus, engage students, and illuminate challenging concepts.

3. During Online, Hybrid, or In-person Class

For Students

History Skills Tutorials are interactive modules, with guiding author videos, that engage students in analyzing and interpreting documents, images, and maps. The Sixth Edition features a new module on secondary sources.

For Instructors

Interactive Lecture PowerPoints include activities to engage students in-person or online.

Primary-Source Exercises for each chapter focusing on primary sources for analysis with accompanying quizzes consisting of multiple choice questions and short-response questions.

4. After Class

For Students

Author Videos featuring Eric Foner explaining essential developments and difficult concepts, including sixteen new “Who is an American?” videos that give students a detailed depiction of the characters who populate this new book feature, the contexts in which they lived, and their relevance to the question.

For Instructors

Norton Testmaker offers high quality assessment to build tests easily, with questions tagged to Bloom’s and APA guidelines. Norton Testmaker makes it easy to customize tests online and deliver them through your LMS or on paper. The Test Bank features 30% new or revised questions among more than 4,000 questions.