THE ORIGINAL WBA? CD-ROM !

WHO BUILT AMERICA? PART I
FROM THE CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION OF 1876 TO
THE GREAT WAR OF 1914

American Social History Project

•THIS CD-ROM IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE•

"Once in a while . . . a truly exciting, high-quality electronic book turns up to reveal the real potential of electronic learning. My latest nomination to this CD-ROM Hall of Fame is . . . Who Built America?"
—Walter S. Mossberg, The Wall Street Journal

A definitive social history of the United States, Who Built America? offers a whole new way to experience history. Readers reach through the text to thousands of original source documents--audio, video, and text. Imagine not just reading about the invention of cinema, the aftermath of slavery, or the birth of the women's movement, but seeing The Great Train Robbery in its entirety, hearing a young boy's searing account of a lynching in rural Florida in 1902, or watching suffragists march up Fifth Avenue. Coupling superb scholarship with the opportunity to move behind the printed page, the impact and immediacy of Who Built America? transform the study of history.

Features:
* The critically acclaimed text augmented by hundreds of primary source materials
* Forty-five minutes of archival film footage
* Hundreds of exquisitely reproduced images and rare documentary photographs
* Dozens of recordings from the period
* Games, quizzes, and the world's first crossword puzzle
* Extensive research tools--customized search, index, and notebook capabilities

"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."
—Jean-Christophe Agnew, Professor of American Studies and History, Yale University

"Who Built America? on CD-ROM represents an astounding innovation for history textbooks. The interactive quizzes, graphics, sound (including original rrecordings 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."
—Sara Evans, Professor of History and Chair of the History Department, University of Minnesota

"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."
—Gary Nash, Professor of History, University of California, Los Angeles

"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."
—Robin Raskin, Executive Editor, PC Magazine


Winner of the 1994 American Historical Association
James Harvey Robinson Prize


NOW AVAILABLE!
WHO BUILT AMERICA?
FROM THE GREAT WAR OF 1914 TO THE DAWN OF THE ATOMIC AGE IN 1946