New to the 8th edition of Experience History
Chapter 1
 Chapter has been revised to adopt the most recent dating of key trends, such
as the rise of agriculture; and naming conventions, such as the Ancestral
Pueblo (rather than the Anasazi).
 “After the Fact” on the first Americans has been revised extensively to take
advantage of research advances of the past five years, which support an
earlier arrival of the first Americans than thought from the dating of Clovis
artifacts. Linguistic and genetic analysis play a role in the new discoveries,
some as recently published as the summer of 2012.
Chapter 2
 Chapter-opening vignette has been condensed
 Bibliography updated
Chapter 3
 Chapter-opening vignette has been condensed
 Bibliography updated
Chapter 4
 No significant changes
Chapter 5
 Introduction tightened and reworked to make the relation to the chapter
themes clearer in the conclusion
Chapter 6
 New chapter-opening illustration
 New chapter-opening vignette about George Washington at Jumonville Glen
 Material on Braddock’s defeat has been inserted in the body of the narrative
(formerly located in the chapter-opening vignette)
 New “Historian’s Toolbox” features Lord Chatham in America
Chapter 7
 Bibliography updated
Chapter 8
 Select illustration changes
Chapter 9
 Revised chapter-opening illustration, with image enlarged to show that the
“Indian” marchers lead the parade
 Chapter-opening vignette has been condensed
Chapter 10
 Select illustration changes
Chapter 11
 Select illustration changes
Chapter 12
 Chapter-opening vignette has been condensed
 New “After the Fact” (for Create custom editions) on the use of religious
ideology and rhetoric as justification for slavery
Chapter 13
 Chapter-opening vignette has been condensed
 New “After the Fact” (for Create custom editions) on the mythologized death
of Davy Crockett
Chapter 14
 New chapter-opening illustration by Karl Bodmer
 Chapter-opening vignette has been condensed
 New section on the attempts, aided by state and federal officials, to
exterminate California’s Indian population
Chapter 15
 New chapter-opening illustration
 Bibliography updated
Chapter 16
 New chapter-opening illustration
 New section on death and the Civil War
 Added to material on Civil War diplomacy
 Added a major section on the Battle of Gettysburg
 Bibliography updated
Chapter 17
 New chapter-opening illustration
 Bibliography updated
Chapter 18
 New material on the growth of segregation
 New material on costs of Jim Crow
 New material on Navajo “Long Walk”
 New critique of Transcontinental Railroad, based on new scholarship
Chapter 19
 Chapter-opening vignette has been condensed
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New material on Horatio Alger and the American Dream of Success
New “After the Fact” (for Create custom editions) on the Haymarket riot of
1886 and the battle over digitization of history
Chapter 20
 New chapter-opening vignette
 New illustrations in the “Dueling Documents” box contrast scenes of city life
in the early twentieth century.
Chapter 21
 New “Daily Lives” material on of Sailors Aboard Ship
Chapter 22
 New material on the Springfield race riot (1908) and the founding of the
NAACP
 New material on Western Progressivism
Chapter 23
 No significant changes
Chapter 24
 New discussion of “Better Baby” contests in “Daily Lives”
 New discussion of the emergence of the “Companionate Marriage” in the
1920s
Chapter 25
 No significant changes
Chapter 26
 New “Historian’s Toolbox” with “Nose Art” on World War II airplanes and the
implications for gender relations
 New “Dueling Documents” feature in which Japanese internment documents
are used to compare the analysis of General J. L. DeWitt on the threat of
Japanese espionage in California and an oral interview with a young Japanese
American in an internment camp
Chapter 27
 New Pungent Truman quotation on railroad strikers
Chapter 28
 New section on advertising and the “Cola Wars” of the 1950s.
Chapter 29
 No significant changes
Chapter 30
 New “Dueling Documents” feature in which Gloria Steinem and Phyllis
Schlafly offer contrasting views on women’s rights.
 New material on unions and labor
 Section on Gerald Ford and the Middle East has been moved to Chapter 31.
 New “After the Fact” (for Create custom editions) on the Greensboro, North
Carolina sit-ins and the historians’ question of continuity versus
discontinuity.
Chapter 31
 New cultural analysis of the movie “Saturday Night Fever”
 New material discussing Ronald Reagan’s critique of Kissinger and Ford on
the policy of détente
Chapter 32
 New “Daily Lives” box on social networks and sociability
 New material brings the narrative through the election of 2012. Topics
discussed include: Affordable Care Act, Occupy and Tea Party Movements,
Hurricanes Irene and Sandy, Obama administration foreign policy, in
particular the killing of Osama Bin Laden and the Arab Spring.