MindTap History for Kidner/Bucur/Mathisen/McKee/Weeks' The Global West: Connections and Identities is the digital learning solution that powers students from memorization to mastery. It gives you complete control of your course--to provide engaging content, to challenge every individual and to build their confidence. Empower students to accelerate their progress with MindTap. MindTap: Powered by You. MindTap gives you complete ownership of your content and learning experience. Customize the interactive syllabi, emphasize the most important topics and add your own material or notes in the ebook. MindTap for The Global West helps today's students become critical thinkers. Through a carefully designed unit- and chapter-based learning path, MindTap allows students to easily identify chapter-level learning objectives, read short, manageable sections from the ebook, improve their writing skills by completing chapter-level short essay activities and unit-level essay assessments and test their content knowledge with a chapter test. Through dynamic assignments, primary source activities, real-time course analytics and an accessible reader, MindTap encourages student engagement, critical thinking and writing. MindTap also allows you to customize your interactive syllabi and content, providing tools that seamlessly integrate YouTube clips, outside websites and personal content directly into the learning path. Instructors can assign additional primary source content through the Instructor Resource Center and Questia primary and secondary source databases that house thousands of peer-reviewed journals, newspapers, magazines and full-length books.