Build Historical Thinking Skills That Go Beyond the Classroom
Pair trusted History content with guided learning experiences that help students think critically about the past, connect history to the present and build skills for their future, all with primary sources, multimedia, simulations and real-time insights
Explore the Past. Build Skills for the Future.
MindTap for History builds analysis, critical thinking and historical thinking skills students can use beyond the classroom through primary sources, multimedia and guided learning.
• Why Does This Matter to Me?: Connect history to students’ lives and experiences.
• Unprecedented: Explore how current events are rooted in the past using recent primary sources.
• Doing History: Build transferable skills in evidence evaluation and interpretation.
• Primary Source Analysis: Examine context and perspectives to draw evidence-based conclusions.
• Guided Learning: Engage with key people, events and ideas through trusted content and multimedia.


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FAQs for History courses and MindTap
How does the MindTap for History help students build workforce skills?
MindTap for History helps students build workforce-ready skills by strengthening critical thinking, source analysis, communication and evidence-based reasoning. Through activities that ask students to evaluate perspectives, interpret primary sources and support conclusions with evidence, students practice transferable skills they can apply in their careers and beyond.
How does MindTap prepare my History students for class?
MindTap helps History students prepare for class with engaging readings, primary sources and activities that reinforce key concepts and historical context. Students can check their understanding, analyze evidence and make connections across people, events and ideas so they come to class ready for deeper discussion and critical thinking.
Do you offer MindTap training resources for History?
Find a variety of MindTap training guides, video tutorials, webinars and other helpful resources and tools to make the most of your History courses. Explore our MindTap training resources.
How do I create a MindTap Course?
To create a MindTap course for History, first sign in to your Cengage instructor account. From there, you can create your course by following these steps.



