Who Built America? Open Educational Resource

A free, expanded, and interactive online edition of the popular textbook, Who Built America?

Who Built America? surveys the nation’s past to show the role that working people played in the making of modern America and the transformations wrought by the changing nature and forms of work.

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4th edition
New chapters cover years 2010-2020

Fully customizable
User-generated readers

Free online
Full content available at no cost to readers

Who Built America’s new online version integrates the two-volume textbook with thousands of images and documents plus new teaching-focused resources. Explore more than 2000 historical documents in the History Matters Repository, read Historians Disagree essays written by prominent scholars, watch documentary films, and take A Closer Look at select topics. Use My WBA? to create shareable collections for use as course packets, assignments, or presentations.



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