Give Me Liberty! is beloved by students and instructors alike because it pulls the puzzle pieces of the past into a coherent picture. Learning not only the “what” but also the “why” helps students take away key information and develop historical and critical thinking skills for the course and their lives beyond it.

The authors have added timely new scholarship on women’s history to the Eighth Edition, with an emphasis on how this coverage refines our understanding of freedom—the book’s guiding theme.

Students benefit from an interactive ebook reading experience with new tools that bring primary source documents, visuals, and maps to life. And instructors can choose from flexible new options that allow them to easily tailor our teaching and learning resources to their goals.

The Brief Edition features all the pedagogical features and sources with a 30% shorter narrative and fewer images.

Highlights of the Eighth Edition’s new content:

• New coverage of women’s history throughout the narrative and primary source document features as well as in new author videos helps students see themselves in the stories of America’s history and brings new relevance to the central theme of American freedom.
• New “A Closer Look” features in the Norton Illumine Ebook bring history to life, with interactive map activities and video tours of key images in each chapter. These supplement the existing interactive “Voices of Freedom” paired primary source document features and “Visions of Freedom” visual source features in each chapter.
• New audio recordings of the “Who Is an American?” primary source document features are now available in the Norton Illumine Ebook. Now, every primary source document in the ebook includes an author-recorded audio reading.
• New assignable “Making the Most of Your Textbook” activity in the Norton Illumine Ebook helps set students up for success from the very beginning.
• Revised and expanded Primary and Secondary Source Collection provides hundreds of extra primary sources, now available in the Norton Ebook Reader with new secondary source excerpts.
• Updated Eighth Edition of Voices of Freedom companion primary source reader, with a new LMS-friendly Give Me Liberty! PLUS digital bundle option to make it easier than ever for instructors to assign the #1 bestselling reader in its most accessible and user-friendly environment. Learn more at digital.wwnorton.com/givemelibertyplus.
• Brief new primer on teaching U.S. history in the age of generative AI, found in the Instructor’s Manual.