Member Spotlight: The Bill of Rights Institute

Member Spotlight: The Bill of Rights Institute

Posted on May. 29, 2020

 

The Bill of Rights Institute has partnered with Rice University’s OpenStax to release Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, a comprehensive digital resource in U.S. History. The first entirely free U.S. History resource that aligns with the College Board’s Advanced Placement U.S. History standards, the resource can be used in AP and non-AP classrooms. Among its nearly 100 distinguished authors are two Pulitzer Prize winners, and historians from Oxford, Cambridge, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, West Point, the University of Texas (Austin and San Antonio campuses), the University of Houston, Sam Houston State University, Angelo State University, and Baylor University. With inquiry and viewpoint diversity at its heart, the resource includes 466 components, including primary source documents, narratives, lessons, decision points, and point-counterpoints. Educators can sign up to use the resource within the personalized Tutor learning management system at Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: A History of the American Experiment, and non-educators can access the content here.