Create or Customize History Resources

Macmillan Learning gives you the power to create or customize your ideal History course resources. Work with our Custom experts to create unique resources or modify an existing Macmillan Learning resource to fit your student’s needs. If you have questions or are ready to get started, contact us below!

Image to the right: An example of a customized resource for Kilgore College.

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Book cover of Exploring American Histories

How Will You Customize Your Course?

Customize Macmillan Learning Content

Modify existing History resources to better align with your course objectives and students' needs. This option allows you to adapt existing Macmillan Learning content, creating a more focused learning experience in the context of your History course.

Create My Own Content

Embrace the flexibility to create and customize resources based on your own authored content or materials for a truly personalized History course. This option enables you to craft unique course materials tailored to your specific curriculum needs, ensuring a more targeted approach and learning experience in the context of your History course.

Customize Your History Class

Macmillan Learning provides endless customization capabilities for both digital and print resources. Below are a few examples of how you can adapt your history course with us, but our offerings extend beyond what's listed. If you don't find what you're looking for, contact us to learn how we can bring your vision to life.

Create Interactive Activities

Develop engaging lessons and visuals that allow students to explore historical events, people, and places through engaging activities, such as interactive timelines to encourage a deeper understanding of chronological relationships. This is a wonderful tool to help students visually understand how history unfolds.

Modify Achieve Editable E-books

With Achieve Editable E-books, you can author your own content and edit it whenever you need to – even after publishing it to Achieve. Or, modify the e-book to include interactive elements and assessments to emphasize the course content, such as interactive timeline activities or discussion prompts.

Publish Your Textbook

Sometimes off-the-shelf textbooks don’t fit your unique classroom needs. Our custom experts are here to help take your creation and turn it into a professional textbook.

Video and Illustration Creation

Our media team can help create videos or help workshop existing videos that you may already have. Whatever your video needs are, our media team can help create illustrations, video content, or any graphic needs for your History course.

Add Your Own Primary Sources

You can still supplement our carefully curated collection of sources and source activities with your own favorite sources and accompanying questions. There will be no shortage of primary sources to choose from to help your students think like historians.

Create Interactive Activities Modify Achieve Editable E-books Publish Your Textbook Video and Illustration Creation Add Your Own Primary Sources

Build your Textbook or Manuscript

For instructors wanting to create their own customizable textbook or manuscript, our Custom experts are here to help. Building your own textbook allows you to focus on the areas you know are important to your student population and create resources to help them through specific difficulties or strategies unique to their needs. Our collection of existing resources is available for you to modify, or you can use all of your own materials.

Historical Maps and Atlases

Compile a collection of portable, foldable maps and atlases illustrating geographical changes and territorial boundaries throughout history, providing a valuable visual aid for students.

Pocket History Guides

Create compact, subject-specific guides covering key events, figures, and concepts within a particular historical period or theme, designed for students to carry and reference easily.

Combine Print Resources

Combine multiple print chapters from different texts into a single package or volume for the most effective and affordable option for your students.

Build your Textbook or Manuscript Historical Maps and Atlases Pocket History Guides Combine Print Resources

How Fellow Instructors have Customized their History Courses

Creating engaging, interactive teaching materials doesn’t need to be difficult. See how other instructors and institutions have created and customized their unique teaching tools.

Southern University

Southern University customized America's History, Combined Vol, Value Ed, 10e to incorporate original content picked up from previous U.S History custom print book and revised for the current edition.

Similarly, they customized A History of World Societies, Combined Vol, Value Ed, 12e to include original content picked up from previous World History custom print book and revised for the current edition. Both books were delivered as customized PDF eBooks.

University of Iowa

Originally a digital-only product, The University of Iowa customized The American Promise, Combined Vol, 8e to sell as two printed custom volumes and created custom covers for each volume.

Additionally, a custom Achieve course was created using the content from the books, which included customized content like adjusted front matter (title page, c/r, TOC), and combined content from the two volumes, and a single-volume custom cover.

Kilgore College

Kilgore College customized The American Promise, Combined Volume, 8e to include updated and revised original content at the beginning of the custom edition. Two Bedford History Tutorials, Working with Primary Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism and Managing Resources, were added to the front of the custom paperback print textbook, as well as to their customized Launchpad as PDFs.