AP US History

The AP United States History course is designed to be equivalent to a two-semester introductory college course in U.S. history. Students will study the cultural, economic, political, and social developments that have shaped the United States from c. 1491 to the present. You’ll analyze texts, visual sources, and other historical evidence and write essays expressing historical arguments. Emphasis will be placed on reading and evaluating primary and secondary sources, analyzing the claims, evidence, and reasoning you find in sources, putting historical developments in context and making connections between them, and coming up with a claim or thesis and explaining and supporting it in writing.