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to the AP/Honors US History Page! Not only are the study references from your textbook (The Americans - Honors; The American Pageant - AP US) linked on this page, but many more resources to make your History experience a lot more fun (and a lot less painful!) than if I just threw a book at you on the first day of class. Use these resources as much as you can. Don't wait for me to tell you "take a look at this website." Take a look at them now - you'll be surprised at how much easier they will make your study, research, and testing.

 

 

Syllabi:

Honors US History

AP US History

Best sites for you!

Honors US History text (The Americans). Lots of cool activities to help you study. Chapters are different than Pageant, but you can figure it out. Includes puzzles, flash cards, etc.

Superb writing guide from Bowdoin College

American Pageant student study aids (IMPORTANT!)

A great site with some helpful AP US resources just for students

Tips on how to read your textbook (Thanks to Ms Miner from Mercy HS for this one!)

The American Experiment - another text study aids; same stuff, different approach

Another High School history text (useful if you want to see how a regular high school text discusses the information)

Another history text (The Americans). Lots of cool activities to help you study. Chapters are different than Pageant, but you can figure it out. Includes puzzles, flash cards, etc.

Super site for AP US - highly recommended! Thanks to Shad Ashcroft at Deer Valley High.

Coursenotes

HistoryMatters: anything and everything; too much to describe

The Living Room Candidate: every tv commercial for presidential elections

Harper's Weekly (before there was television....)

PBS

The History Place

Rock'n'roll hall of fame student site

Documenting the American South (y'all come back, now!)

Gilder Lehrman institute of American History

Library of Congress The American Memory

Library of Congress -Veterans History Project

The National Archives

The Miller Center of Public Affairs (presidential telephone recordings and more)

Ms. Sue Pojer's History site - the most famous history teacher in the world!

Old Magazine Articles (really old!)

National History Day

The American Presidency Project

Organization of American Historians various history links

History Channel video gallery

Eyewitness to history - documents, video, and audio primary sources

Electronic texts for the study of American Culture (primary sources)

AMDOCS - documents for the study of American History (hundreds including audio files) from 1000-2007

DoHistory - focusing on how to piece together a story from fragments of the past

Smithsonian's Artifacts and Analysis - analyzing documents, pictures, and artifacts of our past

Fire and Ice - Puritan sermons, poems, and other writing

Religion and the founding of the American Republic

The Cold War Museum

Digital History website

Internet Modern History Sourcebook

CollegeBoard AP website for US History

 

If you are Honors, the most important resource is your text website. If you are AP US, the most important resource on this page is the American Pageant student site. Use this site often and it will save you a lot of time and pain. There are practice quizzes, terms and definitions, information outlines and much more. I have also placed other textbook links here. If, for some reason you aren't able to understand any of the information in your text, try these others out.

Another important site is the writing guide from Bowdoin College. There are few better writing guides for history students than this one.

As we consider topics for research projects, browse through these other sites. There are a vast number of primary sources out there of every kind - audio, document, cartoons, and videos. You name it, it's out there. If you are stumped on a research topic, browse them and you'll definitely find something that fires your imagination.

Click here to access reading target slides

Click here to access the Florida Historical Society archives