Advanced Placement United States History

Links

Below are some useful websites for preparing for the AP test.

Please note that these websites should not be used to replace reading the text or taking notes in class -- only to supplement them.

Sites denoted with a *** are sites that are especially recommended.

General Information

AP Website Course Description

General AP Testing Tips

Primary Documents

Library of Congress has a new American Memory Collection: "Freedom's Fortress: The Library of Congress, 193901953"

American Memory is a gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States.

PBS offers a web site dedicated to original activities tied with PBS programming.

Kansas History Homepage

Kansas University has a gateway to Kansas History links.

Documents for the Study of American History is also from Kansas University.

EyeWitness -- history through the eyes of those who lived it.

Historical Archives also has sites relating to specific geographic regions.

New Perspectives on the West also from PBS has insights into the nation's frontier history.

The History Net has numerous articles relating to American History, Wars, and more.

Cold War International History Project

American Civil War Resources

History of the American West

A&E's Biography Site has a searchable index of biographies of famous figures throughout history.

Hyper History is an excellent comprehensive history site, working mainly on showing how one event or one era affects another.

Online Biography is searchable by name, date, or keyword.

American Age of Imperialism

Another Library of Congress Site this one focusing on Events, People, Time and Places of American History.

Establishing Borders: The Expansion of the United States, 1846 - 48

Federal Court Concepts has an introduction to the U.S. Federal Court system.

A More Perfect Union: Japanese Americans and the U.S. Constitution offers a look at the Japanese internment camps of World War II.

United We Stand provides primary source documents that students use to examine the working conditions of U.S. laborers at the turn century and addresses the need of organized labor unions.

Some other sites, without descriptions...

http://www.historyteacher.net

http://www.polytechnic.org/faculty/gfeldmeth/USHistory.html

http://besthisotrysites.net/index.shtml

http://hlab.tielab.org

http://www.americanrhetoric.com

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/theymadeamerica

http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/

http://www.ourdocuments.gov/index.php?flash=true&

http://www.eduplace.com/ss/hmss/primary.html

http://kuhttp.cc.ku.edu/carrie/docs/amdocs_index.html

http://www.law.ou.edu/hist/

http://personal.pitnet.net/primarysources/

http://www.historycentral.com/spanish/index.html

http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlpubs/crlnews/backissues2001/november3/ushistory.htm

http://womhist.binghamton.edu/

http://nationalhistoryday.org/08_others/08_links_c_1.html

http://www.archives.gov/

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook.html

http://www.authentichistory.com/

Cram Packets and Study Aids

The "Official" United States History Cram Packet

APUSH Reviews

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Sample Tests

AP Website Sample Questions

APUSH Sample Test Questions

American History AP Quizes *** This site contains a multitude of past AP US History Test questions divided up by time period -- it is a must for studying for the AP test or for tests in class.