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Look Inside Look Inside Cover: America's History for the AP® Course, 11th Edition by Rebecca Edwards; Eric Hinderaker; Robert O. Self; James A. Henretta
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America's History for the AP® Course

Eleventh Edition| ©2025 Rebecca Edwards; Eric Hinderaker; Robert O. Self; James A. Henretta

Aimed at helping students understand the big developments of U.S. history, America's History, Eleventh Edition has the tools needed to help students sort what's most important, including visual timelines, marginal glossary, review questions, and more. Bring history to life with a lively narra...
Aimed at helping students understand the big developments of U.S. history, America's History, Eleventh Edition has the tools needed to help students sort what's most important, including visual timelines, marginal glossary, review questions, and more. Bring history to life with a lively narrative and special boxed features containing firsthand accounts of the period. This comprehensive text organizes AP® themes and content into nine parts that closely align with the chronology of the APUSH® course, and deep dives into historical events and contexts that examine why and how history unfolded as it did. Also available is a wealth of supporting resources that provide teachers and students with the tools they need to tackle the course and succeed on the AP® exam.
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Aimed at helping students understand the big developments of U.S. history, America's History, Eleventh Edition has the tools needed to help students sort what's most important, including visual timelines, marginal glossary, review questions, and more. Bring history to life with a lively narrative and special boxed features containing firsthand accounts of the period. This comprehensive text organizes AP® themes and content into nine parts that closely align with the chronology of the APUSH® course, and deep dives into historical events and contexts that examine why and how history unfolded as it did. Also available is a wealth of supporting resources that provide teachers and students with the tools they need to tackle the course and succeed on the AP® exam.

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  • A big picture, analytical focus helps students understand not just what happened, but why. With its hallmark interpretive voice and thoughtful analysis, America’s History helps students make sense of the contextual and causal relationships between events.
  • A nine-part framework closely aligns chapters to AP® units, while highlighting key historical developments.
  • A comprehensive document program offers guidance and practice in primary and secondary source analysis. These myriad opportunities for working with historical evidence prepare students for AP® Exam writing:
    • NEW! AP® Claims and Evidence in Sources promote critical thinking by comparing primary sources from multiple perspectives.
    • NEW! AP® Comparing Secondary Sources directly integrates historical argumentation directly into each chapter.
    • AP® America in the World uses primary sources and data to situate U.S. history in a global context, offering practice in comparison and data analysis.
    • A NEW! AP® Working with Evidence feature at the end of every chapter includes a full Document-Based Question prompt with built-in scaffolding. Analysis questions follow each text to help students build source analysis skills while practicing the DBQ.
  • NEW! Part-Closing AP® Skills Workshops scaffold essential historical thinking and writing skills. From sourcing a primary document to developing a continuity and change argument, these new workshops introduce and develop essential AP® skills in context. Each workshop includes a practical explanation, models from real historians, insider information on how the skill will be tested on the exam, and scaffolded practice exercises.
  • AP® margin notes provide focus for active reading and encourage historical analysis:
    • AP® Learning Focus questions guide student reading and highlight key historical themes in the chapter.
    • AP® Exam Tips highlight concepts and questions that students should focus on to prepare for the AP® Exam.
    • AP® Skills & Processes notes identify key historical disciplinary practices, reasoning processes, and thinking skills that students need.
  • AP® Exam Practice questions throughout the book build deep familiarity with the tasks and format of AP® Exam items. 

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  • NEW! Historical narrative updates reflect the latest historical scholarship and inclusive disciplinary practices.
  • A refreshed, robust document program better reflects the skills and reasoning processes of the course and the tasks on the AP Exam:
    • NEW! AP® Comparing Secondary Sources integrates historical argumentation into each chapter, helping students understand how to work with secondary sources.
    • NEW! AP® Claims and Evidence in Sources helps students learn to think critically by comparing primary source texts written or spoken from two or more perspectives.
  • End-of-chapter and end of part AP skill building instruction and practice has been added to support student skill development
    • NEW! The AP® Working with Evidence feature at the end of every chapter includes a full Document-Based Question prompt with scaffolding built in. Each of the brief primary sources is followed by questions for analysis to help students build source analysis skills while practicing the DBQ.
    • NEW! Part-Closing AP® Skills Workshops scaffold essential historical thinking and writing skills. From sourcing a primary document to developing a continuity and change argument, these new workshops introduce, and help you develop, essential AP® skills in context. Each workshop includes a practical explanation, models from real historians, insider info on how the skill will be tested on the exam, and scaffolded practice exercises to build the skill.
Look Inside Look Inside Cover: America's History for the AP® Course, 11th Edition by Rebecca Edwards; Eric Hinderaker; Robert O. Self; James A. Henretta

America's History for the AP® Course

Eleventh Edition| ©2025

Rebecca Edwards; Eric Hinderaker; Robert O. Self; James A. Henretta

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Look Inside Look Inside Cover: America's History for the AP® Course, 11th Edition by Rebecca Edwards; Eric Hinderaker; Robert O. Self; James A. Henretta

America's History for the AP® Course

Eleventh Edition| 2025

Rebecca Edwards; Eric Hinderaker; Robert O. Self; James A. Henretta

Table of Contents

PART 1 Transformations of North America, 1491–1700
        1 Colliding Worlds, 1491–1600
        2 American Experiments, 1521–1700

PART 2 British North America and the Atlantic World, 1607–1763
        3 The British Atlantic World, 1607–1750
        4 Growth, Diversity, and Conflict, 1720–1763

PART 3 Revolution and Republican Culture, 1754–1800
        5 The Problem of Empire, 1754–1776
        6 Making War and Republican Governments, 1776–1789
        7 Hammering Out a Federal Republic, 1787–1820

PART 4 Overlapping Revolutions, 1800–1848
        8 Economic Transformations, 1800–1848
        9 A Democratic Revolution, 1800–1848
        10 Religion, Reform, and Culture, 1820–1848
        11 Imperial Ambitions, 1820–1848

PART 5 Consolidating a Continental Union, 1844–1877
        12 Sectional Conflict and Crisis, 1844–1861
        13 Bloody Ground: The Civil War, 1861–1865
        14 Reconstruction, 1865–1877
        15 Conquering a Continent, 1860–1890

PART 6 Industrializing America: Upheavals and Experiments, 1877–1917
        16 Industrial America: Corporations and Conflicts, 1877–1911
        17 Making Modern American Culture, 1880–1917
        18 “Civilization’s Inferno”: The Rise and Reform of Industrial Cities, 1800–1917
        19 Whose Government? Politics, Populists, and Progressives, 1880–1917

PART 7 Global Ambitions and Domestic Turmoil, 1890–1945
        20 An Emerging World Power, 1890–1918
        21 Unsettled Prosperity: From War to Depression, 1919–1932
        22 Managing the Great Depression, Forging the New Deal, 1929–1938
        23 The World at War, 1937–1945

PART 8 The Modern State and the Age of Liberalism, 1945–1980
        24 The Cold War Dawns, 1945–1963
        25 Triumph of the Middle Class, 1945–1963
        26 The Civil Rights Movement, 1941–1973
        27 Liberal Crisis and Conservative Rebirth, 1961–1972
        28 The Search for Order in an Era of Limits, 1973–1980

PART 9 Globalization and a Changing Nation, 1980 to the Present
        29 Conservative America in the Ascent, 1980–1991
        30 National and Global Dilemmas, 1989 to the Present

Look Inside Look Inside Cover: America's History for the AP® Course, 11th Edition by Rebecca Edwards; Eric Hinderaker; Robert O. Self; James A. Henretta

America's History for the AP® Course

Eleventh Edition| 2025

Rebecca Edwards; Eric Hinderaker; Robert O. Self; James A. Henretta

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Rebecca Edwards

Rebecca Edwards is Eloise Ellery Professor of History at Vassar College, where she teaches courses on nineteenth-century politics, the Civil War, the frontier West, and women, gender, and sexuality. She is the author of, among other publications, Angels in the Machinery: Gender in American Party Politics from the Civil War to the Progressive Era; New Spirits: Americans in the “Gilded Age,” 1865–1905; and the essay “Women's and Gender History” in The New American History. She is currently working on a book about the role of childbearing in the expansion of America's nineteenth-century empire.


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Eric Hinderaker

Eric Hinderaker is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Utah. His research explores early modern imperialism, relations between Europeans and Native Americans, military-civilian relations in the Atlantic world, and comparative colonization. His most recent book, Boston's Massacre, was awarded the Cox Book Prize from the Society of the Cincinnati and was a finalist for the George Washington Prize. His other publications include Elusive Empires: Constructing Colonialism in the Ohio Valley, 1673–1800; The Two Hendricks: Unraveling a Mohawk Mystery, which won the Herbert H. Lehman Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in New York History from the New York Academy of History; and, with Peter C. Mancall, At the Edge of Empire: The Backcountry in British North America.


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Robert O. Self

Robert O. Self is Mary Ann Lippitt Professor of American History at Brown University. His research focuses on urban history, American politics, and the post-1945 United States. He is the author of American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland, which won four professional prizes, including the James A. Rawley Prize from the Organization of American Historians, and All in the Family: The Realignment of American Democracy Since the 1960s. He is currently at work on a book about the centrality of houses, cars, and children to family consumption in the twentieth-century United States.


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James Henretta

James A. Henretta  is Professor Emeritus of American History at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he taught Early American History and Legal History. His publications include “Salutary Neglect”: Colonial Administration under the Duke of Newcastle; Evolution and Revolution: American Society, 1600–1820; and The Origins of American Capitalism. His most recent publication is a long article, “Magistrates, Lawyers, Legislators: The Three Legal Systems of Early America,” in The Cambridge History of American Law.

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Rebecca Edwards; Eric Hinderaker; Robert O. Self; James A. Henretta

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