U.S. History Skillbook

U.S. History Skillbook for AP U.S. History is the perfect resource for building strong historical thinking and writing skills for the Advanced Placement United States History course and exam. Skillbook covers ALL of the relevant skills, and includes complete guidance for planning and writing high-scoring DBQ and LEQ essays.

Skillbook builds strong writing and thinking skills by breaking the Disciplinary Practices and Reasoning Skills of the AP* U.S. History course into 37 clear, concise, unintimidating lessons, each with guided and independent exercises. The topics of the chapters build from simple to more advanced, while the content of the chapters (examples and exercise topics) is arranged chronologically to align to the 9 Historical Time Periods of the APUSH curriculum outline. Skillbook includes a wide array of primary and secondary sources, both textual and visual, along with tools for analyzing sources of all types-maps, graphs, photos, illustrations, cartoons, letters, data tables, and more. Skillbook also covers the ins-and-outs of short-answer questions, and includes thorough course and exam guides, worksheets, period summaries, and detailed answers and explanations.

Alongside a U.S. History textbook, Skillbook provides everything an AP U.S. History student needs to tackle the course with ease and score a 5 on the exam in May.