CURRICULUM FOR THE NEW AP AMERICAN HISTORY COURSE:

The following information was provided by Donna Garner:

GONE FROM THE NEW 2014 AP U. S. HISTORY COURSE:

George Washington (reduced to a 1 sentence fragment about Farewell Address)

The study of the Declaration of Independence (reduces to one phrase in one sentence) – ignores sacrifices signers made who pledged their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor to the cause of freedom

Efforts of U. S. to defeat fascism

Jefferson’s First Inaugural Address

Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Henry Clay

Andrew Jackson

Sinclair Lewis

Jane Addams

Theodore Roosevelt

Lost Generation authors (Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Lewis)

John Winthrop’s City on a Hill

The Cold War

Ben Franklin

James Madison

Thomas Jefferson

Roger Williams

American Revolution events such as Bunker Hill, Yorktown

WW II major battles such as D-Day, Battle of the Bulge, the Tuskegee Airmen

America’s Lend Lease Program (provided over $50 billion in military equipment to help our allies defeat Hitler

Boston Tea Party

Patrick Henry

Theodore Roosevelt

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

The goodness and greatness of America

Merits of our 1776 heroes

U. S. founding principles that inspired the movement to abolish slavery

Manifest Destiny and its emphasis on spreading democracy and new technologies

NEW 2014 AP U. S. HISTORY COURSE EMPHASIZES:

“European exploitation led to native decline and black bondage”

White racial superiority

Internment of Japanese Americans

Dropping of atomic bombs

Race and segregation

Relentlessly negative view of American history

CAUSE FOR ALARM

The new 98-page APUSH Framework replaces the 5-page Topic Outline that had been used for decades.

Clearly stated in the new APUSH Framework is that all AP exam questions starting in May 2015 will come directly from the new APUSH Framework. This obviously means that APUSH teachers will be forced to teach the new Framework if their students are to perform well on the AP U. S. History exam that gives them college credit.

Marxist Howard Zinn’s People’s History of the U. S. is listed in each of the 4 syllabi from the new APUSH Framework.

FROM JANE ROBBINS OF THE AMERICAN PRINCIPLES PROJECT

Jane Robbins said recently that her “…biggest issue with the curriculum [NEW AP U. S. History – APUSH] is how it portrays Americans as a thoroughly pugnacious bunch…

It presents American history as one long story of groups in conflict…

It does not focus on individuals at all.

The idea [of the new APUSH] seems to be that the only force in history worth considering is the group identity — and all of these groups are in constant conflict…

There’s no understanding of what makes this country great.

…ongoing discussions are happening with educational officials in at least seven states to delay the curriculum [new APUSH] or block it altogether.”

(8.7.14 – “New AP U. S. History: Greatest Americans missing from proposed curriculum” – by Rhett Miller -- FoxNews.com -- http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/08/07/historic-fail-greatest-americans-missing-from-proposed-curriculum/ )

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Here is what USED to be in the 5-page APUSH – Course Description – Effective Fall 2010 -- Please go to pp. 7 – 12 to see the Themes in AP U. S. History.

http://womenonthewall.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/ap-us-history-course-description.pdf

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Here is the link to the new 98-page, anti-American, 2014 APUSH – Course and Exam Description Including Curriculum Framework – Effective Fall 2014: http://media.collegeboard.com/digitalServices/pdf/ap/ap-course-exam-descriptions/ap-us-history-course-and-exam-description.pdf

Please view The Concept Outline on pp. 28 – 37: http://media.collegeboard.com/digitalServices/pdf/ap/ap-course-exam-descriptions/ap-us-history-course-and-exam-description.pdf

Here are the Related Articles in the 2014 APUSH Course Content:

Race and Citizenship

C. Vann Woodward's The Strange Career of Jim Crow

The Origins of American Slavery

Why Tea? The Global Story of the American Revolution

Crossing National Borders: Locating the United States in Migration History

America, the Atlantic, and Global Consumer Demand, 1500-1800

Teaching the Introductory Survey: Insights from the College Board's AP Survey

What Is Gender History?

Cold War and Global Hegemony, 1945-1991

Rethinking American History in a Global Context

From Rosie the Riveter to the Global Assembly Line

The Declaration of Independence in World Context

OAH-AP Collaboration: America on the World Stage

State of the Field in U.S. History: The Progressive Era

State of the Field in U.S. History: Teaching the 1917-1945 Period

A College Professor Reflects on the AP U.S. History Reading

Madam C. J. Walker and the Rise of the African American Entrepreneur

A Forum for Student Historians: Interview with Will Fitzhugh

Women Scientists of the Manhattan Project

North Korea and the Legacies of the Cold War

The Iraq War and the Lessons of History

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8.1.14 -- “Chock-Full of Info – Saving America’s Youth” -- by Donna Garner --

http://www.educationviews.org/chock-full-info-saving-americas-youth/

8.9.14 -- “Child Abuse – Destroying Children’s Love for America” – Donna Garner --

http://www.educationviews.org/child-abuse-destroying-childrens-love-america/

Donna Garner

Wgarner1@hot.rr.com