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About the Authors

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Jason Stacy
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Jason Stacy is Professor of U.S. History and Social Science Pedagogy at Southern Illinois
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University–Edwardsville. Before joining the history department at SIU- Edwardsville,
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Stacy taught AP U.S. History for eight years at Adlai E. Stevenson High School in
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Lincolnshire, Illinois. Stacy has served as an AP U.S. History reader, table leader,
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exam leader, consultant, senior auditor, and question author for the AP U.S. History
Exam. Author and editor of multiple books on authors like Walt Whitman and Edgar
Lee Masters, his research has appeared in Social Education, the Walt Whitman Quarterly
Review, and American Educational History. Stacy is also a contributing editor for the Courtesy Jason Stacy
Walt Whitman Archive, where he edits Whitman’s journalism. Recently, he published
Spoon River America: Edgar Lee Masters and the Myth of the American Small Town with the
University of Illinois Press. Stacy has served as the president of the Illinois Council
for the Social Studies, the editor of The Councilor: A Journal of the Social Studies, and a
reviewer for many academic journals and presses.

Matthew Ellington

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Matthew Ellington has taught AP U.S. History at Ruben S. Ayala High School in
Chino Hills, California, since 1998, where he has also served as an instructional coach,
induction mentor for new teachers, social science department chairperson, and a
member of his school district’s Teaching and Learning Taskforce. Ellington has been an
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active AP U.S. History workshop consultant and exam reader for more than twenty
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years. He has also served as an AP Mentor and as a member on the College Board’s
Audrey Ellington
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Consultant Advisory Panel. Ellington coauthored The Survival Guide for AP U.S. History
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and contributed to Teaching Ideas for AP History: A Video Resource.

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Ellington and Stacy have been featured together on C-SPAN’s AP U.S. History televised
annual review sessions since 2020.

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