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FABRIC OF

WHAT’S INSIDE THIS SECOND EDITION A NATION

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The Only AP U.S. History Book
That Weaves Together Content, Skills,
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Sources, and AP Exam Practice
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AP U.S. History is about so much more than just events on a timeline. The Course
Framework is designed to develop crucial reading, reasoning, and writing skills that
help students think like historians to interpret the world of the past — and understand
how it relates to the world of today. And Fabric of a Nation is still the only textbook that
covers every aspect of this course, seamlessly stitching together history, skills, sources,
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and AP Exam practice. In this new edition, we make it easier than ever to cover all of
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the skills and topics in the AP U.S. History Course and Exam Description by aligning
our content to the Unit Topics and Historical Reasoning Processes of each Period.

An Accessible, Balanced Narrative

There’s only so much time in a school year. To cover everything and leave enough time
for skill development, you need more focused content, not just more content — and to be
most effective, skills development should be accessible and placed just where it is needed.
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Within the narration are AP Skills Workshops and AP Working with Evidence
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features that support students as they learn the history and prepare to take the AP
Exam. Fabric of a Nation delivers a thorough, yet approachable historical narrative that
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perfectly aligns with all the essential content of the AP course. An up-to-date historical
survey based on current scholarship, this book is also easy to understand and fun to
read, with plenty of interesting details and a crisp writing style that keeps things fresh.

Perfectly Aligned to the
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AP Scope and Sequence
Fabric of a Nation has an easy-to-use organization that fully aligns with the College
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Board’s Course and Exam Description for AP U.S. History. Instead of long, meandering
chapters, this book is divided into smaller, approachable modules that pull together
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content, skills, sources, and AP Exam practice into brief one- to two-day lessons. Each
module corresponds with a specific unit topic in the Course Framework, including the
contextualization and reasoning process topics that bookend each time period. This
approach takes the guesswork out of when to introduce which skills and how to blend
sources with content — all at a manageable pace that mirrors the scope and sequence
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of the AP Course Framework.

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