Well, its that time of year across the country, High School Students are prepping for advanced placement exams. In various topics. And here on American History tv, were going to take a look at the 2023 advanced placement us history exam. Joining us jason stacy a history professor at Southern Illinois university in edwardsville and Matt Ellington, who teaches ap history at Iowa High School in chino hills, california. Mr. Ellington, if we could start with you. What exactly is the ap history exam . Well, good morning and thanks for having us on the ap us history exam is an end, of course exam. The test students knowledge and skills relating to u. S. To u. S. History is designed to be a test, and the course is designed as such to mimic a College Level course in terms of the content and the skills that students need to be able to succeed at a College Level. So its really a combination of a survey course that starts in 1491, which is the year before columbus comes all the way to the present,
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I found these detective papers sitting around in an archive and never completely fascinating. I was not expected to see them or know they were even there. At that point i kind of decided. O switch to detectives host what if you find out about these detectives that really intrigued you . Mr. Lillert protectives seem to be everywhere in the 19 century west. The first one i saw was just in a saloon trying to talk to everyone because he was buying everybody drinks and they were salesmen. They were all undercover private detectives. Somewhere salesman in travelers and posting is of the outlaws. They were posing as prospectors. One posed as a doctor and practiced in wyoming for 12 months to try to extract information from some people. Detectives be in the west . And who hired them . Mr. Lillert its usually the railroads, the mines and the ranches. They are enormous corporations from new york and boston. Millions of dollars passing hands. They had a bunch of workers at a bunch of rural small