AP US History Note Library

Welcome. These notes are based completely on America: A Narrative History by George Brown Tindall and David E. Shi.
They are written and compiled by me. Below are the .pdf download links.

Chapter 5: From Empire to Independence

Chapter 6: The American Revolution

Chapter 7: Shaping a Federal Union

Chapter 8: The Federalist Era

Chapter 9: The Early Republic

Chapter 10: Nationalism and Sectionalism

Chapter 11: The Jacksonian Impulse

Chapter 12: The Dynamics of Growth

Chapter 13: An American Renaissance

Chapter 14: Manifest Destiny

Chapter 15: The Old South

Chapter 16: The Crisis of Union

Chapter 17: The War of the Union

Chapter 18: Reconstruction; North and South

Chapter 19: The South and the West Transformed

Chapter 20: Big Business and Organized Labor

Chapter 21: The Emergence of Urban America

Chapter 22: Gilded Age Politics and Agrarian Revolt

Chapter 23: An American Empire

Chapter 24: The Progressive Era

Chapter 25: America and the Great War

Chapter 26: The Modern Temper

Chapter 27: Republican Resurgence and Decline

Chapter 28: New Deal America

Chapter 29: From Isolation to Global War

Chapter 30: The Second World War

Chapter 31: The Fair Deal and Containment

Chapter 32: Through the Picture Window; Society and Culture

Chapter 33: Conflict and Deadlock; The Eisenhower Years

Chapter 34: New Frontiers; Politics and Social Change in the 1960s

Chapter 35: Rebellion and Reaction in the 1960s and 1970s

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53 thoughts on “AP US History Note Library

  1. I think they are excellent for a quick review and an overview of the chapter. If you want to know every single detail and fluff in the book, then read the book, but this has a good “to the point” feel.
    THANKS!

  2. Hey Ishmam!

    Thank you so much for your notes, they are very easy to use and comprehensive. I wonder if it would be possible to add a caption next to the chapter numbers as to which period each chapter is about? I study out of a different textbook, and i think it would be easy and add a lot of value to the notes.

    Thanks

  3. Your notes are really helpful! they definately helped me get an “A” last semester. I was curious however how much longer chap 37-45 would be temporally unavailable. I was just wondering because we are about two units away from starting chap 37.
    Thanks so much!

    • I’ve decided to stagger the availability of my notes so that students at my school can’t use them to cheat. Expect the next couple chapters every week or so. Sorry for the inconvenience!

      EDIT: All the notes are available now!

  4. Thanks for the notes! They are a helpful study tool for test-review.

    By the way, where did the post on the e-mail exchange between you and Goodrich go?

  5. Salams Ishmam,

    Thank you very, very much! These notes have been a very useful test prep source, I can’t thank you enough!

    BTW, why did you change the format to PDF? Word was better for me :(

  6. OMG THIS IS SAVING MY LIFE RIGHT NOW!! THANK YOU SOOOOO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!! everyone else’s notes online suck and are so hard to understand but yours are perfect! thank you so muchhhh (again)!! I’d definitely be failing APUS if it wasnt for your notes! I wish i would of found out about these notes 1st semester!!!!!

  7. Hey these have been simply incredible, thank you soso much!! They’re a great way to review everything. Just a question, will the last couple chapters ever go up? Thanks again for everything!

    • Thanks for the feedback and great question! The last couple chapters weren’t as relevant to the AP exam so it wasn’t useful for me to take many notes on them, sorry! I just used a review book to skim through the more modern material.

  8. I absolutely love you for putting this up! This just saved my life!! Thankk youuuuuuu!!!!! *notgoingtofailmyexamdannncee*

  9. Hey Ishmam, I have enjoyed your outlines and they are extremely helpful, but I was wondering when you’re going to put up the last two chapters.

    • Thanks for the comment. The last couple chapters, which cover more modern history, weren’t as relevant to the AP exam so it wasn’t useful for me to take extensive notes on them. I suggest skimming through those chapters in a review book.

  10. Thank you so much. It is a joy to keep up with my history Professor. I’m spreading the word. “All hail to Ishmam”

  11. this is so great! do you have notes for the first 4 chapters as well? :) I’m definitely letting my class know of this website! It really helps me a lot.

    • I used to, but they weren’t worth using (they were really disorganized and weak). So I trashed them and only kept the decent, usable notes, which are chapters 5 and onward.

  12. I am taking IB HOA, and I’m going to use these to study this weekend! i’m super busy and I think this will help me a lot! I’ll let you know how my test goes! Thanks a bunch!

  13. Hey I was just wondering if Chapter 36 and Chapter 37 notes will be up soon. Your notes are great because they truly help me comprehend the information I read in the book.

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