Advanced Placement US history is something of a niche issue. About 300,000 students sat for the AP US History exam this year — roughly equivalent to 10 percent of all graduating high school seniors.

O n the first day of one of the first AP African American Studies classes ever taught, Marlon Williams-Clark rattled off a list of Black luminaries to see how many his students had heard of.. Only ...

During the 11 years Trevor Packer has run the College Board’s Advanced Placement program, teachers of AP U.S. history have bemoaned the wide-open nature of the AP final exam’s multiple-choice ...