Announcing the Gilder Lehrman Institute AP African American Studies Guide

Scholarly Advisors

• Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, Harvard University) and Annette Gordon-Reed (Carl M. Loeb University Professor, Harvard University), Senior Advisors
• John K. Thornton (Professor of History and African American Studies, Boston University)
• Ana Lucia Araujo (Professor of History, Howard University)
• Brenda E. Stevenson (Nickoll Family Endowed Chair in History & African American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, and Hillary Rodham Clinton Chair in Women’s History at St. John’s College, Oxford University)
• Hasan Kwame Jeffries (College of Arts and Sciences Alumni Associate Professor of History, The Ohio State University)

Resources for AP African American Studies Students and Teachers

Before the AP African American Studies Guide’s April launch, students and teachers can take advantage of the following resources from the Gilder Lehrman Institute:

Timeline: Fulfilling America’s Founding Principles: African American History

Review the scope of African American history on this timeline of important events.

Essays in History Now

History Now, the online journal of the Gilder Lehrman Institute, features essays by the nation’s leading historians and provides the latest in American history scholarship for teachers, students, and general readers.

History Now issues no. 72, “Black Entrepreneurship in America” (Fall 2024), and no. 73, “250 Years of African American Artists” (Winter 2024) were commissioned to directly align with AP African American Studies topics and themes. In addition, the following essays will also be of use to AP African American Studies students and teachers:

• “‘Rachel Weeping for Her Children’: Black Women and the Abolition of Slavery” by Margaret Washington, History Now 5 (Fall 2005)
• “African American Women and the Nineteenth Amendment” by Sharon Harley, History Now 56 (Spring 2020)
• “Constance Baker Motley: A Trailblazer in the Legal Profession” by Gary L. Ford Jr., History Now 57 (Summer 2020)
• “‘People Get Ready’: Music and the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s” by Brian Ward, History Now 8 (Summer 2006)
• “‘I, Too’: Langston Hughes’s Afro-Whitmanian Affirmation” by Steven Tracy, History Now 39 (Spring 2014)