American novelist Toni Morrison delivers a speech to an audience. The AP African American Studies course highlights Toni Morrison and her contributions to the U.S. along with other people of African ...

Several years ago, when he was one of a handful of academics on a commission to overhaul how Advanced Placement U.S. History would be taught, Fred Anderson did not foresee a political firestorm.

Some of Nebraska’s brightest high school students are getting a skewed vision of American history in a course meant to give them a leg up on college, a Nebraska official says. John Sieler, a ...