Preparing you for the AP(R) US History course, Documenting United States History helps you cultivate the historical skills necessary to think critically and purposefully in order to successfully approach and write historical argument.
Jason Stacy is associate professor of U. S. History and Social Science Pedagogy at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Before joining the history department at SIUe, Stacy taught AP(R) U.S. History for eight years at Adlai E. Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire Illinois. Stacy has served as an AP(R) U.S. History Reader, Table Leader, Exam Leader, Consultant, Senior Auditor, and question author for the redesigned AP(R) U.S. History exam.
Stacy is the author of
Walt Whitmans Multitudes: Labor Reform and Persona in Whitmans Journalism and the First Leaves of Grass, 1840-1855 (2008), editor of
Leaves of Grass, 1860: the 150th Anniversary Facsimile Edition (2009) and co-editor of
Walt Whitman's Selected Journalism (2015). His research has appeared in
Social Education, the
Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, and
American Educational History and his reviews have appeared in
American Literature, the
Journal of American History, and the
Walt Whitman Quarterly Review. Stacy is also a contributing editor for the Walt Whitman Archive. Since 2009, Stacy has served as editor-in-chief of
The Councilor: A Journal of the Social Studies. He is a former president of the Illinois Council for the Social Studies (2014).
Stephen Heller has taught for 28 years in the Chicagoland area, the last 16 of which have been at Adlai E Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire, IL, where he teaches AP(R) English Language and Composition. Heller has served as a Question Leader, Table Leader, and Reader for the AP(R) English Language and Composition exam, and he recently completed a six year term on the AP(R) English Language and Composition Test Development Committee. A national and international College Board consultant for AP(R) and Pre-AP(R) English, Heller has also served as the College Board Adviser while on the Development Committee. Heller is also a contributing item writer for the revised SAT exam, and he also serves as a reader for the International Baccalaureate exam.
Hellers publications include co-authorship of two textbooks for pre-AP(R) and AP(R) English:
AP(R) English Bound (2009) and
Entering the Conversation (2010), both with Peoples Publishing. Heller also was the editor in chief and served as a contributing author to the College Boards 2007 and 2013 workshop materials--Using Sources and Expanding Definitions of Argument, respectively, as well as serving as a contributing author to the College Boards English Vertical Teams workshop. Hellers additional publications have appeared in
English Journal, Social Education (a piece co-authored with Jason Stacy) and the
Illinois Bulletin of English. Since 2007, Heller has teamed with Jason Stacy to teach American Themes in the AP(R) Classroom, a course that examines the skills common to both AP(R) English Language and AP(R) US History, and for many years this course has been offered at Carleton College, Northfield, MN. In 2006 Heller was recognized as an outstanding teacher by the US Department of Education as part of the Presidential Scholars program. Heller also serves on NCTEs Secondary Section Steering Committee.
