
Advanced Placement® Edition
European History
Make college level content accessible to all students without sacrificing the rigor required for success
- 100% aligned to most current AP® European History College Board® CED.
- Concise and focused content.
- Scaffolded skill development.
- High quality primary sources.
- AP-style assessment practice.
Each topic includes:
- The Essential Question.
- A narrative aligned to the course framework.
- A reflection/review of the Essential Question.
- A set of multiple-choice questions and short-answer questions, many based on stimulus material.
Extensive AP exam preparation includes hundreds of topic-specific questions, unit reviews with four AP-style long essay questions and one AP-style document-based question, and three full-length practice tests—one in the Student Edition and two in the Teacher Resource.
- All test items have been meticulously constructed to model the format and quality of those on the exam.
- Each question is tied to a specific learning objective from the course framework, allowing teachers to quickly diagnose individual and class performance.
- Just as on the actual exam, the DBQ practice includes seven documents.
AMSCO has been a godsend to my students. It has made difficult information to learn much more accessible and digestible…my students were able to gain college credit at a high rate. I absolutely recommend textbooks by AMSCO as a valuable tool in the AP classroom.
Paula W.
CCSD/Advanced Technologies Academy
Las Vegas, Nevada
College Board Course Audit Approval Support
Perfection Learning also supports your College Board course audit by pairing the AMSCO edition of AP European History with a college level, open-source digital text.
List the college-level Western Civilization—A Concise History II & III published by the LibreTexts Project with the AMSCO European History coursebook on your course audit. The paired text is available at no additional charge.
The Western Civilization—A Concise History II & III text has been aligned with the AMSCO coursebook including:
- A FREE pacing guide showing how the AMSCO coursebook and Western Civilization—A Concise History II & III work together for instruction.
- Page references to the exact locations in the paired text where you can find additional content to enhance and deepen the AMSCO instruction.
- Point-of-use links in the AMSCO eBook and interactive editions to the aligned content.
Special Features
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Write as a HistorianUnit activities build writing skills for the long essay and document-based questions. |
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Historical PerspectivesUnit activities pose questions about significant historical issues and the conflicting interpretations debated by historians. |
Accessibility—Reach All AP Students
Making college-level content accessible to high school students is of the utmost importance in ensuring success. The AP European History coursebook is carefully written and designed to ensure all students:
- Comprehend key ideas.
- Learn and use concept vocabulary.
- Build their analytical and writing skills.
The AP European History coursebook is built to meet the specific thematic learning objectives as well as the Key Concepts and Historical Developments for each unit. As a result, the depth and breadth of content coverage aligns precisely with the AP European framework and exam.
AMSCO curriculum builds capacity, without sacrificing rigor, and supports students to develop the content knowledge and skills they need to be successful.
- Initial inquiry and essay tasks are designed to be narrow in scope, allowing students to master smaller skills first.
- Instruction and tasks to develop disciplinary practices and reasoning skills move from simple to complex as students gain competence.
- Translate and listen to the text in over 120 languages.
- Customize readability by changing font type, size, and background color.
Help students move from skimming and scanning to extracting key concepts, identifying events and developments, and formulating questions for further study. All highlights and notes are captured automatically in a running notebook—perfect for study and exam preparation.
Develop College Readiness Skills
Students gain the critical “thinking” and “doing” skills required in rigorous college courses through extended practice in:
- Evaluating authors’ perspectives.
- Analyzing primary and secondary sources.
- Citing textual evidence to support arguments.
- Developing cohesive written arguments.
Engage students through collaboration.
- Participate in dynamic, inclusive small group discussions.
- Share ideas and perspectives based on meaningful, text-based questions.
The Historical Perspectives feature introduces conflicting interpretations about significant historical issues.

Success on the AP exam requires strong writing skills. The AP Euro coursebook features Write as a Historian activities to help students identify and organize evidence, structure arguments, and achieve successful outcomes on the exam.
Because the content in the AMSCO books is more accessible, concise, and focused just on what they need to know, students are actually reading the text. As a result, I’ve seen test scores go up.
Social Studies Department Chair
Bradenton, Florida
Extensive Teacher Support
Teacher materials include:
- A Teacher Resource with Answer Key. Best-choice answers are identified for each multiple-choice question. Rubrics and suggested good responses are provided for all free-response questions.
- Customizable PowerPoint slides.
- A day-by-day pacing guide.
- Two full-length practice tests with rationales.
- A correlation of each question to the College Board framework.
- OER resources by topic.
