Brautigam - 5 Steps to a 5 AP European History 2016 Edition

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Jeffrey Brautigam is Professor of History and Division Coordinator for the Humanities at Hanover College in Hanover, Indiana, where he evaluates all requests for AP college credit and placement in history. A recipient of a PhD in history from the University of Florida, he has taught European history at the college level for 20 years. The coauthor of A Student Introduction to Charles Darwin (Kendall/Hunt, 1999, ISBN 0-7872-6311-7), Professor Brautigam is a historian who writes for students and general audiences.

Welcome to the world of Advanced Placement (AP) European history. Whether you are, or have been, enrolled in an AP European history course at your school or are preparing on your own, this guide will help you to move smoothly and confidently from your individual starting point through a five-step process that will bring you the level of preparation you desire. Along the way, you will be evaluating your current level of preparation, evaluating your learning strategies, reading widely, analyzing primary documents, taking practice multiple-choice tests, and writing practice essays. As you go, you will be developing the strategies and confidence you need to score a 5 on the AP European History Exam.

The five-step process is described in detail in the Introduction. Here, I simply want to urge you to enter into your preparation with enthusiasm. The intricate story of European history is dramatic, fascinating, and extremely relevant to the world in which you live. The information, understanding, and skills that you will learn by working through this guide will help you to do well on the AP European History Exam, but they will also help you to excel in college and to become a well-informed, critically thinking human being.

As you begin, it is important that you not think of this guide as some large book to get through. This guide is a tool and, like many tools, it can be used in a number of different ways. You can follow it through from beginning to end, or you can jump around, using the information and exercises contained in it in any way that suits you best. So take some time to familiarize yourself with the contents of this guide; get a feel for how it works. Then, when you are ready, read ; they will help you to choose the mode of preparation that is right for you.

Good luck, and enjoy your journey!

I would like to thank Eric Dodge for putting me in touch with Grace Freedson, and Grace Freedson for connecting me with McGraw-Hill. I would also like to thank all those who assisted me in the preparation of this book: Del Franz for superior editing, Robyn Ryle for her critical reading and support, and my daughter, Grace Brautigam, for her patience.

If you are looking at this book, it is because you are considering taking the AP European History Exam. Maybe you are enrolled in an AP European History class in your high school, or maybe you are planning a course of study on your own. Either way, you need some help, and you have come to a bookstore or are shopping online to find it. Right now, there are a number of guides either on the shelf or on the screen in front of you, and you are wondering about the differences between them. The fact is, all the guides in front of you are similar in a number of ways: each is written by an experienced history instructor who is intimately familiar with the AP European History Exam; each contains a concise review of the material you will need to master in order to do well on the exam; and each contains a number of practice exams and exercises to assist you in that preparation. There is, however, one crucial difference: this book is based upon the highly successful 5 Steps to a 5 program. If you are like the thousands of students who have used the 5 Steps to a 5 program to successfully prepare for AP Exams, it is a difference worth exploring.