Since 2002, the AP World History course has covered thousands of years of human activity around the planet, starting 10,000 years back.

Like any Advanced Placement course, AP World History is intense, requiring students to absorb lots of sophisticated, detail-laden information in a relatively short amount of time: usually, a ...

Here's what high school students should keep in mind about the AP World History: Modern course.

Under the controversial changes, a popular AP World History course would begin in 1450 — essentially the rise of European power.

The Advanced Placement World History course will no longer include precolonial civilizations. Scott Simon talks to Amanda DoAmaral, a former AP World History teacher, about why she opposes the change.

The College Board’s recent decision to begin their curriculum for Advanced Placement (AP) World History at the year 1450 CE will omit millennia of global human history and may further support a ...

Responding to criticism of its earlier plan to begin the Advanced Placement World History exam around the year 1450, the College Board on Wednesday announced that it would begin the test with ...

Responding to an outcry over proposed changes, the College Board has agreed to restore 250 years to its AP World History course to ensure that students learn how civilizations outside Europe ...

There’s just too much history to cover and not enough time. So why not cut thousands of years from the AP World History test – and start at the year 1450 instead?

Another AP history exam comes under scrutiny, with critics saying a proposed rewrite of the AP World History exam, focusing on events after 1450, is too Eurocentric.

The College Board apologized for a "culturally and racially insensitive" T-shirt and some comments made at its Advanced Placement World History exam grading event last month.

Adding an ethnic studies course does not diminish the importance of the incorporation of culturally inclusive content across all AP courses, but its addition would go a long way toward enhancing ...