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Sunday, April 19, 2026

Cramfortheexam

Save the Dates: AP Review Shows

Once again this year, C-SPAN is excited to bring back our annual “Cram for the Exam” review shows. Both programs will be archived and shared as streaming video on C-SPAN Classroom after the LIVE programs conclude. Check out the details for each program below.

  • AP U.S. History: History teachers Jason Stacy and Matthew Ellington, co-authors of “Fabric of a Nation: A History with Skills and Sources, for the AP® US History Course,” will once again host our AP U.S. History review show. New this year, they'll take questions from students live on air on the Washington Journal, this Saturday, April 25th, beginning at 9:15am ET. The duo will also explain how this year's exam is structured, provide strategies for answering questions, and offer tips on how to analyze historical documents. View past APUSH review shows here.

  • AP U.S. Government & Politics: C-SPAN will also host our annual “Cram for the Exam” AP U.S. Government & Politics exam call-in review on Saturday, May 2nd, beginning at 9:00am ET! Former C-SPAN Teacher Fellow and Troy, Michigan, teacher Ryan Werenka and Petaluma, California, teacher Kevin Jackson will join us LIVE for the program. Students can call in with their questions (and shoutouts), and post @CSPANWJ on X/Twitter with the hashtag #Cram4TheExam. View past “Cram for the Exam” programs and all of our AP Gov. review resources here.

economics

Review Series: Financial Literacy and Economics

This week, we conclude our seven-week review series with our resources covering all things financial literacy and economics, including for both the AP Microeconomics and AP Macroeconomics courses. Explore each resource using the links below!

 

Financial Literacy

  • Introduction to Economics
  • Business and Trade
  • Fiscal Policy and the Budgetary Process
  • Monetary Policy and Financial Regulation
  • Financial Literacy and Personal Finance
  • Economics in History

AP Microeconomics

  • Unit-by-Unit Resources
  • AP Microeconomics Key Vocabulary Terms
  • Practice Microeconomics FRQ

AP Macroeconomics

  • Unit-by-Unit Resources
  • AP Macroeconomics Key Vocabulary Terms
  • Practice Macroeconomics FRQs

Earth-Day

Earth Day and Environmental Issues

Earth Day is this Wednesday, April 22nd! Noted primatologist and anthropologist Jane Goodall once remarked, “What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” In that spirit, we have gathered the following collection of environmentally-focused resources from our C-SPAN Classroom Featured Resources site.

  • On This Day: The Creation of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) (4 Clips)
  • On This Day: East Palestine, Ohio Train Derailment (4 Clips)
  • Deliberation: How can the government better respond to natural disasters? (14 Clips)
  • Clip: Donald Trump on the Environment (5:30)
  • Bell Ringer: The Role of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) (3 Clips)
  • Bell Ringer: Earth Day and Sustainable Development (6:21)
  • Bell Ringer: Environment and the Los Angeles Aqueduct (2 Clips)
  • Bell Ringer: Burning Rivers and Environmental Squalor (2 Clips) 
  • Bell Ringer: Cap and Trade Policies to Reduce Carbon Dioxide Emissions (3:16)
  • Bell Ringer: Climate Change and Skepticism (2:50)
  • Bell Ringer: Extreme Weather Events and Climate Change (3:24)
  • Bell Ringer: Natural and Cultural Landscapes (4:18)
  • Bell Ringer: Significance of Silent Spring (5:07)
  • Bell Ringer: Agriculture and Irrigation in Yuma, Arizona (6:10)
  • Bell Ringer: Native American and English Settlers Land Usage (2 Clips)
  • Bell Ringer: Yucca Mountain and Nuclear Waste Storage (6:38)
  • Bell Ringer: The Army Corps of Engineers and Natural Disasters (5:58)
  • Bell Ringer: Experimenting with Plants on the ISS (2 Clips)
  • Lesson: What strategies should the US adopt to address Climate Change? (7 Clips)
  • Lesson: Camp Mohican and the CCC (14 Clips)
  • Lesson: "Silent Spring Revolution" - Conservation Efforts in the U.S. (7 Clips)
  • Lesson: The 1970s and the Environment (11 Clips)
  • Lesson: The Grand Canyon: John Wesley Powell's Expedition (3 Clips)
  • Lesson: “Should Federal Lands be Open to Development?” (6 Clips)
  • Lesson: Deliberation - What should the US policy be towards the use of fossil fuels? (6 Clips)

Brown

U.S. History: 1945 to 1970

From the postwar boom to Civil Rights protests and the Vietnam War, the two and a half decades following the conclusion of World War II include many events for your students to study. We have gathered the following sampling of resources from our U.S. History Featured Resources site to help you and your students.

 

1945-1959

  • Bell Ringer: The German Origins of the American Rocket Program (4:22)
  • Bell Ringer: Levittown and Post-World War II Suburbanization (2:54)
  • Bell Ringer: The Taft-Hartley Act (2 Clips)
  • Bell Ringer: The Truman Doctrine (4:41)
  • Lesson: The Red Scare and McCarthyism (7 Clips)
  • Bell Ringer: The Berlin Airlift (9:53)
  • Lesson: Oral Histories of the Korean War (9 Clips)
  • Clip: 1952 I Like Ike Campaign Ad (1:12)
  • Bell Ringer: Blinding of Isaac Woodard and Military Desegregation (3 Clips)
  • Lesson: The Emmett Till Story (8 Clips & Slides)
  • Lesson: Brown v. Board of Education (9 Clips)
  • Lesson: The Red Scare of the 1940s and 1950s (9 Clips & Slides)
  • Bell Ringer: North Little Rock High School Integration (6:29)
  • On This Day: The Launch of Sputnik (5 Clips)
  • Bell Ringer: The 1959 Kitchen Debate (5:24)
  • Lesson: Key Events of the Civil Rights Movement (15 Clips)

1960-1970

  • Bell Ringer: The 1960 U-2 Spy Plane Incident (2:53)
  • Lesson: NASA's Project Apollo (1961-75) (12 Clips)
  • Clip: 1960 Kennedy - Nixon Debate (1:02:54)
  • Lesson: Civil Rights Movement: Sit-Ins (4 Clips)
  • On This Day: John Glenn Orbits the Earth (5 Clips)
  • Lesson: Cuban Missile Crisis (11 Clips)
  • Lesson: Jacqueline Kennedy's 1962 Televised White House Tour (6 Clips)
  • Bell Ringer: John F. Kennedy's Legacy (7:03)
  • Bell Ringer: Dolores Huerta and the United Farm Workers (4:16)
  • Lesson: The Vietnam War (10 Clips)
  • Bell Ringer: The Civil Rights Act of 1964 (7:15)
  • Lesson: President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society Initiatives (9 Clips)
  • Lesson: Voting Rights Marches in Selma (3 Clips)
  • Bell Ringer: The Voting Rights Act and African Americans in Congress (3:43)
  • Bell Ringer: The 1966 Fulbright Hearings on the Vietnam War (2 Clips)
  • On This Day: The Tet Offensive (3 Clips)
  • Lesson: 1968 in Images (9 Clips)
  • On This Day: The Silent Majority (6 Clips)
  • Bell Ringer: The Pentagon Papers and New York Times Company v. U.S. (4:12)
  • On This Day: The May 4th Shootings at Kent State (9 Clips)

Warm regards,

 

Craig, Pam & Zach

C-SPAN's Education Team

 

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