APUSH Class Video Lectures 2024-25

Below are the links to the video notes for APUSH.

Video Notes
Using video notes online, creates a so called "flipped classroom" situation where you can access the notes at home and complete "homework type" work, group work, or special projects in class. The benefit to this style of notes is that you can pause and rewind as many times as you need to without missing anything. You are welcome to watch ahead if videos are available but specific videos will generally be assigned on specific days and are expected to be viewed by the deadline posted in class/Google Classroom. You can usually plan on one video per day at the beginning of each unit of study.

Please note, there is never a video for the first topic of an era (for example, Topic 1.1) which generally focuses on establishing the context of the era - what led up to the events that you will begin studying. Consult the framework for an overview of each era.

If you wish to have your own copy of the PowerPoint files for reference/study, you can download them from the APUSH Power Points and Files page located here

Fall Semester Units

Unit 1 - Era 1 - Topic 1.2 - Native American Societies Before European Contact (about 23 minutes)

Unit 1 - Era 1 - Topic 1.3 - European Exploration in the Americas (about 12 minutes)

Unit 1 - Era 1 - Topic 1.4 - Columbian Exchange, Spanish Exploration, and Conquest (about 5 1/2 minutes)

Unit 1 - Era 1 - Topic 1.5 - Labor, Slavery, and Caste in the Spanish Colonial System (about 7 minutes)

Unit 1 - Era 1 - Topic 1.6 - Cultural Interactions Between Europeans, Native Americans, and Africans (about 10 1/2 minutes)

Unit 2 - Era 2 - Topic 2.2 - European Colonization (about 7 1/2 minutes)

Unit 2 - Era 2 - Topic 2.3 - The Regions of British Colonies (about 24 minutes)

Unit 2 - Era 2 - Topic 2.4 - Transatlantic Trade (about 8 1/2 minutes)

Unit 2 - Era 2 - Topic 2.5 - Interactions Between American Indians and Europeans (about 11 minutes)

Unit 2 - Era 2 - Topic 2.6 - Slavery in the British Colonies (about 8 1/2 minutes)

Unit 2 - Era 2 - Topic 2.7 - Colonial Society and Culture (about 17 minutes)

Unit 3 - Era 3 - Topic 3.2 - The Seven Years' War (French and Indian War) (about 15 minutes)

Unit 3 - Era 3 - Topic 3.3 - Taxation Without Representation (about 17 1/2 minutes)

Unit 3 - Era 3 - Topic 3.4 - Philosophical Foundations of the American Revolution (about 10 minutes)

Unit 3 - Era 3 - Topic 3.5 - The American Revolution (about 17 1/2 minutes)

Unit 3 - Era 3 - Topic 3.6 - The Influence of Revolutionary Ideals (about 7 1/2 minutes)

Unit 3 - Era 3 - Topic 3.7 - The Articles of Confederation (about 13 1/2 minutes)

Unit 3 - Era 3 - Topic 3.8 - The Constitutional Convention and Debates over Ratification (about 12 minutes)

Unit 3 - Era 3 - Topic 3.9 - The Constitution (about 7 1/2 minutes)

Unit 3 - Era 3 - Topic 3.10 - Shaping a New Republic (about 16 1/2 minutes)

Unit 3 - Era 3 - Topic 3.11 - Developing an American Identity (about 8 minutes)

Unit 3 - Era 3 - Topic 3.12 - Movement in the Early Republic (about 6 1/2 minutes)

Unit 4 - Era 4 - Topic 4.2 - The Rise of Political Parties and the Era of Jefferson (about 21 1/2 minutes)

Unit 4 - Era 4 - Topic 4.3 - Politics and Regional Interests (about 13 minutes)

Unit 4 - Era 4 - Topic 4.4 - America on the World Stage (about 30 minutes)

Unit 4 - Era 4 - Topic 4.5 - Market Revolution: Industrialization (about 21 minutes)

Unit 4 - Era 4 - Topic 4.6 - Market Revolution: Society and Culture (about 14 minutes)

Unit 5 - Era 4 - Topic 4.7 - Expanding Democracy (about 7 minutes)

Unit 5 - Era 4 - Topic 4.8 - Jackson and Political Power (about 15 minutes)

Unit 5 - Era 4 - Topic 4.9 - The Development of an American Culture (about 10 minutes)

Unit 5 - Era 4 - Topic 4.10 - The Second Great Awakening (about 8 minutes)

Unit 5 - Era 4 - Topic 4.11 - An Age of Reform (about 21 minutes)

Unit 5 - Era 4 - Topic 4.12 - African Americans in the Early Republic (about 15 minutes)

Unit 5 - Era 4 - Topic 4.13 - The Society of the South in the Early Republic (about 7 1/2 minutes)

Unit 6 - Era 5 - Topic 5.2 - Manifest Destiny (about 11 1/2 minutes)

Unit 6 - Era 5 - Topic 5.3 - The Mexican-American War (about 15 1/2 minutes)

Unit 6 - Era 5 - Topic 5.4 - Compromise of 1850 (about 9 1/2 minutes)

Unit 6 - Era 5 - Topic 5.5 - Sectional Conflict: Regional Differences (about 14 1/2 minutes)

Unit 6 - Era 5 - Topic 5.6 - The Failure of Compromise (about 16 minutes)

Unit 6 - Era 5 - Topic 5.7 - Election of 1860 and Secession (about 15 minutes)

Unit 6 - Era 5 - Topic 5.8 - Military Conflict in the Civil War (about 20 1/2 minutes)

Unit 6 - Era 5 - Topic 5.9 - Government Policies During the Civil War (about 16 1/2 minutes)

Unit 6 - Era 5 - Topic 5.10 - Reconstruction (about 15 minutes)

Unit 6 - Era 5 - Topic 5.11 - Failure of Reconstruction (about 13 minutes)

Spring Semester Units

Unit 7 - Era 6 - Topic 6.2 - Westward Expansion: Economic Development (about 17 minutes)

Unit 7 - Era 6 - Topic 6.3 - Westward Expansion: Social and Cultural Development (about 15 minutes)

Unit 7 - Era 6 - Topic 6.4 - The “New South” (about 12 1/2 minutes)

Unit 7 - Era 6 - Topic 6.5 - Technological Innovations (about 16 minutes)

Unit 7 - Era 6 - Topic 6.6 - The Rise of Industrial Capitalism (about 6 minutes)

Unit 7 - Era 6 - Topic 6.7 - Labor in the Gilded Age (about 22 minutes)

Unit 7 - Era 6 - Topic 6.8 - Immigration and Migration in the Gilded Age (about 8 minutes)

Unit 7 - Era 6 - Topic 6.9 - Responses to Immigration in the Gilded Age (about 6 minutes)

Unit 7 - Era 6 - Topic 6.10 - Development of the Middle Class (about 8 1/2 minutes)

Unit 7 - Era 6 - Topic 6.11 - Reform in the Gilded Age (about 5 1/2 minutes)

Unit 7 - Era 6 - Topic 6.12 - Controversies over the Role of Government in the Gilded Age (about 9 minutes)

Unit 7 - Era 6 - Topic 6.13 - Politics in the Gilded Age (about 11 1/2 minutes)

Unit 8 - Era 7 - Topic 7.2 - Imperialism: Debates (about 6 minutes)

Unit 8 - Era 7 - Topic 7.3 - The Spanish–American War (about 12 minutes)

Unit 8 - Era 7 - Topic 7.4 - The Progressives (about 19 minutes)

Unit 8 - Era 7 - Topic 7.5 - World War I: Military and Diplomacy (about 17 minutes)

Unit 8 - Era 7 - Topic 7.6 - World War I: Home Front (about 17 minutes)

Unit 9 - Era 7 - Topic 7.7 - 1920s: Innovations in Communication and Technology (about 13 minutes)

Unit 9 - Era 7 - Topic 7.8 - 1920s: Cultural and Political Controversies (about 20 minutes)

Unit 9 - Era 7 - Topic 7.9 - The Great Depression (about 20 minutes)

Unit 9 - Era 7 - Topic 7.10 - The New Deal (about 17 minutes)

Unit 9 - Era 7 - Topic 7.11 - Interwar Foreign Policy (about 14 1/2 minutes)

Unit 9 - Era 7 - Topic 7.12 - World War II: Mobilization (about 13 minutes)

Unit 9 - Era 7 - Topic 7.13 - World War II: Military (about 21 minutes)

Unit 9 - Era 7 - Topic 7.14 - Postwar Diplomacy (about 4 1/2 minutes)

Unit 10 - Era 8 - Topic 8.2 - The Cold War from 1945 to 1980 (about 14 minutes)

Unit 10 - Era 8 - Topic 8.3 - The Red Scare (about 8 minutes)

Unit 10 - Era 8 - Topic 8.4 - Economy after 1945 (about 9 1/2 minutes)

Unit 10 - Era 8 - Topic 8.5 - Culture after 1945 (about 7 1/2 minutes)

Unit 10 - Era 8 - Topic 8.6 - Early Steps in the Civil Rights Movement (1940s and 1950s) (about 6 1/2 minutes)

Unit 10 - Era 8 - Topic 8.7 - America as a World Power (about 17 minutes)

Unit 10 - Era 8 - Topic 8.8 - The Vietnam War (about 12 minutes)

Unit 10 - Era 8 - Topic 8.9 - The Great Society (about 11 minutes)

Unit 10 - Era 8 - Topic 8.10 - The African American Civil Rights Movement (1960s) (about 12 1/2 minutes)

Unit 10 - Era 8 - Topic 8.11 - see below

Unit 10 - Era 8 - Topic 8.12 - Youth Culture of the 1960s (about 10 1/2 minutes)

Unit 10 - Era 8 - Topic 8.13 - see below

Unit 10 - Era 8 - Topic 8.14 - see below

**I have been unable to upload updated videos for the topics below but am linking some excellent ones by other APUSH teachers for you to complete notes from.

Unit 10 - Era 8 - Topic 8.10 - The African-American Civil Rights Movement (1960s) --> Use this video (about 16 minutes)

Unit 10 - Era 8 - Topic 8.11 - The Civil Rights Movement Expands --> Use this video (about 12 minutes)

Unit 10 - Era 8 - Topic 8.12 - Youth Culture of the 1960s --> Use this video (about 7 minutes)

Unit 10 - Era 8 - Topic 8.13 - The Environment and Natural Resources from 1968 to 1980 --> Use this video (about 5 minutes)

Unit 10 - Era 8 - Topic 8.14 - Society in Transition --> Use this video (about 11 minutes)

Unit 11 - Era 9 - Topic 9.2 - Reagan and Conservatism --> Use this video (about 6 1/2 minutes)

Unit 11 - Era 9 - Topic 9.3 - The End of the Cold War --> Use this video (about 5 1/2 minutes)

Unit 11 - Era 9 - Topic 9.4 - A Changing Economy --> Use this video (about 5 1/2 minutes)

Unit 11 - Era 9 - Topic 9.5 - Migration & Immigration in the 1990s and 2000s --> Use this video (about 3 1/2 minutes)

Unit 11 - Era 9 - Topic 9.6 - Challenges of the 21st Century --> Use this video (about 6 minutes)