Micaela Wells is a senior at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Alexandria.
Once, after second-grade history class, I came home and jokingly asked, “So did women just not exist?”
Ten years later, the question stands. But I’m no longer laughing.
I’m a high school senior who recently completed AP U.S. History, whose curriculum is the national standard for advanced high school history education. Although my textbook — branded AMSCO, and published by a company called Perfection Learning — isn’t endorsed by AP or the College Board, it closely follows the official AP U.S. History curriculum.
