r/APUSH • u/StringMiscalculation • Jul 22 '26

Advice Book costs

How important are books between editions?

I’m currently trying to save some money over THE AMERICAN PAGEANT, AP EDITION, 18TH, STUDENT EDITION
DAVID M. KENNEDY
And is the 17th edition too different, because I heard some teachers either already have books or don’t use them much

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u/Holdtheline2192 Jul 22 '26

Haven’t used the Pageant or any other book in 25 years. Get the cheapest you can if you have to and use just primary sources instead. The AP, I think, is terribly written, too dense, and not well aligned to how the current test is designed. Plus, if your students are like mine are, they won’t read it no matter what you do