Where every CivicsPath question, audio file, and image actually comes from. We use public-domain source materials from USCIS and the Smithsonian Institution, credit them transparently, and don’t claim any affiliation we don’t have.
USCIS test materials
The 128-question 2025 USCIS Naturalization Test and the 100-question 2008 cohort test are official US Citizenship and Immigration Services materials. CivicsPath uses the published question text and approved answers verbatim — we don’t paraphrase or “improve” the source. The N-400 application fields we collect mirror the official USCIS form. All public domain.
Source: uscis.gov/citizenship
Slow-English audio (USCIS)
The pronunciation audio for civics-test questions and answers comes from USCIS’s official slow-English MP3s. Public domain. We host them on our CDN to keep latency low; the source is linked above each audio clip.
Source: USCIS Citizenship Resource Center
Smithsonian Open Access artifacts
CivicsPath illustrates civics questions with public-domain artifact images from the Smithsonian Institution’s Open Access program — the Liberty Bell, the Constitution, presidential portraits, and other primary sources. CC0 license; the Smithsonian’s permissive terms make it the right partner for object-anchored learning.
Source: si.edu/openaccess
Smithsonian Preparing for the Oath
The Smithsonian’s Preparing for the Oath curriculum, co-authored with USCIS, is the gold standard for in-person citizenship test prep. CivicsPath is built on the same source materials with the same factual rigor — we add the digital practice loop, the personalized N-400 mock interview, and the Calm Mode for test anxiety that an in-person classroom can’t.
Source: americanhistory.si.edu/citizenship
Dept of Ed LINCS recognition
The Smithsonian’s Preparing for the Oath is recognized by the US Department of Education’s Adult Education and Literacy (LINCS) program as a primary citizenship-prep resource. We don’t claim our own LINCS endorsement — we cite the source we build on.
Source: lincs.ed.gov
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