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Nowadays, one of the aims of language education is to promote students’ sociocultural competence. Although most school textbooks include some information on history and culture of the English-speaking countries, there is an increasing demand for a more comprehensive study of the UK and the US to fulfill the needs of modern language education. The report is concerned with the importance of introducing American history and culture to Russian high school students within supplementary school education. The study under consideration is aimed at developing and testing the program of an elective course “History and Culture of the USA”, which is based on the flipped classroom methodology, relatively new to Russian education.