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HistoryAtOurHouse European History Curriculum Summary

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

The Rise of Europe Our first important theme this year will be the rise of Europe.  It is the rise of a new culture out of the ashes of the Roman Empire, so we will begin by recapping the story of the fall of Rome.  It will be very important for us to look at [...]

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Registration Schedule for the 2009-10 School Year with HistoryAtOurHouse

Thursday, May 21st, 2009

HistoryAtOurHouse will be accepting new enrollments for the 2009-10 academic year on the following staggered schedule. American history, starting June 1st. Ancient history, starting July 1st. European history, including registration for live classes, starting August 1st. Mark your calendars, and get ready for another great year of history!

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How Much History do Kids Need?

Tuesday, April 21st, 2009

As I discussed in my last post (Kids Need History Early), children should start learning history as early as six years of age, and no later than eight. They are ready to learn it then, and they need to start creating the foundation of knowledge that enables their intellectual growth through elementary, middle school, and [...]

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History At Our House Accepts Late Registration

Wednesday, April 1st, 2009

Around this time of year, a fair number of homeschoolers interested in trying a new history curriculum arrive at my doorstep. Some are just starting to homeschool.  Other don’t follow a typical September-June school year.  Others are tired of the traditional options out there.  Indeed, homeschoolers are generally still having a lot of problems meeting [...]

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Textbook Patrol: How Not to Present the Early History of American Government!

Monday, December 3rd, 2007

Having spent considerable time looking at the high school textbook American Pageant, I didn’t think it could get any worse. But I was sadly mistaken. Reading America and its People, a HarperCollins textbook, makes me wish I could paper my walls with American Pageant! Case in point, America and its People‘s presentation of one of [...]

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Textbook Patrol: The Contested Legacy of Pocahontas

Wednesday, November 14th, 2007

If your student(s) are working with the textbook American Pageant, they will need a lot of help.  Like all textbooks I’ve seen, this book is riddled with problems, starting with the fact that it’s five times too long, and yet still manages to miss presenting crucial information. Sadly, another of this textbook’s major flaws is [...]

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A New Lie Teachers are Telling

Monday, October 22nd, 2007

In his influential book Lies My Teacher Told Me, James Loewen claims to dissect the errors of American history textbooks and set the record straight on a number of important issues.  Two of the charges Loewen makes are that 1) textbooks make history boring by presenting it as a bunch of established conclusions–instead of “furious debate,” as he would have [...]

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It May Not Be a New Story, But That’s the Problem!

Friday, October 5th, 2007

As I was researching the state of history textbooks in this country, I came across this MSNBC article about the way that textbooks are created and chosen.  The article isn’t “just in,” but it does explain why textbooks, like the egregiously poor American Pageant are the way they are.

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Why West?

Thursday, October 4th, 2007

Why did Columbus sail west for Asia?  The American Pageant answers: ”Meanwhile the kingdom of Spain became united…after centuries of Christian-Islamic warfare…Portugal controlled the gateway to the round-Africa water route to India.  Of necessity, therefore, Spain looked westward.” Of necessity, therefore, Spain looked westward? I cannot imagine a greater injustice to Christopher Columbus than this incompetent [...]

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Where is Prince Henry?!

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007

In its first chapter, American Pageant proposes to its students that America had “indirect discoverers.”  This term is never explained, though it is meant to encompass the Vikings and other precursors of Columbus.  Amazingly, however, though Crusaders and Marco Polo are also mentioned, nowhere is Prince Henry of Portugal, who initiated the Age of Discovery, anywhere to be found! There is [...]

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