Archive for February, 2008

History At Our House 2007-2008 Enrollment and 2008-2009 Preview

Friday, February 29th, 2008

It’s amazing, but we’re already well past the half-way point of this academic year! Since I’ve been receiving an increasing number of inquiries both from people who want to join the program currently underway and people who are interested in next year, I thought I’d address both these possibilities in a blog post. 2007-2008 Enrollment [...]

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Give Me Liberty, Or You’ll Get Death!

Friday, February 15th, 2008

Patrick Henry is widely known and celebrated for his speech of 1775 that ends with the climactic proclamation, “Give me liberty, or give me death!” To know Patrick Henry from his earlier career, however, is to understand and appreciate him even more. Which is why it’s so thrilling to be able to see his rhetorical [...]

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When History Beats Hannah Montana!

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

History is generally thought of by students to be the most boring of all subjects.  It always seems to have been this way. I certainly remember it being so when I was in school.  And evidently, nothing has changed in conventional schools.  You still here this problem being lamented in books that are critical of the current system, [...]

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Homeschooling Book of the Week: The Best Historical Atlas of American History

Monday, February 4th, 2008

Before and while becoming a historian, I worked for ten years as a geographic information systems consultant.  (That’s fancy talk for “modern geographer.”) During that time I had a chance to work with all kinds of maps and mapping software, creating maps for different kinds of clients, and I learned the importance of clear thematic presentations in [...]

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