Archive for the ‘US History’ Category
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America’s Historical Documents
Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010
Here are a few websites you can go to for information about the important documents in the history of the West, and especially the United States. Some include texts of the documents and lesson plans. The University of Oklahoma College of Law sponsors a website, Chronology of US Historical Documents, containing a chronology and complete [...]
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Homeschool Resources: African American History from the Chicago History Museum
Sunday, September 5th, 2010
The Chicago Historical Society has three units about African American history available on the Chicago History Museum website. Slavery and Freedom in America focuses on the life of Hannah Harris, a slave on a Virginia plantation. Written for grades 5 – 8, the unit is divided into two one-week lessons. The first, “Meet Hannah the [...]
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Religion and the Founding of the American Republic: A Homeschool Review
Sunday, August 22nd, 2010
Religion and the Founding of the American Republic is an on-line exhibition from the Library of Congress that examines the role of faith in the early development of our nation. Most early American leaders believed that it was essential to the survival and prosperity of the republic to have citizens with a robust religious faith. [...]
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Lewis and Clark Websites for Homeschool History Units
Friday, August 20th, 2010
by Todd Durell Here are six websites worth checking out for unit studies covering Lewis and Clark’s expedition. My personal favorites are the PBS and Library of Congress sites: Lewis and Clark: The National Bicentennial Exhibition is an interactive exhibition presented by the Missouri Historical Society. The site has an impressive interactive map, articles about [...]
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A Homeschool Field Trip to the Studebaker National Museum, South Bend, Indiana
Saturday, August 7th, 2010
by Todd Durell Throughout the early to mid 20th century, Indiana played a leading role in the development of the American automobile industry. Many companies, including Stutz, Duesenburg, and Auburn built some beautiful cars in the Hoosier state. Several of the these companies closed their doors or merged with other companies before World War II. [...]
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Homeschool Resources from Discovery Education
Saturday, August 7th, 2010
Discovery Education has a section on their website called “Homework Help” that includes short videos and exercises in math, science, English and social studies. The math page covers the basics of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, and the science page has videos about waterways, birds, and chemical reaction. You can review punctuation, sentence structure, and [...]
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Peace and Social Justice Projects for Homeschool Cooperatives: PeaceJam
Sunday, July 25th, 2010
by Todd Durell My wife’s aunt, Wanda, recommended PeaceJam to me as one of the best social justice and peace organizations offering programs for homeschool families. PeaceJam was founded in the mid-1990s by Dawn Engle and Ivan Suvanjieff to foster a non-violent response to increasing gang violence in the Denver area. (Click here for PeaceJam’s [...]
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S.S. City of Milwaukee, Manistee, Michigan
Wednesday, July 21st, 2010
by Todd Durell The steamship S.S. City of Milwaukee was built in 1930 to haul railroad cars across Lake Michigan and bypass the chronically dysfunctional Chicago railway yards. Today, as a National Historic Landmark, the ship is docked along US Highway 31 in Manistee, Michigan, and open for guided tours. If you’re studying US depression [...]
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Excerpts from Slave Narratives for Homeschool History Lessons
Monday, July 19th, 2010
by Todd Durell The brutality and inhumanity of the slave trade from Africa to America is documented in passages from primary sources on the website, Excerpts from Slave Narratives. Edited by Steven Mintz of the University of Houston, this website offers the student of history 46 personal narratives written by slaves, slave traders, military officers, [...]
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The Concord Review Offers Homeschooled High School Students Publication Opportunity
Sunday, July 18th, 2010
by Todd Durell Here’s a option worth looking into for the advanced homeschool history student. The Concord Review was founded in 1987 as a venue for publication of exceptional high school history papers. Papers can cover any topic of ancient or modern history and should be around 4,000-6,000 words. If topics like “Austria-Hungary and the [...]
