Archive for the ‘World History’ Category
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Vikings at Nova Online
Saturday, November 20th, 2010
The PBS Nova series did a 2-hour program in 2000 entitled “The Vikings”. Even though the program is ten years old, the Nova Online website still provides some good information homeschoolers can use in their history lessons. You can explore a Viking village through videos of the model medieval village of Birka from the Museum [...]
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Where do Alphabets Come From?
Sunday, September 26th, 2010
In our homeschool we’re currently teaching our five year old how to print his letters. Having studied Greek in college, I’ve had some notion of where the Latin and Cyrillic alphabets originated. However, I haven’t given it a whole lot of thought until today, when I came across this webpage, Evolution of Alphabets, from Prof. [...]
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Maps-of-War: A Website Review for Homeschoolers
Sunday, September 26th, 2010
Maps-of-War is a fun website that allows you to download 90-second animated videos of maps with timelines showing the historical progression of various political and social movements. Here’s an example of the kind of maps on the Maps-of-War website, this one showing the growth of the world’s major religions: Other maps available at Maps-of-War cover [...]
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The Universe Next Door: A Homeschool Book Review
Saturday, August 14th, 2010
by Todd Durell I first read The Universe Next Door, by James W. Sire, about 20 years ago and found it to be a helpful basic compendium of worldviews. Now that our daughter is getting ready to start college, one of our last homeschool activities is to read this book together with her and some [...]
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Baroque Art for Homeschoolers at the Liechtenstein Museum Website
Saturday, August 14th, 2010
by Todd Durell The Liechtenstein family dates its beginnings to the early 12th century and they have ruled the tiny Principality of Liechtenstein, wedged between Austria and Switzerland, since its creation by imperial decree in 1719. The princes have a long history as serious art collectors and have amassed one of the world’s greatest collections [...]
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Medieval Clip Art for Homeschool History Projects
Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010
By Todd Durell I ran across this website when I was looking for a woodcut illustration. Gode Cookery is a site devoted primarily to Medieval and Renaissance cooking, but it’s also gathered together over 200 images from the 15th and 16th centuries. The Medieval Woodcuts Clipart Collection includes illustrations of plants, birds, people, and decorative borders. [...]
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Monkey-of-the-Month: August 2010
Sunday, August 1st, 2010
An Indian Fakir with Monkeys. Photo Credit: Abdul Hamid II collection at the Library of Congress. LC-USZ62-125562.
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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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The Arabs in History: A Homeschool Book Review
Tuesday, July 20th, 2010
by Todd Durell This short history text, first published in 1950 and most recently updated in 1992, represents a solid overview of the history of the Arabic Middle East for the advanced high school level homeschool student by one of the world’s leading experts in the history of the Middle East. With only 208 pages [...]
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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, [...]