“Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right, but our country, right or wrong!” Stephen Decatur, Tripolitan War hero The story of the Tripolitan War, or the First Barbary Pirates’ War and the founding of the American Navy, is told in The Story of the Great Republic. Stephen […]
Abigail Adams, founding mother
“Learning is not attained by chance; it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.” Abigail Adams, 2nd First Lady of the United States. #WhyWeHomeschool #KnowYourHistory #WesternCiv #AmericanExceptionalism Nothing New Press Histories 2020 Practical #Homeschooling Reader’s Choice Award winners 102 Cathy Duffy Top Pick Homeschooling Curriculum nothingnewpress.com Award-winning #History on a biblical foundation
The sweep of the Middle Ages
The Middle Ages covers a thousand-year sweep, when the principles of Christianity so informed Western Civilization, that Europe was known as “Christendom.” nothingnewpress.com/books/guerbers-histories/middle-ages/ #KnowYourHistory #WesternCiv #HomeschoolHistory The Story of the Middle Ages 2020 Practical #Homeschooling Reader’s Choice Award Winner nothingnewpress.com Award-winning #History on a Biblical foundation
Hendrick Willem Van Loon on History for Children
This is why we teach history, first of all, instead of modern social studies, and why we teach it with living books! From the Forward to Hendrik Willem Van Loon’s History with a Match: Being an Account of the Earliest Navigators and the Discovery of America: TO ALL GROWN-UPS: This little book is an historical […]
On teaching writing
“The practice of writing, that is, of composing, depends on previous reading, and example.” – Jacob Bryant, English historian and author | 1715-1804 From A New System, or an Analysis of Antient Mythology, Volume IV, p. 158. This is why we focus, in the elementary years, on a glut of reading, and copying, with spelling […]
