A new school year is beginning, and like clockwork, the revisionist history plans for the public schools are making the news. The New York Times has launched the 1619 Project, with the goal to reframe American history all in terms of race and slavery. Someone needs to get the news to the New York Times […]
The History of the Bible in English
Christine has been writing a series over at A Little Perspective on the history of our English Bibles. The debate in academic circles continues to rage about the most accurate English translation, that is, the most true to the original autographs of Scripture, and what, even, those original autographs are. In order to answer this […]
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 […]
Quotes from Famous Americans
How to make history dates stick
by Mark Twain “Dates are hard to remember because they consist of figures; figures are monotonously unstriking in appearance, and they don’t take hold, they form no pictures, and so they give the eye no chance to help. Pictures are the thing. Pictures can make dates stick. They can make nearly anything stick–particularly IF YOU […]
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