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== History of America == |
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Stories of colonial times to the 1990s. |
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=== Colonial Age === |
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Core Lessons: |
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History can mean different things. There's the basic historical programme of what teachers and historians decided are the most important critical figures and events to interpret the past. This mainline narrative is of course shaped by what social views teachers and historians have, often liberalism or progressivism. |
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That should be contrasted with a sacred history that sees the unfolding of events in time as God's providence, a field of covenant promises, prophecy, revelation, and fulfillment. Ultimately, as the story of the saints of Christ being granted power to reign over the nations. |
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#[[Albion's Seed]] |
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#[[Tobacco Brides]] |
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#[[Natives]] |
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#[[Founding Fathers]] |
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#[[Eli Whitney and the Cotton Gin]] |
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#[[Revolutionary War]] |
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#[[Early Explorers]] |
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#[[Yeomanry]] |
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#[[Founding of Colleges]] |
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#[[Tidewater]] |
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#[[The Five Civilized Tribes]] |
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#[[The Empire of Liberty]] |
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#[[The Plantations]] |
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#[[Universalists]] |
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#[[index.php?title=The Navy & The Barbary Wars=|The Navy & The Barbary Wars]] |
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#[[The Mathers]] |
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#[[George Washington]] |
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#[[Thomas Jefferson]] |
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#[[Alexander Hamilton]] |
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#[[Powhatan and Pocahontas]] |
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#[[William Penn]] |
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#[[Aaron Burr]] |
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#[[Thomas Hutchinson]] |
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#[[Lyman Beecher]] |
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#[[Baron von Steuben]] |
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#[[Lafayette]] |
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#[[Pulaski]] |
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#[[Nathan Hale]] |
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#[[Jonathan Edwards]] |
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#[[Timothy Dwight]] |
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#[[Metacomet]] |
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#[[James Wilson]] |
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#[[John Winthrop]] |
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#[[William Johnson, the top of White Savage|William Johnson, the White Savage]] |
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#[[Jean Nicolet]] |
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#[[Henry Ware and the Unitarians]] |
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#[[Haym Salomon]] |
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#[[Anne Bailey]] |
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#[[Arthur St. Clair]] |
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#[[Samuel Hopkins]] |
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#[[Eleazar Wheelock]] |
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#[[James Wilkinson]] |
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#[[Benjamin Rush]] |
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#[[Shays' Rebellion]] |
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#[[The Whiskey Rebellion]] |
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#[[The Sullivan Expedition]] |
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#[[Trumbull]] |
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#[[Gilbert Stuart]] |
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#[[Manumission]] |
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[[John Paul Jones]] |
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Studies in more niche cultural history also help empower our imagination by giving us specific examples that show us the great changes in culture over time regarding how people went about in: war, work, love, success, poverty, habitation, ideas, expressions, socializing. |
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It is helpful for young people to encounter all of these kinds of narratives, and a good history curriculum should provide directions to discover more knowledge in each category. |
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== History of America == |
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[[American History]] |
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Stories of colonial times to the 1990s. |
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Core Lessons: |
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#Lewis & Clark |
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#War of 1812 |
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#The Whig Party |
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#Manifest Destiny |
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#Trail of Tears |
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#Louisiana Purchase |
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#Mexican American War |
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#Second Great Awakening |
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#Transcendentalists |
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#Utopians |
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#Philadelphia Bible Riots |
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#Nativism & Know-Nothings |
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#Mass Production, American System of Manufactures |
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#Mormonism |
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#The Burned Over District |
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#The Cult of Domesticity |
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#Steamboats |
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#Individualism |
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#The Gold Rush |
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#48ers |
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#Slavocracy |
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#The Civil War |
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#Abolitionists |
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#The Wide Awakes |
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#The Pig War |
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#Boston Brahmin |
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#The Benevolent Empire |
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#Bureau of Indian Affairs |
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#Henry Clay |
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#John Jacob Astor |
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#Johnny Appleseed |
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#Wyatt Earp |
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#John Smith |
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#Brigham Young |
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#P.T. Barnum |
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#Mountain Men |
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#Nathaniel Taylor |
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#John Brown Smith & Ellen Goodell |
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#Erie Canal |
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#Levi Strauss |
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=== Gilded & Progressive Age === |
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Core Lessons: |
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#Miraculous Inventions |
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#American Amusements |
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#Rain Follows the Plow |
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#New Money, Philanthropy, Robber Barons |
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#Manifest Destiny |
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#American empire |
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#German Assimilation |
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#Alaska Gold Rush |
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#Railroads |
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#Nature's Metropolis |
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#Indian Wars |
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#Boomtowns |
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#Frontier Thesis |
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#Progressive Society |
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#Seward's Folly |
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#Barnum & Bailey's |
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#Chicago World's Fair |
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#Victoria Woodhull & Free Love |
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#Spiritualism |
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#Eugenics |
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#Hydraulic Society |
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#Range Wars |
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#The Buffalo |
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#Bimetallism |
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#Ellis Island |
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#East Coast Ethnic Enclaves |
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#Cowboys |
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#Miners |
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#Company Towns |
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#Child Labor |
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#Panning for Gold |
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#Chief Joseph |
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#Bicycles |
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#Taking Hawaii |
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#Woodrow Wilson |
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#The Great War |
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#Oneida Community |
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#Ford's Theatre |
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#Benjamin Tillman |
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#J.P. Morgan |
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#Mosquito Fleets |
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#Picture Brides |
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#Forbes |
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#Patrick Kennedy |
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#John D. Rockefeller |
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#Andrew Carnegie |
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#Vanderbilts |
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#Custer and the Great Sioux War |
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#General Philip Sheridan |
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#Geronimo |
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#Chicago Fire |
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#Daniel Burnham |
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#Jesse James |
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#The Wright Brothers |
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#Boeing |
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#Houdini |
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#Frederick Russell Burnham |
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#Mary Baker Edy |
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#Dow Chemical |
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#The Fence Cutters War |
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#The Los Angeles Times bombing |
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#Locusts of 1875 |
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#The Nature Fakers |
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#Miner's War |
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#Seattle Fire |
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#Coca Cola |
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#Gibson Girls |
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=== Jazz Age === |
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Core Lessons: |
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#Big Bosses |
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#The Depression |
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#Prohibition |
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#Flappers |
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#Cigarettes |
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#Marketing |
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#The New Deal |
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#Art Deco |
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#Hillbillies |
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#War Economy |
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#Wartime Propaganda |
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#Pearl Harbor |
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#D-Day |
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#Family Planning |
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#Radio |
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#American Songbook & Tin Pan Alley |
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#Lend Lease Agreement |
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#The Great Migration |
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#Douglas MacArthur |
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#FDR |
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#Comstock Laws |
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#Einstein |
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#Patton |
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#Eisenhower |
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#Lindbergh |
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#Howard Hughes |
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#Al Capone |
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#John Herbert Dillinger |
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#Amelia Earhart |
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#Reinhold Niebuhr |
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#Ezra Pound |
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#Babe Ruth |
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#Jackie Robinson |
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#Joe DiMaggio |
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#William Laurence |
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#Pearl Buck |
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#Alice Bailey |
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#William Bullitt Jr. |
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#George Balanchine |
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#Will Geer |
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#Joe Louis |
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#Guy Ballard |
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#Sacco and Vanzetti |
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#The Ponzi Scheme |
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#The Scopes Monkey Trial |
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#The St. Valentine's Massacre |
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#The Lindbergh Kidnapping |
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#Anthony Bimba |
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#Radium Girls |
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#Dust Bowl Photography |
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#Grand Coulee Dam |
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#Hoover Dam |
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#[[Alpha Bravo Charlie - Phonetic Alphabets]] |
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#[[Oppenheimer]] |
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=== Atomic Age === |
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Core Lessons: |
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#[[Beatniks]] |
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#[[Space Race]] |
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#[[Cold War]] |
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#[[Car Culture]] |
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#[[Suburbia]] |
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#[[White Flight]] |
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#[[The American Teenager]] |
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#[[Rock n Roll]] |
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#[[The Military Industrial Complex]] |
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#[[The Deep State]] |
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#[[American Hegemony]] |
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#[[The Baby Boom]] |
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#[[The Civil Rights Movement]] |
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#[[The Great Society]] |
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#[[Demobilization]] |
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#[[Post Industrialism]] |
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#[[Brown V Board]] |
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#[[Suez Crisis]] |
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#[[Bay of Pigs]] |
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#[[Cuban Missile Crisis]] |
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#[[Television]] |
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#[[TV Dinners]] |
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#[[Tiki lounge]] |
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#[[British Invasion]] |
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#[[Coeds]] |
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#[[Going Steady]] |
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#[[James Dean & Blue jeans]] |
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#[[Kenneth Cooper's Aerobic Exercise]] |
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#[[Sitcoms]] |
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#[[Affirmative Action]] |
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#[[Agent Orange]] |
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#[[McNamara's Folly]] |
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#[[Truman Doctrine]] |
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#[[Area Redevelopment Administration]] |
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#[[The Pill]] |
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#[[The Highway]] |
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#[[The Dulles Brothers]] |
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#[[J. Edgard Hoover]] |
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#[[Buzz Aldrin]] |
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#[[Jack Parsons]] |
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#[[The Alsop Brothers]] |
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#[[Lyndon B. Johnson]] |
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#[[Klaus Fuchs]] |
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#[[John van Neumann]] |
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#[[Billy Graham]] |
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#[[Malcolm X]] |
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#[[Martin Luther King]] |
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#[[Lee Harvey Oswald]] |
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#[[Hugh Hefner]] |
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#[[James J. Angleton]] |
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#[[Emmett Till]] |
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#[[Lolita Lebrón]] |
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#[[Johnny Carson]] |
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#[[Rosenberg Trials]] |
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#[[Joseph McCarthy]] |
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#[[Roy Cohn]] |
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#[[Gouzenko Affair]] |
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#[[Elvis]] |
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#[[Bob Dylan]] |
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#[[Saul Alinsky]] |
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#[[Wolfman Jack]] |
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#[[David Dubinsky]] |
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#[[Thomas Hayden]] |
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#[[Salvatore Giancana]] |
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#[[Ralph David Abernathy]] |
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#[[Richard Cushing]] |
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#[[McGovern & Eagleton]] |
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#[[Barry Goldwater]] |
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#[[Medgar Wiley Evers]] |
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#[[Lenny Bruce]] |
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#[[Alger Hiss]] |
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#[[Fulton Sheen & Francis Spellman]] |
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#[[Ella Baker]] |
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#[[Muhammad Ali]] |
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#[[Sugar Ray Robinson]] |
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#[[John Birch Society]] |
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#[[Fermilab]] |
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#[[The Black Panther Party]] |
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#[[NATO]] |
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#[[Hell's Angels]] |
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#[[Ed Sullivan Show]] |
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#[[RAND Corporation]] |
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#[[The Woodwards]] |
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#[[FBI]] |
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#[[Little Rock]] |
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#[[Thích Quảng Đức]] |
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#[[The 1958 Lebanon Crisis]] |
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#[[The Freedom Train]] |
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#[[U-2 Spy Plane]] |
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#[[The KKK]] |
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#[[Freedom Summer]] |
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#[[The Korean War]] |
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#[[Disneyland]] |
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#[[EPCOT]] |
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#[[Oroville Dam]] |
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#[[Dworshak Dam]] |
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#[[Norman Rockwell]] |
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#[[Xerox]] |
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#[[Xerox]] |
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#[[Xerox]] |
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#[[Xerox]] |
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#[[Xerox]] |
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#[[Xerox]] |
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=== Postmodern Age === |
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Core Lessons: |
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#[[Hippies]] |
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#[[The Personal Computer]] |
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#[[Ted Kaczynski]] |
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#[[Serial Killers]] |
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#[[Rousas Rushdoony]] |
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#[[Disparate Impact]] |
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#[[Ecology]] |
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#[[Abortion]] |
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#[[The Cultural Revolution]] |
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#[[The Bobos]] |
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#[[The End of History]] |
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#[[The Sunbelt]] |
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#[[The Bush Family]] |
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#[[The Clintons]] |
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#[[Times of Crime]] |
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#[[Saturday Night Fever]] |
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#[[index.php?title=L. Ron Hubbard & Scientology=|L. Ron Hubbard & Scientology]] |
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#[[Madonna]] |
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#[[Jonestown]] |
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#[[Claude Dallas]] |
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#[[Ram Dass]] |
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#[[USAID]] |
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#[[NGOs]] |
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#[[John Paul Getty III]] |
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#[[Challenger Explosion]] |
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#[[The Kent State Shooting]] |
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#[[Clarence Thomas]] |
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#[[index.php?title=Harvey Milk & Daniel James White=|Harvey Milk & Daniel James White]] |
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#[[Nixon Goes To China]] |
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#[[CIA-backed Coups]] |
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#[[Watergate]] |
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#[[Desegregations]] |
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#[[Jimmy Hoffa]] |
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#[[Closing Alcatraz]] |
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#[[Noam Chomsky]] |
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#[[Paul Simon]] |
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#Phyllis Schlafly |
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== History of Christendom == |
== History of Christendom == |
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[[History of Christendom]] |
[[History of Christendom]] |
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== Geocultures == |
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Missions, Empire, Foreign Policy, and all the other nations of Earth |
Missions, Empire, Foreign Policy, anthropology, and all the other nations of Earth. National geographic curriculum. |
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== Japanese History & Culture == |
== Japanese History & Culture == |
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== Ancient History == |
== Ancient History == |
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[[Ancient History]] |
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Latest revision as of 00:29, 12 January 2026
The purpose of this wiki is primarily to provide good history lesson ideas and resources to families that might otherwise be uncertain about how to dive into a deeper and broader knowledge of history -- everything that has ever been, and much that no longer is. Growing in our grasp of historical lore helps us understand who we are and tunes our imagination to all that is possible. It makes our arguments deeper and richer.
However, because history contains so much, teachers speaking of it is often deeply boring because it takes so long to grasp what is essential and powerful. It takes a lot of training that may not be available to people working on the fly without state support.
Meanwhile, almost no history textbooks render history in a way that is either 1) narratively compelling or 2) analytically valuable.
Students are right to be bored to tears with the dreadful representation of history in textbooks as interminable lists of facts.
A wiki might do a better job of providing an easily navigable guide to major historical topics and themes, vivid stories, comparisons of representative artifacts, and analytical prompts.
History can mean different things. There's the basic historical programme of what teachers and historians decided are the most important critical figures and events to interpret the past. This mainline narrative is of course shaped by what social views teachers and historians have, often liberalism or progressivism.
That should be contrasted with a sacred history that sees the unfolding of events in time as God's providence, a field of covenant promises, prophecy, revelation, and fulfillment. Ultimately, as the story of the saints of Christ being granted power to reign over the nations.
Studies in more niche cultural history also help empower our imagination by giving us specific examples that show us the great changes in culture over time regarding how people went about in: war, work, love, success, poverty, habitation, ideas, expressions, socializing.
It is helpful for young people to encounter all of these kinds of narratives, and a good history curriculum should provide directions to discover more knowledge in each category.
History of America
Stories of colonial times to the 1990s.
History of Christendom
Stories of Christendom from the barbarian kings to postmodern globalism.
Geocultures
Missions, Empire, Foreign Policy, anthropology, and all the other nations of Earth. National geographic curriculum.