History Curricula

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 of America

Stories of colonial times to the 1990s.

Colonial Age

1. Albion's Seed
2. Tobacco Brides
3. Natives
4. Founding Fathers
5. Eli Whitney and the Cotton Gin
6. Revolutionary War
7. Early Explorers
8. Yeomanry
9. Founding of Colleges
10. Tidewater
11. The Five Civilized Tribes
12. The Empire of Liberty
13. The Plantations
14. Universalists
15. The Navy & The Barbary Wars
16. The Mathers
17. George Washington
18. Thomas Jefferson
19. Alexander Hamilton
20. Powhatan and Pocahontas
21. William Penn
22. Aaron Burr
23. Thomas Hutchinson
24. Lyman Beecher
25. Baron von Steuben
26. Lafayette
27. Pulaski
28. Nathan Hale
29. Jonathan Edwards
30. Timothy Dwight
31. Metacomet
32. James Wilson
33. John Winthrop
34. William Johnson, the White Savage
35. Jean Nicolet
36. Henry Ware and the Unitarians
37. Haym Salomon
38. Anne Bailey
39. Arthur St. Clair
40. Samuel Hopkins
41. Eleazar Wheelock
42. James Wilkinson
43. Benjamin Rush
44. Shays' Rebellion
45. The Whiskey Rebellion
46. The Sullivan Expedition
47. Trumbull
48. Gilbert Stuart
49. Manumission

John Paul Jones

Romantic Age

1. Lewis & Clark
2. War of 1812
3. The Whig Party
4. Manifest Destiny
5. Trail of Tears
6. Louisiana Purchase
7. Mexican American War
8. Second Great Awakening
9. Transcendentalists
10. Utopians
11. Philadelphia Bible Riots
12. Nativism & Know-Nothings
13. Mass Production, American System of Manufactures
14. Mormonism
15. The Burned Over District
16. The Cult of Domesticity
17. Steamboats
18. Individualism
19. The Gold Rush
20. 48ers
21. Slavocracy
22. The Civil War
23. Abolitionists
24. The Wide Awakes
25. The Pig War
26. Boston Brahmin
27. The Benevolent Empire
28. Bureau of Indian Affairs
29. Henry Clay
30. John Jacob Astor
31. Johnny Appleseed
32. Wyatt Earp
33. John Smith
34. Brigham Young
35. P.T. Barnum
36. Mountain Men
37. Nathaniel Taylor
38. John Brown Smith & Ellen Goodell
39. Erie Canal
40. Levi Strauss

Gilded & Progressive Age

1. Miraculous Inventions
2. American Amusements
3. Rain Follows the Plow
4. New Money, Philanthropy, Robber Barons
5. Manifest Destiny
6. American empire
7. German Assimilation
8. Alaska Gold Rush
9. Railroads
10. Nature's Metropolis
11. Indian Wars
12. Boomtowns
13. Frontier Thesis
14. Progressive Society
15. Seward's Folly
16. Barnum & Bailey's
17. Chicago World's Fair
18. Victoria Woodhull & Free Love
19. Spiritualism
20. Eugenics
21. Hydraulic Society
22. Range Wars
23. The Buffalo
24. Bimetallism
25. Ellis Island
26. East Coast Ethnic Enclaves
27. Cowboys
28. Miners
29. Company Towns
30. Child Labor
31. Panning for Gold
32. Chief Joseph
33. Bicycles
34. Taking Hawaii
35. Woodrow Wilson
36. The Great War
37. Oneida Community
38. Ford's Theatre
39. Benjamin Tillman
40. J.P. Morgan
41. Mosquito Fleets
42. Picture Brides
43. Forbes
44. Patrick Kennedy
45. John D. Rockefeller
46. Andrew Carnegie
47. Vanderbilts
48. Custer and the Great Sioux War
49. General Philip Sheridan
50. Geronimo
51. Chicago Fire
52. Daniel Burnham
53. Jesse James
54. The Wright Brothers
55. Boeing
56. Houdini
57. Frederick Russell Burnham
58. Mary Baker Edy
59. Dow Chemical
60. The Fence Cutters War
61. The Los Angeles Times bombing
62. Locusts of 1875
63. The Nature Fakers
64. Miner's War
65. Seattle Fire
66. Coca Cola
67. Gibson Girls

Jazz Age

1. Big Bosses
2. The Depression
3. Prohibition
4. Flappers
5. Cigarettes
6. Marketing
7. The New Deal
8. Art Deco
9. Hillbillies
10. War Economy
11. Wartime Propaganda
12. Pearl Harbor
13. D-Day
14. Family Planning
15. Radio
16. American Songbook & Tin Pan Alley
17. Lend Lease Agreement
18. The Great Migration
19. Douglas MacArthur
20. FDR
21. Comstock Laws
22. Einstein
23. Patton
24. Eisenhower
25. Lindbergh
26. Howard Hughes
27. Al Capone
28. John Herbert Dillinger
29. Amelia Earhart
30. Reinhold Niebuhr
31. Ezra Pound
32. Babe Ruth
33. Jackie Robinson
34. Joe DiMaggio
35. William Laurence
36. Pearl Buck
37. Alice Bailey
38. William Bullitt Jr.
39. George Balanchine
40. Will Geer
41. Joe Louis
42. Guy Ballard
43. Sacco and Vanzetti
44. The Ponzi Scheme
45. The Scopes Monkey Trial
46. The St. Valentine's Massacre
47. The Lindbergh Kidnapping
48. Anthony Bimba
49. Radium Girls
50. Dust Bowl Photography
51. Grand Coulee Dam
52. Hoover Dam

History of Christendom

Stories of ancient empire to postmodern globalism.

History of the World

Missions, Empire, Foreign Policy, and all the other nations of Earth