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

1. Albion's Seed
2. Tobacco Brides
3. Natives
4. Founding Fathers
5. Eli Whitney and the Cotton Gin
6. Revolutionary War
7. Louisiana Purchase
8. Early Explorers
9. Yeomanry
10. Founding of Colleges
11. Tidewater
12. The Five Civilized Tribes
13. The Empire of Liberty
14. The Plantations
15. Universalists
16. The Navy & The Barbary Wars
17. The Mathers
18. George Washington
19. Thomas Jefferson
20. Alexander Hamilton
21. Powhatan and Pocahontas
22. William Penn
23. Aaron Burr
24. Thomas Hutchinson
25. Lyman Beecher
26. Baron von Steuben
27. Lafayette
28. Pulaski
29. Nathan Hale
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
50. John Paul Jones

Gilded Age

1. Miraculous Inventions
2. American Amusements

Jazz Age

1. Big Bosses

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