History Curricula

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

Jazz Age

  1. Big Bosses
  2. The Depression
  3. Flappers

Atomic Age

Postmodern Age

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

Japanese History & Culture

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