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 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.