I don’t know if you have seen The Pioneer Woman on Food network but she homeschools and has a link on her website for fellow homeschoolers. Pretty awesome stuff there.
(Oh and FWIW, in elementary school, my history classes never got past the Civil War. Now, I can tell you all about the Underground Railroad, Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Dred Scott but virtually nothing about anything that happened after that. I bet you can guess where my teacher’s interests were.)
http://thepioneerwoman.com/homeschooling/
“Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.”
Joseph Stalin