For course materials which are based on the founding documents and ideas, visit "Constituting America," the organization Janine Turner is associated with, or "Bill of Rights Institute". Both provide course materials online, as well as contests, materials, etc. for use in the home and school.
Also recommend a 292-page book entitled, "Our Ageless Constitution," published in the Bicentennial Year of the Constitution, 1987, and recently reprinted which traces ideas and principles underlying the Declaration of Independence and Constitution in an easy-to-read, illustrated format, using the Founders' own words. In Part V of that volume, constitutional scholars traced, one-by-one, the methods by which we have strayed from the Founders' principles. It includes many copies of original writings and a "Notable Quotations" section, alphabetized by subject matter.
For a book,I’d go with Paul Johnson’s “A History of the American People”.
go to a master historian who loves this country
go to Amazon and put in ‘Newt Gingrich” - a plethors of history books on our country - and they are REAL history
Thank you! Great Thread. BFL
In addition to our already mentioned “Patriot’s History of the United States,” see our companion volume, “A Patriot’s History Reader’” which contains some 60 documents in American history, including a few important but not obvious, documents.
< p> By the way, in October the first volume of our two volume series, “A Patriot’s History of the Modern World,” will come out.
wow. this is a great thread with terrific links. thank you!
Send a Private FreeP Mail to LS. He is the resident Freep Historian.
"In Denial: Historians, Communism and Espionage" by John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr.
I’m a big fan of:
(1) Primary source documents. This includes the book “Eyewitness to America”, the classic documents listed by others in this thread, and similar.
(2) I would never buy anything by Zinn, but I used “A People’s History Of The United States” by Howard Zinn as a reference with each of my kids (since their history teacher used it) and addressed Zinn’s points one by one. It’s important to deal with communist thought, since they will eventually encounter it, and they need to understand it. I didn’t want my kids supporting evil or even repeating the stupid mantra that “communism is good in theory but”. They need to know why communism is evil, and all of my kids firmly believe in freedom over collectivism.
The Avalon Project is a collection of historical texts and documents provided by the Yale Law School.
The Making of America is a massive archive of 19th century American books and journals. It's hosted by Cornell and the University of Michigan.
American Memory is a Library of Congress project. A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation provides the journals, reports, and records of Congress from 1774 to 1875 in a searchable data base.
None of these are strictly speaking "conservative" sites, but if you or your child ever has to do research they are invaluable (at least until the colleges start tampering with the documents).
The Library of Congress and the University of Virginia both host the searchable papers of our early Presidents. I don't know if they're including all the papers or just those they own themselves.
Lincoln's papers are available at the Library of Congress and at the University of Michigan. The University of Illinois provides the Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association.
Now some explicitly conservative sites:
The Constitution Society (Constitution.org) provides another collection of essential documents.
Liberty Fund's Online Library of Liberty does the same from a more libertarian point of view (There's more libertarian stuff at the Independent Institute).
The Claremont Institute puts out a journal and papers on political and historical topics.
The National Humanities Institute (not to be confused with the National Endowment for the Humanities) also publishes a journal, something like what ISI does, but I don't think they've been very active lately.
Commentary and First Things and The Weekly Standard also publish articles on history sometimes.
I would recommend college texts written in or prior to the 50s. The self hate had not started then.
I would recommend college texts written in or prior to the 50s. The self hate had not started then.
Please check it out. Recommended reading for all patriots:
... check out their bookstore as well (very reasonable).