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Posted on 10/13/2025 8:19:43 AM PDT by GreaterSwiss
My daughter is reading at a 3rd grade level. Her school isn’t teaching her American History (or at least Columbus Day). Any recommendations for American history friendly books for that age? Especially if it has pictures and pro-trump
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Rush had some he helped with.
LS might know more.
Rush Limbaugh had a series of children’s books on American history...............
Well, not sure if there’s a kids version (there might be) but the book The Light and the Glory has some great info on early American history. No Trump though 😅. Also David Barton has a lot of material. Perhaps check his website.
Look into quality homeschooling curriculum. Also consider using children’s biographies of historical figures in addition to textbooks. Brings them to life and makes them living people rather than some long-dead person from the past.
A bit off topic, but I learned a great deal about Texas history from Michener’s “Texas.” Any of John Jakes’ novels are great reading, though I would limit it to age 15 and above.
Finding a history of Columbus Day should be easy.
While the “modern” version of Columbus has been tarnished a bit, the guy still did a lot of start the colonization of the North American continent.
Finding decent summaries should be pretty easy with a search.
Bfl
I recommend the Landmark Books series (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landmark_Books_(series)). Oldies (1960’s) but goodies. You can pick up quite a few of these on Amazon for relatively low prices. Lots of school libraries got rid of these when the woke librarians took over, so there’s lots of copies gathering dust in book depositories, ready for sale.
I was about to mention LS. I have a couple of his books and he would have the answers.
I gave my OLD World Book and Britannica encyclopedias.
When I was a kid we had a lot of the American Heritage Junior Library books. They might be a little ahead of third-grade level, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing.
As far as history for a 3rd grader goes, I would suggest basic biographies of great figures. Lots of pictures is good.
I just spent the last half hour on Grok, trying to come up with a list of books for you.
When asking for balanced accounts of Columbus it presented a bunch of books that relied mostly on the indigenous perspective: Columbus was greedy and an a-hole.
Then I got into a debate with Grok about how Columbus was acting like any explorer/business person of his time. His job was to find riches and expand the reach and commerce of Spain. I argued that the disease that Columbus brought over would have arrived within the same time frame anyway. North America was not a secret and many trips were either being planned or were coming in the next year or so. The European diseases would have showed up anyway.
In the end, pretty much what you are going to find are books that appear to be one-sided, and that apply 21st Century morals to people acting in the 15th. I always think THAT is a bad way to teach anyone. But I am not sure that third graders are going to be able to make that distinction.
Anyway…half an hour of my life is gone. I am a bit discouraged with the results. I despise how history now has to have a “judgey” quality to it that hinders an objective observation of what was going on. If you don’t understand “why” people did things, it is likely you won’t recognize it when it happens again.
It is no different than “Orange Man Bad.”
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