That's why I'm giving my kids a year and a half to do US History. The younger one has a 10 book set which he's about halfway through (he's in the middle of the Civil War) and our daughter is using an AP US History text and study guides, but is not going to take the AP test. I may have her do the CLEP tests, though, because this text exactly mirrors the time frames covered by that program.
In Feb. or March, they'll both start their classical sequence with the study of Ancient History.
We thought about pursuing a classical homeschool education starting this year, but we got intimidated. ;^)
With our schedules over the last few years (including the arrival of a new little one) we haven't done as much as I want to. But come spring we plan to start doing weekend outings to the Civil War (and Revolutionary War) sites around here to supplement the history lessons. My boys need to know they're Virginians and the history that goes with that. We live just a few miles from where our first Huguenot ancestors settled in the late 1600s. I need to keep that connection open.
Coming back from the reunion on Sunday we plan to stop at the D-Day Memorial in Bedford if we have time.