Looking for good history books for my ten year old son

[MAGA2017]

I'm looking for books on American history that I can give to my ten year son. He's interested in the American Revolutionary War but he's interested in other topics as well. I'm concerned about ordering something from Amazon or elsewhere that might contain nonsense about transgender Founding Fathers or Muslim pioneers who took part in the Constitutional Convention.

Any suggestions?

[SecAmndmt]

Stupid me. Worked night shift and missed “history”. Never mind, nothing to see here...

[Ohioan]

The late James Jackson Kilpatrick's Sovereign States, written in the late 1950s, is an excellent rebuke to the Warren Court's effort to amend the Constitution by decree.

It is full of accurate historical references, even though the subject may be too controversial for some.

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

I’m laughing at what some people here consider to be good books for 10 year olds. My advice, based on what hooked me on history when I was that age, is to track down the old American Heritage books. Lots of pictures that really make the past come to life, including paintings that really show the battles. The book on the Revolution was published in 1958 and there’s a ton of them around, so it’s easy to find them used. Their book on the Civil War is good, too.

https://www.amazon.com/American-heritage-book-Revolution/dp/B0006AVKH6

[poconopundit]

Wow, I didn’t know they made that many of them. I read through several of them. And as I recall, the American Revolution How and Why was my favorite.

[dirtboy]

They had over seventy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_and_Why_Wonder_Books

[aspasia]

primary sources

That's what I like. Primary sources are what all the history books are based on. When you read a history book, you are reading two histories. Our very own LS must have realized the tug and pull between tweaking his preferences and staying the course.

[LilFarmer]

My boys (all grown up now) read American heritage books. We used Abeka curriculum at that age and the corresponding books as well. They have a solid foundation in history.

For Economics in high school, I used Thomas Sowell’s book. IMO, it is one of the best books on Economics there is.

[poconopundit]

Great to see that list! And I recall the Civil War was another favorite of mine.

[Nifster]

You can be mad all you want doesn’t change the facts

Rich plantation owners who owned slaves (and by the way were all democrats) wanted to keep their way if life. The founding documents of the CSA state it directly

Dixiecrats never switched parties.

I won’t go on because your knowledge of history is actually what the current democrat (same as the old democrat) party espouses

[TianaHighrider]

Bookmark

[metmom]

Not stupid.

We all comment without reading thoroughly at one time or another.

Don’t be so hard on yourself.

[LS]

We have a lot of primary sources in PHUSA but we regularly reference our documents book, the Patriot’s History Reader, with some 80 primary docs.

[Pelham]

David Hackett Fischer:

“Paul Revere’s Ride”

“Washington’s Crossing”

Thomas Fleming:

“Liberty! The American Revolution”

“Washington’s Secret War: The Hidden History of Valley Forge”

“Dreams of Glory” (historical novel)

“The Strategy of Victory: How General George Washington Won the American Revolution “

Really, anything by David Hackett Fischer, Thomas Fleming or Forrest McDonald. These are real histories, not children’s books. They are good writers and they aren’t dry reading. If your son masters these he will be teaching college courses by the time he’s done.

[Dick Bachert]

Those written by our late friend, Dr. Clarence Carson!

[Dick Bachert]

Those written by our late friend, Dr. Clarence Carson!

[Pining_4_TX]

History can be interesting or it can be boring. Just dates and numbers are boring. People make it interesting. There are a whole series of kids’ books that are biographies of famous people. Try here:

https://www.christianbook.com/Christian/Books/easy_find?Ntt=biographies+for+kids&N=0&Ntk=keywords&action=Search&Ne=0&event=ESRCG&nav_search=1&cms=1&ps_exit=RETURN&ps_domain=www&search=

[Tired of Taxes]

As others here have mentioned, Johnny Tremain is the book for your boy to read: Christianbook.com

Also, someone gave my boys some great older books, for example Bells of Freedom (also about the Revolutionary War) and other historical fiction for young readers.

[Tired of Taxes]

ones written in the 1960s, where Mom cooked their dinner, where they attended church on Sundays, and where their girlfriends got a kiss on the cheek

The original "Hardy Boys" were favorites of one of my boys when he was growing up (not so long ago). Kids enjoy good mysteries.

[wardaddy]

Bullshit

The social conservative south most certainly did change parties and in droves in 1972 even after bubbling up since Ike and Barry

What a canard.....marching orders from Beck, Levin, little Ben, Jonah Goldberg, Rich Lowery et al

Btw I'll take a Stennis over a Weicker any day....wish we some now ...or a Sam Nunn over these panty waist Bush like GOPe

You think all those white southerners voting Dem in 1968 just died off suddenly replaced by whites who miraculously appeared.....hogwash ....I was there I watched it happen

Newsflash

The South is less Anti Semitic than the north is ....chew on that....that's always the big booger bear....from Zucker to Levin to Jonah

I know that myth fuels many a neocon hatred for Dixie

Trump indeed has this election stolen from him despite what was likely a landslide it will be the fault of your beloved GOPe that abandoned him

You equate conservatism with the GOPe like Lawrence does which is intellectually flimsy

Have a nice weekend

[KYGrandma]

My son-in-law took mine and couldn’t stop reading it. I am sure he is passing it down to my grandchildren. I guess I had better get a new one, as I didn’t have a chance to finish it!