Posted on 12/03/2020 10:19:52 PM PST by 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?
When I was a kid, I remember reading some of the “You Were There” (or something like that) books - had all sorts of topics and I remember one was about the Santa Fe Trail. They were designed to be interesting to the young mind.
Rush also has some out that will probably be helpful.
Childhood of famous Americans series
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg8psGEqLn4
https://www.christianbook.com/page/homeschool/history/story-of-the-world?event=Homeschool|1000114
https://www.christianbook.com/page/homeschool/history?event=Homeschool|1000117
For homeschooling or more serious academic work, Ashland University’s (John Ashbrook Center) has primary sources devoted to American history. www.tah.org (teaching American history.org).
Professor Gordon Lloyd has put together an online collection about the Convention, including maps, break downs of Founders biographical information, and the Madison’s Notes of Debates. There is also sections devoted to the Ratification, the Bill of rights ( and their origins) and other important historical American events.
5000 Year Leap
Amazon.com › Patriots-History-Unit...
A Patriot’s History of the United States: From Columbus’s Great Discovery to the War on Terror: Larry Schweikart, Michael Allen ...
Saw this recommend on newsmax interview iirc.
Larry Schweikart was interviewed on War Room a few day ago. I ordered his book as a result.
Documents of American History, Henry Steele Commager
The Worldly Philosophers, Robert L. Heilbroner
Search the internet, possibly ebay. Look for old school textbooks from the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s. Encyclopedias of that era would work too.
Used Christian Liberty books to homeschool my kids. https://www.christianbook.com/page/homeschool/history?search=History&search_term=History&ps_exit=RETURN
My kiddos would grab the history books first!
Calling all homeschoolers.
There is a dearth of good books for boys in that age category.
Are you looking for factual histories, or historical fiction, too?
Some historical fiction ones that I have are:
Carry On Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham
Robert Fulton Boy Craftsman by Marguerite Henry
The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare
Snow Treasure by Marie McSwigan
Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Frontier Surgeons - a Story about the Mayo Brothers by Emily Crofford
Old Encyclopedia Sets, which can still be had on occasion.
Rush Revere books
I haven’t homeschooled since around 2005 but here is a resource that appears helpful:
https://ihomeschoolnetwork.com/massive-homeschool-history-guide/
Used books and monitor the sales at your local library
I know nothing of children’s history books, but I can refer you to some material that made that history clearer to me as an adult.Paul Revere’s Ride made me understand that by 1775 Americans had in a very real sense divorced themselves from Britain - and I sniffed out the reason why. Americans of Greek origin constitute the model by which I understand immigrants.
Greeks arrived in America, and considered everything in the culture different from what they grew up with in Greece to be foreign to their values. They became hyper insular, and mothers would tell their sons, “Marry a Greek girl” over and over. Then a funny thing happened in one such family; the son grew up, got a good job, and gave his mother a trip back to the old country. Very understandable - but she quickly learned that culturally, time hadn’t stood still in Greece. What she had thought of as “American” was in significant part just modern.
She returned home and told her son, “Marry a Greek American girl.” 😀
And IMHO something similar happened culturally in America. Colonists came to America and acculturated in some senses but in others they strictly retained their own culture while England became Great Britain. Plenty of history happened from the immigration wave of 1630 into New England until 1770 - and the two cultures separated significantly from each other. With America being “more English than England” in some sense. It reached the point where American militia officers were lying awake nights trying to visualize how to defeat the British regular army. And some of the harassment the British encountered in their retreat from Lexington and Concord were actual suicidal attacks.
Regarding the conduct of the war, I recommend Washington’s General - which documents the military career of Nathanael Greene. Because it turns out that at the crucial points of the war two people were consistently in the thick of it - Cornwallis and Greene.
Greene was “Washington’s General” because not all of Washington’s subordinates were entirely loyal to Washington - and Washington could trust Greene. Precisely because Greene had dragged his feet on obeying Washington once - and had suffered a disastrous defeat. Greene was devotedly grateful to Washington for forgiving him and backing him after that.
When Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown, it was because Greene had out-strategized him that he found himself in that predicament. After Greene had been sent south to redeem a hopeless situation down there - and had succeeded.
New Jersey is called “the cockpit of the Revolution” because most of the time Washington and his British opponent found themselves unwilling to maneuver far from NJ for fear of adverse possibilities. Washington didn’t win a lot of battles, but he won the war just by not losing it, for a long enough time.
You mean “The Hardy Boys” are no good?
Not the new ones where they probably have tattoos, LGBTQ friends and smart phones, but the 2nd or 3rd edition 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 (instead of a pregnancy test?)
I had at least 25 of the How and Why books as a kid. Marvelous series.
I own the book
It started off good
Then Larry goes into slavery and the south are basically all wrong with America and blah blah blah and I went damn this is a new sort of conservatism....Neoconservatism feeling...
Problem for you and Larry
You’re always using your disdain for the Dixiecrat move to Goldwater Nixon and so forth GOPe as as an excuse to prove how the Republicans aren’t reallly racist since you and Larry self righteously virtue signal how bad these southern interlopers into “your saintly party” truly is
Reality check
Southern whites are the most conservative folks in the nation and have been since that term was coined in modern America usage
Look around you....the vaunted GOPe ain’t looking to god right now
They won’t do shit for Trump so as usual they disappoint
They only look good in comparison to the crazed democrats of today
The binary paradigm you and Larry ascribe to of GOPe worship and all else bad is for one thing intellectually dishonest and secondly is based on this grand Republican Party which honestly has put forth what.....maybe 3 or 4 decent presidents 4 of Coolidge is considered “great”
They have been disloyal and cruel to Trump who has carried them
They are not worthy of our support anymore
Trump seems unlike you and Larry ...to understand the south....I’ll ride with him
Anyone views racism and slavery as the original sin of the west and America is weak
I thought they were just mystery/fiction for general reading.
They were not historical stuff like the OP was looking for,
Little britches. Great boys series
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