U.S History: Core Curricula
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- Abeka History (grades 1-8)
- All American History
- All Through the Ages: Living Books History Guide
- America in God’s Providence
- America’s Founding Fathers video course
- America's Providential History
- America’s Story series
- America the Beautiful
- American History: A Story of Courage, Conflict and Freedom
- American History, World History, British History
- American Pioneers and Patriots, second edition
- The American Republic, fifth edition
- A Basic History of the United States
- Bede's History
- Beyond the Page
- BiblioPlan
- Catholic Textbook Project
- A Child's First Book of American History
- A Child's Story of America, second edition
- Christ and the Americas
- Christian Cottage Unit Studies, Volumes I-IV
- Chronos History: A Contextual & Chronological Homeschool Curriculum Guide
- Classical Historian
- Compass Classroom Membership
- A Concise History of the American Republic
- Connecting With History: World History through Catholic Principles
- Dave Raymond's American History
- Decade by Decade
- Early American History: A Literature Approach
- Exploring American History
- Exploring World History and Exploring America
- Focus on U.S. History series (8 books)
- The Giant American History Timeline
- Girls of American History Curriculum
- The Good and the Beautiful History Curriculum
- Great American Heroes (third grade History course)
- The Great American Story: A Land of Hope
- Guerber History Series
- Guest Hollow’s High School American History Curriculum
- Heart of Dakota Program (Prek - 8)
- Heritage History Classical Curriculum
- Heritage Studies for grades 1-6 (BJU Press)
- The High Point History Series: American History 1754-1945
- History and Geography LIFEPAC Curriculum
- History Odyssey
- A History of the United States and Its People
- A History of US, third edition
- Homelands of North America
- Khan Academy Courses
- KONOS Character Curriculum
- Land of Hope: An Invitation to the Great American Story
- Land of Our Lady series
- The Landmark History of the American People, Volumes I and II
- Learning Adventures Unit Studies
- Learning American History Through Literature
- Little Pilgrims History Series
- The Mighty Works of God
- Modern American and World History: A Literature Approach
- Modern U.S. and World History
- Nautilus Homeschool
- The Nomadic Professor History Courses
- The Old World and America
- Once-A-Week Unit Studies
- Our Land of Liberty: The Story of the United States of America
- Our Nation Under God
- Our Pioneers and Patriots
- Our Star-Spangled Story
- Our United States of America Catholic Social Studies
- The People, Places, and Principles of America
- The Prairie Primer
- Rabbit Trails through History
- Read Through the USA
- Robinson Self-Teaching Home School Curriculum
- Short Lessons in U.S. History (fourth edition)
- Simply Charlotte Mason History series
- Sonlight American History 120
- Sonlight Curriculum
- Sonlight's History/Bible/Literature A
- The Story of Liberty
- Study.com for Homeschool
- TeacherFileBox
- Trail Guide to Learning
- TRISMS
- TruthQuest History
- U.S. History: Pre-Columbian to the New Millennium
- United States History (BJU Press), fifth edition
- United States History: Heritage of Freedom
- United States Presidents
- U.S. History course (LFBC) H145
- U.S. History Detective
- Veritas Press History
- Visual History Set
- The Weaver Curriculum
- Wild World of History Courses
- WinterPromise Curriculum
- A Young Reader’s Edition of Land of Hope
History and Social Studies Web Links
- Common Sense Education
Common Sense Education has a section titled Ed Tech Ratings & Reviews that hosts teacher reviews and ratings for online games, websites, and apps. The site is free with no registration required.
- Core Knowledge Classic Lesson Plans
Free lesson plans for social studies for grades K-8. See my review of Core Knowledge Classic Lesson Plans.
- Crash Course World History Videos
Playlist for 42 Crash Course World History videos, with John Green providing the entertaining narration. The fast-paced videos run about 10 minutes each. Also look for other Crash Course History series: World History 2, European History, US History, and Black History.
- Federalist Papers and other primary source documents
free online access to the Federalist Papers and other primary source documents from the founding of the U.S.
- Historical Fiction for Children and Young Adults
annotated historical fiction recommendations arranged by time period, geographical, area, and reading level
- Ryan Reeves History for Everyone Videos
Ryan Reeves presents well-done videos for teens and adults on many aspects of history, including many on church history that are good for both Protestants and Catholics.
- The Medieval Lifestyle article
useful article summarizing many areas of the medieval lifestyle: food, clothing, art, architecture, medicine, weapons, games, and entertainment
- The National Archives Experience: Docs Teach
This site makes primary source documents from U.S. history available and also provides extensive detailed lesson plans for teaching specific topics from U.S. history. Lessons cover only selected topics, so this is supplemental material.
- WatchKnowLearn Videos for History
WatchKnowLearn catalogs hundreds of free educational videos "Wiki-style" in both broad and sub-categories so it's easy to search. There are many sub-categories for history plus a separate section for Social Studies.
Core Curricula
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