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Stories from American and Modern History From AD 1700 to the Present

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Stories from Modern and American History From 1700 to Present

Stories by Anchor Date Including stories from

the Bible *Family School

Kimber Academy The Good and the Beautiful *Tales of Olden Days and

History Sings by Hazel Gertrude Kinscella and the

*Forgotten Classics from Libraries of Hope

*Tales of Olden Days and History Sings are out of print, but can often be found from Used Books Stores and Retailers.

*The Forgotten Classics includes fables and myths that originated in Ancient cultures. While these stories may be fictional, they provide insight into the culture and teach valuable moral

lessons and so we include them in our list of history stories.

*Family School is a product of Latter-Day Learning and contains LDS content.

Free audio podcasts of Stories of the World are also available at MyFreedomFrontier.org http://www.myfreedomfrontier.org/resource-library/category/story-of-the-world-for-kids

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American and Modern History Stories may be taught year after year between Mid-March and May This allows all family members to participate in History Story time regardless of age. Simply record stories read each year to avoid unnecessary duplication from year to year.

The stories are organized by the following anchor dates:

Anchor Date People and Events

AD 1700 Colonies in the New World Artists and Hymns of the 1700s

AD 1776 America Declared Independence

AD 1787 Structuring a Constitution

AD 1830 The Age of Reform and Invention

AD 1841 The Jews Seek a Home Artists and Hymns of the 1800s

AD 1861 American Civil War

AD 1913 Woodrow Wilson; America re-evaluates

AD 1945 World War II

AD 1957-1967 John Dewey: Experiments in Education Moshe Dayan: A Victory for Israel

AD 1991 A New Role for America

AD 1700 - Colonies in the New World Artists and Hymns of the 1700s

The Family School – Year Three History (LDS based)

Roger Williams – Founder of Providence, Rhode Island: Freedom to Worship

The Northern Colonies: Connecticut, New Hampshire, Delaware, and Maryland: Finding a Holy Place

The Southern Colonies: The Carolinas and Georgia: Caring for the Poor and Needy

The Dutch Colonies: New York and New Jersey: From the Indians to the Dutch to the English

William Penn and Pennsylvania: Be Honest and Fair

The Family School – Year Four History (LDS Based)

Prelude to the Restoration: Choosing Liberty or Captivity

Enlightenment Thinkers: A New View of Freedom

The French and Indian War: “Hearts Knit Together in Unity”

Awake, Awake! The First Great Awakening

The Good and the Beautiful History Curriculum – Year 1

Young George Washington

The French and Indian War -Year 2

1. Captain John Smith/The Jamestown Settlement

2. Pocahontas & Squanto

3. Captain Myles Standish

4. The Pilgrims/The Mayflower

5. William Bradford/The Mayflower Compact

6. Plymouth Colony and the Pilgrims

7. The Puritans/John Winthrop/Roger Williams

8. The Thirteen Colonies: Geography & Religious Foundations

9. Everyday Life in Colonial Times

10. The Spirit of the Colonists: Frugality, Faith, and Hard Work

11. Benjamin Franklin: Part 1

12. Benjamin Franklin: Part 2 The Forgotten Classics – World History Series from Libraries of Hope

Stories of the World o The Story of Canada

Stories of Ancient Egypt and Africa o Africa: Beginnings of African

Exploration o James Bruce o Mungo Park

The Forgotten Classics – Great Lives Series from Libraries of Hope

Stories of Great Statesmen and Leaders o Benjamin Franklin (1706 –

1790: Pennsylvania) o Frederick the Great: The Boy of

Potsdam (1712-1786: Germany)

Stories of Great Businessmen and Philanthropists

o John Metcalf: A Blind Boy

Stories of Great African Americans o Benjamin Banneker,

Astronomer and Surveyor (1732-1804)

o Phillis Wheatley, First Poetess of Her Race on American Soil (1753-1784)

o Crispus Attucks (1723-1770) o Out of Africa (1735) o Oath of Afro-America Youth,

Kelly Miller

o The Negro Race, Charles W. Anderson

Stories of Great Musicians o Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770-

1827) o Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-

1809) o Wolfgang Mozart: A Little Boy

with a Long Name (1756-1791)

The Forgotten Classics – Story Hour Series *Suitable for Younger Children

Stories of Great Lives o The Boy Who Was His Own

Teacher – Benjamin Franklin o A Rich Boy and What Became of

Him – George Washington o Doctor Goldsmith o Heroic Madelon

Stories of Paintings o Angel’s Heads – Sir Joshua

Reynolds (1723-1792) o Mother and Child – Madame

Vigee Le Brun (1755-1842) o The Blue Boy – Thomas

Gainsborough (1727-1788) The Forgotten Classics – Nature, Art, and Music Series

Stories of Hymns o The Wesley Family o Rev. John Newton o John Newton’s Awakening o “How Firm a Foundation”

probably by Robert Keene o “Rock of Ages” Augustus M.

Toplady o “Jesus, Lover of My Soul” o Hymns of Isaac Watts o God Moves in A Mysterious

Way o Guide Me, O Thou Great

Jehovah o A Mother Recognized by a

Hymn – “Alone, yet not alone am I”

o “Other Refuge HaveI None”

Stories of Music and Art History Part I o Marie Luigi Carlo Zenobi

Salvatore (Cherubini) 1760-1842

o Luigi Gaspardo Pacifico Spontini (1774-1851)

o Canova

Stories of Music and Art History Part II o France: Revolutionary Song and

Opera-Comique o France: The Grand Opera o France: Eighteenth Century and

Revolutionary Art o England: The Age of Handel

(1685-1750) o England: Sir Joshua Reynolds o Gainsborough and Constable o William Turner o Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-

1750) o Christoph Wilibald Gluck (1714-

1787) o Franz Josef Haydn (1732-1809) o Wolgang Amadeus Mozart

(1756-1791) o Ludwig von Beethoven (1770-

1827) o Carl Maria Friedrich von Weber

(1786-1826)

The Forgotten Classics – Freedom Series from Libraries of Hope

Stories of American History o Stories of the English and the

French o The English and the French in

North America

Stories of Great Americans o How We May Be Patriots o Gratitude to Women o A Fire to Light the Way o A Mother’s Daring Rescue o William Penn o Words of Comfort o Franklin His Own Teacher o A Great Good Man – Benezet

o The Dark Day – Abraham Davenport

Stories of Historic Americans o The Story of Benjamin Franklin,

of Philadelphia o The Story of James Otis, of

Boston American History Stories from Libraries of Hope (Mara Pratt)

Volume 1 Tales of Olden Days by Hazel Gertrude

Kinscella (Music Stories)

The Little Magician of Music (Mozart)

Marching Music

A Ghost Story Told in Music (included

here for the Halloween theme)

The “Erl King” (German legend -

Goethe)

Vanishing Candles and a Symphony

(Franz Joseph Haydn)

The Land of the Thistle (Scotch song –

Auld Lang Syne)

A Hundred Crowns for a Song (Paris)

Hunting Song (Sir Walter Scott)

Nightfall (William Blake)

The “Farewell Symphony” (Joseph

Haydn)

Now Let Us to the Bagpipes Sound

(Johann Sebastian Bach)

History Sings by Hazel Gertrude Kinscella

Atlantic Coast Beginnings

o The First Singing Schools

o William Billings, Tanner

o The Buckwheat Notes

o “Court” of Virginia Music

o The Governor Gives a Party

o Penn Starts a City

o Ben Franklin’s Musical Glasses

o The Old Swedes’ Church

o My Little Old Book

o Bethlehem (Pennsylvania)

Music

o Ballads: Folk Song Tales

o “The Beggar’s Opera”

o News of the Times

o Our First American Composer

(Francis Hopkinson)

Along Southern Borders

o Opera in New Orleans

Facing North

o Skirl of the Bagpipes

o The Voyageurs from Montreal

o French-Canadian Melodies

o Bells from Alaska

o An Eskimo Drum

AD 1776 - America Declares Independence

Kimber Academy History Curriculum

Thomas Jefferson: The Man Who Discovered America’s Freedom Formula

Five Years of Specialized Study with George Wythe

Writing the Declaration of Independence

At What Price Freedom?

Explosive Events of the 1770s

Trenton, First Turning Point of the War

General Washington’s Worst Ordeal

The End is in Sight

The Family School – Year Four History (LDS based)

Taxation Without Representation

The Colonists Resist

Prelude to the Revolution: “Give Me Liberty”

Paul Revere: Silversmith, Patriot, and False Teeth Maker: The Regulars are Coming

The Declaration of Independence: “We Hold These Truths to be Self-evident”

Signers of the Declaration of Independence: “We Laid the Foundation”

The British Leave Boston

Crossing the Delaware: Pressing Forward

Valley Forge: A Trial That Strengthened

The Battle of Monmouth: “Don’t Forget the Ladies”

John Paul Jones: “I Have Not Yet Begun to Fight”

The American Revolutionary War in the South: Nathaniel Green and Francis Marion – the Swamp Fox

General George Washington and the End of the War: “First in the Hearts of His Countrymen”

Other Revolutions: Causes of the French Revolution: The Peasants Rise Up

The French Revolution: Liberty, Equality, Fraternity

Jose de San Martin: Freedom Fighter in Argentina and Chili

Simon Bolivat: Venezuelan Freedom Fighter


Reasons for a Revolution

The Sons of Liberty & the Boston Tea Party

The First Continental Congress & the Start of the Revolutionary War

The Second Continental Congress

The Character of Thomas Jefferson

The Coming Forth of the Declaration of Independence

John Locke

The Sacrifices of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence

Principles of the Declaration of Independence

General George Washington

The Battle of Trenton

Valley Forge & Alliance with France

The Articles of Confederation

The End of the Revolutionary War The Forgotten Classics – World History Series from Libraries of Hope

Stories of the World o American Independence o The French Revolution o The Story of Napoleon

Stories of France and Canada o The French Revolution o The Little Corporal o The Emperor Napoleon o Back from Exile

o The Little King of Rome o The Citizen King o Napoleon III o The Siege of Paris o The Commune o France of Today

Stories of Russia and Germany o Russia: Paul o Russia: Wars and Glory o Germany: What France Won

Stories of China and India o India: Warren Hastings, First

Governor-General o India: Warren Hastings War o India: Tippoo Sultan o India: Warrior Chieftains o India: The Mutiny of Velloke

Stories of Notable Lives Around the World

o The Emperor Napoleon (1769-1821: France)

o Joseph Marie Jacquard (1752-1834: France)


Stories of Great Wives and Mothers o A Republican Mother: Mary

Washington (1708-1789) o The Mother of Goethe (1731-

1808) o Martha Washington (1932-

1802) o Mary Lindley Murray (1720-

1782)

Stories of Great Statesmen and Leaders o The Story of Samuel Adams, of

Boston, called “The Father of the Revolution”

o The Story of John Adams, of Braintree, called “The Colossus of Independence”

o The Story of Patrick Henry, of Virginia

o Thomas Jefferson o Toussaint L’ouverture,

Commander-in-Chief of an Army, President of Hayti

o Napoleon Bonaparte, The Boy of Brienne

The Forgotten Classics – Story Hour Series *Suitable for Younger Children

Stories of Great Lives o Robert and the Spy (an

American Spy during the Revolutionary War)

o The Drummer Boy o Betty Zane o Noel Duval o An American Army of Two o The Little Corporal (Napoleon)

Stories from History o The Story of Jonathan Dawson,

the Yankee Boy o The French Revolution

The Forgotten Classics - Poetry for the Well-Educated Heart

Boston (History: Month 3)

Paul Revere’s Ride (History: Month 3)

The Battle of Lexington (History: Month 3)

Concord Hymn (History: Month 3)

Grandmother’s Story of Bunker Hill Battle (History: Month 3)

Warren’s Address (History: Month 3)

Rodney’s Ride (History: Month 3)

Hymn of World Peace (History: Month 3)

America to England (History: Month 3)

Ticonderoga (History: Month 5)

The Old Continentals (History: Month 5)

Nathan Hale (History: Month 5)

The Little Black-Eyed Rebel (History: Month 5)

Molly Maquire at Monmouth (History: Month 5)

Song of Marion’s Men (History: Month 5)

Napoleon and the English Sailor Boy (History: Month 5)

The American Volunteers (History: Month 10)

The Forgotten Classics – The Freedom Series from Libraries of Hope

Stories of George Washington o Stories of George Washington o The Life of George Washington o Recollections and Private

Memoirs of Washington

Stories of American History o Patrick Henry o Samuel Adams o The War Begins Near Boston o George Washington in the

Revolution o Nathanael Greene and Other

Heroes in the South o John Paul Jones o Daniel Boone o James Robertson o John Sevier o George Rogers Clark

The True Story of Lafayette

Stories of Great Americans o Stories about Jefferson o The Landlord’s Mistake o The Story of Benjamin Franklin o The Declaration of

Independence o The Liberty Bell o The Liberty Bell (a poem) o The Midnight Ride o The Truth Speaker o Liberty or Loyalty o Israel Israel’s Experience with

the Tories o A Mother’s Faith Through the

Eyes of a Child o A Patriot Mother’s Prayers o The Green Mountain Boys o The Martyr Patriotic o The Patriotism of Lydia Darrah o Washington’s Christmas Gift o How Washington Got Out of a

Trap o A Winter at Valley Forge

o Captain Molly Picture

o “Mad Anthony at Stony Point o Francis Marion o Another of Marion’s Men o A Hero of the Sea o Washington’s Last Battle

Stories of Historic Americans o The Story of George

Washington of Mount Vernon, called “The Father of his Country”

o The Story of Samuel Adams, of Boston, Called “The Father of the Revolution.”

o The Story of Patrick Henry of Virginia

o The Story of John Adams, of Braintree, Called “The Colossus of Independence.”

o The Story of Thomas Jefferson of Monticello, Called “The Father of the Declaration”

o The Story of Alexander Hamilton of New York, Called “The Framer of the Constitution”

o The Story of Robert Morris, of Philadelphia, Called the “Financier of the Revolution”

American History Stories from Libraries of Hope (Mara Pratt)

Volume 2 History Sings by Hazel Gertrude Kinscella

The Fourth of July Procession

A Venture in Flutes

Yankee Doodle

“Hail, Columbia”

AD 1787 – Structuring a Constitution Kimber Academy History Curriculum

Overview of the United States Constitution

George Washington – Man of Principles and Honor

The Family School – Year Four History (LDS based)

Problems in the New Nation: How Will the Country Survive

Delegates to the Constitutional Convention: Wise Men Raised Up

The Constitutional Convention: James Madison

Checks and Balances: The Constitution of the United States of America

Signing and Ratifying the Constitution of the United States of America: A New Nation is Born

The Bill of Rights: Freedom of Religion The Good and the Beautiful History Curriculum – Year 1

The Blessings of a Constitutional Democratic Republic

-Year 2

The Coming Forth of the US Constitution

The Constitution: Representation, Rule of Law, Limited Government

The Constitution: Separation of Powers, Checks & Balances

The Constitution: Branches of Government

George Washington as President

John and Abigail Adams The Forgotten Classics – World History Series from Libraries of Hope

Stories of the World o The Remaking of Europe o Florence Nightingale


o Elizabeth Fry, A Heroine of England (1780-1845: England)


Stories of Great Wives and Mothers o Abigail Adams (1744-1818) o Molly Pitcher (1754-1832) o Marie Antoinette as Wife and

Mother (1755-1793) o The Wife of Lafayette (1759-

1807) o Jemima Johnson (1753-1814) o Dolly Madison (1772-1836) o

Stories of Great Statesmen and Leaders o The Story of James Madison, of

Montpellier, called “The Father of the Constitution”

o The Story of John Marshall, of Richmond, called “The Great Chief-Justice”

o Alexander Hamilton

Stories of Great Scientists o Rumford and the Relations of

Motion and Heat (1753-1814) o Cuvier and the Animals of the

Past (1769-1832) o Davy and Nature’s Magicians

(1778-1829)


o Stephen Girard and His College for Orphans (1750-1831: France, America)

Stories of Great Writers o Sir Walter Scott (Scotland:

1771-1832) o Charles Lamb (England: 1775-

1834)

o Jane Austin (England: 1775-1817)

Stories of Great African Americans o Paul Cuffe, The Sailor (1759-

1817)

The Forgotten Classics – Story Hour Series from Libraries of Hope

Stories of Great Lives o A Little Boy with a Long Name –

Mozart o Sir Walter Scott


o Washington (History: Month 4) o Washington (History: Month 4) o The Flag (History: Month 6) o The Flag Goes By (History:

Month 6) o The Returned Battle Flags

(History: Month 6) o A Song for our Flag (History:

Month 6) o The Star Spangled Banner

(History: Month 6) o A Toast to Our Native Land

(History: Month 6) o God Give Us Men! (History:

Month 6) o The Battle of New Orleans

(History: Month 6) o My Native Land (History: Month

6)


Stories of George Washington o Stories of George Washington o The Life of George Washington o Recollections and Private

Memoirs of Washington

Stories of American History o The New Republic

Stories of Historic Americans o The Story of John Jay, of

Bedford, First Chief-Justice of the United States

o The Story of John Marshall, of Richmond, Called “The Great Chief-Justice”

o The Story of James Madison, of Montpellier, Called “The Father of the Constitution”

Stories of the Government American History Stories from Libraries of Hope (Mara Pratt)

Volume Three: The Nation - Dolly Madison, pages 185-208


Growth of the American Flag (dramatic presentation)

The “Star-Spangled Banner”

AD 1830 - The Age of Reform and Invention


The War of 1812 (America Defends Herself)

The War With Mexico (America Defends Herself)

The Age of Reform (Introduction)

The Monroe Doctrine

Lafayette’s Triumphal Tour in 1824

Andrew Jackson’s First Election as President

Who Reads an American Book?

The Invention of the Cotton Gin and the Springfield Rifle

Doctor Morton’s Introduction of Anesthetic Ether

The First American Locomotive

The Invention of the Telegraph Family School Year Four History (LDS Based)

Moving Westward: Daniel Boone

Lewis and Clark 1: Exploring the Louisiana Purchase

Lewis and Clark 2: Over the Mountains and to the Pacific

The Age of Inventions: New Machines

The War of 1812: Dolley Madison Saves the Day

Fort McHenry: The Star Spangled Banner


Queen Victoria and the British Empire

Foreign Missionary Movement Part 1 and 2

Two Famous Victorians

Florence Nightingale/The Great Irish Famine

Year 2

Education in Early America: A Foundation on Christ

Noah Webster and William McGuffey

The Secularization of Education in America

The Forgotten Classics – World History Series from Libraries of Hope

Stories of Ancient Egypt and Africa o Denham and Clapperton o The Landers o Timbuctoo: Laing and Caillie o Richardson and Barth o David Livingstone’s Journeys o Burton and Speke o Sir Samuel Baker Discovers the

Albert Nyanza o Georg Schweinfurth’s Journeys

in Central Africa o Lieutenant Cameron o Henry Stanley o Joseph Thomson’s Expedition to

the Central Lakes o Thomson’s Other Expeditions

Stories of Holland and Spain o Spain: The Prince of the Peace

(AD 1788-1851) o The Old King and the New One

(AD 1807-1808) o Spain: King Joseph (AD 1808) o Spain: The French in Spain (AD

1808-1813) o Spain: Ferdinand the Seventh

(AD 1814-1833) o Spain: The Spanish American

Colonies (AD 1810-1822) o Spain: The Woman from

Naples (AD 1833-1840) o Spain: Isabella (AD 1843-1868) o Spain: Spain in Our Day (AD

1868-1890)

Stories of France and Canada o Canada: The Story of Laura

Second o Red River Settlement o Louis Riel

Stories of Russia and Germany o Russia: The Iron Emperor o Freeing the Serfs

Stories of Mexico and South America o Jose de San Martin o Simon Bolivar o James Thomson o Juan Manuel Rosas o Domingo F. Sarmiento o Don Pedro II

Stories of China and India o India: The Ghurkas o India: The Pindaris and the Last

Maratha War o India: The First Burmese War o India: The Siege of Bhurtpore o India: Sati and Thags o India: The First Afghan War o India: The Sikhs o India: The Mutiny-Delhi o India: The Mutiny – Cawnpore o India: The Mutiny-Lucknow


o Ole Bull (1810-1880: Norway) o Malibran, the Great Singer

Touching Story of Her Kindness (1808-1836:Spain)

o Edward Everett Hale (1802-1909: Massachusetts)

o Ezra Cornell (1807-1874: New York)

o Charles Goodyear (1800-1860: Connecticut)

o Prophet and Pioneer (Mary Lyon 1797-1849: Massachusetts)


Stories of Great Spiritual Leaders o From Plowboy to Prophet

(Story of Joseph Smith) o The Mormon

Stories of Great Humanitarians and Missionaries

o Sons of the Desert – Abdallah and Sabat (Time of Incident, about 1800-1810, Arabia)

o A Race Against Time – Henry Martyn (1781-1812, Time of incident: 1810-12, Persia)

o Horace Mann – An Unhappy Little Boy (1796-1859, United States)

o Samuel Howe “A Knight Without Reproach” (1801-1876, Greece)

Stories of Great Statesmen and Leaders o Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807-1888:

Italy) o Otto von Bismarck: The Boy of

Gottingen (1815-1898: Germany)

Stories of Great Inventors o Eli Whitney: The Inventor of

the Cotton Gin o Samuel F. B. Morse: The

Inventor of the Telegraph o A Knight-Errant of the

Invention: Charles Goodyear (1800-1860)

o The Conquest of the Reaper Cyrus Hall Mccormick (1809-1884)

o The Inventor of the Sewing Machine – Elias Howe (1819-1867)

Stories of Great Lives o Partners – Dannie O’Connell o Alfred Tennyson o William Makepeace Thackeray

Stories of Great Scientists o John James Audubon (1785-

1851) o Charles Lyell and the Story of

Rocks (1797-1875)


o Sir Titus Salt (1803-1876, England)

o Amos and Abbott Lawrence, Two Honest Merchant Princes (1786-1852: America)

o Frederich Perthes (1772-1843: Germany)

Stories of Great Writers o Washington Irving o Hans Christian Andersen

(Denmark: 1805-1875) o Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

(America: 1807-1882) o Edward Bok – Going to the

Theatre with Longfellow o The Boyhood of John Greenleaf

Whittier (America 1807-1892)

Stories of Great African Americans o Josiah Henson, The Faithful

Servant (1789-1881) The Forgotten Classics – Poetry for the Well Educated Heart

o Apple-Seed John (History: Month 7)

o The Empire Ship (History: Month 7)

o The Village Blacksmith (History: Month 7)

o At the Fattagut Statue (History: Month 7)

o Indian Children (History: Month 7)

o Hiawatha’s Childhood (History: Month 7)

o Monterey (War with Mexico: History: Month 9)

The Forgotten Classics – Art, Nature, and Music Series

Stories of the Hymns o Singing the Heart Open o A Prisoner Singing Himself into

Liberty


Stories of American History o Increasing the Size of the New

Republic o Internal Improvement

o The Republic Grows Larger o Three Great Statesmen: John C.

Calhoun, Henry Clay, Daniel Webster

Stories of Great Americans o Moving West – A Perilous

Journey o The Young Scout o The Whisperers o The Surly Guest o Why He Carried the Turkey o The Star-Spangled Banner (For

Young Children) o The Star-Spangled Banner o The Star-Spangled Banner

(Complete) o Longfellow as a Boy o The India Rubber Man o David Crockett o Webster and the Poor Woman o Samuel Houston o John August Sutter o Mary Lyon o Samuel G. Howe

Stories of Historic Americans o The Story of James Monroe of

Wesmoreland, Called the “Author of the Monroe Doctrine”

o The Story of John Quincy Adams of Quincy, Called “The Old Man Eloquent”

o The Story of Eli Whitney, of New Haven, Known as “The Inventor of the Cotton Gin,”

o The Story o Andrew Jackson, of the Hermitage, Called “Old Hickory”

o The Story of Daniel Webster, of Marshfield, Called the “Expounder of the Constitution”

o The Story of Washington Irving, of New York, Called the “Founder of American Literature”

o The Story of Henry Clay, of Ashland, Called “The Great Pacificator”

o The Story of John Caldwell Calhoun, of South Carolina, Called “The Great Nullifier”

o The Story of Samuel Finley Breese Morse, of New York, Called “The Father of the American Telegraphy.”

o Horace Mann, of Boston, Called “The Father of the Common Schools”

Stories of the American Frontier American History Stories from Libraries of Hope (Mara Pratt)

Volume Three: The War of 1812-A Small Tail Movement, pages 210-264

AD 1841 - The Jews Seek a Home Artists and Hymns of the 1800s

Kimber Academy History Curriculum (Middle East and European History)

The Life and Contributions of Orson Hyde

Orson Hyde’s Dedicatory Prayer

Brief Review of Events in Palestine

Zionism – Seeking a Homeland

The Dreyfus Affair

Theodore Herzl – Father of Zionism

The First Zionist Congress The Forgotten Classics – World History Series from Libraries of Hope

Stories of Mexico and South America o Allen Gardiner o David Trumbull



o Scenes from the Life of John G. Paton, Scottish Missionary in New Hebrides (1824-1907)

Stories of Great Scientists o Agassiz and the Story of the

Animal Kingdom (1807-1874) o Charles Robert Darwin (1822-

1882) o Tyndall and Diamagnetisim and

Radiant Heat (1820-1893)


o George Peabody

Stories of Great Writers o Charles Dickens (England: 1812-

1870) o Charlotte Bronte (England:

1816-1855)

o George Eliot (England 1819-1880)

o Edward Everett Hale (America: 1822-1909)

Stories of Great Musicians o Franz Peter Schubert (1797-

1828) o Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) o The Wonder Child of Warsaw –

Frederic Chopin (1810-1849) o Robert Schumann (1810-1856) o Richard Wagner (1813-1883) o Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) o The Girl Who Build Castles in

the Air – Jenny Lind (1820-1887)

Stories of Great Artists o Old Jan’s Twilight Tale –

Thorvaldsen (1789-1835) o Sir John Everett Millais (1829-

1896) o A Girl Who Had Animal Friends

That You and I May See – Rosa Bonheur (1822-1899)

o The Tomboy from Bordeaux o The Magic Touch – Saint-

Gaudens (1848-1907)

The Forgotten Classics – Story Hour Series

Stories of Great Lives o A Boy Like Other Boys in Many

Ways – Longfellow o Grace Darling o Jean-Francois Millet o The Girl Who Built Castles in the

Air o

Stories of Paintings

o Four Little Scamps Are We – Julius Adam (1801-1867)

o Young Kittens – Ludwig Knaus (1829-1910)

o Johann George Meyer Von Bremen (1813-1836)

The Pet Bird Birthday Morning

o Sir Edwin Landseer (1802-1873) Odin Sleeping Bloodhound Shoeing the Bay Mare Highland Shepherd’s

Chief Mourner Saved The Boy Landseer

o Cherry Ripe – Sir John Everett Millais (1829-1896)

o A Fascinating Tale – Mme. Henriette Ronner (1821-1909)

o Can’t You Talk? – G.A. Holmes (1852-1911)

o Rosa Bonheur (1822-1899) An Old Monarch Lions at Home Oxen Plowing Rosa Bonheur’s

Childhood o Two Mothers and Their Families

– Elizabeth Garden Bouguereau (1842-1922)

o Jean Francois Millet (1814-1875)

Feeding Her Birds The First Step The Angelus Boyhood of Millet

o Pharaoh’s Horses – John Frederick Herring (1795-1865)

o Sir Galahad – George Frederick Watts (1818-1904)

o Joan of Arc – Jules Bastien-Lepage (1848-1884)

o Pilgrim Exiles (George Henry Boughton (1833-1905)

o A Helping Hand – Emile Renouf (1845-1894)

o Jean Bapiste Camille Corot (1796-1875)

Dance of the Nymphs The Wood Gatherers The Boy Corot


o Abou Den Adhem (History: Month 7)

The Forgotten Classics – Nature, Art, and Music Series

Stories of Hymns o “All Hail the Power of Jesus’

Name” among Savages o Mrs. Alexander o “There is a Green Hill Far Away” o “O Little Town of Bethlehem”

Bishop Brooks o “From Greenland’s Icy

Mountains” – Bishop Heber o “Nearer, My God, to Thee”

Sarah Flower Adams o “Nearer, My God, to Thee”,

“Abide with Me’, “Lead, Kindly Light”

o “God Be With You Till We Meet Again” J. E. Rankin

o Home Sweet Home o Phoebe Cary, Nearer Home o “I Think When I Read That

Sweet Story of Old” Writer: Jemima Thompson

o “Master, the Tempest is Raging” Writer: Miss Mary A. Baker

o “Sweet Hour of Prayer, Sweet Hour of Prayer”

o The Star-Spangled Banner o America o The Battle Hymn of the

Republic

Stories of Music and Art History Part I o Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868) o The Singing Opera (Bellini 1802-

1835, Donizetti, 1798-1848) o Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)

Stories of Music and Art History Part II

o France: Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)

o French Music Today o France: The Fontainebleau-

Barbizon Painters: Rousseau, Diaz, Troyon, Jacque, Corot

o France: Jean Francois Millet, the Peasant-Painter

o A Glimpse into Modern French Painting

o A Glimpse into Nineteenth-Century English Music

o Nineteenth Century English Art o Franz Shubert (1797-1828) o Robert Alexander Schumann

(1810-1856) o Jacob Ludwig Felix

Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1809-1847)

o Wilhelm Richard Wagner (1813-1883)

o Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) o Germany: Later German Art o Germany: Some Familiar

German Pictures o Hungary: Franz Liszt (1811-

1886) o Norway: Edward Grieg o Czech Republic (Bohemia):

Music – Antonin Dvorak o Russia: Music – Tchaikovsky

Tales of Olden Days by Hazel Gertrude


The Golden Harp (Bards of Wales)

The Power of the Bards

The Magic Fiddle

Christmas Morning in Old England

Christmas at Fezziwig’s

Old Christmas Carols

A Land of Song

Marches that Tell a Story

Famous Funeral Marches

Wedding Marches

The Adventures of Pinocchio

What is an Art Song?

The Brook (poem by Lord Tennyson)

A Story of a Joyful Song (Robert Browning)

A Famous French Composer (Camille Saint-Saens)

A Young Musician and His School Principal (Charles Francois Gounod)

Coppelia, the Mysterious Doll

A Famous American Composer (Edward MacDowell)

MacDowell’s Home

The Land of Cotton

Suwanee River (Stephen Collins Foster)

Alpine Song (William W. Story)

The Bells of Shandon

A Queer Musical Instrument

Oh! Susanna! (Stephen Collins Foster)

May Day

The Eagle (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)

Salute to the Flag

The American Flag (Henry Ward Beecher)

The Hedge Rose (Franz Schubert)

The Land of the Midnight Sun (Eskimo Tale)


Atlantic Coast Beginnings o Ichabod Dances (Washington

Irving) o New York’s First Symphony

Along Southern Borders o The First Negro Spirituals o The Negro and His Song o Dixie o Clear the Kitchen o Gottschalk, Concert Pianist o Roustabout Coonjine Melodies o Boll-Weevil Song o Texas o A Texan is a Gringo! o Minstrels of the Range o The Old Chisholm Trail o The Cowboy’s Lullaby o David Guion, Taxas Composer o Fiddlin’s Days

o Mexico – Markets and Festivals

Pacific Coast Tales o A Wedding Fandango o The Cascarone Ball o Now Comes the Dawn o Songs of the Sailor o La Fiesta o Cielito Lindo o Songs of Hope and Fancy o The Swedish Lightingale (Jenny

Lind) o A Singing Welcome (Alaska) o Sacajawea, the Bird Woman (a

radio skit) o Yankee in the West o The Old Mission Press (Oregon) o Early Days in Old Oregon o “Singing School” Days o Making the Festival (Oregon) o The Auroroa Band (Oregon) o Log Cabin “Sings” o Christmas in 1851 (Seattle) o The Sing Game (Washington) o Early Music in Seattle

The Middle States o Down the Ohio on a Barge o Prairie Singing-School Songs o Reed Organ and Melodeon o Two Fiddling School Teachers o Schools and School Books of

Old o The McGuffey Readers

o William Tell (opera – McGuffey Reader version)

o Stephen Collins Foster o Museum and School in

Dearborn o The Plight of Fiddlin’ Jim o Fiddler by Lamplight (poem) o The Influence of Music (William

Shakespeare) o The First Nebraska band o The Music of a Vanishing Race

(Omaha Indians) o “By the Waters of Minnetonka”

(Minnesota) o A Blind Singer (Frances Jane

Crosby) o Pioneer Music in Utah’s Dixie o Song Writer on the Desert o Pioneer Music Publishers o Anton Dvorak (New World

Symphony)

Music in Later Years o Ethelbert Nevin o Carreno and Macdowell o Pilot on the Glory Road (Mrs.

Edward Macdowell) o Beginnings of a Musical Life

(Walter Damrosch) o Danny Deever o John Philip Sousa Speaks o A Famous Band and Its Leader o “Carry Me Back to Old Virginny”

AD 1861 - American Civil War


The Civil War

The Indian Wars

Conflicts with Spain The Forgotten Classics – World History Series from Libraries of Hope

Stories of the World o The Remaking of Europe o Florence Nightingale o The Making of Italy o Africa: The Land of Mystery o The Barbary Pirates o Egypt o General Gordon o The Explorers o Mungo Park o David Livingstone o The Ideal of Cecil Rhodes o The Boer War o The Story of China and Japan o Our World Today

Stories of Holland and Spain

Stories of Russia and Germany o Germany: War of France and

Prussia o Germany: Kaiser Wilhelm

Stories of Mexico and South America o Francisco Penzotti o W. Barbrooke Grubb

Stories of China and India o The Empress of India


Stories of Great Wives and Mothers o Abraham Lincoln’s Mother o The Mother of Garfield (1801-

1888) o Julia Ward Howe: The Singer of

a Nation’s Song o The Story of a Good Woman

Jane Lathrop Stanford o “The Princess” of Wellesley

(1855-1902)


o Samuel Pierpont Langley, A Hero of Flight (1834-1906: Massachusetts)

o Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807-1882: Italy)

o William M. Hunt (1827-1910: England)

o Jacob Riis, A Pilgrim from Denmark (1849-1914: Denmark)

o Florence Nightingale (1820-1910: England)

o Catherine Breshkovsky (1844-1934: Russia)

o Edith Cavell (1865-1915: England)

o A Champion of “The Cause” (1847-1919: Born England )

o A Campfire Interpreter (Alice C. Fletcher 1838-1923: Washington DC)

Stories of Humanitarians and Missionaries

o David Livingstone – The Torch-Bearer of the Dark Continent (1813-1873, Africa)

o Florence Nightingale – A Heroine of England (1820-1910)

o Clara Barton, A Very Gentle Little Girl (1821-1912, United States)

o The Red Cross – Clara Barton o The Black Prince of Africa –

Khama (1837-1923) o Father Damien (1840-1889,

Hawaii) o The Boy of the Adventurous

Heart (1841-1901, New Guinea, Australia)

o The Scout of Papua Chalmers, the Friend (Date of Incident, about 1893)

o Mary Slessor, The “White Mother” of Darkest Africa (1848-1915, Nigeria)

o Alexander Mackay (1863-1876, Uganda)

Stories of Great Inventors o The Inventor of the Air-Brake

George Westinghouse (1846-1914)

o The Story of the Telephone (1847)

o The Franklin of Our Times – Thomas Alva Edison (1847)

o Machines for the Millions – Henry Ford (1863)

o The Conquest of the Air: Samuel Pierpont Langley, Wilbur and Orville Wright

o Wireless – Guglielmo Marconi (1874)

Stories of Great Scientists o Louis Pasteur – A Great Life-

Saver (1822-1895) o John Muir – A Pilgrim from

Scotland (1838-1914) o Luther Burbank (1849-1926)


o Andrew Carnegie: The Boy Who Built Castles in the Air (1835-1919: Scotland)

o John Ruskin: A Rich Man’s Son (1819-1900, England)

o Peter Cooper (1791-1883, America)

o John Hopkins (1795-1873: America)

o Leland Stanford, Great Pioneer of the West (1824-1893: America)

o Marshall Field (1834-1906, America)

o John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937, America)

o Charles Pratt and His Institute ((1830-1891: America)

o Employers and Employees

Stories of Great Writers o Harriet Beecher Stowe

(American: 1811-1896) o General Lew Wallace (America:

1827-1905) o Leo Tolstoy (Russia: 1828-1910) o Mary Maples Dodge (America:

1831-1905) o Lewis Carroll (England: 1832-

1898) o Louisa M. Alcott (America:

1832-1888) o Glimpses of Mark Twain

(America: 1835-1910) o Eugene Field (America 1850-

1895) o Robert Louis Stevenson

(Scotland: 1850-1894)

Stories of Great African Americans o Frederick Douglass, The Orator

and Abolitionist (1817-1895) o Paul Laurence Dunbar, The Poet

(1872-1906) o Booker Taliaferro Washington,

Educator, Orator, Author, Statesman (1859-1915)

o Harriet Tubman, The Moses of Her People (1820-1913)

o Blanche Kelso Bruce, Senator (1841-1898)

o Sojourner Truth, The Suffragist (1800-1883)

o Alexander Crummell, Minister and Missionary (1819-1898)

o John Mercer Langston, Scholar and Congressman (1829-1897)

o Introduction: Collection of Writings by Nego Authors

o Going to School Under Difficulties, William H. Holtzclaw

o The Beginnings of a Mississippi School

o My First School, W.E. B. Dubois o The Colored Cadet at West

Point, Lt. Henry Ossian Flipper, U.S.A.

o A Negro Explorer at the North Pole, Matthew A. Henson

o Negro Music that Stirred France, Emmett J. Scott

o Young First Lieutenant in the 366th Infantry

o How Two Colored Captains Fell, Falph W. Tyler

o Ira Aldridge o A Mere Matter of Feelings, by

John Branner The Forgotten Classics – Story Hour Series

Stories of Great Lives o A Boy Who Was Not Like Other

Boys in Many Ways – Thomas Edison

o A Girl Who Had Animal Friends That You and I May See – Rosa Bonheur

o A Girl Who Liked to Have Fun – Louise May Alcott

o A Girl Who Liked to Read Stories and Write Them – Harriet Beecher Stowe

o A Kind Nurse – Florence Nightingale

o A Poor Boy and What Became of Him – Abraham Lincoln

o A Brave Boy Who Did Not Want to Be a Soldier – Ulysses S. Grant

Stories from History

o The Story of a Few Days in the Life of Frank Wilson, the Boy of 1885

o The Charge of the Light Brigade (1853-1856: Russia)


o The Relief of Lucknow (History: Month 3)

o Lincoln (History: Month 8) o Lincoln’s Heart (History: Month

8) o Abraham Lincoln (History:

Month 8) o O Captain! My Captain!

(History: Month 8) o Abraham Lincoln (History:

Month 8) o The Black Regiment (History:

Month 8) o Ready (History: Month 8) o Fifty Years (History: Month 8) o The Picket’s Song (History:

Month 9) o The Picket Guard (History:

Month 9) o Song of the Soldiers (History:

Month 9) o Dirge for a Soldier (History:

Month 9) o Barbara Frietchie (History:

Month 9) o Music in Camp (History: Month

9) o Battle Hymn of the Republic

(History: Month 9) o John Burns of Gettysburg

(History: Month 9) o Sheridan’s Ride (History: Month

9) o Sherman’s March to the Sea

(History: Month 9) o The Burial of Sherman (History:

Month 9) o The Blue and the Gray (History:

Month 9) o The Charge of the Light Brigade

(History: Month 10)


Stories of American History o The Civil War

Stories of Abraham Lincoln

Stories of Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee

Stories of Great Americans o Dorothea Lynde Dix o Horace Greeley as a Boy o Horace Greeley Learning to

Print o The Story of Daniel Webster o Lincoln’s First Reading o Harriet Tubman o The Kindness of a Great Soul o A Beautiful Story o Clara Barton o Francis Willard o Samuel C. Armstrong o Booker T. Washington o James Jerome Hill o A Lonely Life on the Frontier o A Daring Rescue across the

Rocky Mountains o The Case of Mr. Tweed o God Give Us Men (poem)

Stories of Historic Americans o The Story of Abraham Lincoln,

of Springfield, Called “The Emancipator” and “The Great President”

o The Story of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Called’ American’s Foremost Poet.”

o The Story of Ulysses S. Grant, of Galena, Called “The Hero of Appomattox.”

American History Stories from Libraries of Hope (Mara Pratt)

Volume 3: James K. Polk – John Brown, pages 265-275

Volume 4

AD 1913 - Woodrow Wilson – America Re-evaluates

Kimber Academy History Curriculum (American History)

America Re-Evaluates

The Federal Reserve Act

History of the 16th Amendment

The Earthquake and Fire in San Francisco

The Building of the Panama Canal

Peary Discovers the North Pole

The First Airplane to Fly Successfully

World War I Kimber Academy History Curriculum (Middle East and European History – 1917)

What was the Balfour Declaration & What Did is Accomplish

Vladimir Lenin

A Brief Critique of the Communist Philosophy of Nature

“The Communist Drive on Youth” The Family School – Year Two History (LDS Based)

William the Conqueror and the Battle of Hastings


The History of Flight -Year 2

World War I (1914-1918): The Causes/Why the US Joined the War

World War 1: Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, and Nationalism

World War I: Life in the Trenches/Weapons & Technology

World War I: Effects on the Home Front

World War I: Stories of True Heroism

Henry Ford: Generosity, Self-Reliance, and Integrity

John D. Rockefeller & Andrew Carnegie

The Roaring 20s/The Stock Market

Causes of the Great Depression

The Dust Bowl

Life During the Great Depression The Forgotten Classics – Great Lives Series

Stories of Great Wives and Mothers o The Heroine of Radium: Marie

Sklodowska Curie (1867-1934)


o The Moses of the Assyrians – William Ambrose Shedd (1865-1919, Assyria)

o Peter Rowe, A Shepherd of “The Great Country” (1856-1942, Alaska)

o The Heart of Hull-House: Jane Addams (1860-1935, Chicago)

o An American Nurse in the Great War, E.D. Cushman (1914-1920, Turkey/Greece)

o The Friend of the Arab Archibald Forder (Date of Incident, 1901)

o Maud Ballington Booth, The Little Mother (1865-1948, England)

o The Deep-Sea Doctor Wilfred Grenfell (1865-1940, Newfoundland, Canada)

o Rebecca Salome Foster “The Tombs Angel” (Died 1902, New York)


o The Making of a Patriot (Russia)

Stories of Great Statesmen and Leaders o “The Prophet-Engineer”:

George Washington Goethals (1858-1928: Panama)


o Edward Alfred Steiner: A Pilgrim from Austria (1866-1956: Austria)

o Nathan Straus: A Pilgrim from Bavaria (1848-1931, Germany)

o Herbert Hoover: A Citizen of the World (1874-1964, America)

Stories of Great Writers o Frances Burnett Hodgson

(England 1849-1924) o Orison Swett Marden (America:

1848-1924) o Laura E. Richards (America:

1850-1943) o Henry Van Dyke – Story of the

Author’s Life from a Child’s Point of View (America: 1852-1933)

o Kate Douglas Wigging (America: 1856-1923)

o Ernest Thompson Seton (England: 1860-1946)

o Lucy Maud Montgomery (Canada: 1874-1942)

o Eleanor Gates (America 1875-1951)


Stories of Great Americans o Jane Addams

Stories of World War I

The Forgotten Classics – Story Hour Series

Stories of Great Lives o A Girl Whose Hands Did

Wonderful Things for Her – Helen Keller

o A Fighting Boy – Theodore Roosevelt


o The Choice by Rudyard Kipling (History: Month 10)

o Annapolis (History: Month 10) History Sings by Hazel Gertrude Kinscella

Along Southern Borders o Music of the American Indian o Indians and Their Customs

Pacific Coast Tales o The Cascarone Ball o Now Comes the Dawn

The Middle States o Quest of the “Lonesome Tunes” o Robin Hood (by DeKoven, a

classic of American comic opera)

Music in Later Years o We Think it Modern o Music from Hollywood o Ragtime Rhythm o Cadman Music o “The Victory Ball” o Station WGZBX o “Ballad for Americans”

AD 1945 - World War II


America Defends Herself

World War II Kimber Academy History Curriculum (Middle East and European History)

Winston Churchill – Europe is Torn by World War II

Sir Winston Churchill – British Leader

The Planned Invasion of the Americas

Significant Dates and Events of World War II

David Den Gurion – First Prime Minister of Israel

Israel Gains Independence – The World War II Era

The Holocaust – A Historical Summary The Good and the Beautiful History Curriculum – Year 1

The Cold War Part 1: The Berlin Blockade

The Cold War Part 2: Rebellion and Resistance

The Forgotten Classics - Poetry for the Well-

Educated Heart

o You and You, To the American Pirate in the Great War (History: Month 10)

o In Flanders Fields (History: Month 10)

o A Song of the Camp (History: Month 10)

o Calling the Roll (History: Month 10)

o America’s Welcome Home (History: Month 10)

o The Unknown Soldier (History: Month 10)

o Ship of State (History: Month 10)

AD 1957 - John Dewey: Experiments in Education AD 1967 – Moshe Dayan: A Victory for Israel


Experiments in Education (Introduction)

The Educator Who Turned Against Education

The Cycles of Education in America

Moshe Dayan – Israel’s One-Eyed General

Fantastic Victory – 1967

Yasir Arafat – Rise of the PLO in Israel

Terrorism and the PLO

The PLO Resembles the American Mafia

The Rise of the PLO


The Space Race

Tales of Olden Days by Hazel Gertrude


Christmas in Armenia

When I Was a Boy in Armenia

The Painted Desert

The Dancing Lesson

A Visit to an Indian Village

How a Plant Helped to Make Music

(Indian drum)

Foreign Children (poem)

In Navajo Land


Music in Later Years

o Other Twentieth Century

Composers

o Music Under the Stars

1991 - A New Role for America


A New Role for America

The Berlin Wall

Victims of the Wall

Force of the Future Kimber Academy History Curriculum (Middle East and European History)

Mikhail Gorbachev – End of the Cold War

The Berlin Wall

An Eye-witness account of the construction of the Berlin Wall

The Persian Gulf War – Questions to Ponder

Learning About Iraq

Kuwait

The Gulf War – A Perspective The Good and the Beautiful History Curriculum – Year 1

Ronald Reagan

The Fall of Communism

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