It’s about time I get back to writing some informative articles here. I’ll start today with our current HisStory study plans. We are moving further into our studies of the PIPEline link “One Nation Under God” (“Go Ye Into All the World”). We will look at the People, Ideas, Places, and Events of the 19th century and the causes and effects of the happenings then.
We will look at the spread of missions at that time – reaching the far west of North America, South America, Africa, and Asia. We will look at the changes in Christianity in the U.S. in the 1800’s and the role that played in events then, and how it has affected Christianity and our nation today.
We will follow the philosophy and methodology presented in Freedom & Simplicity in HisStory, and document our studies through our various resources -PIPEline Journal Pages, PIPEline of HisStory, and PIPEline Book of Remembrance.
We like to get varied perspectives of HisStory. Everyone won’t read all of the books listed below, and only the parts pertaining to the 1800’s will be read. A foundation of previous times has already been laid. Some will be read aloud, some only parts will be read, and some will be read only by certain students (generally high school.) Some of our reference resources will be:
- Sketches from Church History
- Building the Nation by Charles C. Coffin (republished by Mantel Ministries, but currently out of print again – online Free download here)
- Universal History in Perspective by Emma Willard (written mid 1800’s, out of print)
- A Basic History of the United States by Clarence Carson Cumberland Books has it at a discount. Blackstone also has put it on audio.
America: The First 350 Years by Steve Wilkins (audio course) and From Sea to Shining Sea by Peter Marshall may be used to provide very differing positions that we can follow up through primary source documents. (Children’s version and Sounding Forth the Trumpet by Marshall also available on our History Recommendation page.) Genevieve Foster’s Abraham Lincoln’s World gives an interesting narrative of the time period – for the whole world, but not from a Christian perspective. We will probably not include it this time, unless we look up something specific in it. It does have nice picture clips of many of the events and people of the times that I like to use.
I’ll continue more about this study in another post, listing some biographies and living history books we’ll include, as well as literature and primary source documents. See more of our History Recommendations.
I’ll close leaving you another online link to another old history book I have, Putnam’s Handbook of Universal History, that I just found available for FREE download at the same site as Building the Nation, listed as Tabular Views of Universal History by George Putnam. This book shows in side by side columns what was happening at a given time, all over the world. Another great history resource written in the 1800’s.
