History
General
Teaching, and learning, history with passion
An interview with David McCullough
History and story: When “folklore and fact collide”
Respectable history for a general readership
World history
Getting back to Gombrich: A Little History of the World, with a listing of some of our favorite narrative world history books, for adults and for children
Farm School bait: Children’s history book reviews, including E.H. Gombrich’s A Little History of the World and H.E. Marshall’s Our Island Story.
American history
American Revolution books for children
Chris Barton’s American history picture book reading lists for kids, Prehistory-the Present
Boston 1775 blog
Canadiana and Canadian history links for children
Beefing Up SOTW3: Adding more Canadian history
Nicola Manning’s Canadian history reading list
Northwest Passages (online Canadian literature bookseller)
Canadian literature links, from Northwest Passage bookseller
Paula’s Archive: Resources for Story of the World (SOTW)
Paula’s Archive: Literature to Supplement History
Paula’s Archive: Movies to Supplement History; many of these can be found at Netflix, Zip.ca, or your local library; and for purchase at Amazon.ca or Amazon.com
Hi there! I broke my RSS feed for awhile, and was too lazy to fix it … end result, I went for quite some time without reading blogs. Or writing on my own, really. I like the new look you’ve got!
I was just doing a web search to determine whether or not I wanted to try Hillyer’s “A Child’s History of the World” for my 1st and 2nd graders. Instead, I came across your review of Gombrich. Can you compare those two books for me? Which do I want? My 7 year old loves history, but listening comprehension is not his strong suit. He can listen to fiction well, but nonfiction has really got to be both very storylike, simple and clear. Story Of The World frequently loses him, because it simply gives him too much information too quickly.
I’d love to hear your thoughts!
Stephanie not in TX