18th Century Dialectic Becoming History Presentation
As our guests entered, including one from 1500 miles away just to see this presentation, they easily took a broadside (on the…
An 18th century lifestyle blog
As our guests entered, including one from 1500 miles away just to see this presentation, they easily took a broadside (on the…
Totally geeked out about studying my/our favorite era of history at the classical level with my kids, we happily added a few…
Feeling confident I had all our curricula in place for the next school year, I decided at the last minute to attend…
Since we were now studying 18th century, and we were reading about one of my heroes, Lafayette, I started thinking about an…
Presenting Pocahontas, Evening Primrose, and Squanto. Sharing little known details of their personas, the kids taught us a lot about Pocahontas and…
Daily Life in the Pilgrim Colony 1636 by Paul Erickson showcases photography from a historical site and historical paintings, while digging deeper into…
Presenting Queen Elizabeth I and her royal subjects: Portia, from Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice, and D’Artagnan of the Three Musketeers. (This time…
As usual we read a lot of great books for our Renaissance studies, many of which I sourced from my local used…
Our major focus of our Renaissance study is the Renaissance Man, himself, Leonardo da Vinci. How did he earn that distinction? While…
In short we learned about Lords and Ladies, Knights and Chivalry, Feasts and Entertainments, King Arthur and Robin Hood (and everyone in-between)…so…