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Posted: Dec 17 2009 at 9:21pm | IP Logged Quote guitarnan
So, we're well into U.S. history - taking 1 1/2 years to do it, as we did with ds. I'm already dreading next fall. With my son, we used The Century For Young People as a spine, but it wasn't really meaty enough on its own. This worked okay for ds - my history guy - but dd is science-oriented and only studies history because she has to. She won't fill in the missing gaps by reading independently, watching History Channel shows, etc. as ds did.

We live in an area (DC Metro) famous for colonial and Civil War sites/museums/battlefields, and of course we have the wonderful resources of the Smithsonian, but I am really wondering how I'll get dd to learn about, say, the Civil Rights movement or WWI and WWII in depth from the U.S. perspective.

If you know of any good living books for 20th century history (or books to use as a secondary spine - I really don't want to buy a whole bunch of new stuff), please share your ideas. (What didn't work, too...) I'm hoping to be ready to move ahead whenever we hit 1900.

P.S. - We do have time; we just finished 1783.

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