Product Description History is best understood through the dual lenses of dramatic story and godly wisdom. Veteran history teacher Dave Raymond gives a comprehensive history of the United States by applying a Christian worldview to the characters, events, theology, literature, art, and religious beliefs of the nation. It is a wonderfully engaging class for Middle and High School Students. (Worth one High School History/Scoial Studies credit). American History is a one year class that consists of 26 lessons 4 projects, a Student Reader (over 400 pages), a Teacher's Guide, Weekly Exams, and a year-long portfolio. Each lesson includes 5 video lectures (approximately 10 minutes each, or an hour of video per lesson). Lessons in Part 1: 1. Orientation 2. The Banner of the Sun: Meso-America 3. Brave New World: The Early Explorers 4. The Colossus of Empire: The Colonies 5. Stability and Change: The Reformational Colonies 6. A City Upon a Hill: The Puritans 7. A Foreign War at Home: Wars of Control 8. Grace, the Founder of Liberty: The Great Awakening 9. Fathers of Independence: Adams, Franklin, Witherspoon, and Henry 10. Liberty or Death: The Declaration of Independence 11. Awesome Providence I: The War of Independence 12. Awesome Providence II: The War of Independence 13. A More Perfect Union: The Constitution Lessons in Part 2: 14. Federal Headship: George Washington 15. How Good and Pleasant It Is: Adams and Jefferson 16. Manifest Destiny: Settlers, Explorers, and War 17. Word and Deed: John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson 18. The Original United Nations: The Expansion of the Early US 19. Idols of Mercy: Revival, Counterfeits, and Art 20. A House Divided I: The Age of Compromise and Divided Cultures 21. A House Divided II: Abraham Lincoln and Secession 22. The Second War of Independence: The War Between the States 23. Brother Against Brother: The War Between the States II 24. The Lost Cause: Reconstruction 25. A New Normal: The West, Immigration, and Robber Barons 26. Theology as Biography: Theodore Roosevelt and Booker T. Washington Format: 8 DVDs and a PDF Reader and Guide (located on DVDs 1 and 5). Parents will be grading the student's progress. Review In my opinion, this course offers an excellent balance of interesting DVD lectures, serious reading, and challenging writing coupled with worthwhile portfolio and project work, all presented from within a Christian worldview. --Cathy Duffy P.when('A').execute(function(A) { A.on('a:expander:toggle_description:toggle:collapse', function(data) { window.scroll(0, data.expander.$expander[0].offsetTop-100); }); }); About the Actor Dave Raymond lives in Franklin, Tennessee with his wife and 5 children where he has taught in the humanities for the past 10 years. He teaches the disciplines of history, literature, composition, civics, economics, and Latin through Quiller Tutorials, Franklin Classical School, and Foundations Christian Academy. See more
G**C
One of the best hystory courses
My 8 y.o. and 10 y.o. love this course. Whatch one lesson every night before going to bed. The best part: they can watch it again in maybe a year to refresh the memory.
K**T
Not What I Expected
Just received my "course". I haven't unwrapped it yet, but a bit disappointed that the "readings" and tests are in PDF and need to be downloaded and printed. Messy and considerable additional time and effort. Wish the description were clearer.
K**R
Great artwork accompanies short lectures
Great artwork accompanies short lectures. Great instructions. Love that he tells you how to organize your work, take notes, and take clues to most important points. I'm learning as I sit with my kids! Using with 12 and 14 year old for HS American History.
E**E
Great for that high school history credit.
This curriculum has been one of our family’s favorite history curriculums. Highly recommend.
M**H
Four Stars
Kids liked it.
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Teacher or Propagandist?
Let it be understood that I am a career educator, working in both the public and private spheres in my career, and an academic theologian. I regard highly the efforts undertaken by Mr. Raymond to produce a US History curriculum that glorifies the achievements of the American system while emphasizing the fundamentally theistic worldview from which it emerged. There are, however, glaring contradictory notes in his points of emphasis, and bald denominational advocacies that are indistinguishable from plain propaganda.On many occasions, after watching Raymond's videos very attentively, gleaning from them the necessary details in order to relay the lesson to a live class, I found myself frustrated by a profound sense of injustice. Raymond will unwittingly navigate the biography of an American founding father, extolling their praises and unabashedly weaving in apocryphal narrative to reinforce the portrait he is determined for you to accept, while simultaneously preaching an openly reformed theology that unequivocally asserts the entire depravity of man--that there is no good we can achieve without resurrection into new life by God's Spirit. The incongruity is best revealed in his lesson on John Quincy Adams, in which he establishes a principle that right deeds (orthopraxy) can only flow from right beliefs (orthodoxy), then proceeds to glorify the deeds of Adams, a man who plainly rejected the deity of Christ! This paradox runs all throughout the course. Raymond is determined to present the founders as heroes of the American ethos in tandem with a reformed theological ethic which baldly asserts itself as superior to any Arminian theological perspectives (lesson 19), but he fails to find the appropriate relationship between the two. If the founders were really heroes, as Raymond asserts, and Unitarians, as he concedes, then is orthodoxy just a triviality? Is there no qualitative difference to being an orthodox believer? And if there is a relationship, how does a Calvinist reconcile the orthopraxy of the heretical founders with their foundational tenet of total depravity?The historical education we provide as Christian educators ought to be grounded in a Christian worldview. That I do not deny. But we ought not to arrogantly presume we have ownership over the correct interpretation over the historical narrative. It is at this point that Raymond deviates from academics to propaganda. It is our responsibility to provide the facts of history, illustrate the narrative, interpret where we can to add meaning and command interest; yet, we must always permit that our narrative is not the grand one. That there is a greater story God is telling in the midst of these smaller stories. With humility, we present divergent worldviews and opinions as all participating in the perennial quest for what is good, beautiful, and true.It is my contention that Raymond's curriculum, though satisfactory in many regards, leaves unsatisfied the market for a fair-minded presentation of American history through a Christian worldview.
A**N
Didn’t work in my DVD player
Content fine but not compare with my dvd/blu Ray player. Had to use on old computer and old DVD player.
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Want the BEST American History course? This is it.
I use this course from the Compass Classroom website, did not buy the DVDs - we just stream it. So this review is just for the course, which is EXCELLENT. I bought it for my kids (we homeschool), and I watch it with them. It is the best history course I’ve ever taken, and I’ve had several. It high school level, but it is more in depth than college courses I’ve taken. The videos are awesome, and the activities and lessons provide lots of options to individualize the course for your needs. I highly recommend this course! There is also a course on Modernity and Antiquity, if you’re looking for a different time period.
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