This is the list that was in my sidebar as we worked through the slavery and Civil War unit.   There are several great resources that I didn’t want to forget for future reference.  I hope you find them useful as well. African American Journey – Concise History of Slavery, Important Events, and Important Personalities National [...]

Our last history unit of the year has been completed, and what a wonderfully rich unit it was!  I think I mentioned in a previous post that this study was mostly literature-based.  We chose really good books and learned about the life of slaves and struggles of the Civil War through the stories.  Between books, [...]

Words cannot adequately express our trip to the Freedom Center in Cincinnati yesterday.  After spending so much time in our unit study learning about slavery in our country before and after the Civil War, we have become immersed in the sadness, courage and strength of slaves, abolitionists and those who risked their lives to help [...]

Wow.  We’re on our last planned history unit of the school year.  It feels great to be ahead of schedule!  (At least in history, anyway!) I’ve sketched out the main topics I hope to cover in a unit on slavery and the Civil War.  I think we’ll plan to make this mostly a literature and [...]